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Chewing gum artist makes plea to save Millennium Bridge works

05-10-2023 20:49

Ben Wilson told most of his art on discarded gum to be removed during engineering and cleaning workAn artist who paints tiny pictures on discarded chewing gum has pleaded for his works to be saved after being told most of them will be removed from the Millennium Bridge in London as part of engineering work.Ben Wilson, nicknamed “the chewing gum man”, has been painting on pieces of chewing gum trodden into the bridge since 2013. Continue reading...

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Artist who paints on chewing gum pleas to save his Millennium Bridge pieces

05-10-2023 20:49

Ben Wilson, who decorates discarded gum, has been told most of his art will be removed during engineering workAn artist who paints tiny pictures on discarded chewing gum has pleaded for his works to be saved after being told most of them will be removed from the Millennium Bridge in London as part of engineering work.Ben Wilson, nicknamed “the chewing gum man”, has been painting on pieces of chewing gum across the bridge since 2013. Continue reading...

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‘Inhaling fridge coolant? It’s just like poppers’: the wild, obsessive art of Mark Leckey

05-10-2023 19:13

The former football casual who had been up in court three times found an escape in art and the YBAs. He talks about his new work – about seaside towns and funfairs – and a group show imagining the near futureMark Leckey is considering one of the big turning points in his life. A self-confessed “scally” and teenage troublemaker around Liverpool’s Wirral, he had the opportunity to join his mates on a lads’ holiday to Benidorm. Instead, he went Interrailing, alon

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Picasso portrait of Marie-Thérèse Walter expected to reach $120m at auction

05-10-2023 15:18

Femme à la montre, one of artist’s few major works featuring a wristwatch, to be sold by Sotheby’s in New yorkThe time appears to be 7.25, and the year is definitely 1932. Pablo Picasso, a towering figure of 20th-century art, has painted a portrait – one of many – of his “golden muse” and secret lover, Marie-Thérèse Walter.It is one of only three major works by the artist to feature a watch, although Picasso was fascinated by timepieces an

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‘Artists are attracted to their intimacy’: the exhibition uncovering the history of South Asian miniatures

05-10-2023 09:00

Dating back to 1200, miniature paintings have shapeshifted across the centuries. A new exhibition explores their many evolutionsNo one knows exactly how many south Asian miniature paintings are held in public and private collections in the UK, but Hammad Nasar, co-curator of a new exhibition at the MK Gallery in Milton Keynes, estimates it is at least 100,000. “As a sort of a thought exercise: imagine if there were 20,000 works by, say, Turner sitting in museums in Lahore or New Delhi,&rdq

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