Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize Rigged?
Was The Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize rigged? The 2010 prize is supposed to present the very best in contemporary… Read More
19 February 2011
Art News
Banksy Meets Jamie Oliver
British guerilla artist Banksy has created a new work on a wall in Westwood California in preparation for his Oscar… Read More
18 February 2011
Phillips de Pury Contemporary Sale Results
Phillips de Pury in London completed the successful week of contemporary evening sales in their New York… Read More
18 February 2011
Premiums 2011 Opens At The Royal Academy
Premiums is an exhibition mounted annually which feature the work of 16 postgraduate students. It comprises contemporary artwork by postgraduates… Read More
14 February 2011
Maria Altmann: Victorious Nazi Restitution Art Claimant Dies Aged 94
Maria Altmann who in 2006 successfully reclaimed five paintings by Gustav Klimt, from Austrian museums that were seized by the Nazis in 1938, has died age 94.
12 February 2011
Alan Uglow British Artist Of Monochrome Rectangular Fields Dies At 69
Alan Uglow the New York based British Artist widely known for subtle paintings composed of monochrome rectangular fields edged and bisected by stripes of contrasting colours
10 February 2011
Eduardo Paolozzi Murals At Risk By Developers
Several of Sir Eduardo Paolozzi’s mosaic murals designed for the Tottenham Court Road Tube Station, in the 1980s
9 February 2011
Julian Assange The New Che Guevara
Julian Assange has become one of the hottest subjects for street art since Che Guevara. Hundreds of images of the… Read More
7 February 2011
Jeff Koons Settles Balloon Gate Lawsuit
Jeff Koons’s attorneys LLC, have called off their irrational lawsuit with the Park Life Gallery in San Francisco and the Canadian company IMM over the production and sale of multi-coloured resin balloon dogs.
6 February 2011
Google Art Project Takes Tate Britain and National Gallery Online
Google, The Internet colossus has now turned its technical innovation to Art. Their latest offering is called, Art Project, a… Read More
1 February 2011
Cairo Museum Looted As Protesters Clash On Streets
Looters broke into the Museum of Egyptian Antiquities near Tahrir Square in Cairo smashing vitrines,damaging statues and mummies.The robbery took… Read More
30 January 2011
Arts Council Creates Fund For Arts To Enter Digital Age
“The Arts should embrace new business models and technology” – Ed Vaizey Culture Minister Ed Vaizey, speaking at the Culture… Read More
30 January 2011
Tony Cragg Exhibits At The Louvre
Figure out / Figure in The Louvre is now playing host to a group of works by the leading British… Read More
29 January 2011
London Art Fair 2011 Post Fair Round Up
London Art Fair 19–23 January 2011 at the Business Design Centre, Islington Reporting excellent visitor figures, strong sales and positive feedback,… Read More
28 January 2011
Arts Council England To Sell Off Artworks
Dame Liz Forgan, the chair, of the Arts Council told a group of MPs in the Culture Select Committee that… Read More
25 January 2011
Banksy Nominated for Oscar and Bafta Latest
It’s official Banksy’s film, Exit Through The Gift Shop, has been nominated for an Academy Award as well as a… Read More
25 January 2011
Dennis Oppenheim Conceptual Art Pioneer Dies Aged 72
Dennis Oppenheim the pioneering conceptual artist has died of complications from liver cancer, he was 72. Oppenheim was born in 1938
24 January 2011
Art 42 Basel Who’s In Who’s Out
June 15 – 19, 2011 Richard Green and Patrick Painter have pulled out of the worlds biggest Art Fair, Art… Read More
24 January 2011
Has Jeff Koons Gone Bonkers?
Forever an egotistical megalomaniac, Koons is obsessed with himself. His inflated self-importance has overstretched all sensible boundaries, reaching the point… Read More
23 January 2011
VIP Art Fair Is Virtually There
ArtLyst Review The first online art fair featuring top international dealers, artists and prime location galleries, launched today… Read More
22 January 2011
MODERN BRITISH SCULPTURE OPENS
Royal Academy Of The Arts London 22 January – 7 April 2011 Unknown work by Damien Hirst, a barnyard outbuilding… Read More
21 January 2011
Stolen Masterpieces Recovered in Scotland
Works by Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot, Samuel Peploe and Federico Barocci Returned. Poor record keeping and slack security by the Kelvingrove… Read More
20 January 2011
Wallace Collection Appoints Christoph Vogtherr As New Director
Sir John Ritblat,Chairman of the Wallace Collection has announced the appointment of Dr Christoph Vogtherr as the next Director of… Read More
20 January 2011
UK Museum Storage Costs Millions
Storage costs for art in British Museums is costing over a million pounds per year. A Freedom of Information request… Read More
19 January 2011
Yoko Ono Wins Hiroshima Art Prize
Yoko Ono, the avant-garde artist and widow of John Lennon, has been awarded the eighth Hiroshima Art Prize. This is… Read More
17 January 2011
Picasso and Dyslexia
Scientists at Middlesex University in London claim that Picasso’s success may be attributed to his dyslexia The 20th century master… Read More
16 January 2011
Fourth Plinth Sculpture Winners Announced
A giant blue rooster by Katharina Fritsch and a curly haired boy on a rocking horse by Elmgreen & Dragset are the next two sculptures chosen for the Fourth Plinth platform in London’s Trafalgar Square.
14 January 2011
Josh Baum Wins Zabludowicz Collection Future Map Prize
The Zabludowicz Collection Future Map Prize has been won by Josh Baum, a recent MA Fine Art graduate from Central… Read More
13 January 2011
Shepard Fairey vs. AP Case Dismissed
The copyright lawsuit between the American Urban Artist, Shepard Fairey and AP (Associated Press), came a step closer to a… Read More
13 January 2011
ICA Appoints Gregor Muir New Executive Director
The ICA has named the successor to Ekow Eshun by appointing Gregor Muir, as its new head. He is currently… Read More
12 January 2011
Tom Lubbock Artist / Critic dies at 53
The chief art critic for the Independent, Tom Lubbock died yesterday, aged 53. This has come two years after he was diagnosed with a brain tumour.
10 January 2011
Brian Eno Exhibits 77 Million Paintings in Canada
Brian Eno,the musician/producer, who developed the genre known as ambient music, presents his work 77 Million Paintings, in Calgary Canada…. Read More
10 January 2011