25 January 2023
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.
All the Beauty and the Bloodshed has received an Oscar Nomination for best documentary at this year’s Academy Awards.
24 January 2023
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
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.
18 January 2023
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.
The Photographers’ Gallery London has revealed details of the 2023 edition of the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize.
16 January 2023
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.
Russian Cyber Attack Halts Banksy’s Ukraine Charity Sale – Pussy Riot Scatters Putin’s Ashes – Art Night Moves To Dundee
9 January 2023
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
For the 2023 edition of Platform, art historian and author Ruth Millington presents 20 artists who collaborate with inspiring individuals
Like many women artists of her generation, the photographer Marilyn Stafford, who died on January 2 aged 97, won public recognition late in life
Michael Snow Canadian artist who worked in various media, including film, installation, sculpture, photography, and music, has died aged 94
British Museum Close To Parthenon Marbles Deal – Ukraine Banksy Theft Ringleader Faces Imprisonment – Arata Isozaki Japanese Architect Dies Aged 91
The New Year’s Honours list 2023 has given a nod to several Visual Artists in this year’s presentation. The List reflects the contribution
Philip Pearlstein (May 24, 1924 – December 17, 2022) an American painter best known for his Realist nude paintings that rivalled Lucian Freud has died aged 98.
The Board of La Biennale di Venezia have selected Adriano Pedrosa as Director of the Visual Arts Sector
15 December 2022
The Met has announced a transformative gift of 220 works by Philip Guston from the collection of Musa Mayer his daughter.
15 December 2022
Bored Ape Hypesters Sued For Millions – Tate Britain’s ‘Racist’ Mural Back On Show – National Portrait Gallery To Reopen 22 June
5 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
4 December 2022
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.
Elgin Marbles: UK Government In Settlement Talks With Greece – Banksy Mural Theft Foiled In Kyiv – Omai By Sir Joshua Reynolds Raises £25m To Stop Export
The British artist Tom Phillips RA has died. Phillips was born in London in 1937. He attended St Catherine’s College, Oxford, in 1957, where he read English
1 December 2022
Record-Breaking Venice Biennale Closes – Katy Hessel The Story Of Art Without Men Chosen Waterstones Book Of The Year – Douglas Gordon Presents Neon-Inspired Work On Picadilly Screen
The Neo-Geo Artist Ashley Bickerton (May 26, 1959 – November 30, 2022) has died in Bali after a protracted illness.
29 November 2022
Serrano’s photograph, Piss Christ (1987), became the subject of a US national debate on freedom of artistic expression.
Grace Ndiritu Wins Jarman Award 2022 – £120,000 Art Fund Museum of the Year Award – 2023 Turner Prize Towner Eastbourne Jury Announced
The most vandalised artwork in modern history, Piss Christ, 1987, by the American artist Andres Serrano, is celebrating its 35th anniversary
Cult-film director John Waters famous for his groundbreaking flicks, Pink Flamingos and Hairspray, has donated 372 works of art to the BMA
LOVE OF PRINT is a superb, giant size, memorable, wide-ranging and serious exhibition which spans 50 years of Scottish printmaking.
The elusive ‘Street Artist’ Banksy has lashed out at the American clothing retailer Guess on Instagram for stealing his well-known ‘Flower Thrower’ painting to sell jeans and hoodies in retail shops.