Shepard Fairey And Ron English Tag London Pleasure Garden
London launches its first international ‘Street Art’ park, situated on the Royal Victoria Docks, which opens today. The London Pleasure… Read More
30 June 2012
Art News
Is Corporate Museum Sponsorship Influencing Exhibition Content
The British Museum is currently showing an exhibition which opened on the 24 of May. The subject is all about… Read More
30 June 2012
Frieze Projects Announced For London’s Autumn 2012 Fair
Frieze Projects has announced its Autumn line up for 2012. This years programme of artists and commissions realised annually at… Read More
30 June 2012
Stolen Dali Painting Recovered In Return To Sender Mystery
A painting by the Surrealist Salvador Dali stolen from a Manhattan gallery, last week has been recovered. Police said on… Read More
29 June 2012
Mark Wallinger And Chris Ofili Morph At Royal Ballet
In a unique collaboration between the Royal Ballet and the National Gallery, this summer will see the ballet and visual… Read More
29 June 2012
Ivan Karp Art Dealer Behind Warhol And Lichtenstein Dies In NY
When I was an 18 year old art student, I met Ivan Carp in his New York gallery OK Harris. He was standing around looking at his current show, the work of the Photorealist painter John Salt
29 June 2012
Damien Hirst’s Unfunny Stone Roses Quip
Damien Hirst said yesterday, ‘The Stone Roses are more important than Picasso.’ Would Picasso have said that Frank Sinatra was… Read More
28 June 2012
Amy Winehouse Anniversary Portrait Unveiled At Camden Tube
It is one year on from the tragic death of Amy Winehouse. To celebrate her life, Art Below have created… Read More
28 June 2012
Priceless Guggenheim Jackson Pollock Mural Undergoes Restoration
This summer a massive Jackson Pollock canvas will make the journey from Iowa to Los Angeles for restoration work. Painted… Read More
28 June 2012
Lesbian Photo Series Wins Big At Free Range Exhibition
Tania Olive set out to create a series of photographs that moved people. She may not have realised how moved… Read More
28 June 2012
Artnet Magazine Closes After A Sixteen Year Run
Artnet Magazine, the first online art magazine to be published solely on the internet, is ceasing publication, effective immediately. This… Read More
28 June 2012
Middle East Exposed In New Photography Exhibition
Light from the Middle East is a New Photography exhibition at both the V&A and the British Museum. It is… Read More
27 June 2012
Occupy Movement Takes On Anish Kapoor Residence
The Occupy Everything movement is at it again. This time taking a jab at one of the biggest names in… Read More
27 June 2012
Spencer Tunick’s Nude Ring Cycle In Munich Public Square
Over 1,700 nude men and women painted in red and gold body paint, created an interpretation of a scene from… Read More
26 June 2012
18th Biennale of Sydney Officially Launched Today
Major venues for the 18th Biennale of Sydney are the Art Gallery of New South Wales; the newly redeveloped Museum… Read More
26 June 2012
Earliest British Portrait Of Freed Slave Goes On UK Tour
The National Portrait Gallery has put on display a portrait of Ayuba Suleiman Diallo the first Black, Muslim emancipated slave…. Read More
26 June 2012
Yinka Shonibare New Ballerina Sculpture Debuts At Opera House
Last week the Royal Opera House received new adornment in the form of a ballerina in a snow globe. The… Read More
26 June 2012
Lance Loud Death Of An Alternative American Dream
In 1973 An American Family, a documentary about the darker side of the American suburban dream, first appeared on US… Read More
25 June 2012
Bureau Spectacular Creates Walk-In Comic Strip At The AF
For their first solo exhibition outside of North America, Chicago-based architecture practice Bureau Spectacular have transformed The Architecture Foundation’s Project… Read More
25 June 2012
The Rise And Rise Of Performance Art In London
With the opening of ‘The Tanks’ on 18 July, Tate Modern continues its transformation with the the world’s first museum… Read More
25 June 2012
Bruce Lacey Exhibition Explores The Obsessive Process Of Collecting
Exhibition Co Curated By Jeremy Deller At The Camden Arts Centre 7 July – 16 September Bruce Lacey (born 1927)… Read More
25 June 2012
Francis Bacon And Paula Rego Feature In New Cumbrian Exhibition
Abbot Hall’s summer exhibition in Cumbria has mounted an exhibition titled; “Francis Bacon to Paula Rego”. It celebrates and explores… Read More
25 June 2012
Kate Middleton Portrait By Bambi Sells To Brad Pitt
It has been reported that a North London based graffiti artist known as Bambi has sold three works to the… Read More
24 June 2012
EURO ART EXCESS INCLUDING WHAT TO SEE AT DOCUMENTA
If it’s Tuesday this must be Basel Armed only with a European Rail Pass, a shamefully underused German phrase book… Read More
24 June 2012
Aleah Chaplin Wins 2012 BP Portrait Award At NPG
The American portrait artist Aleah Chapin has won the 2012 BP Portrait Award, at London’s National Portrait Gallery, for her… Read More
24 June 2012
Edvard Munch Norwegian Expressionism Beyond The Scream Tate Modern
2012 is turning out to be a massive year for the Norwegian painter Edvard Munch – with the recent landmark… Read More
24 June 2012
Alexander Calder In India The Bombay Mix
On 12th January 1955 Alexander and Louisa Calder arrived in Bombay and travelled to Ahmedabad, the home of their hosts… Read More
23 June 2012
Mary Fedden Highly Regarded English Still Life Painter Dies
The highly regarded artist Mary Fedden, who created colourful still-life paintings has died aged 96. Feddon was renowned for her… Read More
23 June 2012
The Stone Roses Definitive Photo Exhibition Opens
Legendary music photographers, Kevin Cummins, Paul Slattery and Ian Tilton, collaborate for the first time in an extraordinary exhibition of… Read More
22 June 2012
Rachel Whiteread Tree Of Life Adorns Whitechapel Gallery
Last week Rachel Whiteread’s golden sculptural frieze for the Whitechapel Gallery was unveiled. This project is one of the permanent… Read More
22 June 2012
Major Mark Wallinger Exhibition Opens At Baltic
From today ( 22 June) the BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art presents a major exhibition by celebrated British artist Mark… Read More
22 June 2012
V&A Serpentine And Dulwich Share £56 Million Culture Fund
Eighteen museums and art heritage sites have been awarded Catalyst: Endowments funding to court money from private philanthropic sources. Thirty-four… Read More
21 June 2012