This Thursday, 1st Februrary at 21.30 on BBC Radio 3 TP takes part in a programme in which Philip Dodd and guests explore Pablo Picasso's 1907 work Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, which would become arguably the most important painting of the century. Picasso portrayed five prostitutes gazing out at the viewer, their faces bold and solicitous, apparently inspired by African and Oceanic carvings that he had seen in Parisian museums.

Drawing From Turner, a collaborative project and exhibition jointly organised by Tate Britain and the University of the Arts London, has extended its opening dates until May 20th 2007. TP is one of 30 contemporary artists who over the last two years were invited to draw directly from a Turner drawing in the Prints and Drawings Room at Tate Britain and these drawings are displayed with the original Turners from which the artists worked.

Drawing From Turner
6th November - 20th May 2007
Tate Britain, Open daily until 5pm

A Humument p.17 (click image to enlarge)

To celebrate 40 years of work on A Humument, which was started in December 1966, TP has created six new humument pages. Unusually the pages were made outside London, whilst TP was a visitor at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton during November 2006. One of the new pages features in the current issue of Art in America.

Tom Phillips will be taking part in the annual contemporary printmaking show Originals, at the Mall Galleries in February 2007. Originals sets out to celebrate the art of the printmaker with the most exciting work being produced today. The works are selected by a panel of experts in the field including artists, printmakers, collectors and academics. Last year's exhibition, Originals 06, was described by Peter Blake as "the best print show I've ever seen".

Originals 07 opens 14th February at the Mall Galleries, The Mall, London SW1 : the gallery is open daily between 10am and 5pm.

Telephone 0207 930 6844

Mall Galleries link

michael c is more than welcome since he qualifies not only as icebreaker at this blog
[for blog it is and not {as it might have seemed} restricted to blood relatives]
but as first footer of 2007
albeit that he is not able to carry a piece of coal across its threshold
and may not even have dark [or any] hair
of hair there will
as my solstitial haircut approaches
be more anon
but meanwhile if michael c should get in touch via website
i can tell him of the gift that i must traditionally give
in exchange for the first footers conceptual coal

last artrite of 2006...
the celebration just after christmas of 40 years work on
A Humument.
made a humument fragment using the final autumn leaves in talfourd road
a wedding of an old project with a new
and thereby another epithalamium for fiona who now owns it

unlike shane warne i have not retired
and am glad to take the field again this new year .
currently my batting average is 1 run as is my aggregate and highest score
made at the oval in the cricket match to celebrate my fiftieth birthday.
i may reach seventy this season [years not runs] if we get to empire day
[whats that mum?] . i cunningly chose to be born on may 24th since empire day was a half holiday from school...