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'''Artangel''' is a [[London]]-based [[arts]] organisation founded in 1985 by [[Roger Took]].<ref>"[https://web.archive.org/web/20140601154514/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/4717208/So-who-is-behind-Artangel.html So who is behind Artangel?]". ''[[The Daily Telegraph|The Telegraph]]'', 7 April 1999. Retrieved on 8 August 2011.</ref> Directed since 1991 by James Lingwood and Michael Morris, it has commissioned and produced a string of notable site-specific works, plus several projects for TV, film, radio and the web.<ref name="Guardian_1991">{{cite news | last = O'Mahony | first = John | title = Artangel: Frontline warriors | url = https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2011/mar/21/artangel-whiteread-deller-landy | work = [[The Guardian]] | date = 21 March 2011 | access-date = 9 August 2015 }}</ref> Notable past works include the [[Turner Prize]]-winning ''[[House (sculpture)|House]]'' by [[Rachel Whiteread]] (1993),<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-britain-other-venues/exhibitionseries/turner-prize-series/turner-prize-year-year|title=The Turner Prize 1993}}</ref> ''[[Break Down (Landy artwork)|Break Down]]'' by [[Michael Landy]] (2001) and ''Seizure'' by [[Roger Hiorns]] (2008–2010), also nominated for the Turner Prize in 2009.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-britain/exhibition/turner-prize-2009/turner-prize-2009-artists-roger-hiorns|title=The Turner Prize 2009}}</ref>
A 2002 article in ''[[The Daily Telegraph]]'' described the organisation as creating "art that operates by ambush, rather than asking you to pay up before you see it",<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/art/3573044/Ambition-to-surprise-and-amaze.html|title=Ambition: to surprise and amaze.|work=The Daily Telegraph| first=Rupert | last=Christianson | location=London | date=12 February 2002}}</ref> while a 2007 profile in ''[[The Observer]]'' noted that "Artangel has worked with exceptional artists to produce some of the most resonant works of our time, in some very unusual places".<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2007/oct/07/art.friezeartfair|title=Unsung eleven: meet the art world's new pioneers|work=The Observer | first=Rachel | last=Cooke | date=7 October 2007 | location=London | access-date=8 October 2007}}</ref> These have included a condemned council flat (''Seizure'', 2008–2010), a former postal sorting office (''Küba'', 2005), a vacated general plumbing store (''An Area of Outstanding Unnatural Beauty'', 2002) and the former Oxford Street branch of the [[C&A]] department store (''Break Down'', 2001).
==Ongoing projects==
While many of Artangel's projects are intrinsically temporary, certain works have a longer-term remit.
1 January 2000 saw the launch of [[Jem Finer]]'s ''[[Longplayer]]'', a musical composition that will continue playing until the end of the year 2999. ''Longplayer'' can be heard via an online stream,<ref>{{cite web| url = http://longplayer.org| title = Longplayer}}</ref> at listening posts internationally and at occasional live performances.
In 2007, a former municipal library building in the Icelandic town of [[Stykkishólmur]] was transformed into ''VATNASAFN/Library of Water'', a project by [[Roni Horn]] that includes an archive of glacial water and a selection of weather 'reports' by residents of [[Iceland]]. It operates as a community space and is host to a writers' residency programme.
[[Ilya Kabakov|Ilya]] and Emilia Kabakov's 1998 work ''[[Kabakov's Installations#The Palace of Projects|The Palace of Projects]]'' resides permanently at a former salt store in the [[Zollverein Coal Mine Industrial Complex]] in [[Essen]], Germany.
Notable patrons as special angels include [[Carolyn Dailey]]. Artangel were named one of London's most influential curators<ref>{{cite web|last1=Curated|first1=Something|title=London's Most Influential Curators|url=http://somethingcurated.com/2017/03/23/londons-influential-curators/|website=Something Curated|date=23 March 2017|publisher=Something Curated|accessdate=24 July 2017}}</ref> in 2017 by Something Curated.
== The Artangel Collection ==
Works, such as [[Richard Billingham]]'s ''Fishtank'' (1998), [[Paul Pfeiffer (artist)|Paul Pfeiffer]]'s ''The Saints'' (2007) and [[Francis Alÿs|Francis Alÿs']] ''Seven Walks'' (2004), continue to be exhibited internationally as part of The Artangel Collection.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.artangel.org.uk/about_us/collection/|title=Artangel|publisher=Artangel|access-date=3 April 2017}}</ref> The collection was launched in partnership with [[Tate]] in 2011 to enable notable film and video installations to be presented across the UK. Over 25 moving image works – commissioned by Artangel since 1993 – are available for loan, free of charge, to publicly funded UK museums and galleries.
==References==
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==External links==
* {{Official website|www.artangel.org.uk}}
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