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Michael Craig-Martin (born Dublin, August 28, 1941) is an Irish-born contemporary conceptual artist and painter. He is noted for fostering the Young British Artists, many of whom he taught. [Phillips, London - Acrylic on canvas, 214 x 183 cm]

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China Touring exhibition, 2015 Organised by Holtermann Fine Art in collaboration with Gagosian Gallery as part of the 2015 UK-China Year of Cultural Exchange, NOW. brings together fifty new paintings and offers a unique opportunity to examine contemporary life through Michael C

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In Michael Craig-Martin's sculptural practice, he creates enormous versions of everyday objects that appear as though they were drawn. In a show ending this week, he offered new works in this vein at Gagosian's Britannia Street location in London. This was the first time works in this series were shown indoors.

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When Dublin-born artist Michael Craig-Martin began studying art in the ‘50s, the art world was a different place from today’s regular celebrity-filled artist collaborations and blockbuster exhibitions. “When I started there was very little interest in contemporary art,” said Craig-Martin. “It was a very quiet zone of life. It was [...]

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The British Council Collection has 8500 works of modern and contemporary British art: painting, sculpture, photography, video, graphics, ceramics and new media.

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The title of the exhibition ‘Conference’ comes from the largest painting to be shown and refers to the way in which the exhibition brings together a group of paintings that seek to engage the viewer in a visual discussion of various themes: including time, violence, history, portraiture, negotiation. The exhibition...

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In some circumstances, calling a book _On Being An Artist_ would seem pretentious and pompous, but if anyone knows about being an artist, it’s "Michael Craig-Martin":https://www.itsnicethat.com/features/michael-craig-martin-present-sense-art-exhibition-060219. Over his extraordinary career he has studied with Chuck Close and Richard Serra, met the likes of Andy Warhol, Jasper Johns, John Cage and Charles Saatchi, had work shown at Tate Modern, the Pompidou Centre and MoMA, and taught some of…

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