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Cyclepedia app of the week!
5th Jan 2012 – The app version of Cyclepedia was
iPad App of the Week in the UK iTunes/App Store with *****
'As mesmerisingly beautiful an iPad app as you could ever hope to see … Stunning.' – Stephen Fry

Hockney has a go at Hirst
On the BBC Today programme on 3 January 2012, David Hockney took a swipe at artists such as Damien Hirst, who use assistants to complete their artworks. See the book David Hockney: A Bigger Picture which accompanies the 2012 exhibition at the Royal Academy. There has since been some backtracking clarification by the Royal Academy!
Photo: Press Association

Magnum Contact Sheets in the News
BBC Radio 4 Today programme broadcast a wonderful feature on the Magnum Contact Sheets books on 10th November and includes The Magnum contact sheet of Rene Burri's photos of Ernesto 'Che' Guevara, in 1963 and David Hurn's photos of the Beatles, recording in Abbey Road in 1964 on the BBC web site.

Street Photography Now Project prizewinners
The year-long Street Photography Now Project is now over!
After much discussion, and due to the exceptional quality and breadth of work created throughout the 52 weeks of the Project, the judges were unable to choose just one winner. The two winners are each awarded £500 of Thames & Hudson vouchers, and their work appears on
The Photographers’ Gallery’s website and
Street Photography Now Project website.

David Hockney: A Bigger Message
On 7th September David Hockney launched his forthcoming exhibition A Bigger Picture at the Royal Academy. His new book A Bigger Message: Conversations with David Hockney by Martin Gayford will publish on 26th September 2011. A Bigger Picture is one of the countdown events to the London 2012 festival, and will run from January 21st to April 9th.

Lucian Freud
We are sad to learn of the death on 21st July of the painter Lucian Freud.
'Freud has almost single-handedly redefined the figurative painting of our time'
- Robert Hughes in Lucien Freud Paintings
'I have long been convinced that Lucien Freud is the real thing: a truly great painter living among us'
– Martin Gayford in Man with a Blue Scarf: On Sitting for a Portrait by Lucian Freud

Alexandra Harris winner in BBC competition
Alexandra Harris, who won last year's Guardian First Book award for Romantic Moderns, is one of the winners in the BBC's XFactor-style search for 10 academics from 'Generation Think'. Matthew Dodd, head of speech programming at Radio 3, said 'We are looking for people with the most interesting ideas who want to share their knowledge and can make fantastic programmes.' The list was whittled down from more than 1,000 applications!
Alexandra Harris's new book Virginia Woolf will be published by Thames & Hudson in September.
See Guardian online

The Art of Not Making: The New Artist/Artisan Relationship

Celebrating the publication of this intriguing new book, the window of our offices has been brought to life by a display including some of Liliane Lijn's famous 'Koans'. As the artist says 'You should never make anything somebody else can make. I only make things that nobody but me can make. In the 1960s that got me into trouble because I was a woman. No one complained about Judd or Serra getting things fabricated did they?'

T&H signs two more from Alexandra Harris

Thames and Hudson has signed up two new books from Alexandra Harris, who last week won the Guardian First Book Award for her study 'Romantic Moderns'. The first title in the new deal will be a short biography of Virginia Woolf, for publication in autumn 2011. The second, The Weather Glass, will explore the British preoccupation with the weather, from Beowulf onwards.

RoseLee Goldberg Curatorial award
Independent Curators International has awarded RoseLee Goldberg, Director of PERFORMA, the fifth Agnes Gund Curatorial Award for outstanding achievements in the field. Goldberg is honoured for her seminal study, Performance Art: From Futurism to the Present, a leading text for understanding the development of the genre; and for her work in developing new platforms for the presentation of experimental practice, in particular her vision in the creation of PERFORMA.
Performance: Live Art Since the 60s by Roselee Goldberg

Apples go viral! As part of the launch of Art: The Whole Story free stickered apples have been distributed to bookshops around the country! The Wallace Collection, The National Gallery, Foyles, Blackwell's Charing Cross Road, Waterstone's Garrick Street, Clerkenwell Tales, London Review bookshop, Hatchard's, Heffers Cambridge, Waterstone's Cambridge, Blackwell's Art & Poster, Oxford

Man with a Blue Scarf
Martin Gayford's intriguing new book Man With a Blue Scarf: On sitting for a Portrait by Lucian Freud is in The Bookseller's list of the top ten most reviewed titles!
One, in The Sunday Times described it as:
‘A portrait of the artist, his adventures with lowlife and royalty alike, and his scathingly witty opinions on art’.
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