Gillian Wearing, Me As an Artist in 1984 (2014), all Photos Courtesy of Regen Projects Los Angeles.

One of the most prominent members of the Young British Artists, Gillian Wearing, who in the past few decades has established a unique and enduring voice in the contemporary discourse, is presenting her new body of work at Los Angeles’ Regen Projects. The artist’s fourth collaboration with the gallery, everyone, features two new video pieces as well as various multimedia works that juxtapose Wearing’s investigations on personal memory, confrontation with past and unfolding of angst as a direct result. (more…)

In a conversation with The Independent, artist Jake Chapman discusses crowdfunding art shows and the more general role of the public in the art world. The conversation was precipitated by the Chapman Brothers‘ unorthodox funding strategy for their upcoming show at the Jerwood gallery: offering tattoos in exchange for donations.  One of the leading figures of the Young British Artists, Chapman promotes the need to “defend art from popularity and popularity from art” and maintains that “popular decisions are not always the right decisions”.  (more…)

This year’s Venice Beiennale will see a new generation of Young British Artists spotlighted at the exhibition’s “Encyclopedic Palace,” including Ed Atkins, James Richards and Helen Marten.  “The common factor, perhaps, is that all these young artists grew up with the internet. It’s inside them. Because of that, they have a particular attitude to the way images and objects are made, dispersed and distributed.” Says Polly Staple, director of the Chisenhale Gallery, which has hosted all three of the afforementioned artists. (more…)

Art-world power couple Tim Noble and Sue Webster have ended their marriage after four years.  The couple wed in 2008, having been together as a couple for 20 years, but decided to separate this year after coming to the realization that they both valued their art over their marriage.  “It’s almost like we shouldn’t have got married,” said Noble. (more…)

‬In a new interview with The Independent, Sarah Lucas does little to restrict her opinion of the art of fellow Young British Artists including that of Tracey Emin “[her work is] a bit second-rate, really, to exploit all that personal stuff”. “Tracey likes a lot of drama, which I don’t really.”

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‪A new generation of ‘Young British Artists’: Jonny Briggs, Gabriella Boyd, Adeline de Monseignat, Max Dovey, Catherine Parsonage and Alison Stolwood feature in the 40-person Catlin Guide 2012, a subset of the London Art Fair [AO Newslink]

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