What is the ‘Art Project’?
A unique collaboration with some of the world’s most acclaimed art museums to enable people to discover and view more than a thousand artworks online in extraordinary detail.
Archive for February, 2011
Explore the brushstrokes and hear the stories behind masterpieces by Leonardo, Renoir, Botticelli, Rembrandt and Van Gogh, along with lesser known paintings and hidden gems. Listen to commentary and insight from famous artists, writers and experts who will take you on an unforgettable journey into art.
This is your collection. Please touch the art.
The application contains more than 250 works, and includes video, audio, zoomable high-resolution images, theme groupings and image galleries.
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A HUGE announcement for art lovers… distinguished artist Maggi Hambling has donated two series of limited edition, signed and numbered giclee prints to raise money for a cutting edge climate change film, ‘A Hitchhiker’s Guide To Gaia’ and Durrell Wildlife’s work with endangered species. Both are now exclusively available from CultureLabel.com, so be sure you get your hands on one!
Maggi Hambling was awarded the CBE in 2010 and is well known for controversial public sculptures in memory of Oscar Wilde, in central London, and of Benjamin Britten, entitled ‘Scallop’, on the Aldeburgh beach, Suffolk. Her work is also in major museum collections in the UK and abroad.
Maggi has produced two limited giclee print editions, individually signed and numbered. Giclee prints are made with especially light fast inks which achieve all the richness of colour and detail in the original painting.
The first, titled Young Scalloped Hammerhead Shark, Wounded, is in response
Share the Love of Art
We heart Love Art London… a lot. And it’s not just because they’ve given us a brilliant Valentine’s offer of one extra free gig with any Share The Love Gift Membership…
Launched last year, Love Art London provides a backstage pass to the art world and has quickly become regarded as the most unique way to learn about art in London. Its founder, Chris Pensa, set up the club after working as an expert in British Paintings at Sotheby’s and talks here about what to expect from your access all areas pass.
Tell us more about the club…
Love Art London is a unique behind the scenes club which opens the closed doors of the art world for the general public. It offers an imaginative programme of weekly events which could range from a curator’s tour of the wondrous Museum of Everything to afternoon tea with sculptor Sir Anthony Caro at his studio. Last year’s programme also included an evening with the Director of Magic for the Harry Potter films, a tour of paper cutter Rob Ryan’s studio and a behind the scenes tour of the Bank of England’s art collection.
Who are your members?
Generally 25-40 year old professional folk who live or work in London. Our membership is as diverse as our programme which makes our community interesting and vibrant, not just the typical arty crowd.
What can members expect to experience?
This is very much an alternative to battling your way through the Tate on a Saturday afternoon with the world and his wife. Everything we do is private, after hours and up close & personal. We encourage informal discussion and interaction with the amazing people we come into contact with. If we’re meeting a famous artist like Sir Anthony Caro it’s important everyone gets a chance to chat to him, ask him questions and get as close to the action as possible.
How big are the groups?
For most of our gigs we have only 25 places up for grabs – this intimacy is integral to our experiences and makes what we do unique. There are rare moments and with us you make the most of them.
Forthcoming highlights?
- Story Time at Quaritch: Antique Books Uncovered (February)
- Taxidermy: LIVE! with artist Amanda Sutton (March)
- Behind the Scenes at John Jones’ Museum Framing Studio (March)
- Tattooing: Body Art with Alex Binnie from Into You Tattoo (April)
- The Art of Printmaking with Norman Ackroyd RA: In the Studio (April)
Love Art London is currently offering romantic culture vultures a Valentine’s treat with one extra gig free with any Share the Love Gift Membership bought from CultureLabel.com. Perfect as a last minute gift too!
To check out more past and forthcoming events, visit: http://www.loveartlondon.com/
Sssssh… Win Secret Cinema Tickets
Their order is ‘Tell No One’ and in return they offer you a night never to be forgotten…
Our endlessly innovative and creative friends at Secret Cinema are putting us in suspense once more with their next installment of theatre, live music, performance and film.
We’ve tried to squeeze out a clue just for CultureLabel fans but nothing… nada… zero. All we do know is that these guys never fail to deliver awe-inspiring & spine-tingling cinematic experiences and due to the incredible demand, this will be the longest running screening to date.
So no clues on the theme yet but we have manged to convince them into giving us 2x free tickets for an adventurous pair to attend any of the remaining dates still available… but you’ve got to be quick and tell us:
What is the name of the French Cinema Channel Subscription featured on CultureLabel.com? (Clue: It begins with ‘C’)
Pop your answer over to secret@culturelabel.com with your name and preferred date. Winners will be announced at 5pm on Thursday 8 Feb.
If the last event is anything to go by, then you are in for an absolute treat. Good luck!
Ballet Fever
From Russia and Hollywood straight to your local dance hall, you’d be hard pushed to miss the ballet revolution currently sweeping the globe; with Black Swan nominated for 5 Oscars, a surge in ballet class sign-ups across the country and right on cue, a chance discovery of the ballet impresario Serge Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes on film mislabelled in the V&A archives.
After her gruelling training schedule in Black Swan, Natalie Portman summised that “ballet is truly an art of passion”, a notion that Vin Burnham from the Little Costume Shop in association with The Royal Opera House, CultureLabel’s newest partner, knows all about…
Lavishly decorated with rare 1920s sequins, Swarovski crystals and silk metallic tissue, Vin hand crafts intricately detailed minature ballet and opera costumes based on the designs she created for The Royal Opera House where her career as a costume designer first began during the Fonteyn and Nureyev era.
The miniature collection currently includes four costumes; The Sugar Plum Fairy from The Nutcracker, Odile from Swan Lake, Carmen and The Lilac Fairy from Sleeping Beauty (as seen above). All are a quarter of their real size and are hand made to order. They are all limited editions of 75.
Vin is now an international award winning costume designer mainly working in TV/film and her work can still be seen on stage at The Royal Opera House today, including mouse costumes in Peter Wright’s ‘Nutcracker’ and masks in Andre Serban’s ‘Turandot’.
Darcey Bussell is a big fan of Vin’s work, owning her own minature Lilac Fairy costume which she says is a ‘great reminder of my very first solo with the Royal Ballet Company (Covent Garden) – it is very special.’
For the full collection, visit The Little Costume Shop on CultureLabel - in association with The Royal Opera House.
Costume featured: The Lilac Fairy from Sleeping Beauty, £1495.
All Loved Up
For some Oooos and Aaaaahs this Valentine’s Day, woo your lover with a lovingly crafted design treasure handpicked from over 200 galleries, artists, designers and independent boutiques.
Show your love with handmade clay hearts, exclusive jewellery, loved-up sculptures or say it all with a limited edition art print and use the Own Art scheme to spread the cost of payment over 10 months (0% Typical APR)
…Or why not share the love this Valentine’s and enjoy a Tango Taster Workshop or a gift membership to any 5 Love Art London gigs, perfect for two art or dance loving Londoners!
Browse our latest Valentine’s Collection now on site with new lines added every day.
*Print featured is ‘Kiss’ by David Austem at Ingleby Gallery, £360 or just £36 per month with Own Art
