Douglas Gordon

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An eyeful of Soho sinners: Douglas Gordon’s All I Need Is a Little Bit of Everything review
Four decades of video work ranging from Dr Jekyll to a red light odyssey showcase the Turner-winning artist’s obsession with good and evil

Jonathan Jones

02, Feb, 2024 @4:58 PM

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Douglas Gordon review – pop is a light that never goes out
Using snatches of illuminated song lyrics, Neon Ark cleverly shows how words that aren’t our own can be intimately felt

Jonathan Jones

13, Dec, 2022 @12:12 PM

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Tacita Dean and Jenny Saville lead strong female presence at Edinburgh art festival
Phyllida Barlow, Lucy Skaer and Victoria Crowe also feature in the lineup alongside old masters including Canaletto and Rembrandt

Dale Berning Sawa

25, Mar, 2018 @11:01 PM

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Turner prizewinners lead calls to rescue fund that lit up visual arts in the north
Cuts threaten unique group responsible for daring commission of ‘moon rock’ and a burning grand piano

Vanessa Thorpe

16, Sep, 2017 @11:04 PM

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The Guardian view on outrage and art: the new no longer shocks | Editorial
Editorial: The fury provoked by Rachel Whiteread 25 years ago is unthinkable today – thank goodness

Editorial

14, Sep, 2017 @4:44 PM

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Edinburgh art festival review – follies, broken statues and a surprise star
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Douglas Gordon knocks Robert Burns off his pedestal and Pablo Bronstein goes gothic at Jupiter Artland. But it’s the video art of Stephen Sutcliffe and Kate Davis that delves deepest at this year’s festival

Jonathan Jones

01, Aug, 2017 @4:51 PM

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Shadows of War and Douglas Gordon: this week’s best UK exhibitions
Roger Fenton’s photographs of the Crimea show the emergence of modern warfare, while a Turner prize winner takes on Robert Burns

Jonathan Jones

28, Jul, 2017 @8:30 AM

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Summer 2017's finest art, design and photography
Tapestry goes into space, Matisse and his subjects take over the Royal Academy, black power is on the rise, the V&A gets some va-va-voom and Manchester goes mad for New Order. Here are the pick of the summer’s art shows

Adrian Searle, Jonathan Jones, Sean O'Hagan and Oliver Wainwright

20, Jun, 2017 @5:00 AM

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I Had Nowhere to Go review – Douglas Gordon's fatuous bio-doc of Jonas Mekas
The Turner prize-winning artist has turned his attention to underground film-maker Jonas Mekas, pairing ponderous images with Mekas’s memories of the second world war. The result is clumsy, confused and desperately manipulative

Jonathan Jones

26, Sep, 2016 @11:01 AM

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Edinburgh art festival review – ugly beauty in the Jekyll and Hyde city
Darkness has descended on Scotland’s capital, with monstrous statues, robot babies and macabre examinations of the human soul. Go and be corrupted

Jonathan Jones

03, Aug, 2016 @8:45 AM

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The new Turner prize bus tours reek of tartan fetishism
By only showcasing Scottish art on the tour bus for the world’s biggest art prize, the Travelling Gallery is letting itself be corrupted by petty nationalism

Jonathan Jones

18, Aug, 2015 @2:08 PM

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Douglas Gordon in Ibiza: why I'm giving the party island a gay makeover
The controversial artist is punking up Ibiza by filling its streets with voyeuristic films. He necks some wine and talks about how soulless and super-rich the ravers have become – and why they need his films of men having sex

Hannah Ellis-Petersen

31, Jul, 2015 @11:41 AM

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