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Events relating to british_art
A Bigger Splash, by English painter David Hockney, casts a new light on sunlit swimming pools
British artist duo Gilbert & George attract attention miming to Flanagan and Allen's Underneath the Arches
British artist David Hockney paints a striking triple portrait in Mr and Mrs Clark and Percy
German-born British art historian Nikolaus Pevsner completes his monumental 46-volume Buildings of England
The British public is outraged to discover that the Tate Gallery has spent money purchasing Carl Andre's arrangement of bricks, Equivalent VIII
British artist Richard Long lays out his Slate Circle at the Tate Gallery in London
Tony Cragg's Raleigh is unveiled outside the Tate Gallery in his home town of Liverpool
English conceptual artist Damien Hirst organizes the first exhibition of the 'Young British Artists', also known as the Britpack
British artist Marc Quinn creates Self, the first in a series of cast sculptures of his head, made from his own frozen blood
Eduardo Paolozzi's vast bronze sculpture The Wealth of Nations is installed at South Kyle, near Edinburgh
Rachel Whiteread's Untitled (House) is a concrete cast of the interior of a house in London's East End
British artist Tracey Emin causes a stir with Everyone I Have Ever Slept With 1963-1995
Chris Ofili's painting The Holy Virgin is embellished with elephant dung
Anthony Gormley's massive metal Angel of the North is erected near Gateshead in northern England
