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Breaking: Jay Jopling's London-based White Cube Announces Plans to Convert Massive Warehouse to New Gallery on Bermondsey Street, Southeast London

Friday, December 10th, 2010


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Inside the Bermondsey Street warehouse, via NovaLoca

London art dealer Jay Jopling has just announced that the former Recall warehouse in Bermondsey Street will soon be converted to a gallery under his White Cube umbrella.  Jopling, through White Cube, represents such artists as Jake & Dinos Chapman, Tracey EminDamien Hirst, Gary Hume, Marc Quinn and his former wife Sam Taylor-Wood, among others.
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Jay Jopling, via The Rich Life

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Go See – Gloucester, UK: “Crucible” Sculpture Exhibition at Gloucester Cathedral

Tuesday, September 7th, 2010


Damien Hirst, St. Bartholomew Exquisite Pain, 2006. Image via exhibition website.

On view at Gloucester Cathedral through October 30, 2010 is ‘Crucible,’ a large group exhibition of contemporary sculpture displaying more than 75 works of art. The show is installed in both the main building and throughout the grounds, and features work by some of Britain’s most important living artists, including Damien Hirst, Antony Gormley, David Nash, Marcus Harvey, and Lynn Chadwick. Of the participating artists, 13 are members of the Royal Academy of Arts, and 1 Royal Hibernian Academian. The exhibit opened to the public on September 1, and is organized jointly by Glouster Cathedral and Gallery Pangolin.

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