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This Cultural Life

prize do for you as an artist at the time? well, it's the classic. you know, you win the turner prize and then you start getting invited to things that you weren't invited to before. and that's the exact moment that you don't want to go to those things because you know they're only inviting you because of the turner prize. that sort of thing. but i think it gives you... you definitely get an upgrade. you went to the courtauld to study art history, so was the idea to become an art historian or a curator? yeah, the idea was to, to be around art, because i liked it and i liked doing art history, so i wanted to be around paintings and sculpture and that world. i liked the world. so you could have been a curator? yes, i could have been. i could, but it would have been terrible. after i graduated, i did try working in a museum as a volunteer. and it was a disaster because itjust, nothing happens. you know, you're sitting in an office, you're not spending time with art or looking at it. you're. .. you know, it's admin, and itjust drove me nuts.

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This Cultural Life

and so ijust knew, "i can't do this. "i have to be more actively involved somehow." so what changed, then? what made you an artist? well, at the end of the first year at the courtauld, i'd gone to an andy warhol opening and i'd met him. he signed something for me, and then i'd met him two nights later and spent time in his company. and then gone to the factory and been there for a couple of weeks on and off, and just being in his orbit and seeing his world and the world he'd created for himself was very... it kind of ruined me, really. you should just explain the factory, his, his headquarters in new york, which was his office, his studio, his film studio. everything. he painted in the basement. so the factory was basically his world, his world vision ina building. so it was very exciting to be there, but we were just hanging out, really, and just like breathing it in. as an experience, at that age, to be with someone who's sort of mythic — he was mythic then — was amazing. what did that do for your creative imagination? that must have changed

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Review: Into the Great Emptiness makes case for Henry George Watkins to join pantheon of great explorers

Into the Great Emptiness is gripping and immersive in a way that belies its provenance

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UK Museums May Openings, Munch Scream Graffiti Courtauld Gallery Gift

UK Museums Set To Re-open From 17 May
Prime Minister Boris Johnson has provisionally announced that museums could open their doors to the public from 17 May. This four-step plan is part of a roadmap to ease restrictions initiated during the Covid19 pandemic. The Prime Minister announced the plan would go ahead conditionally if new infections were to remain low.
Under the latest guidelines, commercial galleries could be permitted to open from 12 April under new safety measures. Galleries are considered non-essential retail outlets.
Official guidance for the Government sets out that “indoor entertainment, including museums, cinemas and some theatres would be able to open with social distancing in place but has ruled out a vaccine passport for the time being.

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