Tate Purchases Ai Weiwei Sunflower Seeds Installation
Acquisition secures groundbreaking installation for British collection Tate Modern has acquired the Turbine Hall installation by Chinese dissident artist, Ai… Read More
5 March 2012
Art News
Sculptor Puts Italian Job Bus On Gallery Roof for Olympics
Richard Wilson’s “Hang On A Minute Lads, I’ve Got A Great Idea” gets green light Turner Prize nomininated sculptor Richard… Read More
5 March 2012
Martin Creed Unveils Sketch Restaurant Redesign
The Turner Prize winning artist Martin Creed has transformed the Gallery restaurant at London’s Sketch In the first of a… Read More
4 March 2012
Tony Cragg Major Exhibitions In New York Italy Germany and China
This is a very busy year for the prolific sculptor Tony Cragg who is mounting four international exhibitions back to… Read More
4 March 2012
China Gets Set For UK Now Art & Culture Festival
Largest Festival of British Culture will be seen by 50m visitors From April A major UK Art and Culture festival… Read More
4 March 2012
Robert R. McElroy Documentary Photographer Dies Aged 84
Robert R. McElroy, the photographer who was on the scene documenting numerous happenings in downtown Manhattan galleries with artists like Jim Dine, Allan Kaprow ,Lucas Samaras and Claes Oldenburg
3 March 2012
Could Colin Firth Save Twickenham Studios from Developers?
War Horse Film Studio petition signed by Steven Spielberg, David Cronenberg and Terry Jones as momentum gathers pace. The battle… Read More
2 March 2012
Ryan Gander The ArtLyst Interview
ArtLyst catches up with Ryan Gander in the year that looks to be his for the taking; and gets the… Read More
2 March 2012
Banksy Calls For Revolution Against Bullying Advertisers
Banksy lashes out at ‘The Advertisers’, who, ‘laughing at you’, ‘make you feel small’, make ‘your girlfriend feel inadequate’… In… Read More
2 March 2012
Titian Masterpiece Diana and Callisto is secured for the Nation
The National Galleries of Scotland (NGS) and the National Gallery in London are delighted to announce that Titian’s great masterpiece… Read More
1 March 2012
MASTERPIECE LONDON ART & ANTIQUES FAIR UPDATE
Co-chairs Named for Masterpiece London JUNE 28 – JULY4 2012 New York: Eleven leading galleries from the United States have… Read More
1 March 2012
British Cultural Revolution Invades Hong Kong
Jay Jopling shows Gilbert & George at inaugural White Cube HK exhibition White Cube has joined Gagosian along with leading… Read More
1 March 2012
Turner Prize Baltic Centre Emulate Tate With New Gallery
Turner Prize 2011 hosts, The Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art in Gateshead, is set to open a second branch in neighbouring Newcastle… Read More
1 March 2012
Local Competition Steps Up To Gagosian In China
Leading Chinese Contemporary art gallery Pearl Lam opens up next to Gagosian in Hong Kong Pearl Lam Galleries, one of… Read More
1 March 2012
Eve Arnold Memorial Exhibition For London
Adoptive UK capitol selected for comprehensive Arnold show Pioneering photographer,Eve Arnold, who died last month, age 99 is the subject… Read More
29 February 2012
Ron Mueck London Exhibition For April
The Hauser & Wirth gallery in London is mounting Ron Mueck’s debut exhibition with the gallery and his first major… Read More
29 February 2012
Birmingham Launches First Urban Art Gallery
The UK’s Midlands offers a unique new art project Up to 100 billboards across Birmingham will swap ads for art… Read More
29 February 2012
Business Support Of Arts Drops Dramatically
Preliminary reports suggest that donations by businesses to arts organisations have dropped by 7%, while gifts from individuals are up…… Read More
29 February 2012
Henley Report Champions Art Schools
The government-commissioned Henley report makes a number of recommendations tol make England’s cultural education ‘the envy of the world’. In… Read More
29 February 2012
Oxford University Announce Largest Gift In 900 Years
Unprecedented endowment to Oxford University to fund the Mica and Ahmet Ertegun Graduate Scholarship Programme in the Humanities The University… Read More
29 February 2012
Biennale of Sydney 2012 Highlights Revealed
Highlights of the 18th Biennale of Sydney – Australia’s largest and most respected contemporary visual arts event – have today… Read More
29 February 2012
National Portrait Gallery Unveils Olympics Photo Exhibition
NPG launch Road to 2012: Aiming High – a photography project documenting preparations for London 2012, which will culminate in… Read More
29 February 2012
Licence To Thrill Fifty Years Of James Bond Style
Barbican Exhibition Puts Bond in Gallery To Mark 50 Years Of 007 This summer the Barbican marks the 50th anniversary… Read More
28 February 2012
Whitechapel Gallery Announce London Open Artists
The Whitechapel Gallery calls for all artists aged 26 or over living and working in London to enter The London… Read More
28 February 2012
Empowering Artists A Journey Into Truly Seeing
Amanda McGregor on Karen L. French’s 2012 Book ‘The Hidden Geometry of Life’ The creative path of being, as the… Read More
28 February 2012
The Women Behind Alighiero Boetti’s Peshawar Textiles
More than 18 years after the death of Italian artist Alighiero Boetti, the Arte Povera artist is having a long… Read More
28 February 2012
Goethe Institut Sponsors Bauhaus and Turbine Hall For Anniversary
50th anniversary sees Goethe Institut – for Anglo-German cultural exchange – throw open its doors to newly renovated premises, and… Read More
28 February 2012
Discovery Of Adolf Hitler Lost Art Collection
Seven paintings once owned by Nazi German dictator Adolf Hitler have been discovered by Czech scholar in a Czech monastery… Read More
28 February 2012
Hurry To Serpentine To Grab Ernesto Neto Artwork
In celebration of the exhibition Lygia Pape: Magnetized Space, the Serpentine Gallery presents a set of Limited Edition artworks by Pape-inspired… Read More
28 February 2012
Roy Lichtenstein Does David Hockney Chinese Style
Gagosian Gallery in New York to present an exhibition of Roy Lichtenstein’s Landscapes in the Chinese Style Throughout his prodigious career… Read More
28 February 2012
First Kiev International Biennale of Contemporary Art Announced
ARSENALE 2012: 24 May – 31 July 2012 ARSENALE 2012 will be the first Biennale to take place in Kiev,… Read More
28 February 2012
Yayoi Kusama Youth Workshop Launches At Tate
Infinite Kusama Invites 15-25 Year Olds To Interact with Japan’s Godmother of Pop Art Infinite Kusama is an exciting event… Read More
28 February 2012