Contentious Olafur Eliasson Olympics Proposal Rejected

Contentious Olafur Eliasson Olympics Proposal Rejected

 Despite the huge success of his Tate Turbine Hall Weather Project, Olympics organisers have rejected an application by Scandinavian artist Olafur EliassonEliasson had been commissioned to create a piece for the London 2012 Festival with a budget of £1...
Frieze Given Olympics Cash For Public Art

Frieze Given Olympics Cash For Public Art

Olympics commissions Frieze – purveyor of one of the world’s most important art fairs – to fill London with public artwords for the duration of the GamesFrieze have received a grant by the Olympics to populate six east London boroughs with public...

Neville Gabie Gives Seurat Bathers Olympic Makeover

Neville Gabie re-creates Seurat’s Bathers At Asnières on banks of the Olympic ParkThe Olympic Park’s artist in residence, Neville Gabie has re-interpreted the famous work by French post-impressionist painter Georges Seurat ‘Bathers At...

Olympic Project Brings Art To Bus Stops

Bus Tops commissions nine artists to display digital work on the top of bus stopsBus stops are to become gallery spaces with Bus Tops, a UK-wide digital art project that will see art displayed on the top of bus shelters, only visible from the tops decks of...