LOS ANGELES, CA.-Raid Projects presents Contemporary Artists Working With Newspaper: Gordon Cheung, Chris Cook, Martin Creed, Alex Hamilton, Hugh Mendes, Kim Rugg, Gillian Wearing, Eva Weinmayr. Curated by Hugh Mendes.

Newspaper has been an important material in the artist's studio ever since Picasso collaged 'JOU' onto a cubist painting almost a century ago, transforming a throwaway scrap of paper into art. In the mid-century, Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg both used newspaper, sometimes investigating political significance in their choices. Many contemporary artists are rediscovering this ubiquitous daily object as a site of beauty, political opposition, formal device, or just a convenient medium for their art. Art News brings together a group of artists who explore the possibilities of this most ephemeral of media.

Featuring works by both established art world figures (including 2 Turner Prize winners) and their emerging successors, Art News is curated by Hugh Mendes and supported by the British Council USA.