US Artists Line Up For Britain’s Cultural Olympiad
Highlights were announced today for the American artists participating in the London 2012 Festival, the summer climax of the Cultural… Read More
2 May 2012
Art News
Paris Pompidou Explores Possibilities For Future Of Museums
Combining the philosophy of pop-up galleries with the Guggenheim’s international family of museums, the Pompidou develops a new strategy for… Read More
2 May 2012
Gagosian Reveals Major Lucio Fontana Exhibition
Gagosian Gallery has announced a major and unprecedented survey of the work of Lucio Fontana. Six of his groundbreaking environments,… Read More
2 May 2012
Turner Prize 2012 Artists A Rather Good Mixture
Ryan Gander Overlooked For Turner Prize 2012 The nominees for the distinguished Tuner Prize were announced today and include an… Read More
1 May 2012
Damien Hirst & Antony Gormley To Headline Frieze New York
Frieze New York is only days away. And finally we are to get a glimpse of what this inaugural event… Read More
1 May 2012
Picasso Examined Through Eyes Of His Young Lover At Gagosian
Gagosian Gallery is to present ‘Picasso and Françoise Gilot: Paris-Vallauris 1943-1953,’ the fourth major exhibition in an ongoing series on… Read More
1 May 2012
Government Artworks Swapped For Fakes While On Loan
To many historians of art the name Mykola Hlushchenko is unfamiliar, but within the Ukraine, this post-impressionist landscape painter is… Read More
1 May 2012
Banksy Sent To Detroit Jail
An iconic work by street artist Banksy has found a new home in a former Detroit jail – now the… Read More
1 May 2012
Installations And Warhol Dulwich Gets Set For An Olympic Summer
The Dulwich Picture Gallery is excited presents a monumental installation in its grounds to coincide with Andy Warhol: The Portfolios,… Read More
1 May 2012
Pulse and Frieze Prepare Their New York Face Off
Clash of the Diamonds… who will dominate the lucrative New York art market? This is hotting up to be the… Read More
30 April 2012
Super Rich Clive Palmer Tempts Fate With Titanic Take Two
In 1997 the world fell in love with Jack and Rose on their whirlwind romance aboard the magnificent Titanic
30 April 2012
Fourth Plinth Artists Offer Artwork Inspired By Prada
Elmgreen and Dragset have been artist-collaborators since the mid 1990s, with a body of work that explores the link between… Read More
30 April 2012
Lucian Freud Bequeaths Vast Sum To Studio Assistant
The British artist Lucian Freud has left an amazing £96 million in his will making that the largest sum ever… Read More
30 April 2012
Gered Mankowitz Photographic Retrospective Opens In London
Iconic photos covering four decades on view at Snap A brand new exhibition highlighting the career of veteran photographer… Read More
30 April 2012
Happy Birthday Picasso’s Patron & Gertrude Stein’s Lover Alice Toklas
Alice Babette Toklas (1877-1967) is best remembered as the pseudo-subject of Gertrude Stein’s memoirs, but this American woman was an… Read More
30 April 2012
Gavin Turk Has His Fairytale Wedding In Bexley
Gavin Turk, the 44 year old artist and his long time girlfriend Deborah Curtis were married yesterday as part of… Read More
29 April 2012
David Weiss Swiss Conceptual Artist Dies Aged 66
David Weiss, one half of the Swiss conceptual art duo Fischli + Weiss, passed away on 27 April 2012, after battling cancer since September. Weiss was 66 at the time of his death.
28 April 2012
Ai Weiwei Miniature Installation Unveiled in London
Ai Weiwei is back in London. This time on a much smaller scale than his last pieces presented at the… Read More
28 April 2012
Zhukova & Koolhaas Pilot Russian Art Revival With New Garage Gallery
Dasha Zhukova – famous for being the daughter of a Russian oil magnate, a stunningly beautiful celebutante, and for… Read More
27 April 2012
Brighton Promises Biggest Ever Visual Art Festival
With significant funding from Arts Council England, HOUSE 2012 promises to be the most ambitious visual arts festival in Brighton… Read More
27 April 2012
Cy Twombly Last Paintings To Be Revealed By Gagosian
In tribute to the late great Cy Twombly, Gagosian Gallery is to present his last paintings and one hundred… Read More
27 April 2012
Visual Art Rivals Music For Supremacy In London 2012 Festival Programme
Thomas Keane takes a look at the visual art highlights announced today for the London 2012 Festival – the summer… Read More
26 April 2012
Feminist Artist Penelope Slinger New London Exhibition
Riflemaker mount first public exhibition of her work in forty years. The art and the life of Penelope Slinger (b.1947… Read More
26 April 2012
Terry O’Neill Infamous New Exhibition From Beatles To Bardot
The renowned British photographer Terry O’Neill is launching a new exhibition of his iconic images coupled with new, previously unseen… Read More
26 April 2012
Glasgow International Festival Round Up Twelve Of The Best
Paul Carey-Kent Visits the Glasgow International Festival and gives us twelve of the best exhibitions and installations. Glasgow International Festival… Read More
26 April 2012
Antony Gormley Field Installation Given National Trust Tudor Home
Antony Gormley’s installation ‘Field’ – consisting of 40,000 crudely made miniature clay figures – has found a new home at… Read More
26 April 2012
BRITISH MODERN REMADE STYLE DESIGN GLAMOUR AND HORROR
British Modern Remade is an exhibition of painting, sculpture, collage and film from the Arts Council Collection, taking place within… Read More
26 April 2012
Louis le Brocquy Painter Of Bacon And Bono Dies aged 95
One of Ireland’s best know artists, Louis le Brocquy, has died in Dublin at age of 95. His work, mostly portraiture dealt with the figure
26 April 2012
Google Fosters Cutting Edge Photographers With New Drive
Today Google launched ‘Google Drive’. A slightly new way for individuals to save their files and access them using a… Read More
25 April 2012
Can Frieze New York Reshape The US Art Market
This May, Frieze Art Fair – perhaps the bells-and-whistles event of the London Art calendar – is set to make… Read More
25 April 2012
Jenny Saville Solo Show Comes To Oxford
First public exhibition for the greatest figurative painter since Lucian Freud Modern Art Oxford is presenting the first solo exhibition… Read More
25 April 2012
Exhibition For The Artist That Banksy Ripped Off
French street artist Blek Le Rat is arguably the inventor of stencilled graffiti as we know it, inspiring a plethora… Read More
25 April 2012