Nice n' Nice

DALLAS MEETS ALBERS

Fiorucci made me Hardcore

Mark Leckey, 1999 Mark Leckey's video work has as its subject the "tawdry but somehow romantic elegance of certain aspects of British culture," He likes the idea of letting “culture use you as an instrument.” but adds that the pretentiousness that artists sometimes fall into is destructive to the artistic process: “What gets in the way is being too clever, or worrying about how something is going to function, or where it's going to be. When you start thinking of something as art, you're fucked: you're never going to advance." Matthew Higgs has described his work as “possess[ing] a strange nonartlike quality, operating, as it does, on the knife's edge where art and life meet.”

Needs and Nones

lil'bit o'love

Think, "TRAVEL"!

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33 WAYS

SAM TAYLOR-WOOD

In the early '90s, Taylor-Wood was in a relationship with artist Henry Bond. On 19 September 2008, Taylor-Wood and her art dealer husband, Jay Jopling—with whom she has two daughters, aged five and thirteen—announced their eleven-year marriage was over, and they were separating amicably. Taylor-Wood overcame two spells of cancer. When she was 30, she suffered from late-diagnosed colon cancer. Three years later, she was diagnosed with breast cancer.[14] She claims that chemotherapy saved her life, together with her own will to live. Taylor-Wood is in a relationship with her Nowhere Boy star, Aaron Johnson, who is 23 years younger than she is. As of 31 October 2009, the couple are engaged to be married. On July 7, 2010, Taylor-Wood gave birth to their daughter, Wylda Rae. In 2009, Taylor-Wood made a cash payment of £11 million for a detached townhouse in Primrose Hill, London.

Johnny

JOAN JONAS

BARMECIDAL PROJECTS

OAK TREE

An Oak Tree was first shown in an exhibition of Craig-Martin's work at the Rowan Gallery, off Bond Street, London, in 1974. Many visitors assumed that Craig-Martin was playing the ultimate con trick, as there seemed no evidence of work on display in the white-walled gallery. However, high up on a wall was the glass of water and the glass shelf of the work An Oak Tree. At this time the accompanying text was available as a leaflet. The original was purchased by the National Gallery of Australia in Canberra in 1977; an artist's copy is on loan to the Tate gallery in London from a private collection. Craig-Martin said, "An Oak Tree has had a great life as an artwork. It is nearly always on view somewhere, and has been shown all over the world—the text has been translated into at least 20 languages. The only place it has never been shown is in the US." It was once barred by Australian officials from entering the country as "vegetation". Craig-Martin was forced to inform them that it was really a glass of water. He said, "It was of course a wonderfully funny incident, particularly because it extended into 'real life' the discussion about belief and doubt, and fact and fiction I was addressing in the work."

RAINER GANAHL