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DARK SECRETS: Antony gormley - The Real Truth

Sculptor Sir Antony Gormley says art ‘a fundamental tool in our survival’

The Turner Prize winner is best known for creating the Angel Of The North sculpture in Gateshead, Tyne and Wear.

Evening Standard

‘When I saw what I captured I felt a Muybridge-like joy’: Roger Tooth’s best phone picture

Tooth was delighted to capture one of Antony Gormley’s statues on Crosby beach – the dog was an unexpected bonus

The Guardian - UK

Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui: ‘Artists are liars who just make things up – but we reveal a lot’

The internationally feted choreographer has worked with pop megastars, a sculptor and the monks of the Shaolin Temple. Now he is tackling the cultural divisions and colonial legacy of his homeland

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The art of the city: a walking tour of Edinburgh’s best landscape sculptures

Start with Andy Goldsworthy’s earthy installations at the Royal Scottish Academy, then head outdoors to discover more of his work, alongside pieces by Barbara Hepworth, Antony Gormley and Charles Jencks

The Guardian - UK

The ugly truth: have Trump’s tariffs finally put an end to Crocs’ 19-year reign?

The Guardian’s Crocs correspondent traces the highs and lows of the rubbery perforated clogs that divide opinion

The Guardian - UK

David Beckham, Gary Oldman and Roger Daltrey knighted in King’s birthday honours

Stage star Elaine Paige and Conservative politician Penny Mordaunt will receive damehoods, while sculptor Antony Gormley is made a Companion of Honour

The Independent UK

Gary Oldman and Roger Daltrey knighted in king’s birthday honours

Author Pat Barker and stage star Elaine Paige made dames and Antony Gormley becomes a Companion of Honour

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Jenny Eclair backs £3.8m fundraiser to ‘save Hepworth artwork for the nation’

A museum and national charity wants to raise enough money to secure it for permanent public display in Wakefield, West Yorkshire.

Evening Standard

Antony Gormley review – here come the Gorminators, those welded warriors for humanity

He is a household name, with his army of lead figures dotted all over Britain. But this show of early work, with its undercurrent of weaponry, speaks to a fear of annihilation in a time of paranoia

The Guardian - UK

‘It’s almost like Vaseline’: artists including Antony Gormley swap paint for seaweed ink in art challenge

Ocean-inspired artworks created using kelp-based pigment will be sold to raise funds for conservation

The Guardian - UK

Teenager drowned after being swept out to sea on beach, inquest hears

Daniel Halliday, 14, had been jumping waves with friends on Crosby Beach in Merseyside.

The Independent UK

Does Singapore hold the key for the art world's future?

As Art SG 2025 prepares to open its doors, we take a look at Singapore’s art scene

Wallpaper

‘It is everything art gets a bad name for and everything I love’: Damien Hirst and Cornelia Parker on choosing artworks for schools

Antony Gormley and Bridget Riley also pick works to be shown on high-res displays, thanks to a drive to put art at the core of the secondary school cultural syllabus

The Guardian - UK

Year in review: top 10 art and culture interviews of 2024, as selected by Wallpaper’s Hannah Silver

From Antony Gormley to St. Vincent and Mickalene Thomas – art & culture editor Hannah Silver looks back on the creatives we've most enjoyed catching up with during 2024

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Lord Renfrew of Kaimsthorn obituary

Archaeologist who embraced new ideas and technologies and challenged long-held assumptions about the rise of early civilisation

Evening Standard

Meghan Markle’s ‘ghastly’, almond milk is common — Nicky Haslam's tea towel must be back

He loathes Antony Gormley’s sculptures and would never go to your destination wedding — the scathing interior designer’s 2024 “common” tea towel does not disappoint

Evening Standard

Controversial plans for new pavilion at Coal Drops Yard are shelved after Gormley criticism

Locals opposed to the scheme said the planned new building would resemble a “duty free mall”

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Antony Gormley joins fight against ‘destruction’ of historic King’s Cross site

Angel of the North artist is among residents objecting to development plans for Coal Drops Yard in London

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Art Matters With Melvyn Bragg review – a shallow, unenlightening waste of time and money

This chummy, ineffective look at the arts crisis offers no solutions. And by featuring only one contributor aged under 50, it is itself part of the problem

The Guardian - UK

Search called off for boy, 14, missing after swimming in River Mersey

Coastguard says search for teenager at Crosby beach ‘stood down, pending further information’

Wallpaper

‘I don't know what art is, but we have to make these things to understand ourselves’: Antony Gormley in New York

Wallpaper* meets Antony Gormley as his new exhibition, ‘Aerial’ opens at White Cube New York

Evening Standard

Antony Gormley: 'Politics and economics have failed us – that's why art is so important'

The artist talks about his new show, his most political work yet, and why art shouldn't have a price tag

The Guardian - UK

The mystery of the garden of memories at the Angel of the North

Folded and unfolded notes, straggles of ribbon, artificial flowers – a professor is searching for the roots of the phenomenon

France 24

Artist Antony Gormley: 'This exhibition is an audit on what it means to be alive today'

In this edition of Arts24, Eve Jackson speaks to one of the most popular and accoladed artists in the UK and beyond. Antony Gormley's sculptures are simple and accessible and scattered around the world, from cities to seashores. His 20-metre-high "Angel of the North" has for two decades gazed down…

The Guardian - UK

Toppled, eaten, pooed on, licked, rusted and stolen: life’s tough for the treasures of Yorkshire Sculpture Park

Its works by Moore, Hepworth and Gormley are priceless. But they are at risk – from toxic bird poo, shifting tree roots and 400,000 greasy humans. We spend a day with the team keeping everything safe

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