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The Fourth Plinth is empty. Why One & Other was a banal failure
Posted 10.16 am Wed Oct 14 by Ossian Ward
The empty plinth this morning
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Art fair fever!
Posted 3.22 pm Tue Oct 13 by Ossian WardLondon's busiest week in the art calendar gets underway in earnest with blockbuster openings...
Work by Clunie Reid at Zoo 2009
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More reviews to read: Sacred Made Real at NG http://bit.ly/1xfpMP, Kiefer at WC http://bit.ly/41IXIW, Baldessari at TM http://bit.ly/57zu9 Tue Nov 3 11:07 via web
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Just back from great day out at the newly refurbed Ashmolean Museum in Oxford. The return train journey on the Orient Express helped some. Wed Oct 28 20:00 via Twitterville
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French grand dame of conceptual art interviewed: http://bit.ly/1BTPLA Wonderful lady, wonderful show. Mon Oct 26 10:39 via web
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Introducing London's newest masterpiece - the new Time Out Art homepage! http://bit.ly/2UQ11w Fri Oct 16 15:20 via web
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Cocktails and unconventional experiments at Object Retrieval's Routemaster tonight http://bit.ly/25Wxbp RT TimeOutLondon http://bit.ly/gWHU6 Thu Oct 15 15:48 via web
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Serpentine's Hans-Ulrich Obrist is named 2009's man of the match in the POWER 100 list http://bit.ly/TwIQv RT @artreviewcom. Not quite Nobel Thu Oct 15 15:44 via web
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First night at Frieze but what’s behind the dented tent? Artist removes Frieze Projects sculpture: http://bit.ly/2B97fl RT @TheArtNewspaper: Wed Oct 14 18:04 via Twitterville
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The Fourth Plinth is empty... Why 'One & Other' was a banal failure #oneandother http://bit.ly/3v0dNW Wed Oct 14 10:20 via web
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Tate Modern's Turbine Hall commission by Miroslav Balka is a big black box. Full stop. Period. Hope it gets better later when it gets dark. Mon Oct 12 12:33 via Twitterville
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Four art fairs open for business next week including the mighty Frieze - we preview them here http://bit.ly/CTHzT Fri Oct 9 12:46 via web
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... and four-star Gustav Metzger at Serpentine http://bit.ly/1CR2A and five-star Anish Kapoor at the Royal Academy http://bit.ly/ciy2c Fri Oct 9 11:04 via web
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London's art season is warming up, but don't go anywhere before reading our reviews, starting with Pop Life at Tate Mod http://bit.ly/4zTVWG Fri Oct 9 11:03 via web
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Just had preview of Museum of Everything, amazing exhibition of outsider and visionary art. Opens Oct 14. Don't miss. www.musevery.com Thu Oct 8 10:49 via web
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Going underground to see Conrad Shawcross's giant rope-twisting machine in a disused tram subway under Holborn. Info at www.measure.org.uk Thu Oct 8 10:39 via web
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Tate remove Prince's Spiritual America after Police investigate http://bit.ly/lfhrF RT@artreviewcom Thu Oct 1 11:16 via web
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Going to see Anish Kapoor's new show this weekend? Prepare by taking Ossian's video tour http://bit.ly/4lqAC Thu Sep 24 16:07 via web
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Would a Conservative government dare scrap free admission to our museums? You betcha... http://bit.ly/2CACl9 Wed Sep 23 11:22 via web
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Filming at the RA's Anish Kapoor exhibition. Our video guide to the show will be up soon http://yfrog.com/089inj Tue Sep 22 13:49 via Tweetie
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If you see one exhibition this weekend.. Head to the ICA for Rosalind Nashashibi http://bit.ly/jNoSw Fri Sep 18 12:54 via web
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RT @Tate Has just revealed our 2010 exhibitions. Gauguin, Chris Ofili, Henry Moore coming up in London. Fri Sep 18 12:48 via web
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Saatchi Gallery are extending 'Abstract America' to 17 January 2010 due to popularity - watch our video round up here http://twurl.nl/nbvlj5 Tue Sep 8 14:08 via web
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On 22nd we're presenting a night with Tracey Emin, who'll be talking about her works on paper http://twurl.nl/omzxkg Mon Sep 7 11:06 via web
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Saunter along The E17 Art Trail this week - over 150 events and exhibitions http://twurl.nl/w3kh62 Mon Sep 7 10:23 via web
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Oh dear oh dear, has Damien Hirst jumped the (pickled) shark? http://tinyurl.com/nodv8o Sun Sep 6 15:43 via web
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Last few days to see David Byrne's Playing the Building - it's open 'til 10 tonight / tomorrow at the Roundhouse http://twurl.nl/8mzrii Thu Aug 27 10:35 via web
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Where is painting today? Critics, curators and painters discuss the issues at the Whitechapel, online now: http://bit.ly/3F5r55 Fri Jul 31 15:31 via web
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A boat-bath, mole-slippers, pig-skull teapot, all in Telling Tales: http://bit.ly/5hjSx Lugs out for Radio 4 series on V&A next Wed 5th 9.30 Thu Jul 30 11:08 via web
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OK so I didn't like Artangel's Mens Suits much but they've now reopened the crystal-blue Seizure by Roger Hiorns http://bit.ly/ZtgNj Thu Jul 23 13:02 via web
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Where were you yesterday for Time Out/Whitechapel debate: Where is Painting Today? Thanks panel: Barry Schwabsky, Achim Borchardt-Hume et al Thu Jul 23 11:40 via web
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Artangel's latest is its strangest. Trio of shrunken dioramas w/ tiny handmade clothes all below knee-height. Creepy... http://pic.gd/009ceb Fri Jul 10 16:45 via Tweeterville
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Instead of incessantly watching plinthers, try this timeline out on any of them and tell me it ain't just so... http://bit.ly/15ojdV Wed Jul 8 16:24 via web
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...spending the morning as folk get on and off Antony Gormley's 'One & Other' plinth in Trafalgar Square. Protests, pandas & balloons so far Mon Jul 6 11:06 via web
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Had a balmy eve at Tate Britain's summer bash + launch of Eva Rothchild's new Duveen sculpture - snaking black zig-zags on a giant 3D scale. Tue Jun 30 13:34 via web
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Just back from previewing the Jeff Koons show at the Serpentine, before public opening on Thursday - shiny happy art for shiny happy people. Tue Jun 30 13:14 via web
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Koons was legend natch. Just time to see Darwinian show at Natural History Museum w monkey gurning piece by Jeremy Deller. NHM also legend Thu Jun 25 12:07 via Echofon
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... is off to meet the wizard, Jeff Koons, for a chat about Popeye show at Serpentine. Am loaded up on spinach. Thu Jun 25 10:04 via Echofon
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Having an outside-in experience at the Barbican's 'Radical Nature' where grass, veg and a patch of rainforest are growing inside the gallery Mon Jun 22 13:44 via web
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Walking through a packing tape cave and Astroturf embedded with giant spotty skittles at preview of 'Walking in my Mind' at Hayward Gallery Mon Jun 22 13:37 via web
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One day of Louie Nevelson left http://bit.ly/GhEFU but fear not as British Museum's 'Garden & Cosmos' will fill the void http://bit.ly/copoj Tue Jun 9 16:54 via web
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Venice Day 4: Final dash to Pinault's new off-the-shelf Tadao Ando-designed museum, Corporart at its best. Failed to see Tintorettos again. Sun Jun 7 18:56 via Twitterville
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Venice: Day 2/3 Icelandic high jinx with Sigur Ros, Bruce Naumania and Nordic househunting. Exhausting, exhilarating, exiting. Sat Jun 6 16:49 via Tweeterville
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Day One in the Venice Biennale bubble: Aussie heroics, British dissapointment and great shows at Guggenheim. More tomorrow... Thu Jun 4 19:41 via Tweeterville
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Heading for a Jubilee line tube station for a free, Richard Long print giveaway, 7am-12midday today and tomorrow. www.tfl.gov.uk/tfl Tue Jun 2 10:29 via web
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Great show at Modern Art Oxford. Michael Rakowitz's fake looted objects from Baghdad Museum are genius. Thu May 21 19:35 via Twitterville
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Just had a quick argument about public art on R4's Today prog before RSA debate tonight: Can the public be trusted to choose public art? No. Wed May 20 09:28 via web
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Just interviewed Jeremy Deller about US road trip with bombed out Iraqi car http://tinyurl.com/c5hgae and his upcoming Manchester parade... Thu May 14 16:44 via web
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Second night in a row at Carsten Holler's Double Club. Am I wrong to say it's a bar with an ace caff attached but in no way a work of art? Thu May 7 20:29 via Twitterville
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Just watched Great Contemporary Art Bubble TV doc: critic Ben Lewis sticks the boot in to art market shysters good n proper. On BBC soon Thu May 7 17:10 via web
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Ossian Ward talks to the multimillionaire artist as he unveils his new work at the Wallace Collection
Gilbert & George
The internationally famous, Tweed suit-wearing art duo invite Helen Sumpter into their Spitalfields studio
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Grayson Perry potters around his studio and reveals his dressing-up boudoir, before taking Ossian Ward on a night out on the tiles
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