Barbara Hepworth Sculpture Discovered At School Heads To Auction
A long-lost sculpture by Dame Barbara Hepworth, one of Britain’s most celebrated modernist artists, was found last February in an… Read More
15 January 2025
Art News
Robert Indiana: Love Sculpture Lego Set Unveiled
Lego has released a Pop Art Tribute to Robert Indiana’s Love sculpture in time for Valentine’s Day. The new “Love” Set…
13 January 2025
Art World Figures Named In King’s 2025 New Year Honours List
The King’s New Year Honours List is an essential and long-standing tradition where individuals throughout the United Kingdom are recognised for their outstanding contributions to society….
30 December 2024
Louise Bourgeois: Towering Spider Returns To Tate Modern
Louise Bourgeois’s soaring spider sculpture Maman (1999) will return to Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall next spring in honour of the gallery’s 25th-anniversary…
17 December 2024
Banksy Unveils Cryptic Mural Of Mother And Child For Christmas
Banksy’s latest intervention mural revealed via Instagram has set social media ablaze with conjecture, provocation, and a rush to decode its meaning.
17 December 2024
Tate Modern Celebrates 25th Anniversary With Free Four-Day Festival
Tate Modern, the world-renowned museum of modern and contemporary art, will celebrate its 25th anniversary with a four-day vibrant celebration…
10 December 2024
ICA Hosts New Contemporaries Exhibition As Organisation Marks 75th Anniversary
The Institute of Contemporary Arts in London will open its doors to the latest edition of New Contemporaries’ annual exhibition, featuring works by 35 of the best emerging and early-career artists…
9 December 2024
Barbican Secures £191 Million for landmark renewal programme
The Barbican Centre, one of the keystones of London’s cultural life, has secured £191 million from the City of London Corporation…
7 December 2024
Venice Biennale Announces Koyo Kouoh As Artistic Director 2026
The Venice Biennale named Swiss-Cameroonian curator Koyo Kouoh as the artistic director of its 61st International Art Exhibition.
3 December 2024
Notre Dame Reopens: First Look At Iconic Cathedral Post-Fire
Notre Dame Cathedral, one of the best examples of Gothic architecture and an iconic representatives of French heritage is about to open its doors….
29 November 2024
Banksy’s Well Hung Lover Mural Faces Uncertainty As Building Auctioned
One of Bristol’s most iconic and photographed Banksy artworks, Well Hung Lover, is about to enter a new chapter.
28 November 2024
Rare Barbara Hepworth Sculpture Faces UK Export Ban
A sculpture by Dame Barbara Hepworth, one of Britain’s most lauded 20th-century artists, has been placed under a temporary export bar…
28 November 2024
The Groucho Club Shuttered Amidst Serious Criminal Investigation
The Groucho Club, a Soho institution beloved by the media and arts elite, has temporarily closed its doors as the Metropolitan Police…
27 November 2024
Bananas? Maurizio Cattelan’s Duct-Taped Comedian Fetches $6.2M at Sotheby’s
Comedian (2019)—Maurizio Cattelan’s infamous banana duct-taped to a wall—caper took the art world by storm, fetching $6.2 million
21 November 2024
Landmark Archibald Knox Exhibition Announced For Isle of Man
Archibald Knox is synonymous with turn-of-the-century Liberty London elegance and innovation in art and design. Next April, the Isle of Man-Knox’s homeland…
18 November 2024
Steph Wilson Wins Taylor Wessing Photo Portrait Prize 2024
The Taylor Wessing Photo Portrait Prize 2024 winner is London-based photographer Steph Wilson for her portrait Sonam…
13 November 2024
Ai-Da Portrait of Alan Turing Sells At Sotheby’s for A Cool $1m
The ultra-realistic robot/doll artist Ai-Da has made history at Sotheby’s by selling an AI-generated portrait of Alan Turing…
10 November 2024
Henry Moore Day To Mark AGO Sculpture Centre’s 50th Anniversary
This Autumn, the Art Gallery of Ontario is celebrating an anniversary that hits a remarkable milestone. It’s been 50 years…
7 November 2024
Ashmolean Fra Angelico Triptych Saved For The Nation
The Ashmolean Museum of the University of Oxford has raised £4.5 million to save an early Renaissance painting by Fra Angelico…
7 November 2024
Leonora Carrington: Experts And Family Clash Over Authenticity Of Final Bronzes
Late bronzes attributed to the British-Mexican surrealist artist Leonora Carrington have sharply divided scholars, collectors, and her heirs into two camps of opinion regarding her final works…
30 October 2024
The Case of the Disappearing Gauguin: Exposing A Modern Art Mystery
The Haggin Museum in California has addressed a long-standing mystery with its latest exhibition, The Case of the Disappearing Gauguin.
24 October 2024
World’s Largest Polaroid Camera Repurposed For Contemporary Artists
The world’s largest Polaroid camera has been removed from mothballs and restored for a collaboration with contemporary artists in Venice. The Polaroid Foundation and Berggruen Arts & Culture…
23 October 2024
Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize 2025 Shortlist Announced
The four international artists shortlisted for the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize 2025 are today revealed as Cristina De Middel, Rahim Fortune, Tarrah Krajnak and Lindokuhle Sobekwa…
22 October 2024
Stop Protests Targeting Artworks Says National Museum Directors’ Council
UK museum directors have written an open letter calling for an end to protests which target galleries and artworks. The demonstrations
12 October 2024
National Gallery: Picasso Targeted By Pro-Palestinian Demonstrators
A Picasso painting at London’s National Gallery became the focus of a protest by pro-Palestinian activists….
10 October 2024
Tate Acquires New Works From Frieze London 2024
Tate has acquired a new selection of works from Frieze London 2024, thanks to the ongoing support of the Frieze Tate Fund, backed by Endeavor.
10 October 2024
Mire Lee: Tate Unveils Turbine Hall Hyundai Commission 2024
Tate Modern has unveiled a new large-scale sculptural installation by artist Mire Lee. Lee reimagines the Turbine Hall as the inside of a body
8 October 2024
Just Stop Oil Activists Spared Jail After Glueing Themselves To Turner Painting
A Manchester Magistrates’ Court judge has spared jail for two activists from Just Stop Oil who had glued themselves to a JMW Turner painting at Manchester Art Gallery…
3 October 2024
Picasso Discovered In Capri By Italian Family Sparks Debate
For decades, a Cubist-style painting hung on the wall of Luigi Lo Rosso’s home in Capri. The artwork had a signature scrawled “Picasso”…
2 October 2024
Just Stop Oil Targets Van Gogh Exhibition At National Gallery
Just Stop Oil Activists have targeted the National Gallery’s Van Gogh ‘Poets and Lovers’ exhibition with another vandalistic climate protest.
27 September 2024
Ai Weiwei: Man Deliberately Smashes Sculpture At VIP Reception
A member of the public deliberately destroyed a porcelain sculpture by the dissident Chinese artist Ai Weiwei on Friday night during the opening reception for an exhibition in Bologna, Italy.
23 September 2024
Apollo Magazine Bought By GB News Hedge Fund Magnate Paul Marshall
Paul Marshall, the co-owner of right-wing news channel GB News, has added the prestigious art journal Apollo to his growing media stable….
12 September 2024