UK Based Young Masters Art Prize 2012 Launches
UK-based Young Masters Art Prize 2012 Launches The Young Masters Art Prize is a unique, not-for-profit, bi-annual competition open to… Read More
9 May 2012
Art News
Street Art Invades The Dulwich Picture Gallery
The Dulwich Picture Gallery is presenting selected works from its permanent collection which are the inspiration behind a body of… Read More
9 May 2012
Apprentice Hopefuls Fail Hard In Art Market Cringe Fest
Now I love The Apprentice as much as the next guy. But the obligatory art episode is always a super… Read More
9 May 2012
Ai Weiwei To Dig Up The Lawn For Serpentine Pavilion 2012
The Serpentine Gallery have just released plans for its 2012 Serpentine Pavilion, to be designed by Herzog & de Meuron… Read More
9 May 2012
Maurice Sendak Classic Children’s Illustrator Dies Aged 83
The US author Maurice Sendak, who created the best-selling children’s book ‘Where the Wild Things Are’, has died at 83. Michael di Capua, his editor….
8 May 2012
‘Steal A Banksy’ Hotel Proposes Warhol Forgery Challenge
Art Series Hotels have launched another modern art-themed publicity stunt, following up on its Steal Banksy challenge. Last summer the… Read More
8 May 2012
Art Basel To Replace ART HK With New Hong Kong Fair In 2013
Art Basel have announced plans for a Hong Kong edition of the fair that will take place at the Hong… Read More
8 May 2012
Marina Abramovic Reveals Details Of Epic Performance Art Centre
Marina Abramovic has unveiled the architectural designs for her eagerly anticipated performance art centre – The Marina Abramovic Institute for… Read More
8 May 2012
Tracey Emin & Anthony Caro Help Homeless Charity Raise £340,000
Unique works of art by some of the world’s most celebrated artists have been sold for £340,000 at Christie’s in… Read More
8 May 2012
Royal Academy To Hit Hong Kong For Art HK 12
The Royal Academy of Arts, London, will present Mariko Mori at its second annual Artist Talk event in Hong Kong… Read More
7 May 2012
Taryn Simon Explores Blood & Fate At MoMa
Taryn Simon: A Living Man Declared Dead and Other Chapters I-XVIII (2 May – 3 September 2012) is the U.S…. Read More
7 May 2012
Efforts To Transform British Architecture At Venice Biennale
The British Council will present Venice Takeaway: Ideas to Change British Architecture, in the British Pavilion at the 13th Venice International Architecture Biennale,… Read More
7 May 2012
Excitement Mounts For London Festival Of Photography 2012
The month of June will bring the London Festival of Photography to a multitude of different venues across London focused… Read More
7 May 2012
Banksy Tops Poll As Most Iconic British Artist
The Banksy stencil painting of kissing policemen, first executed on a Brighton pub wall, has been selected as the most iconic British art
7 May 2012
Loch Ness Type Monster Sighted In Wisconsin
Banksy like Street Art Must Be Removed ,Says Council The Department of Natural Resources in EAU CLAIRE Wisconsin are enraged… Read More
6 May 2012
Pearl Lam Hits Hong Kong With Chinese Abstract Art Survey
Pearl Lam Galleries, Asia’s most dynamic art gallery dedicated to Chinese and international contemporary art and design, has announced the… Read More
6 May 2012
Tate Retrospective For Key Painter Alex Katz
Born in 1927 in Brooklyn, New York, Alex Katz is one of the most important and respected living American artists…. Read More
6 May 2012
Why The Other Art Fair Provides A Real Alternative To Frieze
For a second year running, The Other Art Fair is hoping to provide a radical alterative to the established model… Read More
6 May 2012
Why Is The Cultural Olympiad A Media Ugly Duckling?
Our newest columnist Rosy Wiseman investigates the marked lack of media enthusiasm for the Cultural Olympiad – despite the ever-eulogistic… Read More
5 May 2012
September 11 Monument Freedom Tower Tallest Building in NYC
As Londoners watch the progress on the Shard, New Yorkers have their eye on the ever-growing new One World Trade… Read More
5 May 2012
Rem Koolhaas Gets Stars In The Simpsons
The most recent episode of “The Simpsons,” (Season 23, Episode 19) features a surprising cameo of the Dutch architect Rem… Read More
5 May 2012
Pulse Stands Its Ground During NY Art Week
New York has now proven that it can handle a corridor of art fairs and satellite events all crammed into… Read More
5 May 2012
Helsinki Guggenheim Proposal Thrown Out By Politicians
On 2 May, city politicians in Helsinki voted against the proposal for a new Guggenheim Museum in the Finnish capital. … Read More
4 May 2012
NY Frieze Sets The Benchmark For Future Art Events
A stunning fair with style and substance opens on Randell’s Island Frieze is just what the doctor ordered to reinvent… Read More
4 May 2012
Tracey Emin Creates Work In Aid Of NSPCC
Tracey Emin has created a digital work called ‘My Favourite Little Bird’, the proceeds of which will go to the… Read More
4 May 2012
Iconic Work Of Keith Haring Honoured In Google Doodle
Iconic pop artist Keith Haring is honoured today – his birthday – by the latest Google Doodle that copycats his… Read More
4 May 2012
Damien Hirst & Stella McCartney Give Art To Yoga Charity
Major artists including Damien Hirst and Stella McCartney have donated artwork to a charity auction, the proceeds of which will… Read More
4 May 2012
Vital American Photographer Richard Avedon Honoured At Gagosian
Richard Avedon (1923-2004) – described by the New York Times as the one of those photographers who has helped ‘define America’s… Read More
3 May 2012
Arrests Made For Cambridge Fitzwilliam Chinese Art Heist
Two people have been arrested in relation to the theft of Chinese art from Cambridge’s Fitzwilliam museum. In a statement… Read More
3 May 2012
Iconic Bansky Artworks Reinvented Using Live Actors
A new series of images by newspaper photographer Nick Stern has seen iconic Banksy artworks re-created using real life actors…. Read More
3 May 2012
Grab Affordable Masterpieces By Famous Artists In Charity Art Sale
Fancy owning a one-of-a-kind artwork for a bargain price AND contributing to charity? The MS Trust offers the Secret Art… Read More
3 May 2012
History Made As Edvard Munch Scream Blows Picasso Out Off The Water
So after all the hype, the auction of Edvard Munch’s ‘The Scream’ did not disappoint, selling for an incredible $119.9… Read More
3 May 2012