Friday, 8 January 2016

Goodbye-ee! Don’t cry-ee! Rehberger’s Dazzle Ship slips anchor 08 January 2016

Tobias Rehberger’s Dazzle Ship, the German artist’s contribution to a UK-wide series of commissions marking the Great War, officially ended when it slipped anchor on the Thames in central London on 31 December. Here’s a time-lapse video of the former Royal Navy warship, HMS President (1918), being transformed while moored on the Thames. But there’s a silver lining—in Liverpool on the Mersey, Peter Blake’s Everybody Razzle Dazzle, the second of three ships transformed thanks to 14-18 Now, Tate Liverpool and the Liverpool Biennial, continues to sail colourfully until the end of 2016