Bridget Riley would avert her eyes and hurry past the Tate shop. She hates the 'vulgar plagiarism of art'...

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Art galleries and museums in the UK are very aware that reproducing artworks on commercial items such as mugs and posters can be extremely profitable. The Tate Gallery shop, for example, is predicted to achieve turnover of almost 3 million pounds sterling in 1998, with exhibition catalogues taking a further 500,000 pounds sterling. This trend does not meet with approval from everyone in the art world. Bridget Riley, who hung the paintings for the Mondrian exhibition which is currently being held at the Tate Gallery, feels that artworks are vulgarized when they are treated in this way.

Management, Finance, Column, Art museums, Museum finance

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James Turrell: he's in a different class

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American artist James Turrell is displaying a ceramics collection named 'Lapsed Quakerware' on a specially designed plain morticed and trussed cherrywood dresser at Ackworth, a Quaker school in Pontefract, England. The collection was specially designed for the school as part of the 'Artranspennine 98' exhibition, which will open across the north of England on May 22, 1998. His work will also be exhibited between May 20, 1998, and Jun 27, 1998, at Michael Hue-Williams Fine Art in London, England.

Exhibitions, Ceramics, Turrell, James

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The age of enlightenment

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Lighting design still receives much less attention as an element of architecture in the UK than it does in many other countries, particularly the US. This situation is being addressed by the National Lighting Awards 1997/1998, which offer prizes in areas including town centres/public amenities, churches, roads and commercial properties. The award for lighting a building or structure has gone to Speirs Associates in Edinburgh, Scotland, for its lighting of an electricity power substation.

Commercial & Institutional Lighting, Commercial, Industrial, and Institutional Electric Lighting Fixture Manufacturing, Commercial lighting fixtures, Industrial Lighting, Achievements and awards, Commercial lighting, Lighting designers

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