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1. Cosey Fanni Tutti & Genesis P-Orridge in 1976: Prostitution...

First, there was Cosey and COUM Transmissions whipping up a media frenzy with their controversial music + art exhibition at the ICA in London in 1976... COUM Transmissions. (1976)....

2. Carl Andre at Turner Contemporary (2013)

First, a flashback to the media coverage concerning an acquisition of a Carl Andre artwork in 1976 by the Tate Gallery... Now onto the press release for the show down the road... Carl Andre: Mass...

3. Tracey Emin’s crazy media coverage vs. Cabaret Voltaire’s Kino...

Inspired by Britney Spears’ crazy media coverage, we feature some of the stranger, darker and more questionable takes on Art Star Tracey Emin— with music journalism commentary by Cabaret Voltaire’s...

4. Sensation exhibition press conference (1997)

The following are comments offered via a press release issued on the occasion of a press conference for the landmark Sensation exhibition (18 September - 28 December 1997), which stampeded into...

5. Chatchai Puipia interview: Cracking beneath the surface (1999)

R.J. Preece (2011): Back in the day, I thought Thai artist Chatchai Puipia was an absolute nutter. I’m still not satisfied with his lack of clarity concerning his artistic intention, and his...

6. Sensation at the Royal Academy of Arts, London (1997)

Here’s the press release of the landmark show that got so many people talking. Sensation: Young British artists from The Saatchi Collection Royal Academy of Arts London, England 18 September -...

Most recent featured texts

Here we spotlight new Art Design Publicity articles— and those in the archive.

Tracey Emin quotes: Media coverage— unity and variety (2009)

Have you ever seen an artist stitch quotes through UK media? Nobody does it better than Tracey... Tracey Emin quotes It is a very unusual person indeed who spends three days solid flippings...

Sadie Coles HQ got BANK’d - 1998 (2009)

Peter Fischli/David Weiss at White Cube | Daniel Oates at Sadie Coles HQ | Sophisticated Yanks

Hotel designs by Philippe Starck. Marketing & media / communications by...

As the design world awaits the unveiling of two new London hotels by the high-profile Philippe Starck-Ian Schrager team, R. J. Preece anticipates the media frenzy and looks at the previous...

Tracey Emin interview: Art, artist and media coverage (2002)

A Q&A with the "bad girl" of British art. Tracey Emin interview: Art, artist and media coverage Propelled by explicitly autobiographical works such as Everyone I ever slept with (1995) and My...

Damien Hirst: Hype, buzz, glamour and art— Interview with Patricia Ellis...

While preparing [the article “Why I love Damien Hirst’s skull”, R.J. Preece contacted Patricia Ellis to inform her— and ask approval— about the footnotes mentioning her words and actions. This...

Criticising contemporary creative culture

Experimental in nature, cross-disciplinary ADP features art, design, music, PR/journalism, legal & real-talk professional practice— & mashes it together. Cross-genre, ADP works between TMZ, Twitter freak outs, Huffington Post drama & Daily Mail sensation; Facebook posing & MySpace spam; a bloggy, behind-the-scenes PR Week, newspaper & academic journal; a rock n’ roll music mag & a boring art/design propaganda mag. Masked or unmasked, contributors aim for real transparency, real talk (including typically hush-hush economic contexts that benefit power holders), anti-elitism, and art / design world justice, non-academic, for all.