Sensation at Royal Academy of Arts, London (1997) press releases, list of works, in varied publications
Section A. Personal context; B. a 1940 predecessor: lady with diamonds, shocking disclosure, and sensational media coverage nationwide; C. Sensation exhibition press releases; D. exhibition checklist; E. In Berlin & at the Brooklyn Museum of Art in New York— with list of media coverage.
Art Design Publicity at ADC (Remix) | 14 November 2010 | Updated 16 January 2024
OVERVIEW OF SECTIONS
A. Personal context: Sensation, to London from Southeast Asia (1997)
B. Historical context: Shocking Sensation discovered about the town art lady in America: Warhol Marilyn diptych (1962) collaborator, Emily Hall Tremaine: diamonds, disclosure, danger— "sensational allegations" and publicity (1935-41)
C. Sensation: Press releases from the Royal Academy of Arts, London (1997)
D. Sensation: Exhibition checklist / list of artworks in the show
E. Sensation: Exhibitions, varied articles about Sensation and mentions in the media landscape
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A. Personal context: Sensation, to London from Southeast Asia (1997) "I remember that time as if it were yesterday, when I had just moved to the exotic island [Great Britain] after living in Southeast Asia. Upon my arrival to London, some were still grieving over their lost princess [Diana], while others were all excited about some art show held at a place called the Royal Academy. I wandered into the press preview, started with the shark, but became quickly mesmerized by ’the tent.’ On the floor, peering inside and giggling, a radio journalist walked over and asked to interview me..."
Read more Prior to witnessing Sensation in London, I was in Bangkok, during the crash of the baht and threat of military coup in the steamy summer heat, and in Hongkong, witnessing the Handover to China with concern.
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B. The town art lady, Warhol Marilyn diptych collaborator, Emily Hall Tremaine, teaches a thing or two about Sensation: diamonds, disclosure, danger— "sensational allegations" and publicity (1935-41)
Emily & Sensation | Hirst’s £50m diamond skull | Emin’s My Bed
Emily & Three Flags | A Boy for Meg | Marilyn Diptych | Victory Boogie Woogie
Date: 6 September 1940. See: Emily Hall Tremaine - crazy anti-Nazi media coverage.
Date: 10 December 1940
Context: Mother of the famous Victory boogie woogie by Mondrian in the Hague, Warhol’s Marilyn diptych at the Tate, and Johns’s Three flags, Emily Hall Tremaine (previously Spreckels) accused her dodgy second husband of being pro-Nazi in divorce court. After 4 full-on national media coverage cycles in the US, he fired back with more media Sensation, "I’m not the Nazi, SHE is". This was in posh California.
Sample clip, front page, at top, Altoona, Pennsylvania: photo / caption with Emily: "Charged with Naziism". The photo is re-used from an earlier publicity cycle in which Emily wore over $1 million in diamonds (maybe 14.5-220m today, walking with two guards) and stole the press away from the posh guests at the costume party. (Emily is thought to have been an "eyes and ears" spy in the social set for US military intelligence.)
Art historical interpretation: "Here Emily fused the sensibility of both Damien Hirst with his flash diamond skull, but became the diamond skull herself. This was combined with Tracey Emin-like shock, first with shocking disclosure, and as we see, tabloidesque scandal." (R. J. Preece)
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Cropped view of page in designer / editor "It Girl" Emily Hall Tremaine’s 1930s scrapbook showing multiple media coverage on her and her start-up work at Aperitif magazine.
Warhol to Hirst? No. Emily, then Andy, to Hirst and Emin.
Or more accurately, Emily, then Andy, to Hirst, Emin and Co.— with Saatchi.
Sample media coverage from the 1940-41 divorce case, Emily vs. Adolph B. Spreckels, Jr., that shocked the United States for 4-6 months with a multiple news cycle. It is thought that Emily, a self-made publicity master, pursued this— battling Nazi support in elements of American high society and business— not only against Adolph, but his wider sphere, in consultation with Ellis M. Zacharias, head of US Pacific area naval intelligence. After WWII, Emily turned her attention to contemporary art as an organizer and collector. Her acquisitions included the purchases of several early works by Warhol, who may have been aware of Emily and this "I’m not the Nazi, YOU are the Nazi" scandal.
Above, news clipping in New York Daily News on 7 September 1940, with re-used photo of Emily wearing diamonds estimated in value today of USD$14-220 million at the Beaux Arts Ball in New York. Emily was reported in the press nationwide about this just nine months earlier. Here, Emily dives into shocking disclosure and as one newspaper put it, "sensational allegations", alleging extreme spousal violence and pro-Nazism regarding her second husband after one year of marriage. Bottom left, front page of newspaper reporting on chaos in Romania and a Nazi bomb hitting a hospital in London. While difficult and rather disturbing, this photo recalls— in reverse— Emin’s disclosure, Damien’s diamonds and possibly Jake & Dinos Chapman’s Hitler re-works in one go. Emily Hall von Romberg-Spreckels (later Tremaine) lived through this, she survived it. Then she turned to Art.
In 1940, Emily Hall Spreckels (later Tremaine) courageously stood up and publicly blasted her second husband after a turbulent year-long marriage: "no" to his alleged extreme spousal violence and "no" to his alleged pro-Nazism. This was reported, via her initial divorce filing, in probably all media markets across the United States via wire service reports. Then it got messy.
> To learn more, and see more samples of shocking media coverage, see Meet the other lady behind the diptych; The depiction of the Marilyn Diptych as autobiographical for Emily Hall Tremaine (1908-87). [Scroll down to the article concerning a (to date) unknown context of the voted #3 most influential work of Modern art. Emily advised Warhol put the two panels together— she lived it, she survived it— showing celebrity rise and destruction.]
A manifestation between 1940-41 and 1962 was Emily’s anti-Nazi, post-Bauhaus, art/design crossover publicity project, Painting toward architecture, informally connected to the Museum of Modern Art in New York, 28+ shows over a 5+ year run (1947-52). Here, Emily redirected the camera and publicity focus away from herself, stepped into the background, and put the work, art and design, to the foreground:
"On the art, design, exhibition communications front, surviving documentation suggests a very sophisticated plan, a predecessor to late 1990s ’discussion-generating’ London art communications and multi-angled Starck / Schrager designer hotel publicity. [7]"
— R. J. Preece in "Rethinking Painting toward architecture (1947-52)", Sculpture, 36(6), July / August 2017. (See footnote 7, with links to writings on the work of Tracey Emin and Damien Hirst, design publicity guru Philippe Starck, and clearly referring to "Sensation". At the time of publication, Emily’s 1930s in relation to communications were very hazy and uncontextualized; recent research has provided a great deal of clarity.)
(R. J. Preece, artdesigncafe.com; Contributing Editor, Sculpture magazine, 16 September 2021; updated 27 October 2021.)
R. J. Preece in the author of the forthcoming book Nazis in California: The dangerous journey of Emily Spreckels in high society, 1933-45 | Was she a California Nazi, a US patriot-spy, or was she both? (2025).
For more information, see Section I. Mystery, danger & misunderstandings: Emily Hall Tremaine in the 1930s on the Emily Hall Tremaine / Collection compilations and documentation overview page.
C.1. Press release: Sensation: Young British artists from The Saatchi Collection
Royal Academy of Arts
London, England
18 September - 28 December 1997 (Closed 25 December)
PRESS RELEASE
12.9.97 | Sponsored by Christie’s. In association with TimeOut
The achievements of a generation of young British artists whose original and challenging work has received international acclaim are the focus of this major exhibition. Entitled Sensation, the show presents work by artists selected from The Saatchi Collection. As well as highlighting the vitality and inventiveness of current British art, the exhibition also demonstrates the commitment that Charles Saatchi has shown in collecting the work of these young artists.
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This recent explosion of creativity and excitement in the visual arts has not been seen since the emergence of Pop Art in the early 1960s. This current phenomenon was originally identified in the late 1980s through exhibitions in the east end of London, most notably Freeze and Modern Medicine. These exhibitions were organised by a group of young artists who, having just graduated from art school, sought venues that lay outside the traditional institutions of the art world in order to show their work. Since then the energy and ingenuity that many artists have shown in promoting their own work has been one of the factors of their success.
The individuality of their work makes it impossible to brand this generation of young artists as a movement, even though many of the artists know and support each other. By showing their work together, which ranges in media from paintings and sculpture to video, photography and ready-made objects, it is possible to appreciate the interaction and shared concerns of their work which can, in turn, be exuberantly humorous or brutally forthright.
The artists represented in Sensation are: Darren Almond, Richard Billingham, Glenn Brown, Simon Callery, Jake & Dinos Chapman, Adam Chodzko, Mat Collishaw, Keith Coventry, Peter Davies, Tracey Emin, Paul Finnegan, Mark Francis, Alex Hartley, Marcus Harvey, Mona Hatoum, Damien Hirst, Gary Hume, Michael Landy, Abigail Lane, Langlands & Bell, Sarah Lucas, Martin Maloney, Jason Martin, Alain Miller, Ron Mueck, Chris Ofili, Jonathan Parsons, Richard Patterson, Simon Patterson, Hadrian Pigott, Marc Quinn, Fiona Rae, James Rielly, Jenny Saville, Yinka Shonibare, Jane Simpson, Sam Taylor-Wood, Gavin Turk, Mark Wallinger, Gillian Wearing, Rachel Whiteread and Cerith Wyn Evans.
CATALOGUE
The catalogue accompanying the exhibition examines the rise of these young British artists and places their work in a historical and critical context. Norman Rosenthal, Exhibitions Secretary at the Royal Academy, writes an introduction to the exhibition, Richard Shone charts the story over the past 10 years from the Freeze exhibition to Rachel Whiteread’s "House" and Lisa Jardine looks at the role of the collector in the twentieth century. Martin Maloney focuses on the works in the exhibition and Brooks Adams examines the work of the young British artists from an international perspective. The catalogue has over 180 illustrations including photographs of the artists by Johnnie Shand Kydd. Published by Thames & Hudson, the catalogue will be available both in softback (£21.95 and £19.95 for Friends) from the Royal Academy during the exhibition and in hardback from shops nationwide.
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NOTES TO EDITORS: The Royal Academy offers the following advice to people before visiting the exhibition.
There will be works of art on display in the Sensation exhibition which some people may find distasteful. Parents should exercise their judgement in bringing their children to the exhibition. One gallery will not be open to those under the age of 18.
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C.2. Press release: Sensation press conference
Royal Academy of Arts, London
16 September 1997
PRESS RELEASE
The following comments were made by Sir Philip Dowson, President of the Royal Academy and David Gordon, Secretary of the Royal Academy at a press briefing for Sensation today.
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Sir Philip Dowson PRA
I would like to make two points:
First, the decision to put this exhibition on followed the rigorous democratic procedures of the Academy. It was approved by the Exhibitions Committee on 8 January last. This is composed entirely of RAs and chaired by Tom Phillips. It was then approved by Council. Following the controversy over the Hindley picture, Council met again and reaffirmed the decision to proceed. A General Assembly of Academicians voted in favour of Council’s decision. There was intense debate, and I respect the views of those of my fellow Academicians who dissented.
Second, the Academy puts on the broadest possible range of art exhibitions. Our next exhibition—Art Treasures of England—will be of a completely different sort of collecting—by regional galleries and museums.
It is our obligation to show art of all kinds.
I believe this to be a serious and extremely important exhibition.
David Gordon commented,
One of the controversial works in the exhibition is the picture of Myra Hindley by Marcus Harvey. As you have seen, it has been included in the exhibition.
This decision, as Sir Philip has said, was taken after long and careful discussions.
The picture, based on the well-known police photo and using the cast of a child’s hand, makes us think afresh about Myra Hindley’s crimes and her punishment, and our reactions.
The majority view inside the Academy was that millions and millions of images of Myra Hindley have been reproduced in newspapers and magazines. Books have been written about the murders. Television programmes have been made. Hindley’s image is in the public domain; part of our consciousness; an awful part of our recent social history; a legitimate subject for journalism—and for art.
There are a few other works in the exhibition which are strong, graphic and will be offensive to some. We will be posting notices at the entrance to the exhibition to alert visitors.
One gallery containing the piece Zygotic acceleration by Jake and Dinos Chapman is closed to the under 18s. Parental guidance should be exercised for the whole show. Not all art is suitable for everyone.
The Academy believes that the public, having seen for itself, should judge for itself.
The Academy also believes in and welcomes discussion and debate.
Once people have seen the exhibition for themselves, they will be invited to fill out a questionnaire giving their views. These are the questions:
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1. Having seen this exhibition for yourself do you think the Royal Academy of Arts was right to stage it? 2. Are there works exhibited which you think should not have been shown? If so which, and for what reasons? 3. Should the Royal Academy present art even if it shocks and causes offence? |
In six weeks or so, we will have a public debate on the exhibition to discuss the issues raised by it and the results of the survey will be made public then.
C.3. Press release: Extracts from the introductory essay to the catalogue by Norman Rosenthal
Royal Academy of Arts | PRESS RELEASE
(undated, c. September 1997
WHY SENSATION?
Extracts from the introductory essay to the catalogue by Norman Rosenthal.
What is so new about the art in Sensation? The answer lies in this generation of artists’ totally new and radical attitude to realism, or rather to reality and real life itself.
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The great art movements of the century were made up from artists producing work that the public neither wanted nor expected but were forced to swallow because they raised issues of modernity that could not be avoided. Who is not made to feel uncomfortable by the unknown, whether in art or anything else? It is natural and easy to fall in love with what is preconceived as being right and proper, good or beautiful but the chief task of new art is to disturb that sense of comfort.
A visitor to this exhibition with an open mind and well developed antennae for life will perceive an uncommonly clear mirror of contemporary problems and obsessions from the perspective of youth. Presented with both seriousness and humour (often black) and in an extraordinary diversity of material and approaches, both traditional and unexpected, these works serve as memorable metaphors of many aspects of our times. Some of these aspects are shocking and can be all too easily swept under the metaphorical carpet in our endless search for that illusive thing called beauty.
The art gallery is a public place where we cannot easily keep our thoughts and blushed embarrassment to ourselves, unlike the darkness of the theatre or cinema or the privacy of reading. Visual artists have, for this very reason, a peculiar ability and, therefore, responsibility to draw attention to that elusive thing we call reality, which may, when fused with fantasy and personal obsession, bring forth something which may be recognised as art.
In this exhibition we can witness and engage with metaphors of sensations, positive and negative, that remind us of the big issues of our time, often of all time: love and sex or fashion and food, waste and plenty, boredom and excitement, violence and child abuse, disease, medicine and death, shelter and exposure, science and metamorphosis, simplicity and complexity.
The visitor will also see work which is meant to unsettle us as we look together with our chance neighbour in the gallery at things normally seen in private. It has always been the job of the artist to conquer territory that has hitherto been taboo.
Artists must continue the conquest of new territory and new taboos. The strange, the mysterious, the freakish, the fantasy of science, the abnormality of the normal and the normality of the abnormal: all of these are celebrated through the creativity of young British artists.
As far as international reputation is concerned, it appears that this latest generation of artists is having considerably more impact than its predecessors and perhaps one of the questions this exhibition will answer is whether art in Britain, never quite central to the European cultural experience nor quite radical in terms of the great American art experiment, can now hold its own as second to none. Can London become the unchallenged centre for the practice and presentation of contemporary art? If London could claim that position it would surely be a first and grounds for celebration.
Art must first be conceived, second executed and third presented to the public. With Sensation, the Royal Academy continues its role as a platform for the art of all ages, ancient and modern. We aim to enable the public to see and judge for themselves an exhibition of the work of some of the leading contemporary artists in the world today.
C.4. Merchandise accompanying Sensation: Young British Artists from the Saatchi Collection
Royal Academy of Arts
London, England
18 September - 28 December 1997
16 September 1997 | Sponsored by Christie’s in association with Time Out
The merchandise accompanying the Royal Academy of Arts Sensation Exhibition is an eclectic mix that reflects the variety of works exhibited. Many of the product designs have been inspired by the works in the exhibition and several have been developed in conjunction with the artists.
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These product groups will account for a significant proportion of sales:
> Selection of postcards featuring the major works and photographs of some of the artists by Johnnie Shand Kydd at £0.50
> Greeting Cards by young British designers created exclusively for the exhibition, from £2.95
> Over 50 book titles relevant to the exhibition
Products specially developed in association with the artists for the exhibition include:
Limited edition (of 50) Chapman Brothers signed posters, titled "All Of Our Ideas For The Next 20 Years", measuring 4’ x 5’ and printed on 170gsm paper, priced at £39.95 each. Also available are unsigned posters, on 150gsm paper at £19.95 each.
Chapman Brothers signed, limited edition (of 1,000) telephone cards, featuring a detail from the work Ubermensch.
Mona Hatoum pinbadge, designed in relation to her work, Deep Throat. The image is taken from the last video sequence of this work and retails for £0.95.
T-shirts featuring the work of artists Sam Taylor-Wood, Damien Hirst, Gary Hume, Marcus Harvey, Michael Landy and Jenny Saville at £14.95 or £19.95.
Also especially produced for this exhibition are fashion T-Shirts by British Designers Antoni and Alison, priced at £35.00 each. The T-shirts feature the phrase "Non-Conformist - Dressing Like An Avant Garde Artist".
Other design led items which will be sold in the Royal Academy to accompany the exhibition include:
> Inflatable PVC armchair at £85.00
> PVC room divider/shower curtain with 126 transparent storage pockets to store CD’s, photos or household items at £89.95 each
> PVC toothbrush holder with space for four toothbrushes and a pocket above each one for a photo of the owner at £16.00 each. A transparent toothbrush containing plastic swimming fish will also be available at £4.95
> Gary Hume’s "Pop up Room" at £5.95 was created by the British Council for a touring exhibition. It is made from pre-cut card and can be assembled to form a 3-sided room with floor and ceiling
> Mutant Magnets to adorn a fridge or filing cabinet featuring aspects of the body available in male or female body parts at £19.95 each
> Resin photo frame with real fish of plastic pills [sic?] sealed inside at £18.95 each
The Royal Academy of Arts Shop is situated on the first floor of the Royal Academy - Tel. 0171 300 5757. The Royal Academy is a registered charity and all proceeds from the exhibition help fund the many varied activities held at the Royal Academy.
D. Sensation: Exhibition checklist / list of artworks in the show
The following list of artworks were listed in the exhibition checklist / list of artworks document that was in the original press kit for the press preview at the Sensation exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts, London in September 1997. As a reminder, best practice for research purposes would be to confirm via the list that is presumably on file in the Academy’s archive.
List of artworks
LIST OF WORKS
("Cat. #" listings below presumably relate to photos in the catalogue.)
Darren Almond
| cat. 1 |
A Bigger Clock/1997 steel, perspex, alumnium, paint and motor 154 x 206 x 98cm |
Vestibule |
| cat. 2 |
Fan/1997 wood, plastic, micro-processors, paint, motors diameter 450 cm |
Ante Room |
Richard Billingham
(28 photographs in Gallery VIII of which 8 - listed below - are included in the catalogue)
| cat. 3 |
Untitled/1993 colour photograph on aluminium 105 x 158cm |
Gallery VIII |
| cat. 4 |
Untitled/1995 colour photograph on aluminium 105 x 158cm |
Gallery VIII |
| cat. 5 |
Untitled/1995 colour photograph on aluminium 105 x 158cm |
Gallery VIII |
| cat. 6 |
Untitled/1993 colour photograph on aluminium 120 x 80cm |
Gallery VIII |
| cat. 7 |
Untitled/1994 colour photograph on aluminium 80 x 120cm |
Gallery VIII |
| cat. 8 |
Untitled/1995 colour photograph on aluminium 105 x 158cm |
Gallery VIII |
| cat. 9 |
Untitled/1995 colour photograph on aluminium 80 x 120cm |
Gallery VIII |
| cat. 10 |
Untitled/1995 colour photograph on aluminium 158 x 105cm |
Gallery VIII |
Glenn Brown
| cat. 12 |
Dali-Christ/1992 oil on canvas 274 x 183cm ’Dali-Christ’ 1992 after ’Soft Construction with Boiled Beans’ 1936 by Salvador Dali. |
Gallery V |
| cat. 13 |
Ornamental Despair (Painting for Ian Curtis) After Chris Foss/1994 oil on canvas 201 x 300cm |
Norman Shaw Landing |
Simon Callery
| cat. 14 |
Newton’s Note/1996 oil on canvas 255 x 320cm |
Large Weston Room |
Jake & Dinos Chapman
| cat. 15 |
Great Deeds Against the Dead/1994 mixed media with plinth total: 277 x 244 x 152cm |
Gallery III |
| cat. 17 |
Zygotic acceleration, biogenetic, de-subliminated libidinal model/1995 fibreglass 150 x 180 x 140cm plinth: 180 x 20 x 150cm |
Gallery I |
| cat. 18 |
Tragic Anatomies/1996 fibreglass, resin, paint, smoke devices varied measurements |
Small Weston Room |
Adam Chodzko
| cat. 19 |
The God Look-Alike Contest/1992-3 (Last Judgment Version) mixed media 57 x 44.5 x 2.5cm |
Gallery X |
Mat Collishaw
| cat. 20 |
Bullet Hole/1988-93 cibachrome mounted on 15 light boxes 229 x 310cm |
Gallery X |
Keith Coventry
8 John Adam Street, London, WC2N
| ex. cat. |
Route taken by 10,000 English fans through Spain, during the 1982 World Cup, Route taken by Xenophon and the 10,000 Greeks of the Persian Expedition in 401 B.C./1994 oil on canvas, wood, gesso, glass 66 x 105 x 7.2cm |
Large Weston Room |
Peter Davies
| cat. 22 |
Text Painting/1996 acrylic on canvas 203 x 254cm |
Gallery I |
| ex. cat. |
The Hot One Hundred/1997 acrylic on canvas 203.2 x 254cm |
Gallery X |
Tracey Emin
| cat. 24 |
Everyone I Have Ever Slept With 1963-1995/1995 appliqued tent, mattress, light 122 x 245 x 214cm |
Gallery VII |
Paul Finnegan
| cat. 25 |
Untitled/1995 mixed media, shoes 185 x 140 x 90cm |
Sackler Stairs |
Mark Francis
| ex. cat |
Implode/1996 oil on canvas 305 x 274cm |
Large Weston Room |
Alex Hartley
| cat. 29 |
Untitled/1995 plinth, acrylic, photograph 60 x 30 x 27cm plinth: 85 x 120 x 85cm |
Roger de Grey Court |
Marcus Harvey
| cat. 30 |
Proud of His Wife/1994 oil and acrylic on canvas 198 x 198cm |
Gallery VII |
| cat. 31 |
Myra/1995 acrylic on canvas 396 x 320cm |
Gallery IV |
| cat. 32 |
Dudley, Like What You See? Then Call Me/1996 acrylic on canvas 198 x 198cm |
Gallery VII |
| ex. cat. |
Julie from Hull/1994 oil and acrylic on canvas 244 x 244cm |
Gallery V |
Mona Hatoum
| cat. 33 |
Deep Throat/1996 table, chair, television set, glass plate, fork, knife, water glass, laser disc, laser disc player 74.5 x 85 x 85cm |
Gallery V |
Damien Hirst
| cat. 34 |
A Thousand Years/1990 steel, glass, flies, maggots, MDF, insect-o-cutor, cow’s head, sugar, water 213 x 427 x 213cm |
Gallery II |
| cat. 35 |
The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living/1991 tiger shark, glass, steel, 5% formaldehyde solution 213 x 518 x 213cm |
Central Hall |
| cat. 36 |
Isolated Elements Swimming in the Same Direction for the Purpose of Understanding/1991 MDF, melamine, wood, steel, glass, perspex cases, fish, 5% formaldehyde solution 183 x 274 x 30.5cm |
Gallery IV |
| cat. 37 |
Away from the flock/1994 steel, glass, lamb, formaldehyde solution 96 x 149 x 51cm |
Gallery III |
| cat. 38 |
Argininosuccinic Acid/1995 gloss household paint on canvas 335 x 457.2cm |
Gallery X |
| cat. 39 |
Some Comfort Gained from the Acceptance of the Inherent Lies in Everything/1996 steel, glass, cows, formaldehyde solution 12 tanks: each 200 x 90 x 30cm |
Gallery VI |
| cat. 40 |
This little piggy went to market, this little piggy stayed at home/1996 steel, GRP composites, glass, pig, formaldehyde solution, electric motor 2 tanks: each 120 x 210 x 60cm |
Gallery II |
| cat. 41 |
Beautiful, kiss my f***ing ass painting/1996 gloss household paint on canvas diameter 213.4cm |
Gallery I |
| ex. cat. |
Holiday/No feelings/1989 drug bottles in cabinet 137 x 102 x 23cm |
Gallery V |
Gary Hume
| cat. 42 |
Dolphin Painting No IV/1991 gloss paint on MDF board 4 panels, total: 222 x 643cm |
Gallery V |
| cat. 43 |
Begging For It/1994 gloss paint on panel 200 x 150cm |
Gallery VII |
| cat. 44 |
Tony Blackburn/1994 gloss paint on panel 194 x 137cm |
Gallery I |
| cat. 45 |
Vicious/1994 gloss paint on panel 218 x 181cm |
Gallery III |
| cat. 46 |
My aunt and I Agree/1995 gloss paint on aluminium panel 200 x 1100cm |
Gallery III |
| ex. cat. |
Jealousy and Passion/1993 gloss paint, pencil, cardboard on panel 200 x 132cm |
Gallery IX |
Michael Landy
| cat. 47 |
Costermonger’s Stall/1992-7 wood, gloss paint, tarpaulin, plastic buckets, electric lights, flowers 182.8 x 213.3 x 213.3cm |
Vestibule |
Abigail Lane
| cat. 48 |
Blue Print/1992 chair with felt ink pad seat, blue ink, framed print 122 x 46 x 91cm |
Gallery IX |
Langlands & Bell
| cat. 50 |
Ivrea/1991 hardwood, wood products, glass, cellulose lacquer total: 160 x 500 x 18cm |
Large Weston Room |
Sarah Lucas
| cat. 52 |
Sod You Gits/1990 photocopy on paper 216 x 315cm |
Gallery VII |
| cat. 53 |
1-123-123-12-12/1991 size seven boots with razor blades |
Norman Shaw Landing |
| cat. 55 |
Receptacle of Lurid Things/1991 wax lifesize |
Norman Shaw Landing |
| cat. 56 |
Two fried eggs and a kebab/1992 photograph, fried eggs, kebab, table 76.2 x 152.4 x 89cm |
Gallery V |
| cat. 57 |
Au Naturel/1994 mattress, water bucket, melons, oranges, cucumber 83.8 x 167.6 x 144.8cm |
Gallery VII |
| cat. 58 |
Where Does It All End?/1994-95 wax and cigarette butt 6.4 x 9.5 x 6.4cm |
Norman Shaw Landing |
| cat. 59 |
Bunny/1997 tights, plywood chair, clamp, kapok stuffing with wire 101.5 x 90 x 63.5cm |
Gallery III |
Martin Maloney
| cat. 60 |
Sony Levi/1997 oil on canvas 173.5 x 298cm |
Gallery I |
Jason Martin
| ex. cat. |
Trump/1997 oil on brushed aluminium 244 x 244 x 10.5cm |
Large Weston Room |
| ex. cat. |
Shaman/1996 oil on aluminium 274.5 x 27cm |
Gallery II |
Alain Miller
| cat. 64 |
Eye Love Eye/1997 oil on canvas 235 x 195cm |
Gallery II |
Ron Mueck
| cat. 65 |
Dead Dad/1996-7 silicone and acrylic 20 x 102 x 38cm |
Gallery V |
Chris Ofili
| cat. 68 |
Afrobluff/1996 acrylic paint, oil paint, paper collage, polyester resin, map pins, elephant dung on linen 243.8 x 182.9cm |
Gallery VII |
| cat. 69 |
Afrodizzia/1996 paper collage, oil paint, glitter, polyester resin, map pins, elephant dung on linen 243.8 x 182.9cm |
Gallery III |
| cat. 71 |
The Holy Virgin Mary/1996 paper collage, oil paint, glitter, polyester resin, map pins, elephant dung on linen 243.8 x 182.9cm |
Gallery III |
Jonathan Parsons
| cat. 73 |
Carcass/1995 perspex, dissected map 200 x 110 x 40cm |
Gallery VI |
Richard Patterson
| cat. 74 |
Motorcrosser II/1995 oil and acrylic on canvas 208 x 315cm |
Gallery V |
| cat. 75 |
Blue Minotaur/1996 oil on canvas 208 x 312.4cm |
Gallery III |
| cat. 76 |
Culture Station #2 - Dirty Picture/1996 oil on canvas 213.3 x 427.7cm |
Gallery III |
| cat. 77 |
Culture Station #3 - With Fur Hat/1997 oil on canvas 213.3 x 427.7cm |
Gallery III |
Simon Patterson
| cat. 78 |
Great Bear/1995 four-colour lithographic print in anodised aluminium frame 109 x 134.8 x 5cm |
Front Hall |
Hadrian Pigott
| cat. 79 |
Instrument of Hygiene (case 1)/1994 fibreglass, leatheret covering, velvet lining, with wash basin and fittings 90 x 50 x 43cm |
Gallery IX |
Marc Quinn
| cat. 80 |
Self/1991 blood, stainless steel, perspex, refrigeration equipment 208 x 63 x 63cm |
Central Hall |
| cat. 82 |
No Visible Means of Escape/1996 RTV 74-30, rope 180.3 x 59.7 x 30.5cm |
Gallery IV |
Fiona Rae
| ex. cat. |
Untitled (Parliament)/1996 oil and acrylic on canvas 274 x 244cm |
Gallery IX |
| cat. 85 |
Untitled (blue and purple triptych)/1994 oil on canvas 183 x 502.9cm |
Gallery IX |
| cat. 86 |
Untitled (Sky Shout)/1997 oil and acrylic on canvas 274.3 x 243.8cm |
Gallery IX |
James Rielly
| cat. 87 |
Random Acts of Kindness/1996 oil on canvas overall size 410 x 290cm |
Gallery I |
Jenny Saville
| cat. 89 |
Plan/1993 oil on canvas 274 x 213.5cm |
Gallery VI |
| cat. 90 |
Trace/1993-4 oil on canvas 213.5 x 182.8cm |
Gallery IV |
| cat. 91 |
Shift/1996-7 oil on canvas 330 x 330cm |
Gallery III |
| cat. 92 |
Hybrid/1997 oil on canvas 274.3 x 213.4cm |
Gallery VI |
Yinka Shonibare
| cat. 93 |
How Does a Girl Like You, Get to Be a Girl Like You?/1995 wax print cotton textiles 168 x 40cm approx |
Gallery IX |
Jane Simpson
| cat. 94 |
Sacred/1993 MDF, gesso, watercolour, tinplate, refrigeration unit 112.5 x 127.5 x 55cm |
Gallery IV |
Sam Taylor-Wood
| cat. 95 |
Killing Time/1994 video projection and sound (60 minutes) dimensions variable |
Saloon |
| cat. 97 |
Wrecked/1996 C-type colour print 152.4 x 396.2cm |
Gallery VII |
Gavin Turk
| cat. 100 |
Pop/1993 glass, brass, MDF, fibreglass, wax, clothing, gun 279 x 115 x 115cm |
Gallery X |
| cat. 101 |
Cave/1991-5 ceramic plaque diameter: 49cm |
Gallery IX |
Mark Wallinger
| cat. 102 |
Race Class Sex/1992 oil on canvas each: 230 x 300cm |
Central Hall |
| cat. 103 |
Angel/1997 video/laserdisc duration: 7 minutes 30 seconds |
Front Stairs |
Gillian Wearing
| cat. 104 |
10 - 16/1997 video projection duration: 15 minutes, dimensions variable |
Council Room |
Rachel Whiteread
| cat. 105 |
Ghost/1990 plaster on steel frame 269 x 355.5 x 317.5cm |
Gallery VIII |
| cat. 107 |
Untitled (Bath)/1990 plaster, glass 103 x 105.5 x 209.5cm |
Gallery III |
| cat. 108 |
Untitled (One-Hundred-Spaces)/1995 resin 100 units, dimensions variable |
Large Weston Room |
| cat. 109 |
Untitled (Orange Bath)/1996 rubber, polystyrene 80 x 207 x 110cm |
Gallery III |
Cerith Wyn Evans
| cat. 110 |
Inverse Reverse Perverse/1996 surface mirrored acrylic diameter: 73cm |
Gallery IV |
E.1. Sensation exhibitions
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| 1990s | 1997 - Royal Academy of Arts, London(18 September - 28 December 1997). Sensation: Young British artists from The Saatchi Collection at Royal Academy of Arts, London.
1998-99 - Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin(30 September 1998 - 17 January 1999). Sensation: Young British artists from the Saatchi Collection at Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, Germany.
1999-2000 - Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York(2 October 1999 - 9 January 2000). Sensation: Young British Artists from the Saatchi Collection at Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York.
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E.2. Sensation in varied publications and related documentation
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| 1990s |
Attention British journos... 1997 - spotlighted article - Sensation to be exhibited at Royal AcademyStringer, Robin. (27 February 1997). Royal Academy makes an exhibition of itself to fight cash crisis; Autumn showcase for UK’s shock young artists [with mention of Sensation to be exhibited at Royal Academy in September]. Evening Standard (London), p. 3. (Viewed 11 December 2023. S00675). "The Royal Academy is attempting to fight its way our of serious financial troubles by shedding its staid image and embracing the shock of the new..." (Excerpt from above.)
1997 - spotlighted article - Sensation to be exhibited at Royal AcademyGlaister, Dan. (28 February 1997). Dead shark, a concrete room, and artist’s blood... welcome to the Royal Academy [with mention of Sensation to be exhibited at Royal Academy in September]. The Guardian (London), p. 3. (Viewed 11 December 2023. S00674). "Announcing the exhibition, Norman Rosenthal, exhibitions secretary, said: ’Sensation will bring to the Royal Academy this very large, new audience. It is an appropriate title for this exhibition and the whole extraordinary culture that exists in London and is unparalleled in the world today. This is thought-provoking as well as sensational art.’ ..." (Excerpt from above.)
1997 - spotlighted news brief - Sensation to be exhibited at Royal AcademyPresumably unspecified wire service. (24 July 1997). Outrage at Hindley pic [with mention of forthcoming Sensation exhibition at Royal Academy]. Marylebone Mercury (London, England), p. 2. (Viewed 10 November 2023. S00246). "Mayfair police are preparing for an outcry when a controversial picture of child murderer Myra Hindley is put up in the Royal Academy in September..." (Excerpt from above.) (Excerpt from above.)
1997 - three press releases; one attachment - Sensation at Royal Academy of Arts, London(September 1997). Three press releases for Sensation: (1) SENSATION: Young British artists from The Saatchi Collection (12 September 1997); (2) Press Conference - 16 September 1997; (3) WHY SENSATION? Extracts from the introductory essay to the catalogue by Norman Rosenthal (undated; c. September 1997). Additional attachment (in press kit): Merchandise accompanying Sensation: Young British artists from The Saatchi Collection. Royal Academy of Arts, London. (Updated 18 September 2021. Q00395).
1997 - Sensation exhibition posterWhy Not Associates. (1997). Sensation exhibition poster [with tongue at top juxtaposed with clothing iron at bottom]. (Accession number E.323-2018. Viewed 7 October 2021. Q00649). 1997 - exhibition checklist / list of exhibited artworks - Sensation at Royal Academy of Arts, London(September 1997). Exhibition checklist for Sensation at Royal Academy of Arts, London. [In original press kit.] (Viewed 18 September 2021).
1997 - brochure - Sensation at Royal Academy of Arts, London(September 1997). Four panel brochure for Sensation at Royal Academy of Arts, London. [In original press kit.] (Viewed 18 September 2021). "... SENSATION will celebrate the achievements of a generation of Young British artists whose original and challenging work has received international acclaim... " (Excerpt from above.)
1997 - gallery guide - Sensation at Royal Academy of Arts, London(September 1997). Gallery guide for Sensation at Royal Academy of Arts, London. [Eight-panel brochure; in original press kit.] (Viewed 18 September 2021). "... Charles Saatchi began collecting art in the early 1970s and has since built up one of the largest collections of contemporary art in the world... " (Excerpt from above.)
1997 - spotlighted AP TV news report - Sensation launch party opening, Royal Academy of Arts, LondonAssociated Press. (16 September 1997). Sensation art display [with view of selected artworks and commentary by Jake Chapman, Stephen Fry, Germane Greer, Jay Jopling, Norman Rosenthal, and others. 3 minutes 36 seconds. (Viewed 27 September 2021. Q00493). Tracey Emin and others on post-Turner Prize 1997 program on Channel 4 (UK). 1997 - spotlighted TV clip - Tracey drunk on post-Turner Prize show(2 December 1997). Tracey Emin and others on post-Turner Prize 1997 program on Channel 4 (UK). [With mention of Sensation exhibition; with wraparound introduction by: R. J. Preece. (7 April 2010). Tracey Emin launches her brand.] artdesigncafe.com. (Viewed 25 September 2021). Feb-Mar 1997 - other articlesSee the articles 1997 - article - Sensation to be exhibited at Royal AcademyReynolds, Nigel. (28 February 1997). Young rebels take over the Academy [with mention of Sensation to be exhibited at Royal Academy in September]. The Daily Telegraph (London), p. 13. (Viewed 11 December 2023. S00675). "The show, expected to draw crowds upwards of 200,000 to Burlington House in Picadilly..." (Excerpt from above.)
1997 - sentence news brief - Sensation to be exhibited at Royal Academy(2 March 1997). The week in... fashion... "The cash-strapped Royal Academy is counting on younger artists led by Damien Hirst to set tills ringing at a September show called Sensation. Pickled shark and a portrait of Myra Hindley are promised". The Observer (London), p. 6. (Viewed 11 December 2023. S00676).
July 1997 - other articlesSee the articles 1997 - news brief - Sensation to be exhibited at Royal AcademyPresumably unspecified wire service. (24 July 1997). Outrage at Hindley pic [with mention of forthcoming Sensation exhibition at Royal Academy]. Westminister & Pimlico News (London, England), p. 2. (Viewed 10 November 2023. S00247).
1997 - article mention - Sensation to be exhibited at Royal AcademyNiesewand, Nonie. (25 July 1997). Bridget Riley would avert her eyes and hurry past the Tate shop; She hates the "vulgar plagiarism of art" [with mention of Damien Hirst, Mona Hatoum, Sam Taylor Wood, Chapman brothers and the forthcoming Sensation exhibition]. The Tabloid supplement, p. 7, accompanying The Independent (London). (Viewed 10 November 2023. S00249).
1997 - article - Sensation to be exhibited at Royal AcademyWaugh, Paul. (25 July 1997). Outrage over Myra painting made from children’s handprints [with photo of artwork and mention of forthcoming Sensation exhibition at Royal Academy]. Evening Standard (London), p. 15. (Viewed 10 November 2023. S00248).
1997 - news brief - Sensation to be exhibited at Royal Academy(26 July 1997). Bid to ban Myra picture [with photo of Myra Hindley portrait; with mention of forthcoming Sensation exhibition]. Liverpool Echo, p. 4. (Viewed 6 January 2024. S00860).
1997 - news brief - Sensation to be exhibited at Royal Academy(26 July 1997). Fury over Hindley picture [with mention of forthcoming Sensation exhibition]. South Wales Evening Post (Swansea, Wales, UK), p. 2. (Viewed 6 January 2024. S00859).
1997 - news brief - Sensation to be exhibited at Royal Academy(26 July 1997). Hindley picture blasted by mum [with mention of forthcoming Sensation exhibition]. Heartland Evening News (Nuneaton, England), p. 2. (Viewed 6 January 2024. S00862).
1997 - news brief - Sensation to be exhibited at Royal Academy(26 July 1997). Hindley portrait sparks outrage [with mention of forthcoming Sensation exhibition]. Hull Daily Mail (England), p. 2. (Viewed 6 January 2024. S00861).
1997 - article mention - Sensation to be exhibited at Royal Academy(26 July 1997). Outrage over child handprint portrait of Myra [with photo of artwork (with photo caption "Disgusting: The sick portrait of Hindley" and mention of forthcoming Sensation exhibition]. The Birmingham Post (England), p. 2. (Viewed 11 December 2023. S00250).
1997 - news brief - Sensation to be exhibited at Royal Academy(26 July 1997). Outrage over Myra portrait [with mention of forthcoming Sensation exhibition]. Black County Evening Mail (England), p. 9. (Viewed 11 December 2023. S00673).
1997 - news brief - Sensation to be exhibited at Royal Academy(26 July 1997). Outrage over Myra portrait [with mention of forthcoming Sensation exhibition]. Evening Mail (Birmingham, England), p. 9. (Viewed 11 December 2023. S00672).
1997 - news brief - Sensation to be exhibited at Royal AcademyChaudhary, Vivek. (26 July 1997). Anger at Hindley portrait [with photo of the artwork, with mention of forthcoming Sensation exhibition]. The Guardian (London, UK), p. 7. (Viewed 6 January 2024. S00863).
1997 - article - Sensation to be exhibited at Royal AcademyDaneff, Tiffany. (26 July 1997). Shocking shopping; The Royal Academy’s new merchandise could have been great [with mention of forthcoming Sensation exhibition]. The Daily Telegraph (London), p. 2. (Viewed 11 December 2023. S00251). "... So the merchandising opportunities for Sensation are huge. With Brit art as big as Brit pop, almost anything made by Hirst, Rachel Whiteread, Sarah Lucas or any other of the artists in the show is snapped up ..." (Excerpt from above.)
1997 - article mention - Sensation to be exhibited at Royal AcademySmith, Michael. (26 July 1997). Royal Academy attacked over Hindley picture [with mention of forthcoming Sensation exhibition]. The Daily Telegraph (London), p. 4. (Viewed 11 December 2023. S00670).
1997 - article - Sensation to be exhibited at Royal AcademyWilliams, Roger. (26 July 1997). Mum’s fury at Hindley painting [with mention of forthcoming Sensation exhibition]. Manchester Evening News (England), p. 2. (Viewed 6 January 2024. S00671). "The mother of a Moors murder victim is trying to stop a ’disgusting’ portrait of Myra Hindley going on show..." (Excerpt from above.)
Sept 1997 - other articlesSee the articles 1997 - feature article - Sensation at Royal Academy of Arts, LondonHeathcote, Graham (Associated Press - London). (19 September 1997). It’s in a gallery, it’s causing a sensation and it’s expected to draw crowds, but some people wonder... Is it art? Exhibit features killer’s portrait and breeding maggots. The Salina Journal (Salina, Kansas), p. D4. (Viewed 28 September 2021. Q00495).
Oct-Dec 1997 articlesSee the articles 1997 - feature article - Sensation at Royal Academy of Arts, LondonCohen, David. (c. October 1997). Letter from London: Sensation. artnet.com. (Viewed 23 September 2021. Q00433). "... For once the cliché, ’it’s the show on everyone’s lips,’ is actually true: every non-art-world friend or acquaintance wants to know what I think about it and tells me they are on their way to see for themselves..." (Excerpt from above.) 1997 - feature article(30 December 1997). Sensational hit for Royal Academy. BBC News. (Viewed 18 September 2021. Q00398). "’Sensation’... is being hailed as a giant success... " (Excerpt from above.) c. 1998 - exhibition webpage (funder) - Sensation at Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin(c. 1998). Funder exhibition webpage for Sensation: Young British artists from the Saatchi Collection at Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, Germany. (Viewed 18 September 2021. Q00399). 1998 articlesSee the articles 1998 - article mention(19 February 1998). Emerging stars in the East End [with mention of Sensation exhibition]. BBC News. (Viewed 27 September 2021. Q00491). "... [Peter Davies’] work... formed part of the Sensation exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts ..." (Excerpt from above.) 1998 - article mention(21 April 1998). "Surely pink swirly painting" [with mention of Sensation exhibition]. BBC News. (Viewed 27 September 2021. Q00490). "The work of controversial Brit pop artists such as Damien Hirst and Rachel Whiteread is on display in London in a unique exhibition. The avant-garde art can be seen for free, unlike last year’s notorious Sensation exhibition at the Royal Academy..." (Excerpt from above.) 1998 - photo / caption - Sensation exhibition in BerlinAssociation Press Photo. (30 September 1998). Photo / caption: Germany exhibition [with photo of Mask by Ron Mueck and mention of Sensation exhibition at the Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin]. The Facts (Clute, Texas), p. 8A. (Viewed 28 September 2021. Q00504).
1998 - photo / caption - Sensation exhibition in BerlinAssociation Press Photo. (30 September 1998). Photo / caption: "Mask" on display [with photo of Mask by Ron Mueck and mention of Sensation exhibition at the Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin]. The Herald (Jasper, Indiana), p. 20. (Viewed 28 September 2021. Q00505).
1998 - review mentionPreece, R. J. (c. October 1998). Gavin Turk at South London Gallery [with mention of Turk’s Pop sculpture in Sensation]. World Sculpture News, 4(4), p. 53. (Viewed 22 September 2021.) 1998 - article mention(8 October 1998). Formaldehyde fish a catch at £150,000 [regarding a Hirst artwork and upcoming auction at Christie’s; with mention of Sensation in relation to Jake & Dinos Chapman]. BBC News. (Viewed 23 September 2021. Q00434). "... The Chapman brothers’ glass fibre sculpture of mutated children which also appeared in the recent Sensation exhibition in London, may fetch up to £15,000... " (Excerpt from above.) c. 1999 - exhibition webpage, installation photos and press releases - Sensation at Brooklyn Museum of Art(c. 1999). Exhibition webpage and press release for SENSATION: Young British Artists from the Saatchi Collection. [There are additional press statements on the webpage concerning the dispute between the museum and former mayor Rudy Guliani, including litigation.] Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York. (Viewed 18 September 2021. Q00396). 1999 - spotlighted TV news report - Sensation at Brooklyn Museum(30 September 1999). Sensation in New York [video of presumed TV broadcast; in older viewing format]. BBC News. (Viewed 24 September 2021. Q00446). MORE 1999 ARTICLES:
Jan-Aug 1999 articlesSee the articles 1999 - news brief - Sensation to be exhibited at Brooklyn Museum of Art(11 March 1999). Art sensation [Sensation to be exhibited at Brooklyn Museum of Art "later this year"]. Sunday Mercury (Birmingham, West Midlands, England), p. 39. (Viewed 5 November 2023. S00199).
1999 - article review mentionPreece, R. J. (July / August 1999). Yinka Shonibare at Ikon Gallery [Birmingham, England; with mention of Sensation exhibition]. Sculpture magazine, 18(6), p. 77. (Viewed 7 October 2021). 1999 - news brief - Sensation to be exhibited at Brooklyn Museum of ArtJury, Louise (London). (7 July 1999). British artists to invade New York [Sensation to be exhibited at Brooklyn Museum of Art]. San Francisco Examiner, C-5. (Viewed 5 November 2023. S00200). "First they caused a sensation in London. Now the young British artists are set to take New York... in October... " (Excerpt from above.)
1999 - article mention - Sensation to be exhibited at Brooklyn Museum of ArtSelby, Holly (Brooklyn, NY). (8 August 1999). A buzz grows in Brooklyn; At the Brooklyn Museum of Art, Arnold Lehman is making changes, making waves and having lots of fun [with four paragraphs on Sensation to be exhibited at Brooklyn Museum of Art]. Arts & society supplement, The Baltimore Sun, p. 9F [with supplement cover photo and preview]. (Viewed 5 November 2023. S00201). "... When asked if the Brooklyn Museum is ready for such an outpouring of emotion, Lehman just grins... " (Excerpt from above.)
Sept 1999 - other articlesSee the articles 1999 - listing - Sensation to be exhibited at Brooklyn Museum of Art(5 September 1999). Art [Listings]: Brooklyn Museum of Art... "Sensation: Young British Artists from the Saatchi Collection"... Oct. 2 - Jan. 9..." Marquee, 1999-2000 Season Arts Preview supplement, Home News Tribune (Central New Jersey), p. D13. (Viewed 5 November 2023. S00202).
1999 - listing - Sensation to be exhibited at Brooklyn Museum of Art(12 September 1999). Listing: "October 2: Sensation: Young British Artists from the Saatchi Collection. A storm of controversy swept London when this show opened two years ago at the Royal Academy. Will it maintain its shock value in Brooklyn? ... Through Jan. 9." FanFare supplement, p. D27, accompanying Newsday (Nassau County edition). (Viewed 19 November 2023. S00392).
1999 - article - Sensation to be exhibited at Brooklyn Museum of ArtFeiden, Douglas. (16 September 1999). Brooklyn art exhibit stirs shock & outrage [Sensation]. Daily News (New York, p. 8. (Viewed 19 November 2023. S00393). "The Brooklyn Museum of Art is about to unveil a shocking contemporary art exhibition that features real animals sliced in half, and graphic paintings and sculptures of corpses and sexually mutilated bodies..." (Excerpt from above.)
1999 - feature article - Sensation in New York(23 September 1999). Sensation sparks New York storm. BBC News. (Viewed 28 September 2021. Q00492). "... A New York exhibition of young British artists, including Chris Ofili and Damien Hirst, faces closure after the city’s mayor dubbed the work ’sick stuff’..." (Excerpt from above.) 1999 - article - Sensation to be exhibited at Brooklyn Museum of ArtAssociated Press (New York). (23 September 1999). Exhibit jeopardizes museum’s funding [regarding Sensation exhibition at Brooklyn Museum of Art]. Albany Democrat-Herald (Albany, Oregon), p. B7. (Viewed 11 December 2023. S00400).
1999 - article - Sensation to be exhibited at Brooklyn Museum of ArtAssociated Press (New York). (23 September 1999). Giuliani ends funding for museum over art exhibit with dead animal; A museum show featuring a mutilated pig and a dung splattered painting of the Virgin Mary outrages Mayor Rudolph Giuliani [regarding Sensation exhibition]. Asbury Park Press (Asbury Park, New Jersey), p. A17. (Viewed 19 November 2023. S00398).
1999 - news brief - Sensation to be exhibited at Brooklyn Museum of ArtAssociated Press (New York). (23 September 1999). Have art show, says mayor; New York to withhold money to museum if show goes on [regarding Sensation exhibition at Brooklyn Museum of Art]. Evansville Courier & Press (Evansville, Indiana), p. A8. (Viewed 11 December 2023. S00396).
1999 - article - Sensation to be exhibited at Brooklyn Museum of ArtAssociated Press (New York). (23 September 1999). Museum’s city funding in jeopardy because of exhibit [regarding Sensation exhibition at Brooklyn Museum of Art]. The Index-Journal (Greenwood, South Carolina), p. 7A. (Viewed 19 November 2023. S00399).
1999 - feature article - Sensation at Brooklyn MuseumBarry, Dan and Vogel, Carol. (23 September 1999). Giuliani vows to cut subsidy over art he calls offensive [regarding Sensation exhibition to be on view at the Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York]. New York Times. (Viewed 4 October 2021. Q00603). 1999 - article - Sensation to be exhibited at Brooklyn Museum of ArtMcShane, Larry (Associated Press - New York). (23 September 1999). Art exhibit draws Giuliani’s ire [regarding Sensation exhibition]. The Record (Bergen edition) (Hackensack, New Jersey), p. A-8. (Viewed 11 December 2023. S00394).
1999 - news brief - Sensation to be exhibited at Brooklyn Museum of ArtPresumably unspecified wire service (New York). (23 September 1999). Giuliani threatens city funded museum [regarding Sensation exhibition at Brooklyn Museum of Art]. The Journal News (White Plains, New York), p. 3A. (Viewed 19 November 2023. S00397).
1999 - article - Sensation to be exhibited at Brooklyn Museum of Art("Tribune News Services"). (23 September 1999). New York: Giuliani ends museum aid over exhibit [regarding Sensation exhibition at Brooklyn Museum of Art]. Chicago Tribune, section 1, p. 10. (Viewed 11 December 2023. S00395).
1999 - feature article - Sensation in New YorkEllison, Michael. (24 September 1999). Hirst in NY art row [regarding Sensation exhibition]. BBC News. (Viewed 28 September 2021. Q00494). "... British artist Damien Hirst has hit back at New York mayor Rudolph Guiliani, in a row over a controversial exhibition of young British artists. Mr Guiliani has threatened a New York gallery with closure over the exhibition, Sensation... " (Excerpt from above.) 1999 - feature article - Sensation at Brooklyn MuseumGoodnough, Abby. (24 September 1999). Giuliani threatens to evict museum over art exhibit [Sensation exhibition in New York]. New York Times. (Viewed 9 October 2021. Q00696). "Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani stepped up his attack on the Brooklyn Museum of Art Thursday, threatening to terminate its lease with the city and possibly even seize control of the museum unless it cancels a British exhibition [, Sensation,] that features a portrait of the Virgin Mary stained with elephant dung..." (Excerpt from above.) 1999 - feature article - Sensation in New YorkKimmelman, Michael. (24 September 1999). Critic’s notebook: Cutting through cynicism in art furor [about Sensation exhibition at Brooklyn Museum of Art]. New York Times. (Viewed 7 October 2021. Q00647). " ... So the culture wars continue unabated, tragedy long ago having turned to farce. This time Mayor Rudolph Giuliani is playing the role of stern dad to a group of British artists whom he seems to regard as naughty teen-agers... " (Excerpt from above.) 1999 - opinion - Sensation exhibition at Brooklyn Museum of Art(24 September 1999). The Mayor as art censor [regarding Sensation exhibition at Brooklyn Museum of Art]. New York Times. (Viewed 18 September 2021. Q00400). "Mayor Rudolph Giuliani has expressed his personal outrage by publicly criticizing the contents of an exhibition called ’Sensation,’ ... the Mayor has also threatened to withhold city financing from the Brooklyn Museum unless it cancels the exhibition. In doing so, Mayor Giuliani has grossly distorted the First Amendment" (Excerpt from above.) 1999 - feature article - Sensation in New York(24 September 1999). New York seeks to ban Britart Sensation. The Guardian (London). (Viewed 7 October 2021. Q00646). "The man who cleaned up New York, the city that once revelled in the boast that anything goes, added a new category yesterday to his list of unwelcome degenerates— young British artists ..." (Excerpt from above.) 1999 - feature article - Sensation at Brooklyn MuseumBarry, Dan. (25 September 1999). On display at City Hall, 2 Catholics, 2 views [regarding Sensation exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York]. New York Times. (Viewed 9 October 2021. Q00698). "... As might have been expected, both the Republican Mayor and the Democratic Speaker took offense with a particular work in a controversial exhibition opening next week at the Brooklyn Museum of Art..." (Excerpt from above.) 1999 - feature article - Sensation at Brooklyn MuseumBarstow, David. (25 September 1999). Seeking buzz, museum chief hears a roar instead [regarding Sensation exhibition at Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York]. New York Times. (Viewed 9 October 2021. Q00697). "... When [Arnold] Lehman, [Director of the Brooklyn Museum of Art] who is 55, tells the story of how he decided to embrace this show, ’Sensation,’ ... he cites the importance of the art— but also the long line he saw outside the first museum that staged the exhibit, the Royal Academy of Arts in London..." (Excerpt from above.) 1999 - feature article - Sensation at Brooklyn MuseumHerszenhorn, David M. (27 September 1999). Giuliani’s threats make exhibition a hot topic [regarding Sensation at Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York]. New York Times. (Viewed 10 October 2021. Q00708). "Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani accused the Brooklyn Museum of Art Sunday of resorting to "disgusting commercial sensationalism" in planning to exhibit modern British works that he said were offensive to Catholics, but it was the Mayor’s repeated threats against the museum that kept the exhibit a buzzing topic of conversation throughout the city..." (Excerpt from above.) 1999 - feature article - Sensation in New York(28 September 1999). Hillary [Clinton] steps into dung art row [regarding Sensation exhibition at the Brookyln Museum of Art, New York]. BBC News. (Viewed 1 October 2021. Q00580). 1999 - feature article - Sensation at Brooklyn MuseumBarstow, David & Herszenhorn, David M. (28 September 1999). Brooklyn Museum official discussed removing an offending work [to be in the Sensation exhibition]. New York Times. (Viewed 10 October 2021. Q00710). "Seeking to end a dispute with Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani over a controversial art exhibition, the chairman of the Brooklyn Museum of Art discussed with city officials Monday the possibility of removing the painting that had become the flash point of the controversy: a dung-stained portrait of the Virgin Mary... " (Excerpt from above.) 1999 - feature article - Sensation at Brooklyn MuseumNagourney, Adam. (28 September 1999). First Lady assails mayor over threat to museum [regarding the Sensation exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York]. New York Times. (Viewed 10 October 2021. Q00709). "Hillary Rodham Clinton joined a line of Democrats on Monday in denouncing Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani’s threat to cut city financing to the Brooklyn Museum of Art for mounting [the Sensation] exhibition that Giuliani described as offensive to Catholics..." (Excerpt from above.) 1999 - feature article - Sensation at the Brooklyn Museum of ArtVogel, Carol. (28 September 1999). Chris Ofili: British artist holds fast to his inspiration [regarding Ofili’s work creating a controversy at Sensation exhibition at Brooklyn Museum of Art]. New York Times. (Viewed 7 October 2021. Q00648). "Chris Ofili is hunkered down in his central London studio, screening the avalanche of phone calls he has been getting for the last few days and trying not to obsess about the uproar over ’The Holy Virgin Mary,’ ... His painting is part of ’Sensation: Young British Artists From the Saatchi Collection’ ... " (Excerpt from above.) 1999 - feature article - Sensation in New York(29 September 1999). Art row heads for courts [about Sensation in New York]. BBC News. (Viewed 28 September 2021. Q00532). "... Mayor Rudolph Giuliani wants the Brooklyn Museum of Art to cancel the Sensation exhibition, which he has described as sick and offensive... " (Excerpt from above.) 1999 - feature article - Sensation at Brooklyn Museum(29 September 1999). Memos describe evolution of response to mayor [regarding Sensation exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York]. New York Times. (Viewed 10 October 2021. Q00713). "Following are some of the E-mails that circulated among members of the Cultural Institutions Group as it tried to devise a response to Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani’s threat to cut off funds to the Brooklyn Museum of Art [over the Sensation exhibition] ..." (Excerpt from above.) 1997 - article - forthcoming Sensation exhibition at Brooklyn MuseumAssociated Press (London). (29 September 1999). Artist in controversy with dung painting [Chris Ofili, with regard to Sensation exhibition in forthcoming Brooklyn Museum show]. Galveston Daily News (Galveston, Texas), p. A5. (Viewed 16 January 2022. Q00506).
1997 - article - forthcoming Sensation exhibition at Brooklyn MuseumGardiner, Beth (Associated Press - New York). (29 September 1999). Mayor’s threat sparks museum to file lawsuit [with regard to Sensation exhibition in forthcoming Brooklyn Museum show]. Santa Cruz Sentinel (Santa Cruz, California), p. 20. (Viewed 16 January 2022. Q00507).
1999 - feature article - Sensation at Brooklyn MuseumBarstow, David. (29 September 1999). Brooklyn Museum sues to keep mayor from freezing its funds [over Guiliani’s objection to the Sensation exhibition]. New York Times. (Viewed 10 October 2021. Q00712). "In a pronounced escalation of the political and cultural conflict over an impending art exhibition [, Sensation], the Brooklyn Museum of Art filed a lawsuit in Federal court yesterday that accuses Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani of violating the First Amendment by threatening to withdraw city funds from the museum because he finds some of the artworks offensive and insulting to religion..." (Excerpt from above.) 1999 - feature article - Sensation at Brooklyn MuseumKimmelman, Michael. (29 September 1999). Defenders of the first amendment are late to battlefield [regarding Sensation at Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York]. New York Times. (Viewed 10 October 2021. Q00711). "There was until yesterday, as you may have noticed, a conspicuous silence on the part of almost all of the city’s art and cultural institutions about the Brooklyn Museum of Art debacle ..." (Excerpt from above.) 1999 - feature article - Sensation at Brooklyn Museum(30 September 1999). Museums condemn New York mayor [with mention of Sensation exhibition in New Yotk]. BBC News. (Viewed 30 September 2021. Q00553). "... Mayor Rudolph Giuliani has threatened to cut off the city’s $7.2 million subsidy to the Brooklyn Museum of Art if it opens the [Sensation] show as planned on Saturday... The controversy has also drawn in First Lady Hillary Clinton... " (Excerpt from above.) 1999 - feature article - Sensation at Brooklyn Museum(30 September 1999). US Senate joins art row. BBC News. (Viewed 1 October 2021. Q00566). "... The controversy has also drawn in First Lady Hillary Clinton, who is thinking of running for one of New York’s two Senate seats..." (Excerpt from above.) 1999 - feature article - Sensation at Brooklyn MuseumGlaberson, William. (30 September 1999). Museum fight pits free expression against control of public spending [regarding Sensation exhibition]. New York Times. (Viewed 23 October 2021. Q00787). 1999 - feature article - Sensation at Brooklyn MuseumHerszenhorn, David M. (30 September 1999). Brooklyn Museum accused of trying to lift art value [regarding Sensation exhibition]. New York Times. (Viewed 23 October 2021. Q00786). "Broadening its legal case to try to take over the Brooklyn Museum of Art, the Giuliani administration on Wednesday accused the museum of violating its lease and state law by conspiring with an auction house to inflate the value of the private art collection featured in a controversial exhibition..." (Excerpt from above.) 1999 - article mention - Sensation at Brooklyn MuseumTierney, John. (30 September 1999). Open market for artifacts aids all sides [regarding Brooklyn Museum of Art and Sensation exhibition conflict with Mayor Guiliani and museum funding issues]. New York Times. (Viewed 10 October 2021. Q00714). Oct 1999 articlesSee the articles 1999 - article - Sensation at Brooklyn MuseumCohen, Richard (New York). (1 October 1999). Giuliani plays politics with exhibit [regarding Sensation at Brooklyn Museum]. The Daily Herald (Chicago, Illinois), p. 16. (Viewed 17 January 2022. Q00509). "... The exhibition is of questionable merit. It is if unquestionable political stupidity. But it represents far less of a threat to the public than does the action of this single politician ..." (Excerpt from above.)
1999 - article - Sensation exhibition at Brooklyn MuseumCNS (New York). (1 October 1999). N. Y. cardinal, bishop criticize controversial Brooklyn art exhibit [regarding forthcoming Sensation exhibition at Brooklyn Museum]. The Catholic Advance (Wichita, Kansas), pp. 13, 16. (Viewed 17 January 2022. Q00508; Q00510). "Cardinal John J. O’Connor of New York and Bishop Thomas V. Daily of Brooklyn criticized contents of [Sensation] ..." (Excerpt from above.)
1999 - article mention - Sensation at Brooklyn MuseumDobrzynski, Judith H. (1 October 1999). Private collections routine at museums [with mention of Sensation exhibition]. New York Times. (Viewed 23 October 2021. Q00789). "The Brooklyn Museum of Art’s particular mix of art and commerce — an exhibition of art that is owned by one private collector and partially financed by an auction house — may not pass muster at City Hall, but it violates no hard-and-fast rules in the precincts of the museum world... " (Excerpt from above.) 1999 - feature article - Sensation at Brooklyn MuseumNagourney, Adam. (1 October 1999). Museum fight carries unclear senate impact [regarding Sensation exhibition]. New York Times. (Viewed 7 November 2021. Q00906). "... [Guiliani] encountered an unfamiliar reaction [at the Metropolitan Opera House]. A loud swell of boos mixed in with the applause that rose from seats filled with men in black-tie and women in evening gowns... " (Excerpt from above.) 1999 - feature article - Sensation at the Brooklyn Museum(2 October 1999). Art provocateurs art and argument [about Sensation exhibition at Brooklyn Museum of Art] [with quote by the Emily Hall Tremaine Curator, Wadsworth Atheneum]. Hartford Courant. (Viewed 6 October 2023. S00038). 1999 - feature article - Sensation at the Brooklyn MuseumBarron, Brian. (2 October 1999). Bad omens in the Big Apple [about the Sensation exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York]. BBC News. (Viewed 1 October 2021. Q00576). "... Our own abrasive mayor, Rudy Giuliani, has conjured up a firestorm of protest and litigation by trying to browbeat the Brooklyn Art Museum curators into withdrawing controversial exhibits from the Sensation show..." (Excerpt from above.) 1999 - feature article - Sensation at Brooklyn MuseumBarstow, David. (2 October 1999). Art museum bolsters lawsuit against Giuliani [regarding Sensation exhibition]. New York Times. (Viewed 7 November 2021. Q00907). "The Brooklyn Museum of Art on Friday refined its lawsuit against Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, contending for the first time that the mayor should be held personally liable for his campaign to cut off public financing and evict the museum on the basis of his displeasure with an exhibition of British art... " (Excerpt from above.) 1999 - feature article - Sensation at Brooklyn Museum(3 October 1999). Shock art show opens [about Sensation exhibition at Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York]. BBC News. (Viewed 1 October 2021. Q00567). "An art exhibition which has provoked a legal battle between the mayor of New York and one of its best-known museums opened on Saturday... " (Excerpt from above.) 1999 - feature article - Sensation at Brooklyn Museum(3 October 1999). In pictures: New York passes judgement [about the Sensation exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York]. BBC News. (Viewed 1 October 2021. Q00578). "... At the centre of it all The Holy Virgin Mary complete with its splash of elephant dung, now protected by a plastic screen and a police guard. Several people said they would never have heard of the show without the publicity whipped up by Mayor Giuliani’s condemnation of the painting..." (Excerpt from above.) 1999 - photo / caption - Sensation exhibition at Brooklyn MuseumAP photo. (3 October 1999). Photo caption: Bled for his art [regarding artwork (Marc Quinn’s Self), with mention of Sensation exhibition at Brooklyn Museum]. Kokomo Tribune, p. C1. (Viewed 16 January 2022. Q00512).
1999 - feature article - Sensation at Brooklyn MuseumBarstow, David. (3 October 1999). Public lines up to see the art behind the fuss [regarding Sensation exhibition]. New York Times. (Viewed 7 November 2021. Q00909). "... Never mind the vomit bags passed out by angry Catholics, or the gruesome posters of severed cow heads brandished by angry animal lovers, or even the grim-faced man who stood there alone with a sign that read, "Hitler Was Right When He Got Rid of ’Degenerate Art." ..." (Excerpt from above.) 1999 - feature article - Sensation at Brooklyn MuseumLueck, Thomas J. (3 October 1999). Track work on subways near museum delays some [regarding Sensation exhibition at Brooklyn Museum]. New York Times. (Viewed 21 November 2021. Q00972). "... That meant that getting to ’Sensation,’ the year’s most passionately debated art show, was easy, at least for those coming from Manhattan, but that for many, getting home was not..." (Excerpt from above.) 1999 - article - Sensation at Brooklyn MuseumMcShane, Larry (Associated Press - New York). (3 October 1999). Controversial exhibit opens to cheers as well as protests [regarding Sensation exhibition at Brooklyn Museum]. Indiana Gazette (Indiana, Pennsylvania), p. 2. (Viewed 17 January 2022. Q00511). "If you build it— even with elephant dung, bisected pigs and a severed cow’s head— and call it art, they will come..." (Excerpt from above.)
1999 - feature article - Sensation at Brooklyn MuseumNiebuhr, Gustav. (3 October 1999). Opposition to exhibit is defense of Mary as icon [regarding Sensation exhibition]. New York Times. (Viewed 7 November 2021. Q00908). "Mayor Rudolph Giuliani’s battle with the Brooklyn Museum over a painting combining an image of the Virgin Mary with elephant dung and pornographic photographs is being waged on the emotionally charged terrain of cherished symbols..." (Excerpt from above.) 1999 - photo gallery article - Sensation at Brooklyn Museum(c. October 1999). [Photo gallery of 12 selected works in the Sensation exhibition, with photo captions]. New York Times. (Viewed 23 October 2021. Q00786). 1999 - feature article - Sensation at Brooklyn MuseumFried, Joseph P. (4 October 1999). Judge in museum case has eye for law, if not art [regarding Sensation exhibition]. New York Times. (Viewed 23 October 2021. Q00788). 1999 - feature article - Sensation at Brooklyn MuseumSmith, Dinitia. (4 October 1999). A scientist [Alan J. Friedman] rallies allies for besieged art museum [regarding Sensation exhibition]. New York Times. (Viewed 21 November 2021. Q00973). "... By the end of [the campaign by chairman of the Cultural Institutions Group, Alan J. Friedman], not only did the majority of the group’s members sign a letter warning the mayor of a ’dangerous precedent’ and the ’chilling effect’ that his actions would have, but major museums that were not members also signed on. Among them were the Whitney and Guggenheim museums and the Museum of Modern Art..." (Excerpt from above.) 1999 - feature article - Sensation at Brooklyn Museum(4 October 1999). Sensation: Critics give mixed response. BBC News. (Viewed 1 October 2021. Q00579). "Controversy has once again proved itself the oxygen of publicity. Sensation, the controversial art exhibition that became a civil rights debate in the run-up to its opening in New York, is drawing in the crowds... " (Excerpt from above.) 1999 - article mention - Sensation at Brooklyn Museum(24 October 1999). Feathers fly at Turner art show [about performance artists messing up Tracey Emin’s My bed at Tate Britain and mention of Sensation at Brooklyn Museum]. BBC News. (Viewed 24 September 2021. Q00445). "... Stunt is perhaps a fitting word for the Turner Prize, with some critics suspicious that the jury pick not the best work by young British artists, but the most shocking... [re. Sensation in New York:] Ironically, both these artists [Hirst and Ofili] were at the centre of controversy themselves earlier this month, when the British Sensation exhibition went on show in New York..." (Excerpt from above.) 1999 - article mention(25 October 1999). Art attacks: Don’t handle with care [about pillow fight on Emin’s My bed on view at Tate Britain, with mention of 1997 Sensation exhibition]. BBC News. (Viewed 7 October 2021. Q00652). "... In 1997, the Sensation exhibition at the Royal Academy contained many controversial works, but for all of the pickled animals it was a painting which provoked the greatest debate..." (Excerpt from above.) 1999 - article mention - Turner Prize 1999 exhibitionReid, T. R. (London). (30 October 1999). "Britpack" strikes again; in London, avant-garde artists wage a new, er, offensive [with mention: "The Tate’s current show is weirder, and arguably more offensive, than ’Sensation’..."]. Washington Post, p. C5. (Viewed 18 December 2023. Q00196).
1999 - article mentionEvans, Richard. (31 October 1999). Art terrorist mum reveals how she cleaned up "dirty" Tate bed; I’ll stop the grot! [With photo of Tracey Emin’s My bed installed at Tate Britain and photos of cleaner / "artist" Chris De Ville starting to clean the bed, then taken away by security; and sidebar mention of Sensation exhibition]. Wales on Sunday newspaper, two page numbers unknown. [Viewed 16 November 2021. Q00625-27(-28)]. ... "’There had been so much on TV, in the papers and on the radio about it, in the end I just snapped,’ said Chris... ’I jumped in the car and went up to London, determined to clean up Tracey Emin’s dirty bed ..." "... Critic Chris gives her verdict on other famous works; Away from the Flock by Damien Hirst— this picked sheep was also part of the Sensation exhibition. The De Ville view: ’Wrap the tanks in some nice wrapping paper. There was a group of French artists who liked wrapping things up. They did the Pont Neuf Bridge in Paris... " (Excerpt from above.)
Nov-Dec 1999 articlesSee the articles 1999 - review mentionPreece, R. J. (November 1999). Review: Tracey Emin’s at Lehmann Maupin, New York [with mention of Sensation and Emin’s Everyone I have ever slept with 1963-1995]. Sculpture magazine, 18(10), p. 68. (Viewed 18 September 2021.) "... Who is Tracey Emin? We only know what she shows— and tells— us. Her life becomes artwork and the content becomes media sensation in art magazines and the general press. It just makes one wonder what Emin would need to do to maintain similar levels of sensation— or will the same public fascination occur if she ever sorts herself out?" (Excerpt from above.)
1999 - feature article - Sensation exhibition at Brooklyn Museum of Art(2 November 1999). Judge sides with NYC museum [regarding Sensation exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York]. BBC News. (Viewed 1 October 2021. Q00581). "A federal judge has ordered New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani to restore millions of dollars in funding to the Brooklyn Museum of Art, cut off in a dispute over a controversial British exhibition... " (Excerpt from above.) 1999 - article mentionHazelton, J. L. (Associated Press - Tokyo). (28 December 1999). Controversy, plastic cows fueled arts in 1999 [art news of the year roundup, with indirect mention of Sensation exhibition]. The Herald (Jasper, Indiana), p. 35. (Viewed 8 October 2021. Q00520). "... New York City saw a ding-dong battle over a painting of the Virgin Mary daubed with elephant dung [at the Sensation exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum of Art] ..." (Excerpt from above.)
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| 2000s |
2000 articlesSee the articles 2000 - spotlighted article review mention - Emin’s My bed in Saatchi Gallery showSearle, Adrian. (12 September 2000). Cooked twice and still flavourless; The second instalment of the Saatchi Gallery’s Ant Noises finds Tracey in the money and Damien sticking things behind glass. Nothing new there [with mention of Sensation exhibition]. (Viewed 27 September 2021. Q00450). "... Ant Noises 2, which opens at the Saatchi Gallery in London tomorrow, might appeal to those who did not find their way to the last Turner prize show, to Sensation, or to those commercial spaces where some of the works here were first seen..." (Excerpt from above.) 2000 - article mentionDilley, Ryan. (20 September 2000). Art’s shock treatment [with mention of Sensation exhibition]. BBC News. (Viewed 28 September 2021. Q00538). "Following the success of its ’scandalous’ Sensation exhibition in 1997, London’s Royal Academy is to open Apocalypse— a show it hopes will shock visitors... " (Excerpt from above.) 2000 - article mention(23 September 2000). Shock art hits London [with mention of Sensation exhibition]. BBC News. (Viewed 23 September 2021. Q00436). "Entitled Apocalypse: Beauty and horror in contemporary art, the exhibition is aiming to shock both media and public alike. Organisers are hoping it will have the same impact as its hugely successful predecessor, Sensation, which was seen by 300,000 people three years ago... " (Excerpt from above.) 2000 - article mention(27 December 2000). The year art was hot [with mention of Sensation exhibition]. BBC News. (Viewed 23 September 2021. Q00435). "... The Royal Academy of Arts in London managed to recreate at least some of the shock it inspired three years ago with the Sensation exhibition with the new show, Apocalypse..." (Excerpt from above.) 2001 - spotlighted article mentionPreece, R. J. (2001). Tracey Emin: Artist over— and in— the broadsheets [with extended mention of Sensation and Emin’s exhibited artwork Everyone I ever slept with 1963-1995]. Parkett, 63, 50-4. (Viewed 18 September 2021). 2001 - other articlesSee the articles 2001 - article mentionClancy, Olive. (26 March 2001). Are blockbuster exhibitions killing art? [With mention of Sensation exhibition]. BBC News. (Viewed 27 September 2021. Q00489). " ... Museum directors, [art historian Francis Haskell] said, are now judged by visitor numbers and publicity first and foremost... [Ossian Ward of The Art Newspaper] does feel that some attempts to make art "glitzy and glamorous", for the sake of it— like Sensation at the Royal Academy or Century City at Tate Modern— just do not work... " (Excerpt from above.) 2001 - article mention(1 June 2001). In pictures: Summer Exhibition [with mention of Sensation exhibition]. BBC News. (Viewed 23 September 2021. Q00439). "Peter Blake, one of the key figures in the British Pop Art movement, has invited artists whose work he admires... to participate in the Royal Academy’s Summer Exhibition.... Exhibit 7: Peter Davies - From Anti-Art to Zurbaran: an A to Z of Art I Like... His work has been shown at Sensation: Young British Artists from the Saatchi Collection... " (Excerpt from above.)
Click to see a graphics and music journalism take on media coverage on Tracey Emin, who exhibited her discussion-generating tent in the Sensation exhibition, with Marcus Bering, Kim Min Su, and Stephen Mallinder, formerly in the Cabaret Voltaire band.
2002 - spotlighted interview mentionPreece, R. J. (November 2002). Exposed: A conversation with Tracey Emin [with extended mention of Sensation and Emin’s Everyone I ever slept with]. Sculpture magazine, 21(9), pp. 38-43. (Viewed 18 September 2021). "... R.J. Preece: With the tent, the piece itself is constructed with media sensation in it. Tracey Emin: That isn’t why I made it though... " (Excerpt from above.)
2002 - other articlesSee the articles 2002 - wire service article mentionUPI / Winship, Frederick M. (New York). (7 February 2002). Art world: Giuliani’s Decency Commission [with mention of Sensation exhibition at Brooklyn Museum of Art in 1999]. UPI. (Viewed 26 October 2023. S00167). 2002 - wire service article mentionUPI / Winship, Frederick M. (New York). (21 February 2002). The Art world: Depicting the [unmentionable]; [with mention of Sensation exhibition at Brooklyn Museum of Art in 1999]. UPI. (Viewed 26 October 2023. S00168). 2002 - article mention(21 February 2002). Artful elephants rewarded [regarding a donation to the Zoological Society of London by artist Chris Ofili; with mention of his work being in the Sensation exhibition]. BBC News. (Viewed 26 October 2023. S00166). 2002 - news brief mentionAssociated Press (London). (29 March 2002). Fame has consequences for artist [regarding Tracey Emin, her lost cat Docket, her posters asking for help finding the cat that were stolen as "valuable art"; with description of Emin’s My bed and Sensation at Brooklyn Academy in 1999]. Salina Journal (Salina, Kansas), p. B3. (Viewed 26 October 2023. Q00503).
2003 articlesSee the articles 2003 - article mention(4 June 2003). Man charged over art attack [with mention of Sensation exhibition]. BBC News. (Viewed 23 September 2021. Q00437). "A man has been charged with throwing paint over artwork by Turner Prize nominees Jake and Dinos Chapman... They were also in the 1997 Sensation exhibition..." (Excerpt from above.) 2003 - article mention(26 June 2003). Chapmans win Academy prize [£25,000 prize for the "most distinguished work" in the Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition; with mention of Sensation exhibition]. BBC News. (Viewed 18 September 2021. Q00404). "... A number of the Chapman brothers’ best-known works were included in the Royal Academy’s successful, but controversial, Sensation exhibition..." (Excerpt from above.)
Click to see a graphics and music journalism take on media coverage on Tracey Emin, who exhibited her discussion-generating tent in the Sensation exhibition, with Marcus Bering, Kim Min Su, and Stephen Mallinder, formerly in the Cabaret Voltaire band. 2004 articlesSee the articles 2004 - interview mentionPreece, R. J. (May 2004). Mark Pimlott [extended version; with mention of "sensation"]. Sculpture magazine, 23(4), pp. 22-3. (Viewed 7 October 2021). "... R.J. Preece: Here I’m also thinking about the art/design movement of visual and resultant language; both a sensation-driven visual and textual experience. How it becomes sensational editorial copy; how it moves though different categories of media (art press, design press, travel, lifestyle etc). In the art sphere, I’m thinking of YBAs like Damien Hirst, Tracey Emin, and Marc Quinn, the focus on what the artwork “does” away from what the artwork “means”, having moved centrally into the art and design itself… " (Excerpt from above.) 2004 - article mention(26 May 2004). Saatchi: the mogul of British art [with mention of Sensation exhibition]. BBC News. (Viewed 23 September 2021. Q00438). "BBC News Online looks at the enigmatic art lover and collector Charles Saatchi, who has suffered the loss of some of his art collection in a warehouse fire... In 1997, Saatchi’s collection, Sensation, whose exhibits included a portrait of Myra Hindley made from children’s handprints, drew 300,000 people to the Royal Academy..." (Excerpt from above.) 2005 articlesSee the articles 2005 - article mentionsBunting, Chris and Burleigh, James. (17 January 2005). What has become of the masterpieces of Britart? Charles Saatchi is selling Damien Hirst’s shark to an American collector for £7m [with mentions of Sensation in relation to Marcus Harvey’s Myra and Jake and Dinos Chapman’s Tragic anatomies]. The Independent (London). (Viewed 12 December 2023. S00700). 2005 - article / interview mentionPreece, R. J. (April 2005). Gavin Turk [with mention of Sensation exhibition]. Sculpture magazine, 24(3), pp. 20-1. (Viewed 22 September 2021.) 2006 - spotlighted articleAdam, Georgina. (1 October 2006). Where is the art from the "Sensation" show? A list of the collectors in 2006; An Art Newspaper investigation tracks the ownership history of art from Charles Saatchi’s collection shown at the Royal Academy in 1997. Art Newspaper. (Viewed 4 November 2023. S00193). 2006 - other articlesSee the articles 2006 - article mentionMiller, Compton. (25 January 2006). Homes gossip [with mention of Jake Chapman and Sensation exhibition]. Evening Standard (London), p. H2. (Viewed 12 December 2023. S00699). "... Artist Jake Chapman is selling his three-bedroom Spitalfields home... younger half of the Chapman Brothers, stole the show at the Royal Academy’s exhibition Sensations and Apocalypse with his macabre work... " (Excerpt from above.)
2006 - article mention(5 April 2006). Academy plans new US art showcase [with mention of Sensation exhibition]. BBC News. (Viewed 18 September 2021. Q00403). "... The collaboration [by The Royal Academy of Arts with Charles Saatchi] comes nearly 10 years after their controversial Sensation exhibition helped further the careers of Tracy Emin and Damien Hirst... " (Excerpt from above.) 2006 - article mentionWagner, Anne M. (November 2006). According to what: Jasper Johns’s flag [with mention of Sensation]. Artforum. (Viewed 22 December 2023. S00781). "... This is the version [of flags by Jasper Johns, Three flags] Hans Haacke parodied at the Whitney Biennial in 2000, in a piece addressing the hardfisted response of the Giuliani administration to the recent staging of the ’Sensation’ show at the Brooklyn Museum..." (Excerpt from above.) 2007 articlesSee the articles 2007 - article mentionSillito, David. (10 May 2007). Rock ’n’ roll PM: Blair’s cultural legacy [with mention of Sensation exhibition]. BBC News. (Viewed 22 September 2021. Q00418). "... In art, the Sensation exhibition marked the highpoint of Britart ... ’Cool Britannia’... There was a strong political thread to all of this, a need to be seen to be "in touch". But it also reflected a new ambition... The concept of culture expanded and embraced fashion, pop music and video games and the new government wanted to be involved in it all... When the criticism came that this was a government obsessed with image and spin..." (Excerpt from above.) 2007 - article mention(3 December 2007). Profile: Artist Mark Wallinger [with mention of Sensation exhibition]. BBC News. (Viewed 23 September 2021. Q00432). "Mark Wallinger, winner of 2007’s Turner Prize... Despite taking part in the Royal Academy’s Sensation show in 1997 and his early sales to collector Charles Saatchi, he chose to set himself apart from the Young British Artists ..." (Excerpt from above.) 2008 articlesSee the articles 2008 - article mentionPreece, R. J. (January / February 2008). Why I love Damien’s skull [: The international media / communications results are just too good] [with mentions of "sensation"]. Sculpture magazine, 27(1), pp. 42-5. (Viewed 7 October 2021). 2008 - article mentionPreece, R. J. (January / February 2008). Damien Hirst: Hype buzz, glamour and art - Interview with Patricia Ellis [accompanied feature article "Why I love Damien Hirst’s skull" listed above] [with mentions of "sensation"]. Sculpture magazine, 27(1), pp. 44-5. (Viewed 7 October 2021). 2009 articlesSee the articles 2009 - article mentionVallely, Paul. (14 February 2009). Mark Wallinger: Mane attraction [with mention of Sensation exhibition]. The Independent (London), p. 45. (Viewed 12 December 2023. S00686). "... Mark Wallinger’s relationship with that crowd of Not So Young British Artists, with whom [Wallinger] shared the platform of the seminal Sensation exhibition at the Royal Academy in 1997, has always been rather ambiguous... " (Excerpt from above.)
2009 - article mentionPreece, R. J. (March 2009). Rock star on tour: Damien Hirst’s skull at the Rijksmuseum [with mentions of "sensation"]. Sculpture magazine, pp. 14-5. (Viewed 17 September 2021). |
| 2010s |
2010 articlesSee the articles 2010 - article mentionGlover, Michael. (22 January 2010). From sensation to selfhood [about Chris Ofili retrospective, with mention of the Sensation exhibition]. The Independent (London), Arts & Books section, pp. 4-5. (Viewed 12 December 2023. S00701). "Some of Ofili’s most interesting early works had already been painted by the time the [Sensation] show opened..." (Excerpt from above.)
2010 - article mentionHudson, Mark. (23 January 2010). "I wander deep in the forest— where it’s scary"; Chris Ofili’s gorgeous, kaleidoscopic paintings can be controversial [about Chris Ofili retrospective, with mention of the Sensation exhibition]. Review supplement, pp. R14-15, accompanying Daily Telegraph (London). (Viewed 12 December 2023. S00702). ".. While Ofili sprang to prominence through the Royal Academy’s 1997 Sensation exhibition... he was never really part of the YBA phenomenon... " (Excerpt from above.)
2011 articlesSee the articles 2011 - article mention(15 March 2011). Kay Saatchi artworks to go up for auction [with mention of Sensation exhibition]. BBC News. (Viewed 18 September 2021. Q00402). "... [Kay Saatchi] also co-curated the controversial Sensation exhibition at the Royal Academy in 1997... " (Excerpt from above.) 2011 - article mentionAkbar, Arifa. (29 March 2011). Beautiful dreamers; A new exhibition at the V&A showcases the work of the 19th-century Aesthetic Movement [with mention of Sensation exhibition]. Viewspaper supplement, pp. 18-19 accompanying The Independent (London). (Viewed 12 December 2023. S00698). "Until the summer of 1877, a small circle of artists volubly rejected the ’ugliness’ of the Victorian age in favour of a purer appreciation of aesthetics... The show sent excited ripples across high society— the kind of ’art buzz’ that over a century later would hit the Royal Academy with Charles Saatchi’s 1997 Sensation exhibition— and so these aesthetes became the Young British Artists of their day whose Aesthetic Movement was proselytized in Europe and America in decades to come..." (Excerpt from above.)
2012 articlesSee the articles 2012 - article mentionValys, Phillip. (1 February 2012). With paintings of flesh, Saville’s exhibit has strokes of brilliance [with mention of the Sensation exhibition]. Boyton Forum supplement (Boyton Beach, Florida), p. 24, presumably accompanying South Florida Sun Sentinel (Ft. Lauderdale, Florida). (Viewed 12 December 2023. S00685). "... [Jenny] Saville went mainstream after the 1997 exhibit ’Sensation: Young British Artists From the Saatchi Collection’ provoked unease at Royal Academy of the Arts and later in Brooklyn, N.Y. ..." (Excerpt from above.)
2012 - article mentionBrown, Mark. (26 May 2012). The Saturday interview: Tracey Emin [with mention of the Sensation exhibition; focused on her exhibition at Turner Contemporary, Margate]. The Guardian newspaper (UK). (Viewed 27 September 2021. Q00462). "... People began to sit up and take notice with works such as her tent (Everyone I Ever Slept With, from 1963 to 1995) that was bought by Charles Saatchi and shown at the Royal Academy’s Sensation show in 1997 – the same year that she so memorably appeared on a late-night Channel 4 discussion show completely hammered..." (Excerpt from above.) 2012 - article mention(2 October 2012). Almanac ["In 1999 the Brooklyn Museum of Art opened its much-hyped ’Sensation’ exhibit, which had drawn controversy with some of the artwork involved, including a portrait of the Virgin Mary decorated with elephant dung."] Chicago Tribune, section 2, p. 6. (Viewed 12 December 2023. S00708).
2012 - article mention(2 October 2012). Almanac ["In 1999 the Brooklyn Museum of Art opened its much-hyped ’Sensation’ exhibit, which had drawn controversy with some of the artwork involved, including a portrait of the Virgin Mary decorated with elephant dung."] Daily Press (Newport News, Virginia), p. 2. (Viewed 12 December 2023. S00707).
2013 articlesSee the articles 2013 - article mentionCripps, Charlotte. (4 April 2013). Richard Patterson: YBA’s new show is a wheel sensation [with mention of Sensation exhibition]. The Independent (London). (Viewed 12 December 2023. S00703). "... Your Own Personal Jesus from 2011 (pictured) is the remake of Motocrosser II (1995) in which a plastic motocross toy is covered in brightly coloured oil paint and then used as a model for his painting. The original painting was shown in the Royal Academy’s Sensation exhibition in 1997 at the Royal Academy of Arts..." (Excerpt from above.) 2013 - article mentionHudson, Mark. (27 April 2013). "We stuck together for survival"; controversial sculptor Gavin Turk [on] what it was really like to emerge as a Young British Artist [regarding Turk’s current exhibition, with mention of Sensation exhibition]. Review supplement, pp. R16-R17, accompanying The Daily Telegraph (London). (Viewed 12 December 2023. S00704). "... Exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1997 in Sensation, the notorious exhibition of works from Charles Saatchi’s collection, it established Turk as one of the leading artists of his generation...." (Excerpt from above.)
2014 articlesSee the articles 2014 - announcementMacpherson, Amy. (6 February 2014). "Sensation" works on view at Christie’s. Royal Academy of Arts, London website. (Viewed 18 September 2021. Q00405). "... Next week, three key works that were exhibited in [Sensation] go on sale at Christie’s. In the videos below, Francis Outred, head of Post-War and Contemporary Art for Christie’s Europe, discusses Gary Hume’s Vicious, Jenny Saville’s Plan and Chris Ofili’s Popcorn Tits ..." (Excerpt from above.) 2014 - article mention(5 June 2014). Russian Young British Artist exhibition cancelled [with mention of Sensation exhibition]. BBC News. (Viewed 12 December 2023. S00709). "... London Calling: Breakthroughs in British Art, 1986 - 1999, which was due to open in September... The exhibition was also set to feature works included in the Freeze (1988) and Sensation (1997) shows, which brought the artists worldwide recognition..." (Excerpt from above.) 2014 - article mentionSooke, Alastair. (25 November 2014). Chris Ofili: Can art still shock us? [Regarding Ofili’s mid-career retrospective at New Museum, New York; with mention of Sensation exhibition in Brooklyn]. BBC Culture. (Viewed 19 September 2021. Q00401). "... Fifteen years ago, though, when Ofili participated in a group exhibition [Sensation] at the Brooklyn Museum, the reception he received was anything but rapturous. In fact, it was downright brutal... ’We wanted to bring The Holy Virgin Mary [by Ofili] back to New York,’ says the New Museum’s Massimiliano Gioni, who has curated the Ofili exhibition... " (Excerpt from above.) 2015 - spotlighted article mentionJones, Jonathan. (26 August 2015). 1997 or bust: how Tony Blair and Damien Hirst let us all down [with mention of Sensation exhibition]. The Guardian (London). (Viewed 11 December 2023. S00681). "... Even when Sensation opened, the most exciting years of 1990s British art were already over, and Hirst would soon be flirting with, then seriously dating and going to bed with kitsch. Savvy art-world folk, including Charles Saatchi, were searching for the next big thing, the next wave of innovation in British art. That wave has never come..." (Excerpt from above.) 2015 - other articlesSee the articles 2015 - article mentionMunro, Cait. (8 June 2015). Museum gambles on controversial YBA works to fund pricey expansion [with mention of the Sensation exhibition]. artnet.com. (Viewed 12 December 2023. S00697). "David Walsh, founder of Tasmania’s Museum of Old and New Art (MONA)— who has described the museum as a ’subversive adult Disneyland’— is selling off some of the most iconic works in his collection... Both Ofili’s work, and the Chapman Brothers, were included in the controversial, and much-cited, 1999 exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum, titled, ’Sensation: Young British Artists From the Charles Saatchi Collection.’ ... " (Excerpt from above.) 2015 - article mention(2 October 2015). Today in history... ["In 1999 the Brooklyn Museum of Art opened its much-hyped ’Sensation’ exhibit, which had drawn controversy with some of the artwork involved, including a portrait of the Virgin Mary decorated with elephant dung."]. South Florida Sun Sentinel (Palm Beach County Edition, Florida), p. 4A. (Viewed 12 December 2023. S00696).
2016 articlesSee the articles 2016 - article mention(9 January 2016). Today in history... ["In 2000 the controversial ’Sensation’ art exhibit ended its three-month run at the Brooklyn Museum, which had gotten into a fight with New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani over what the mayor called the exhibit’s offensive anti-Catholic content"]. South Florida Sun Sentinel (Ft. Lauderdale, Florida), p. 4A. (Viewed 12 December 2023. S0070 ).
2016 - article mentionSteinhauer, Jillian and Sutton, Benjamin. (18 April 2016). Your arts-centric guide to the 2016 presidential primaries [with mention of the Sensation exhibition]. Hyperallergic website. (Viewed 11 December 2023. S00680). "... In November 1999, at the height of the controversy surrounding the Young British Artists exhibition Sensation at the Brooklyn Museum, Trump— who at the time was weighing a possible run for president— waded into the public hysteria over Chris Ofili’s painting "The Holy Virgin Mary" (1996)..." (Excerpt from above.) 2016 - spotlighted feature articleRobecchi, Michele. (23 March 2016). Sensation. Flash Art. (Viewed 18 September 2021. Q00397). "... Maybe ’Sensation’ won’t stand the test of time as it wished, but it has the indisputable merit of having captured the final stage of a historical time in British art..." (Excerpt from above.) 2017 articlesSee the articles 2017 - article mention(9 January 2017). On January 9... ["In 2000 the controversial ’Sensation’ art exhibit ended its three-month run at the Brooklyn Museum, which had gotten into a fight with New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani over what the mayor called the exhibit’s offensive anti-Catholic content"]. Chicago Tribune, section 2, p. 6. (Viewed 12 December 2023. S00687).
2017 - spotlighted feature articleHayes, Chris. (3 October 2017). Four ways the Royal Academy’s "Sensation" exhibition changed art forever. TimeOut magazine. (Viewed 22 September 2021. Q00417). "... 1. It put British art on the map ... 2. It gave us stronger stomachs ... 3. It thrust contemporary art into the spotlight ... 4. It turned artists into celebrities... Hirst, Emin and the rest became proper tabloid fodder, pictured drunk at London nightlife hotspots and splashed all over The Mirror and The Sun. This was a new era for British artists, but few have managed to scale the same dizzy heights since." (Excerpt from above.) 2018 articlesSee the articles 2018 - article mention(9 January 2018). On January 9... ["In 2000 the controversial ’Sensation’ art exhibit ended its three-month run at the Brooklyn Museum, which had gotten into a fight with New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani over what the mayor called the exhibit’s offensive anti-Catholic content"]. Chicago Tribune, section 2, p. 5. (Viewed 12 December 2023. S00706).
2018 - article mentionSutton, Benjamin. (19 April 2018). Chris Ofili painting, once called "degenerate" by Trump, gifted to Museum of Modern Art by Trump supporter; The painting, which sparked a political scandal at the Brooklyn Museum in 1999, was donated to MoMA by hedge fund manager Steven A. Cohen [with mention of its previous inclusion in the Sensation exhibition]. Hyperallergic website. (Viewed 11 December 2023. S00679). 2018 - article mention(2 October 2018). On Oct. 2... ["In 1999 the Brooklyn Museum of Art opened its much-hyped ’Sensation’ exhibit, which had drawn controversy with some of the artwork involved, including a portrait of the Virgin Mary decorated with elephant dung."] Chicago Tribune, section 2, p. 4. (Viewed 12 December 2023. S00691).
2019 articlesSee the articles 2019 - article mention(9 January 2019). On January 9... ["In 2000 the controversial ’Sensation’ art exhibit ended its three-month run at the Brooklyn Museum, which had gotten into a fight with New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani over what the mayor called the exhibit’s offensive anti-Catholic content"]. Chicago Tribune, section 2, p. 4. (Viewed 11 December 2023. S00684).
2019 - news brief mention(15 November 2019). Still a Sensation? Norman Rosenthal co-organises show of new Brit art in Venice. The Art Newspaper. (Viewed 12 December 2023. S00692). "Norman Rosenthal shook up the art world in 1997 with his show Sensation at the Royal Academy of Arts in London, unleashing on the world a group of brash, bold and brilliant British artists from Damien Hirst to Sarah Lucas. Now he is casting his eye over a new crop of emerging UK artists..." (Excerpt from above.) |
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2020 articlesSee the articles 2020 - feature articleMartinique, Elena. (7 January 2020). The controversy of the Sensation art exhibition / Art history. Widewalls online magazine. (Viewed 30 September 2021. Q00554). "... At the same time lauded as epochal and derided as a mere publicity stunt, Sensation is one of the most infamous and controversial exhibitions of recent times. Nevertheless, it was an exhibition that had put British art on the map ..." (Excerpt from above.) 2020 - article mention(2 October 2020). On Oct. 2... ["In 1999 the Brooklyn Museum of Art opened its much-hyped ’Sensation’ exhibit, which had drawn controversy with some of the artwork involved, including a portrait of the Virgin Mary decorated with elephant dung."] Chicago Tribune, section 2, p. 4. (Viewed 12 December 2023. S00690).
2021 - spotlighted book excerptsHarris, Gareth / Lehman, Arnold. (12 August 2021). How Mayor Rudy Giuliani went from "patting on the back" to trying to pull the plug on Sensation show (book excerpts by Arnold Lehman; introduction by Gareth Harris). The Art Newspaper. (Viewed 11 December 2023. S00678). 2021 - other articlesSee the articles 2021 - article mention(2 October 2021). On Oct. 2... ["In 1999 the Brooklyn Museum of Art opened its much-hyped ’Sensation’ exhibit, which had drawn controversy with some of the artwork involved, including a portrait of the Virgin Mary decorated with elephant dung."] Chicago Tribune, section 1, p. 6. (Viewed 12 December 2023. S00689).
2021 - articleGreenberger, Alex. (28 October 2021). Creating a "Sensation": Arnold Lehman recalls a 1999 Brooklyn Museum controversy in a new memoir. ARTnews. (Viewed 11 December 2023. S00677). 2022 - spotlighted articleSooke, Alistair. (18 September 2022). What are we to make of Sensation, 25 years on? The Telegraph (London). (Viewed 11 December 2023. S00682). "... By the time of the exhibition, [Jonathan Watkins] points out, the YBAs ’had been brought into the establishment. All of a sudden, they were mainstream’... " (Excerpt from above.) 2022 - spotlighted articleProdger, Michael. (7 December 2022). How Sensation turned British art into big business; Twenty-five years ago, the Charles Saatchi-backed exhibition heralded a new era – one in which profit would reign supreme. New Statesman. (Viewed 11 December 2023. S00683). "The exhibition had also been scheduled to travel later to the National Gallery of Australia in Canberra but that gallery proved rather more pernickety about the financial implications: when it learnt that the New York iteration of the show had been part sponsored by Saatchi himself ($160,000), his auction house of choice Christie’s ($50,000), and the artists’ own dealers ($10,000), it blanched at the prospect of being used to boost Saatchi’s investments further and withdrew..." (Excerpt from above.) 2022 - other articlesSee the articles 2022 - articleO’Byrne, Robert. (30 May 2022). Can an exhibition represent a nation? [Mention of the 25th anniversary of "Sensation" at the Royal Academy]. Apollo magazine. (Viewed 7 November 2023. S00220). 2022 - article mention(2 October 2022). On Oct. 2... ["In 1999 the Brooklyn Museum of Art opened its much-hyped ’Sensation’ exhibit, which had drawn controversy with some of the artwork involved, including a portrait of the Virgin Mary decorated with elephant dung."] Chicago Tribune, section 1, p. 20. (Viewed 12 December 2023. S00688).
2023 - spotlighted articleLord, Richard. (13 January 2023). "It was just so cool": how London Royal Academy of Arts’ 1997 Sensation exhibition changed UK’s views on art, and inspired a Hong Kong art adviser [Yuki Terase]. South China Morning Post (Hong Kong). (Viewed 7 November 2023. S00219).
2023 - other articlesSee the articles 2023 - article mentionBruno, Lisa. (14 September 2023). Ask a conservator: What’s the weirdest work you’ve ever conserved? [with mention of Sensation exhibition]. Brooklyn Museum of Art website. (Viewed 12 December 2023. S00695). [Carol Lee Shen Chief Conservator:] An adult blowfly that’s just hatched from its pupal state is the softest thing you’ll ever touch. How do I know this? Live blowflies were an element in the 1990 sculptural installation A Thousand Years by the British contemporary artist Damien Hirst. Nine years later, the work appeared in the exhibition Sensation: Young British Artists from the Saatchi Collection at the Brooklyn Museum... " (Excerpt from above.) 2023 - article mention(2 October 2023). On Oct. 2... ["In 1999 the Brooklyn Museum of Art opened its much-hyped ’Sensation’ exhibit, which had drawn controversy with some of the artwork involved."] Chicago Tribune, section 1, p. 9. (Viewed 12 December 2023. S00694).
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undated materialSee the articles n. d. - Wikipedia entry(undated). "Sensation (art exhibition)" entry. Wikipedia.org. (Viewed 18 December 2021).
n. d. - articleWolfe, Shira. (undated). The shows that made contemporary art history: Sensation. Artland magazine. (Viewed 12 December 2023. S00693). |