Kathryn Maple Wins Prestigious John Moores Painting Prize
Kathryn Maple has won the prestigious John Moores Painting Prize 2020 with her vibrant work, The Common. The Walker Art Gallery announced the recipients today.
4 March 2021
Kathryn Maple has won the prestigious John Moores Painting Prize 2020 with her vibrant work, The Common. The Walker Art Gallery announced the recipients today.
4 March 2021
After suffering the worst financial crisis in 300 years Rishi Sunak, the UK’s Chancellor has promised to give the arts sector over £400m to prop up a failing industry starved of an audience due to the COVID Pandemic.
3 March 2021
Sir Alan Bowness Former Tate Director Dies – Amature Painting Realises £8.3m At Christie’s – National Gallery And Hugh Lane New Partnership
2 March 2021
Made You Look: The True Story About Fake Art is a new to Netflix documentary. It charts the demise of Knoedler New York’s oldest commercial art gallery.
28 February 2021
Suddenly my web feed is full of information about Non-Fungible Tokens – the latest form of digital art. Here, for example, are images of items of digital furniture, set – each one of them – in sweeping desert landscapes.
26 February 2021
Jeff Koons Loses Copyright Infringement Appeal – Rare Van Gogh Montmartre Painting Auctioned – Louvre’s Renovation Of Cy Twombly Gallery an Affront
25 February 2021
UK Museums Set To Open From 17 May – Scrawled Cryptic Graffiti Discovered On The Scream – Courtauld Gallery Major Gift
22 February 2021
The Banksy mural known as ‘Hula-hoop Girl’ that appeared on a residential street in Nottingham last October has been hacked from the wall.
17 February 2021
What’s up for art here in London, once the pandemic is finally over? Will we all be able to go back to the state of things as they were, in the jolly days before the plague?
17 February 2021
National Gallery 200th Birthday Revamp – Derelict IKEA To Become Coventry Arts Centre – New Laws To Protect Historic UK Statues
16 February 2021
Damien Hirst Gagosian Gallery Takeover – John Moores Painting Prize Shortlist Announced The first prize winner will be announced on 4 March.
11 February 2021
The Modern Art Museum MAM Shanghai has announced Shai Baitel as its inaugural Artistic Director. The newly opened state of the art museum located at the heart of Shanghai’s cultural mile along the Huangpu River is a premier institution for contemporary art with a global and multidisciplinary approach.
9 February 2021
DESERT X 2021 Postponed – National Gallery’s Top 20 Online Paintings – Studio Voltaire Set Autumn Reopen Date
6 February 2021
Leon Black,MoMa, Goldsmiths ,Industrial action ,Angelina Jolie To Sell £3m Sir Winston Churchill Painting
3 February 2021
Richard L. Feigen (August 8, 1930-January 29, 2021) one of the world-leaders in Old Master painting as well as German Expressionism to Francis Bacon, Joseph Cornell, Joseph Beuys, and John Baldessari has died of a COVID related illness at age 90.
1 February 2021
For 20 years having spent many hours at the cramped, sooty, underground Penn Station in Manhattan waiting for trains to go Upstate
31 January 2021
Signed Decourt Painting Discovered – TEFAF Maastricht 2021 Dates – Largest UK Art Exhibition Announced
28 January 2021
Pussy Riot Protests Putin’s Palace – Swiss Authorities Drop Dmitry Rybolovlev Case – Giuseppe Penone Donates 200 More Works
28 January 2021
The four people charged with criminal damage for pulling down a bronze statue of slave trader Edward Colston and dumping it in Bristol harbour have pleaded not guilty.
25 January 2021
Less than 24 hours before leaving office Donald Trump granted pardons to dozens of convicted criminals including the gallerist Helly Nahmad.
21 January 2021
Trump Baby Blimp Acquired By Museum of London – Public Monument Removal Just Got Harder – Nicholas Serota Reappointed ACE Chair
19 January 2021
Dasha Zhukova Buys Back Garage Magazine – Cornelius Gurlitt Hoard Remains Untraceable – Met Museum Launches Free Augmented Reality Tour
14 January 2021
The Ben Uri Gallery in London has just come up with a new operation model, better suited to the needs of relatively small outfits, such as itself. Or should I say that those who run it have been savvy enough to recognise that the contemporary art world has been massively changed.
13 January 2021
Louvre’s 72% Visitor Drop – Wildenstein Family Back In Court – Richard Serra’s Qatar Sculpture Defaced
9 January 2021
In 1967, Richard Long a young Bristol artist made a line in the grass of a field by walking backwards and forwards and called it A LINE MADE BY WALKING.
7 January 2021
I first met the well known American kinetic sculptor George Rickey in 1982. In celebration of his 75th birthday. The… Read More
5 January 2021
Yinka Shonibare Receives Art Icon Award – Patti Smith’s Poem To Greta Thunberg – Artist’s Resale Rights Post Brexit
5 January 2021
In Memoriam Art Industry Deaths. Here is a roundup to honour the artists, curators and designers that passed away in 2020.
2 January 2021
Christopher Le Brun, (born 1951) artist and former president of the Royal Academy (PRA) has been Knighted in the New Year’s Honours List. Other visual related honours include: YBA Artist Michael Landy, OBE, Grenada-born artist Denzil Forrester MBE,
30 December 2020
The multidisciplinary artist, David Medalla b.1942 in the Philippines, has died age 78.
29 December 2020
American Punk Rock legend Patti Smith and Golden Lion, Venice Biennale winner, German artist Anne Imhof will ring in 2021 online.
28 December 2020
Art Critic Barbara Rose Dies – Damien Hirst’s Personal Instagram Tour – 2020 Cultural Gifts Scheme Revealed
28 December 2020