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The Big Return Mair44

Tom is back and for this show and we have picked a few Art news updates. Bronze Bath Bonanza ! A Bathtub has just been sold at Christie’s in New York for 4.3 millon dollars. Built-in 1969 it is a bronze bathtub created by the French artist Francois Xavier Lallane. Shaped like a hippopotamus it is a fully functioning bath that opens up to reveal a sink and a vanity. Link to larger Hippo image Rembrandt Removals An audacious attempted theft of 2 Rembrandt’s currently on show at the Dulwich Gallery...

Nov 18, 2019•14 min

Best of Bits Part2 MAIR43

In Part2, we pick more of our highlights from the last almost 2 years of Modern art is Rubbish. Fluxus Board Game Fun! In this clip episode, we talked about the board games that were created by the fun and playful Fluxus group of artists, including Vegetable chess. Hungry for more Fluxus check out this link! Blood Head As part of our spooky Halloween special, we talked about Marc Quinn’s Blood Head. You can hear the whole episode on the link here. Christo and Jeanne-Claude The Installation artis...

Nov 05, 2019•17 min

Best of Bits Part1 MAIR42

In this episode, we pick some of our highlights from the last almost 2 years of Modern art is Rubbish. Sporting Baby Cheats? Sometimes our conversations on the show can take unexpected turns in our Babies in Art Special , we discussed the issuing of doping in baby sports! Babies in Art Fakes online? In our Fake and Forge it episode we investigated some dubious works that we found online Fake and Forge it! Banksy speaks? Banksy crops up from time to time in the show. In an art news episode Loving...

Oct 22, 2019•21 min

Mirror Mirror MAIR41

Friend of the show Paul steps in to cover for Tom in this show. We bring you talk of Banksy litigation, a new Koons sculpture and Paul’s thoughts on a Mirror work of art. Banksy Cards and Copyright Banksy has opened a showroom in Croydon to promote the opening of his online Shop Gross domestic product . It will according to him be selling “impractical and offensive” merch. Such as Clocks with the famous Banksy rat on the face, welcome mats made from the life jackets of refugees On display at the...

Oct 08, 2019•19 min

Art News Cats & Toilets MAIR40

In this Art News episode we talk of Cats on the Underground, Private emails made public and stolen golden toilets! Cats instead of Ads? All the adverts in a tube train station in Clapham tube station in London have been replaced with pictures of cats. All adverts such as the ones you see up the escalator have been replaced with pictures of cats. This creative project is known as “The Citizens Advertising Takeover Service” (CATS). The creative collective behind this project is called Glimpse. In ...

Sep 24, 2019•20 min

Modern Art can be Rubbish MAIR39

Trash Art, Eco Rubbish and confused Cleaners! Cod and Chips to Take Away 2008 Gavin Turk Gavin Turk has made a series of works known as Trash Culture This work is bronze cast of a polystyrene takeaway chip tray, the tray looks as though it has been crushed underfoot on the street. It is painted to look like a real one there is even the trace of a shoe print on it. Turk also produced a series of Bronze cast Bin Bags such as 2004’s Dump a bronze cast of a used bin bag full of household waste Link ...

Sep 10, 2019•36 min

Bar Bought Rembrandt & Cuban Artist Arrest MAIR38

Bar Bought Rembrandt & Cuban Artist Arrest MAIR38 We bring you 2 art stories, one featuring a Mystery Rembrandt and one is about a Flagrant Flag Flouting Artwork Cuban Artist Arrest Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara has been arrested because of a performance with a Cuban flag, Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara When he was arrested the artist had draped a Cuban flag over his shoulders as part of a thirty-day performance, titled Drapeau. This was a protest against a law passed this year designed to regula...

Aug 27, 2019•21 min

Basquiat Art Rockstar MAIR37

In this we episode talk about the Neo Expressionist and Titan of Painting Basquiat. Early years Born 1960 his dad was Haitian and an accountant and mother Puerto Rican. He loved drawing, his mother encouraged his drawing and his mother took him often took him to visit museums In 1968 Basquiat was hit by a car and was hospitalised for a month, his mother gave him a copy of Grays Anatomy to read in hospital. His parents split and he went to live with his father in Puerto Rican. His father was toug...

Aug 13, 2019•37 min

Art News Asphalt Accidents & Italian Art First MAIR36

Art News Asphalt Accidents & Italian Art First MAIR36 In this short holiday episode we bring you 2 stories, one involving an Asphalt art Accident, and another about a curator who wants to set up his own satirical Art party! Asphalt Art Accident Image from Stefagraffia on Instagram In Yekaterinburg, Russia, a major piece of street art has been partially covered by asphalt not long after it was completed. The work is a giant white and black cross on a red background. The main white centre of t...

Jul 30, 2019•14 min

Lipstick Skin & Drawers MA Brighton Show MAIR35

It’s our yearly review of the Brighton MA show time. We will bring you artworks involving subjects as diverse as hedonism, microbiology and even things that p*ss us off! We also checked out the Brighton to London Show at the Kellie Miller Gallery. Kellie Miller Gallery Show London to Brighton Rik Ward Park Street Monmouth Cafe Marc Gooderham The Defence More info on the London to Brighton show Website MA Show Elizabeth Eade People who P*ssed me off Alpha to Omega Website Twitter Matt Redman Dopa...

Jul 16, 2019•38 min

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