To commemorate the 150th anniversary of the Tube, Art on the Underground has invited 15 innovative contemporary artists from across the globe to produce limited-edition posters. Each image will present a different perspective on the London Tube, and hence create a vibrant narrative of the world’s first underground network. Artists involved include Gillian Wearing, Sarah Lucas and Wolfgang Tillmans. (more…)
La Miroiterie, a long-running artist’s settlement and squat in the Parisian neighborhood of Ménilmontant is facing eviction from the development company that owns the abandoned mirror factory. Founded in 1999, the space has a reputation as fiercely independent, and avoided working with the Parisian government to legitimize the space. “The City Council has always respected and admired what was done at La Miroiterie, but we never supported them” financially “because they never wished for their project to be institutionalized,” said a spokesman for the Paris city council. (more…)
Artist Mark Wallinger has just completed work on his installation in the London Underground, cited as the largest ever art commission, for the 150-year anniversary of the British transportation system. Titled Labyrinth, The work involves 270 unique mazes, each installed in a station in the London Underground system. “It’s about the everyday, but on such a vast scale of moving people about. That almost in itself is a colossal, almost mythical sort of function.” (more…)
