Word: hirst
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...list as well as I can." And "well" means something different for Canongate than it does for any other house. Byng reedited the early chapters of Pi with Martel, and for Snowblind, a book by Robert Sabbag about drug smuggling, he produced a limited edition, complete with a Damien Hirst drug kit - mirror, razor blade and $100 bill. Invited to Buckingham Palace for a literary evening, Byng talked his way into an introduction to the Queen and presented her with a volume, drug kit and all. "I asked her if it could be included in the Royal Collection," Byng recalls...
...baton more skillfully than his tongue. A recent interview with the long-reigning wunderkind of classical music - a conversation held in English, translated into German and published in Die Zeit, then retranslated back into English by the British press - came off like a tirade against Brit Art stars Damien Hirst and Tracey Emin. ("Much of this English, very biographically-oriented art is bull___.") "I opened the papers and thought, 'I said what?'" he recalls. "It's embarrassing, because it's not what I meant and it's certainly not what I think." Let's hope he finds a better translator...
...record, Rattle describes himself as a lover of British contemporary art and an admirer of Hirst. He is clearly excited, however, to be moving from a country "where politically the arts are not even on the radar" to one where "the arts are a profound part of the body politic." As the head of one of Berlin's leading institutions, Rattle will play a central role in the cultural life of a city he calls "the de facto capital of the new Europe." The orchestra reflects this internationalism - its three concert masters are an Israeli, a Pole and a Japanese...
...came into the art supply shop in central London where Campbell works the two found points of resemblance - Swann's night vision takes in deserted sports fields. The resulting friendship led to a joint exhibition at Leeds Metropolitan earlier this year. While conceptual artists like Tracey Emin and Damien Hirst grab the headlines, painters like Campbell and Swann are continuing a very British tradition of urban realism that stretches from Atkinson Grimshaw's 19th century nightscapes to John Piper's records of war-torn London. Duncan Swann feels part of an "urban landscape" movement that includes people like Campbell...
...French raises the same questions of taste and the value of shock-art that have been the focus of much debate in the art world. But unlike Damien Hirst, a British bad-boy who chops up cows and puts them in glass cases, among other things, she works in a medium ignored by mainstream pundits and critics. In a way, she's lucky. In another way, she deserves the controversy...