The Observer newspaper have a special Music Monthly featuring art well worth a look, one of the best featrures is “Every picture tells a story Eight pop stars reveal the art that has most inspired them, from 60s legends and surrealist dolls to outrageous manga sculpture” link Richard Hamilton, Asger Jorn, Sage Vaughan, Antony Gormley,Hans Bellmer,Takashi Murakami and Peter Blake all feature.
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Venice provides inspiration for a beautiful new series of prints by Peter Blake
Peter Blake, known to many as the father of British Pop Art, has created twenty new prints, entitled The Venice Suite, inspired by his recent experiences in the Italian city.
Depicting an imagined, fairytale vision of the city, the prints draw from a host of source material and were {...}

Tuesday 20th January from 6.30 an exhibition of 12” record sleeves by artists ranging from Banksy to Rauschenberg, Peter Blake to Keith Haring.
Plus a display of great designs for bands including Def Leppard, Metallica and Led Zeppelin, by our own Andie Airfix.
This is the first ‘Credit-Crunch’ inspired exhibition of Art you already own.
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