London Gallery Weekend 2023 Everything you Need To Know
London Gallery Weekend is the world’s largest event of its kind and unique among global gallery weekend events in the breadth and diversity of its participating galleries.
1 June 2023
Art Market
Get Ready For TEFAF NY – NY Auction Houses Gear Up For Spring Sales – Lost Empire State Building Murals Found
TEFAF New York opens Today for their exclusive private view. For those in the know, TEFAF is an art fair that features a range of fine and decorative art from antiquity to the present day.
11 May 2023
Global Art Market Resilient: Art Basel/UBS Release Annual Report
The art market has again bucked the trend remaining buoyant throughout the post-pandemic fiscal year.
4 April 2023
Frieze Los Angeles 2023 – What The Dealers Had To Say
Frieze Los Angeles has returned for the Largest edition of the Fair Yet, With Strong Sales, International Attendance….
20 February 2023
Masterpiece Fair Relaunches Under New Branding – Photo London Welcomes New Fair Director Kamiar Maleki
The co-founders of the now defunct Masterpiece fair, cancelled last month by the MCH Group, owners of Art Basel, are reviving the fair in time for Summer
9 February 2023
Rediscovered Antoine Watteau Painting Hits Christie’s Auction Block
It is rare for a major painting by Antoine Watteau to surface on the open market. Most are held in leading museums and public collections around the world.
18 January 2023
Munch Masterpiece With Nazi Restitution Connections To Be Sold At Sotheby’s
Sotheby’s is to offer ‘Dance On The Beach’ an important panel by the Norwegian painter Edvard Munch It is estimated to fetch around £12-20m.
16 January 2023
Art Basel Group Cancels London’s Masterpiece Fair – Louvre To Limit Daily Visitors to 30,000 – Mary Cassatt Biopic To Premiere On International Women’s Day
Art Basel Group Cancels London’s Masterpiece Fair – Louvre To Limit Daily Visitors to 30,000 – Mary Cassatt Bio-Pic To Premiere On International Women’s Day
9 January 2023
Bored Ape Hypesters Sued For Millions – Tate Britain’s ‘Racist’ Mural Back On Show Next Autumn – National Portrait Gallery To Reopen 22 June
Bored Ape Hypesters Sued For Millions – Tate Britain’s ‘Racist’ Mural Back On Show – National Portrait Gallery To Reopen 22 June
15 December 2022
Damien Hirst Creates 300 Mass-Produced Paintings at $40k A Pop – Stolen Kandinsky Polish Museum Authorities Threaten Legal Action – Viva Magenta Is Pantone Colour Of The Year 2023
Damien Hirst Creates 300 Mass-Produced Paintings at $40k A Pop – Stolen Kandinsky Polish Museum Authorities Threaten Legal Action – Viva Magenta Is Pantone Colour Of The Year 2023
5 December 2022
Art Basel Miami Beach 20th Anniversary Edition – What The Dealers Said
Art Basel’s 2022 edition in Miami Beach closed on Saturday, December 3, 2022, following a week of solid sales across all market sectors and throughout the show.
4 December 2022
Paul G. Allen Collection Achieves $1.5B Auction Record For Christie’s
The Paul G. Allen Collection, auctioned last night at Christie’s, has become the biggest sale in auction history
10 November 2022
Frances Morris To Step Down As Tate Modern Director – Art Basel Head Marc Spiegler Quits – Stuart Semple Launches Pantone Alternative Colour Chart
Frances Morris To Step Down As Tate Modern Director – Art Basel Director Marc Spiegler Quits – Stuart Semple Launches Pantone Alternative Colour Chart
31 October 2022
Paris+ par Art Basel What The Dealers Had To Say
Paris+ par Art Basel has concluded a highly successful debut edition marked by buoyant sales, vibrant city-wide programming, and strong… Read More
23 October 2022
Iconic Lowry Painting Sold For £7.8m Will Remain In Salford – Ai Weiwei and Peter Doig Donate Works To Benefit WWF
Iconic Lowry Painting Sold For £7.8 Will Remain In Salford – Ai Weiwei and Peter Doig Donate Works To Benefit WWF
20 October 2022
Russian Artist Pyotr Pavlensky London Exhibition – Queen Elizabeth II Fourth Plinth Takeover – Sex Pistols Sotheby’s Auction
Russian Art Activist Pyotr Pavlensky London Exhibition – Queen Elizabeth II Fourth Plinth Takeover – Sex Pistols Sotheby’s Auction
22 September 2022
Hauser & Wirth Buy Soho’s Groucho Club For £40m
The Groucho Club, an infamous Soho watering hole known for its literary and arty crowd, has been purchased by gallerists Hauser & Wirth
12 August 2022
Horniman Return Benin Bronzes To Nigeria – Henry Darger Federal Lawsuit Revealed – Green Light For Gormley Alan Turing Sculpture
Horniman Agrees To Return Benin Bronzes To Nigeria – Henry Darger Federal Lawsuit Revealed – Green Light For Gormley Sculpture Celebrating Codebreaker Alan Turing
8 August 2022
Documenta Director Sabine Schormann Resigns Over Antisemitism Row – Sotheby’s Sell $2.5m Tables Made From Asbestos – Complete Hilma af Klint Catalogue Raisonné To Be Published
Documenta Director Sabine Schormann Resigns Over Antisemitism Row – Sotheby’s Sell $2.5m Tables Made From Asbestos – Complete Hilma af Klint Catalogue Raisonné To Be Published
18 July 2022
Paris+ par Art Basel: New Kid On The Block Announces Exhibitors
Paris+ par Art Basel, which has all but replaced the French art fair FIAC in the Grand Palais, has announced the lineup for the 2022 fair.
12 July 2022
Victor Pinchuk Donates £10.2m Jeff Koons Balloon Monkey Proceeds To Aid Ukraine
The sale proceeds of Jeff Koons’ iconic Balloon Monkey (Magenta) (2006-13), which sold for £10,136,500 / $12,437,486 / €11,738,067 at Christie’s last night…
29 June 2022
Man Ray Sets New Photography Record Price at $12.4m
A Man Ray photograph ‘Le Violon d’Ingres’ has set a new record price for a photograph, selling for $12.4 million
15 May 2022
Otto Dix Watercolours From The Gurlitt Hoard Auctioned
Ten years after the Gurlitt Hoard (“Schwabing Art Trove”) hit the headlines worldwide, two important watercolours by Otto Dix will go under the hammer at Ketterer Kunst
13 May 2022
Andy Warhol Marilyn Breaks 20th c Auction Records – Art Fund Museum Of The Year Shortlist Announced – Sackler Name Removed From National Gallery London And Guggenheim
Andy Warhol’s Shot Sage Blue Marilyn made double history last night as the most expensive pCostly Costly painting ever sold by a US artist and the most costly 20th-century work of art to sell at auction
10 May 2022
The Return Of A Post Pandemic Art Brussels – Paul Carey Kent
Art Brussels sprouts back to life after two years missed for Covid, from 28 April – 1 May.
8 May 2022
Maurizio Cattelan Sued – New York Auction Industry Deregulation – Major Tate Liverpool Refurbishment
The Italian Conceptual artist Maurizio Cattelan is being sued in Paris over intellectual property infringement.
5 May 2022
Rembrandt Landscape Discovered In Berlin Museum Collection – Titian Penitent Magdalene To Be Auctioned In Vienna
A Landscape painting depicting an arch bridge thought to be the work of one of Rembrandt’s students, Govert Flinck, has… Read More
4 April 2022
UK And France Export Bar For Cézanne And Chardin Paintings
The UK Government has placed an export bar on ‘Ferme Normande, Été’ (Hattenville) 1882 by Paul Cézanne to allow time… Read More
4 April 2022
Anish Kapoor Calls For Boycott Of Russian Owned Phillips Auctioneers – Damien Hirst Claimed Millions in Furlough Payments – Cecilia Vicuña Awarded Hyundai Commission At Tate Modern
The Turner Prize-Winning sculptor Anish Kapoor has called for a boycott of Phillips Auctioneers. In a statement published in the… Read More
31 March 2022
No Surprises: Annual Art Basel Global Art Market Report 2022 Revealed
The Art Basel Market Report 2022 is a highly anticipated industry barometer.
31 March 2022
Mega Dealer Ivor Braka Sued By Artist Collection Societies – Mariupol Museum Levelled – Artist Steve McQueen Knighted
The Art dealer Ivor Braka is being sued by artists’ resale rights groups for not paying royalties to living artists… Read More
24 March 2022
Should The V&A Close Their Fabergé Egg Exhibition – Tate And RA Sever Relations With Russian Billionaires – Sotheby’s, Christie’s and Bonhams Cancel Russian Art Sales
Whenever you hear the name Fabergé, you think of opulent, lavish, jewelled, decorated, and, let’s face it, kitsch, Russian Imperial… Read More
16 March 2022