Sotheby’s To Repurpose Marcel Breuer Whitney Building In Manhattan
The iconic 1966 brutalist building on Madison Avenue in Manhattan, designed by the Bauhaus architect Marcel Breuer will be the new home of auctioneers Sotheby’s.
3 June 2023
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British Museum Ends Sponsorship Arrangement With Fossil Fuel Giant BP
BP’s sponsorship of the British Museum is to end following years of protest.
2 June 2023
Kenneth Anger Artist Filmmaker And Underground Cult Figure Dies Aged 96
The homoerotic artist and filmmaker Kenneth Anger, whose transgressional body of work delved into the occult, paganism and LGBTQ+ subject matter, has died aged 96.
29 May 2023
Tate Britain Rehangs Worlds Greatest British Art Collection
Tate Britain opens a complete rehang of the world’s greatest collection of British art, the first time in ten years that the gallery’s free displays have been presented anew.
23 May 2023
Brazilian Pavilion Awarded Golden Lion At 18th Venice International Architecture Exhibition
The Fundação Bienal de São Paulo has announce at Ca’ Giustinian in Venice, that the Brazilian Pavilion was awarded the Golden Lion for best National Participation at the 18th International Architecture Exhibition
20 May 2023
Warhol Foundation Loses Supreme Court Appeal In Prince Appropriation Case
The United States Supreme Court ruled (18 May) that “To avoid copyright infringement by a second artist who bases a new work…
19 May 2023
Should Great Artists Be Cancelled For Bad Or Inappropriate Behaviour
Should an artist’s behaviour and beliefs be considered separate from their art? This complex and controversial issue has been debated in the art world for many years.
10 May 2023
Warhol Painting Of OJ Simpson Goes Under The Hammer At Phillips
A silkscreen portrait on canvas of the controversial football player OJ Simpson by the Pop Artist Andy Warhol is to be auctioned by Phillips in New York.
1 May 2023
Karin Hindsbo To Succeed Frances Morris As New Director Of Tate Modern
Karin Hindsbo, Director of The National Museum, Oslo, has been appointed the new Director of Tate Modern. She will replace Frances Morris, who has been at the helm of the job for the last seven years.
29 April 2023
Turner Prize 2023 Shortlist Announced By Tate And Towner Eastbourne
The four artists shortlisted for the Turner Prize 2023 was announced by Tate today. They are Jesse Darling, Ghislaine Leung, Rory Pilgrim and Barbara Walker.
27 April 2023
Paisley Art Institute Made Homeless After 147 Years – Clare Henry
A total fiasco is taking place in Paisley. The Art Galleries are gone, replaced by 60 digital displays, a café, picnic areas and a museum.
24 April 2023
Monica Lewinsky Poses For New York Artist Marilyn Minter – Damien Hirst Sculpture Knocked Off Its Plinth By Rolls Royce
Monica Lewinsky Poses For New York Artist Marilyn Minter – Damien Hirst Sculpture…
13 April 2023
Damien Hirst Puts The Spin On NFTs – Joshua Reynolds’ Portrait of Mai New Joint Ownership
Damien Hirst has released a new series of his ‘Spin” artworks a digital and physical creation using machine learning algorithms.
6 April 2023
Ai Weiwei Unveils Lego Monet Water Lilies At Design Museum – Suffragette Millicent Garrett Fawcett Portrait Acquired By Parliament’s Art Collection
Ai Weiwei Unveils Lego Monet Water Lilies
27 March 2023
New Banksy Mural Reduced To A Cloud Of Dust
Banksy created a new mural which appeared on the wall of a derelict farmhouse in the seaside town of Herne Bay, Kent
16 March 2023
Phyllida Barlow English Artist And Educator Dies Aged 78
Phyllida Barlow was a much-loved teacher at the Slade for nearly half a century. She had several illustrious students, including… Read More
13 March 2023
Blueprints Museum: An Interactive Devised Production At MOCA London
Blueprints Museum: An Interactive Devised Production At MOCA London
9 March 2023
David Bowie Archive Gifted To The V&A – Raphael Flaget Madonna Could Be The Real Deal – Tim Whiten Awarded 2022 Gershon Iskowitz Prize
David Bowie Archive Gifted To The V&A – Raphael Flaget Madonna Could Be The Real Deal – Tim Whiten Awarded… Read More
23 February 2023
Ghana-born El Anatsui To Create Next Hyundai Commission At Tate Modern
The Ghana-born artist El Anatsui will create the next annual Hyundai Commission at Tate Modern. He is one of the leading lights of contemporary African artists working internationally today.
22 February 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
New Banksy Rearranged By Margate Council – Ronald S. Lauder Compensates Family For Restitution Klimt – Bob Ross Biopic Is Fiction Not Fact
A local council partially disassembled a new Banksy mural installation in Margate celebrating Valentine’s Day as it contained a broken freezer deemed dangerous.
16 February 2023
Gilbert & George Launch Private London Art Centre and Archive
Underpinned by the artists’ ethos’ Art for All’, The Gilbert & George Centre launches as a permanent HQ for Gilbert & George’s artistic legacy
15 February 2023
The Art Diary February 2023 – Revd Jonathan Evens
2023 begins In Essex with a focus on female experience and perceptions of life changes, embodiment, and the world around them.
12 February 2023
Veronica Ryan, Barbara Walker And Roger Hiorns Newly Elected As Royal Academicians
The Royal Academy of Arts has elected Veronica Ryan, Barbara Walker And Roger Hiorns as new Royal Academicians, at a recent General Assembly meeting. An honorary Royal Academician was given to Kerry James Marshall Hon RA and Professor Ngaire Woods CBE becomes an Honorary Fellow.
9 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
US Cracks Down On Christie’s And Sotheby’s Russian Money Laundering – Damien Hirst Quietly Donates £8m To NHS – Anish Kapoor Unveils New York ‘Bean Style’ Public Monument
US Cracks Down On Christie’s And Sotheby’s Russian Money Laundering – Damien Hirst Quietly Donates £8m To NHS – Anish Kapoor Unveils New York ‘Bean Style’ Public Monument
6 February 2023
Tate Modern Loses Privacy Court Case With Goldfish Bowl Luxury Flats
Tate Modern has lost their case with residents of the Neo Bankside luxury development after a high court ruling. The lawsuit has dragged on for several years.
1 February 2023
Alfred Leslie: Leading New York Beat Painter And Filmmaker Dies Aged 95
The leading New York ‘Beat’ Painter and filmmaker Alfred Leslie has died aged 95. Leslie was born in the Bronx in 1927 and lived and worked in Manhattan.
31 January 2023
More Restitution Problems For Picasso, Van Gogh And British Museum Antiquities
Restitution is proving to be a complex and challenging problem for many museums and private collections. This week alone, several cases have been filed. Reputations that were once beyond question have now been brought into question.
25 January 2023
Oscar Nomination For Nan Goldin Film All the Beauty and the Bloodshed
All the Beauty and the Bloodshed has received an Oscar Nomination for best documentary at this year’s Academy Awards.
24 January 2023
John Akomfrah RA To Represent GB At 60th Venice Biennale
The artist and filmmaker Sir John Akomfrah RA will is to represent Great Britain at the 60th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia in 2024
24 January 2023
Peter Doig Wins $2.5 Million In Disputed Painting Case
The painter Peter Doig has won $2.5 million in a ruling in federal court after a Chicago gallery sued him for claiming a painting was not his work.
19 January 2023