El Anatsui Masterpiece Achieves Record Price At Bonham’s
Bonhams has achieved a world record price for El Anatsui, he Ghanaian artist. The work titled ‘New World Map’… Read More
24 May 2012
Art News
Colombian Artist Doris Salcedo At White Cube London
White Cube Mason’s Yard, is featuring the Colombian artist Doris Salcedo who will present two new, large-scale works. ‘Plegaria Muda’… Read More
23 May 2012
Liverpool Biennial 2012 Ready Steady Go
This week, an intimate gathering of important people came out to Tate Britain in London to witness the international launch… Read More
23 May 2012
Antony Gormley Plans Foundation And Sculpture Park For Norfolk
Turner Prize winning Sculptor Antony Gormley has let slip his intentions to build an art foundation on his Norfolk property…. Read More
22 May 2012
Tracey Emin Sets Up Shop At Turner Contemporary
Tracey Emin’s first exhibition in her home town of Margate opens at the Turner Contemporary on 26 May. Titled; ‘She… Read More
22 May 2012
Artist Richard Wilson’s Installation Takes Off At Heathrow
The shiny new Terminal 2 of Heathrow Airport will feature a shiny new sculpture by Richard Wilson upon opening in… Read More
22 May 2012
Hayward Gallery Makes Way For Wide Open School
Artists Include three Turner Prize winners, Antony Gormley, Martin Creed and Susan PhilipszThe Hayward Gallery is being transformed into Wide… Read More
22 May 2012
Alinka Echeverria Explores Boundaries Between Documentary And Fine Art
Alinka Echeverria was born in Mexico City in 1981 and although she has spent most of her life in the… Read More
22 May 2012
Fourth Plinth Designs By School Kids Winners Announced
An awards ceremony was held today to present schoolchildren with prizes for their winning designs as part of the Fourth… Read More
21 May 2012
Richard Long Artist Rooms Comes To Hepworth Wakefield
Coming soon to The Hepworth Wakefield is an exhibition by Richard Long, one of Britain’s most significant artists. Extending the… Read More
21 May 2012
Edinburgh Art Festival Events Announced
Edinburgh Art Festival is delighted to present Festival Promenade, a major programme of newly commissioned artworks and one-off performances, which… Read More
21 May 2012
ART HK REPORTS GOOD SALES AT ITS FIFTH EDITION
ART HK, organised by Asian Art Fairs Ltd and produced in collaboration with Art Basel, has reported good sales in… Read More
21 May 2012
MIMA Secures Two Major Funding Awards
The Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art has been awarded a potential £120,000 from Arts Councilnon. The Catalyst funding, awarded over… Read More
21 May 2012
Major Julian Opie Exhibition For Summer 2012
The Lisson Gallery has announced a new exhibition of the work of Julian Opie. In the broadest single display of… Read More
21 May 2012
40m Fitzwilliam Museum Chinese Art Theft Third Man Charged
Steven Coughlan of Eleanor Street in London, has been charged in connection with the theft of Chinese decorative arts, mostly… Read More
20 May 2012
ARTS COUNCIL REJECTS TORY HUMBUG AT PHOTOGRAPHERS GALLERY LAUNCH
Dame Liz Forgan, the outgoing chair of Arts Council England, reminder that tentpoles like the Cultural Olympiad cannot solve deeper… Read More
20 May 2012
Maxxi Museum Of Contemporary Art Could Close
On Thursday, Rome’s Maxxi museum went into a form of special administration under Italy’s culture ministry. Fears are growing that… Read More
19 May 2012
Major Jeff Koons Exhibition Opens At Fondation Beyeler
The Fondation Beyeler is featuring the first exhibition ever devoted by a Swiss museum to the American artist Jeff Koons… Read More
19 May 2012
UK Catlin Art Prize Winner Announced
The winner of the 2012 Catlin Art Prize is Julia Vogl, a 2011 graduate of the Slade School of Fine… Read More
19 May 2012
Mike Kelley Ranch House Museum Gets Go Ahead
A museum in the memory of the artist Mike Kelley sponsored by Artangel has been given the go ahead as… Read More
19 May 2012
Art Reaches Vanishing Point As Hayward Gallery Goes Invisible
A new exhibition at the Hayward gallery could prove the most subtle or the most pretentious exhibition of all time…. Read More
18 May 2012
James Franco Curates James Dean Inspired Rebel Exhibition
James Franco is best known for his roles in Rise of the Planet of the Apes, 127 Hours and Howl,… Read More
18 May 2012
New Banksy Child Worker Appears As Old Rat Is Destroyed
This week a Melbourne builder hacked himself a place in art history. Destroying Banksy’s stencil of a parachuting rat, he… Read More
18 May 2012
Shiny New Photographers Gallery Opens To The Public
The building on Ramillies Street, , formerly a temporary residence, has now been made fit for purpose with a number… Read More
17 May 2012
The Queen A Diamond Jubilee Survey At The NPG
Warhol, Richter and ‘God Save’ Jamie Reid depict Queen Elizabeth II Opening today, to coincide with the Diamond Jubilee, is… Read More
17 May 2012
New Damien Hirst Paintings At White Cube Bermondsey
A new exhibition of the paintings of Damien Hirst opens at the White Cube gallery in Bermondsey next week. It… Read More
17 May 2012
Tate Britain Receives Significant Donations For Improvements
Tate Britain has raised £45m to complete a major planned renovation of several galleries. Nine of the building’s display rooms… Read More
17 May 2012
Kate Moss And Ricky Gervais Sound Out Charity Project
A quirky fundraising Art project dreamt up by Birmingham-based music charity “Sound It Out” has the glitterati of the UK’s… Read More
16 May 2012
Glasgow Sculptor George Wyllie Dies Aged 90
George Wyllie the Glasgow-born sculptor has died at the age of 90 after a short illness. He was made an MBE in 2005 for services to the arts.
16 May 2012
Hepworth Wakefield Favourite To Win £100k Art Fund Prize
The shortlist for the four redeveloped museums and galleries competing to be named the the UK’s museum of the year,… Read More
16 May 2012
Myriad Of Projects Outlined For 2012 Cultural Olympiad
This morning, (15 May) the Museum of London hosted the Press Launch to announce the myriad of projects happening this… Read More
15 May 2012
LIVERPOOL BIENNIAL 2012 LINE UP TBA
The programme of international commissions, major exhibitions and special events for Liverpool Biennial 2012, which will take place from 15… Read More
15 May 2012