Lee Cavaliere Appointed New Artistic Director of VOLTA Art Fairs
Lee Cavaliere has been appointed the new Artistic Director of VOLTA art fairs beginning July 2023.
20 July 2023
Appointments
Three New Royal Academicians Announced – Late Botticelli Painting Sells for $45.4m – Robbie Williams £10m Banksy Paintings Auctioned At Sotheby’s
The Royal Academy of Arts has elected three new Royal Academicians: Michael Armitage, in the category of Painting, Peter Barber,… Read More
27 January 2022
Phyllida Barlow Awarded Damehood In Queen’s Birthday Honours List
Phyllida Barlow given Damehood in the Queen’s birthday honours list. Also recognised Edmund de Waal, CBE and Photographer Martin Parr, CBE
12 June 2021
Artist Frank Bowling Knighted In Queen’s Birthday Honours List 2020
Congratulations to Frank Bowling now Sir Richard Sheridan Franklin Bowling Kt ,OBE, RA, the Guyana-born British artist. His paintings relate to Abstract expressionism, Color Field painting and Lyrical Abstraction. In honour of this award, Artlyst is rerunning Sue Hubbard’s excellent review of his show at Tate Britain in 2019.
9 October 2020
Cathie Pilkington Elected New Keeper Of Royal Academy
Cathie Pilkington RA has been elected as the new Keeper of the Royal Academy. She was elected as a Royal Academician in 2014 and served as Professor of Sculpture from 2015-19.
6 May 2020
Steve McQueen and David Shrigley On New Year Honours List 2020
The New Year Honours list 2020 has given the nod to several people involved in the Visual Arts. A knighthood for the Turner Prize and Oscar-winning filmmaker Steve McQueen.
27 December 2019
Rebecca Salter Becomes Twenty-Seventh President of The Royal Academy
Rebecca Salter has been elected the 27th President of the Royal Academy It was announced today that she will succeed Christopher Le Brun PPRA who has stepped down after serving eight years in the role.
10 December 2019
Sotheby’s Appoints Charles F. Stewart New CEO
Sotheby’s has announced the appointment of Charles F. Stewart as Chief Executive Officer, effective immediately. Mr. Stewart succeeds Tad Smith, who served as CEO of Sotheby’s since 2015.
28 October 2019
Chris Dercon To Head Up Grand Palais and Musée du Luxembourg
The former Director of Tate Modern, Chris Dercon has been appointed President of the French government cultural body, Réunion des musées nationaux-Grand Palais (Rmn-GP).
8 November 2018
Sally Tallant Moves To Queens Museum NY As New Executive Director
The Board of Queens Museum in New York has announced the appointment of Sally Tallant as its new Executive Director. She will take up her appointment in Spring 2019.
6 November 2018
Max Hollein Appointed New Director At The Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Metropolitan Museum of Art has a new director, Max Hollein.
11 April 2018
Helen Legg Appointed New Director Of Tate Liverpool
Helen Legg currently Director of Spike Island, Bristol, has been appointed the new Director of Tate Liverpool.
20 March 2018
Mexican Architect Frida Escobedo To Design Serpentine Pavilion 2018
Frida Escobedo, a young Mexican architect celebrated for dynamic projects that reactivate urban space, has been commissioned to design the Serpentine Pavilion 2018.
8 February 2018
Queen Appoints Fitzwilliam Chief Tim Knox Director Of Royal Collection
Tim Knox has been appointed Director of the Royal Collection by Her Majesty The Queen.
14 January 2018
Richard Long Knighted In New Year’s Honours List 2018
Richard Long, the four-times Turner Prize nominee and one-time winner (1989) has been knighted in the Queens New Year’s honours list.
29 December 2017
Elisabeth Murdoch Appointed To Arts Council England National Council – Should We Worry?
On 5th December, seven new appointments were quietly made to Arts Council England’s (ACE) National Council, its governing board. This included the controversial choice of Elisabeth Murdoch, daughter of media mogul Rupert Murdoch.
18 December 2017
Alistair Hudson Appointed New Director Of The Whitworth And Manchester Art Gallery
The University of Manchester and Manchester City Council have today announced that Alistair Hudson, currently Director of the Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art (mima), will be the new Director of Manchester Art Gallery and the Whitworth.
11 October 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
Dame Julia Peyton-Jones Appointed Senior Global Director of Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac
Dame Julia Peyton-Jones the former co-director of the Serpentine Gallery in London, for over 25 years, has been appointed Senior Global Director of Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac. Peyton-Jones will take on her ambassadorial and curatorial role on 1 September 2017, and will be based in London, where the gallery opened a new space in Mayfair earlier this year.
25 June 2017
Peggy Guggenheim Granddaughter Appointed Director Of Venice Museum
Karole P.B. Vail, Peggy Guggenheim’s granddaughter is to take over as director of the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice.
8 June 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
Bristol’s Arnolfini Appoints Claire Doherty As New Director
The Board of Trustees at Arnolfini have announced that Claire Doherty has been appointed as the new Director, following the departure of Kate Brindley in December 2016.
25 April 2017
Alistair Burtenshaw Appointed New Director of The Watts Gallery Trust
The Watts Gallery Trust has announced that Alistair Burtenshaw has been appointed as the new Director of Watts Gallery – Artists’ Village
23 April 2017
Manifesta 12 Appoints Team of Four international, interdisciplinary Creative Mediators
The selection of Rotterdam-based Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA) as the Manifesta 12 team for urban studies in Palermo, Sicily, has been followed up by the appointment of an international, interdisciplinary team of four creative mediators.
2 March 2017