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Bridget Riley | Artist " Bridget Riley is a consistent innovator in her field who experiments constantly with new ideas that mark new departures. For this reason nobody can truly know what the future will bring in terms of her original and unique art, which is demanding both of herself and of those who see them." Source: http://www.op-art.co.uk/bridget-riley/ New York at Pace 2007 Last weekend I travelled to London to see the Bridget Riley Exhibition at the National Gallery. The work is a stunning delight but what struck me more was the fact that the National Gallery had given Bridget two walls to paint on, not to hang her works on but to actually paint on. It was like wonderful graffiti that should remain in the Gallery for as long as the paint would last. It made so much sense that here is an artist that is really in the fabric of the Nation. The best of the best of England. Her work is remarkable and can be seen as a dance as much as a visual Christmas feast. What made the...

The Nobel Peace Prize has chosen a worthy candidate. Source: http://www.reuters.com/article/slideshow?articleId=USTOE6B106320101210&slide=1#a=3 (Reuters) - China stepped up rhetoric against Norway's Nobel Committee on Friday, hours ahead of the awarding of the peace prize to jailed dissident Liu Xiaobo, with media accusing it and the West of putting China "on trial." Infuriated by the Committee's award to a man it labels a subversive and a criminal, Beijing has let the row with the Nobel Committee spill over into wider diplomacy, criticizing the West for trying to force its ideas onto China. The Nobel Committee said on Thursday human rights were basic "universal values" but Communist Party ideologists consider the phrase to be code words for Western liberal values. "Today in Norway's Oslo, there will be a farce staged: 'The Trial of China'," popular tabloid the Global Times, which is run by Communist Party mouthpiece the People...