Fresh signals

News & links from Metropolis M & co.

The shortlist has been announced for the Carbuncle Cup, the award for the ugliest building in the UK completed in the last 12 months. Check the nominations here.  JV - 23.07.10

50% cuts proposed in UK Department for Culture, Media and Sport. The biggest arts organisations are asked to provide models of how they would implement cuts of 25-30% over four years, and what the effects would be. JV - 22.07.10

Directors of Tate, Serpentine, and South Bank warn against Britain’s arts budget cuts. They are pleading: 'cut us but don’t kill us'. JV - 16.07.10

Moscow art curators await fate as trial over 'insulting' exhibition nears end. Yuri Samodurov and Andrei Yerofeyev face five years in jail in case that has prompted fears of rise in Russian censorship. Update: curators sentenced but not imprisoned. JV - 12.07.10

Another scandal surrounding the German contribution of Venice's Biennale: calls for demolition of 'Nazi' pavillion. Invited artist Christoph Schlingensief dismisses the calls as 'idiotic'. JV - 08.07.10

According to Lee Rosenbaum, there's more than meets the eye and much that doesn't add up about Charles Saatchi's recent public disclosure that he is gifting over 200 works to create a Museum of Contemporary Art for London." JV - 08.07.10

The Art Newspaper: Footbal-mad Marlene Dumas parties in Porto following Holland's victory over Brazil in the World Cup. Dumas claimed that it 'was difficult to look at art because the Dutch have won!' JV - 05.07.10

Who are the artists in METROPOLIS M No. 3? We gathered a collection of links to all the artists mentioned in the current issue. Scroll down to find out who's who! JV - 05.07.10

Charles Saatchi is giving 200 works worth more than £25 million to the nation to create a museum of contemporary art. JV - 01.07.10

Poll: Should the Tate continue to accept BP sponsorship? (here's a list of artists and writers who have protested that Tate Britain is tainted by BP's sponsorship) JV - 29.06.10

Artists mentioned in METROPOLIS M No.3 (part 2)

Exclusively on MM.com: an alphabetical list with links to all artists mentioned in the current issue. Last month, the last names starting with the letters A-J were visible (check the artist links archive). Now it is time for the K-Z artists to appear online!

Kinga Kielczynska, Anja Kirschner, Klaas Kloosterboer, Jeff Koons, Paul Kos, Jiří Kovanda, Barbara Kruger, Rezi van Lankveld, John Latham, Changwon Lee, Gary Lee Boas, Gabriel Lester, Bernd Lohaus, Danny Lyons, Ives Maes, Benoît Maire, Cyrille Maillot, Tea Mäkipää, Marjolijn Mandersloot, Nick Mangan, Valerie Mannaerts, Ari Marcopoulos, Gordon Matta-Clark, Adolph Menzel, Mathieu Mercier, Philip Metten, Nicolas Milhé, Boris Mikhailov, Haroon Mirza, Slava Mogutin, Emmeline de Mooij, Benoît-Marie Moriceau, Heather en Ivan Morison, Robert Morris, Mark Morrisroe, Aimé Mpane, Rabih Mroué, Warre Mulder, Matt Mullican, Takashi Murakami, Toma Muteba Luntumbue, Bruce Naumann, Allain Della Negra & Kaori Kinoshita, Richard Neutra, Arthur Neve, Ronald Nijhof, Vladimir Nikolic, Jorge Pedro Núñez, Ima-Abasi Okon, Yoko Ono, Overtreders W, Eduardo Padilha, Philippe Parreno, Maria Pask, Bruno Persat, Jak Peters, Jack Pierson, Rory Pilgrim, Keith Piper, Jackson Pollock, Abner Preis, Florian Pugnaire & David Raffini, Monica Ragazzini, Robert Rauschenberg, Zoe Reddy, Jean-Xavier Renaud, Mandla Reuter, Lili Reynaud-Dewar, Terry Richardson, Gert Robijns, Raf Rooijmans, Alexandra Roozen, Julika Rudelius, Bettina Samson, Daan Samson, Joe Scanlan, Hugo Schuitemaker, Ton Schuttelaar, Abdi Setiawan, Jeffrey Shaw, Ohad Ben Shimon, Andreas Siekmann, Philippe van Snick, Daniel Spoerri, Andrew Sroka, Jonas Staal, David Stamp, Barbara Steveni, Tommy Støckel, Superflex, Pilvi Takala, Nele Tas, Chisato Tamabayashi, Deanna Templeton, Ed Templeton, Tzuchien Tho, Rebecka Thor, Tjebbe van Tijen, Wolfgang Tillmans, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Manon van Trier, Bright Ugochukwu Eke, Esther de Vlam, Franz Erhard Walther, Andy Warhol, Andy Wauman, Bruce Weber, Christoph Weber, Johanna Weissenrieder, Sjoerd Westbroek, David Wojnarowicz, Katarina Zdjelar, Xu Zhen