Antony Gormley and Grayson Perry help design the 'ultimate artists’ activity...
A top team of visual artists – including Gormley, Perry, Jeremy Deller and Gillian Wearing – will this week launch an activity pack full of creative ideas for the coronavirus lockdown• See all our...
View ArticleThe 10 best statues in Britain – chosen by our critic
There’s more to British statues than the ones of Colston and Rhodes highlighted by BLM. From Damien Hirst’s sword-fighter to a cat called Hodge, our critic picks his top 10The ship, which sank in 1912...
View Article'It's exciting!': Tracey Emin, Anish Kapoor and Jake Chapman on the...
Jake Chapman wants Colston beheaded, Anish Kapoor wants a memorial to the millions killed by slavery, and Tracey Emin is thrilled the ‘stale old men’ are going. Artists and sculptors respond to statue...
View Article‘We were let loose’: my art school days, by Peter Blake, Sam Taylor-Johnson,...
Eight great British artists on graduating, and their advice for the Class of 2020 I joined in 1953, after my national service. I’d applied to study graphic design, but was accepted as a painter – I had...
View ArticleWhere's the air bridge to San Serriffe? | Brief letters
Protective bubbles | Pandemic literature | Sculptural distancing | Johnson’s gestures | Visiting San Serriffe In the consideration of larger school protective bubbles, Geoff Barton may be correct that...
View ArticleUK move to classify Extinction Rebellion 'organised crime group' comes under...
Letter signed by 150 public figures hits back at move to scapegoat protestersStephen Fry, Mark Rylance and a former Archbishop of Canterbury are among 150 public figures to hit back at government moves...
View ArticleA1 upgrade could mar views of Angel of the North, says Gormley
Artist insists to Highways England that his sculpture must remain completely in viewSir Antony Gormley has said he fears that planned improvements to the A1 south of Gateshead will have a...
View ArticleGreat Big Art Exhibition invites locked-down Brits to put creativity on show
People encouraged to make art on themes chosen by famous names and display it in their windowsSome of British art’s biggest names, including Antony Gormley, Sonia Boyce and Anish Kapoor, are...
View ArticleSex on the beach? Why Gormley’s metal sculptures are flustering Suffolk...
Aldeburgh locals are complaining that Quartet (Sleeping) wouldn’t look out of place in Ann Summers. But it’s far from the first artwork to raise eyebrowsName: Antony Gormley’s beach sculptures.Age:...
View ArticleAngel of the North views at risk from road plan
A £250m scheme to ease congestion on the A1 may blot out the UK’s most recognisable landmarkIt is one of Britain’s most loved public artworks, a landmark visible for miles around. But concerns are...
View ArticleSuffolk town divided over Antony Gormley works placed on beach
Works are to be removed next week after local art dealer admitted not having planning permissionIt was hoped they would encourage the appreciation of contemporary art. But instead four iron sculptures...
View ArticleOxford Rhodes statue should be turned to face wall, says Antony Gormley
Sculptor suggests solution to row over keeping statue of colonialist in place at Oriel CollegeThe statue of Cecil Rhodes at Oriel College, Oxford, should be turned to face the wall in shame, the...
View ArticleAntony Gormley hopes Crosby statues last 1,000 years after reset
Artist personally oversaw rescue operation for his ‘industrial fossils’ after several toppled into the mudAntony Gormley says he hopes his “iron men” on a Merseyside beach will still exist in at least...
View ArticleAntony Gormley: ‘I’m inviting people to explore the conditions of their own...
His towering figures have made him the UK’s most famous sculptor. Now, in two new works, the artist is reckoning with the very essence of time and spaceAntony Gormley has hurt his knee, which is a pain...
View ArticleAntony Gormley to become German citizen due to ‘tragedy’ of Brexit
Acclaimed sculptor calls leaving the EU ‘a practical disaster’ and a ‘betrayal’ as major retrospective opensThe acclaimed British sculptor Antony Gormley is to become a German citizen because of the...
View ArticleWhy the four-day working week may worsen the climate crisis | Briefs
Knock-on effects of a longer weekend | Regenerative farming with fertilisers | Imperial weaponry | Working royals | Antony Gormley’s citizenshipI agree that a four-day working week could have many...
View ArticleAntony Gormley’s ‘phallic’ statue may damage our reputation, say students
Imperial College Union motion says students should have been consulted on work, due to ‘obvious’ erect penis interpretationUniversity students at Imperial College London are battling to prevent the...
View ArticleThe Antony Gormley ‘phallic’ sculpture row is an attack on modern art – and...
The artist says it’s legs bent at the knee. A student says it’s a giant penis. So who’s right? It doesn’t matter. This is abstract art – and it shouldn’t be condemned because of one interpretation out...
View ArticleWalk the length of Antony Gormley’s Another Place … to the pub: the Hightown,...
The iron men dotted along Crosby beach form an ethereal backdrop to this coastal saunterLife goes on day after day for the statues standing sentinel on Crosby beach, all of them facing out to sea near...
View ArticleArt for auction in support of Ukrainian academy – in pictures
Members of the Royal Academy of Arts (RA) in London including Tracey Emin, Antony Gormley and Conrad Shawcross have banded together with members of the National Academy of Arts of Ukraine (NAAU) such...
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