Tracey Emin Unveils Artist Decorated Connaught Christmas Tree 2017
The Connaught Christmas Tree is rapidly becoming an art community tradition in London.
30 November 2017
Art Category: Announcement
UK Artists Getting Poorer As 82% Earn Less Than £10,000 PA
A new report out today shows that UK emerging and mid-career artists are getting poorer: 82% now earn less than £10,000 a year. Artfinder who produced the study, shows an increase in the percentage of artists earning less than £10,000 a year, up from 72% in 2013 to 82%. It’s also worse for women – with 83.6% earning under £10,000 (from 98% of respondents who stated gender).
28 November 2017
Design Museum Proves Popular With 780,000 Visitors Recorded Last Year
The new Design Museum now located at Kensington High Street has reason to celebrate since it opened its doors on 24 November 2016 More than 780,000 people have visited.
28 November 2017
Bloomberg New Contemporaries Leaves ICA Home For Block 336 In Brixton
Bloomberg New Contemporaries is to leave its home at the ICA London for Block 336 in Brixton.
23 November 2017
César Dezfuli Wins Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize 2017
The Tenth Anniversary Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize 2017 has been won by César Dezfuli for his portrait of a migrant rescued in the Mediterranean Sea off the Libyan coast, the National Portrait Gallery has announced. The £15,000 award was presented to the Spanish photographer at an awards ceremony on Tuesday 14 November 2017.
15 November 2017
Rare Portrait of Lucian Freud by Francis Bacon Exhibited At Tate
An important portrait by Francis Bacon of his friend/rival Lucian Freud is to be shown in Tate Britain’s landmark exhibition
13 November 2017
Paul Hamlyn Foundation Artist Awards 2017 Present £60k No Strings Attached Prizes
The 2017 Hamlyn Awards for Artists have been announce by the Paul Hamlyn Foundation, with Jane Hamlyn, Chair and Jarvis Cocker presenting the prizes.
9 November 2017
Hastings Pier Wins 2017 RIBA Stirling Prize – UK’s Best New Building
RIBA (The Royal Institute of British Architects) has announced the prestigious 2017 Stirling Prize winner. Hastings Pier by dRMM Architects was awarded the honour.
3 November 2017
Alt Power 100 ArtLyst 2017 – Meet The Alternative Powerhouses
Alt Power 100 ArtLyst: 2017 has been an extraordinary year for exhibitions both here in the UK and abroad.
31 October 2017
Sean Scully To Be Represented By Blain|Southern London
The Irish/American Abstract Artist Sean Scully has announced that he is to be represented by Blain| Southern in London. This follows over twenty successful years with Timothy Taylor in Mayfair.
29 October 2017
UK Holocaust Memorial Design Awarded To David Adjaye And Ron Arad
The British architect Sir David Adjaye and the Israeli architect Ron Arad have been awarded the commission to design the UK’s National Holocaust Memorial in the shadow of the Houses of Parliament in London. Architects Gustafson Porter + Bowman were selected to design a Learning Centre, as part of the project.
24 October 2017
Mona Hatoum Selected For Whitechapel’s Art Icon Award 2018
Mona Hatoum (b. 1952) is the fifth artist to receive the prestigious annual Art Icon award at the Whitechapel Gallery. The Art Icon 2018 award will be presented on Monday 29 January 2018.
24 October 2017
Bloomberg Launches Art-worthy New European Headquarters
I have just returned from an outing to Bloomberg’s new European headquarters in London
24 October 2017
Major Sean Scully Exhibition Set To Tour Russia
The internationally acclaimed abstract artist Sean Scully is to launch a major touring exhibition in Russia following a series of highly successful exhibitions in China. The Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow will host the first, opening on 3 November 2017.
20 October 2017
Glasgow International Festival of Visual Art Announce Line-Up 2018
Glasgow International Festival of Visual Art has announced details of the programme for its eighth edition, opening on 20 April 2018. Under the new direction of Richard Parry,
16 October 2017
Tate St Ives Reopens After Extensive Four-Year Building Project
Tate St Ives reopens on the 14 October 2017 after a four-year building project.
12 October 2017
Dame Julia Peyton-Jones Wins Critics Circle Visual Arts and Architecture Award
Dame Julia Peyton-Jones is the winner of the annual Critics Circle Visual Arts and Architecture Award which will be presented at the Thaddeus Ropac Gallery Dover Street on the evening of 12th September.
12 September 2017
John Moores Painting Prize Jury Announced For 2018 Competition
The Walker Art Gallery has announced the names of the jury members who will judge the John Moores Art Prize competition in 2018, ahead of the prestigious Painting Prize’s call for entries opening on 14 September 2017.
10 September 2017
Grayson Perry Selected To Coordinate RA Summer Exhibition 2018
The sometime transvestite artist Grayson Perry RA has been chosen to select the 2018 Summer Exhibition at the Royal Academy.
7 September 2017
Android Shortlisted For Taylor Wessing Portrait Prize 2017
The Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize jury has selected three photographers shortlisted for the 2017 competition.
5 September 2017
RIBA Stirling Prize Shortlist Includes Juergen Teller’s New Studio
The shortlist for the RIBA Stirling Prize an award honouring the UK’s best new building has been announced today (Thursday 20 July). The six… Read More
20 July 2017
Hepworth Wakefield Wins Prestigious Museum Of The Year £100,000 Prize
The Hepworth Wakefield has won this year’s Museum of The Year Award. The gallery located in West Yorkshire has beaten Tate Modern, the Lapworth Museum of Geology in Birmingham, Sir John Soane’s Museum in London and the National Heritage Centre for Horseracing and Sporting Art in Suffolk. The Art Fund aims to reward an institution that has shown “exceptional imagination, innovation, and achievement across the preceding 12 months”.
6 July 2017
Edward Albee Estate To Be Auctioned By Sotheby’s New York
Sotheby’s has announced that it will be handling the estate collection of the great American playwright Edward Albee. The dedicated auction will be held this September in New York with proceeds of the sale benefiting The Edward F. Albee Foundation, which provides residencies for writers and visual artists in Montauk, Long Island.
26 June 2017
Benjamin Sullivan Painting of His Wife Breastfeeding Wins BP Portrait Prize
A portrait of a serene mother breastfeeding her eight-month-old daughter has won this year’s BP Portrait Award, winning the sitter’s husband the £30,000 first prize.
20 June 2017
General Idea Estate To Be Represented By Mitchell-Innes & Nash
The Estate of General Idea (1969-1994) is to be represented by Mitchell-Innes & Nash, it has been announced.
14 June 2017
Margate’s Turner Contemporary To Host Turner Prize In 2019
The Turner Prize, one of the worlds most coveted prizes for contemporary art will be held in 2019 at Turner Contemporary in Margate.
25 May 2017
Dutch Photographer Dana Lixenberg Wins The 20th Deutsche Borse Photography Prize
Dana Lixenberg a Dutch photographer has won the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize at London’s Photographers’ Gallery for her portraits of the residents and community of the Imperial Courts housing project in Watts, Los Angeles.
19 May 2017
Martin Clark To Replace Jenni Lomax As New Camden Arts Centre Director
The Camden Arts Centre, which is one of London’s leading contemporary art venues, has a new director, the first in… Read More
5 May 2017
Amanda Levete To Unveil V&A’s Largest Architectural Intervention For 100 Years
V&A’s Exhibition Road Quarter designed by the Stirling Prize-winning British architect Amanda Levete and her practice AL_A unveiled
2 May 2017
Cornelia Parker Selected As Official Election Artist For Parliamentary Art Collection
Cornelia Parker has been named as the official artist for the 2017 general election.
1 May 2017
Art Fund Museum of the Year 2017 Finalists Announced
The Art Fund has announced the five museums which have been selected as finalists for Art Fund Museum of the Year 2017, the most prestigious prize for museums in the UK.
28 April 2017
Arts Council Collection Unveils 2017 List Of Works Acquired For The Nation
The Arts Council Collection has unveiled the full list of 45 works by 29 artists that it has acquired for the nation in 2016-2017.
25 April 2017