Fundraising includes auction of works to be donated by star alumni

Old water tanks to become gallery

Goldsmiths, which is part of the University of London and home to one of the UK’s leading art schools, plans to build a public art gallery behind the art department’s home, in an early 20th-century former public baths. To help raise the £2m needed to convert the old water tanks of the Laurie Grove Baths into an art space, the institution is asking its star alumni and emeritus professors, including Michael Craig-Martin, Damien Hirst, Sarah Lucas, Antony Gormley, Fiona Banner, Bob and Roberta Smith, Rebecca Warren and Ceal Floyer, to donate works that will be auctioned by Christie’s, possibly next year....Continue Reading

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