Simone Leigh Quits Hauser & Wirth After 18 Month Stint The artist Simone Leigh has quit the multinational gallery Hauser and Wirth months before representing the United States at the 59th Venice Biennale in May. She will now make the move to Matthew Marks. "I love...
Central St Martins BA and MA degree shows kicked off this weekend with a number of multidisciplinary exhibitions stretching across the Kings Cross campus. The MA was a bit more colourful and fun this year with a heavy emphasis on Performance and Installation Art with...
The Camden Arts Centre, which is one of London’s leading contemporary art venues, has a new director, the first in 27 years. Martin Clark previously at the Kunsthall in Norway, will take up the post in September, it has been announced. He replaces the highly regarded...
The Serpentine is currently presenting the work of Simon Denny, an artist who works with sculptural installations that include print, graphics, moving images and texts. The first solo show of Denny's work in London, Products for Organising, is developed in response to...
Martin Creed is a very busy man this spring. With his highly acclaimed, thought-provoking survey of art currently at the Hayward Gallery, the 2001 Turner prize winner is about to present 'Mind Trap' his new CD, and composition for the restoration of the Royal...
Tate Britain today unveiled a major new commission: Phantom Ride, by Turner-Prize winning artist Simon Starling (b 1967). Since 2012, a leading contemporary artist has been invited each year to develop a work inspired by Tate’s Collection for the Tate Britain...
The Frostig Collection has announced a fundraising exhibition and auction of photographs by some of the leading photographers of our time, who generously donated limited edition prints to a most worthy cause. All proceeds of the auction sale will benefit the social...
The Turner Prize winning artist Simon Starling (b 1967), has been selected to create a major new project for the Tate Britain Commission 2013, supported by Sotheby’s. The annual commission invites artists to make work in response to Tate’s collection of...
Winner of Turner Prize 2011 announced by Mario Testino at BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, GatesheadMartin Boyce has just been announced as the winner of the £25,000 Turner Prize 2011. With long queues and cold damp breezes greeting the guests at tonight's...