Andy Warhol’s Shot Sage Blue Marilyn made double history last night as the most expensive pCostly Costly painting ever sold by a US artist and the most costly 20th-century work of art to sell at auction
10 May 2022
The Italian Conceptual artist Maurizio Cattelan is being sued in Paris over intellectual property infringement.
5 May 2022
After two years of indecision from museum directors both in the US and UK, The Philip Guston exhibition will finally… Read More
26 April 2022
The Nitsch Foundation, has announced the sad news of Hermann Nitsch’s death at age 83 on April 18, 2022. Nitsch… Read More
24 April 2022
The 59th Venice Biennale’s top prize, the Golden Lion, has been awarded to Great Britain’s Sonia Boyce OBE RA for Best National… Read More
24 April 2022
French Culture Ministry authorities have seized Pyotr Konchalovsky’s “Self-Portrait”, a painting owned by the Russian oligarch Petr Aven, a director… Read More
13 April 2022
In the early morning hours, I walked beside a tranquil River Mersey towards Tate Liverpool’s press launch, where there was… Read More
12 April 2022
Back in 1983, on the day the Queen opened the famous Burrell, I reported enthusiastically for the BBC on its unique qualities.
11 April 2022
The Royal College of Art (RCA), London, has been ranked the number 1 university for art & design internationally for… Read More
6 April 2022
A Landscape painting depicting an arch bridge thought to be the work of one of Rembrandt’s students, Govert Flinck, has… Read More
4 April 2022
The UK Government has placed an export bar on ‘Ferme Normande, Été’ (Hattenville) 1882 by Paul Cézanne to allow time… Read More
4 April 2022
UNESCO, the international body that assesses damages to cultural sites during crisis, has reported that 53 sites of international importance… Read More
3 April 2022
The Turner Prize-Winning sculptor Anish Kapoor has called for a boycott of Phillips Auctioneers. In a statement published in the… Read More
31 March 2022
The Art Basel Market Report 2022 is a highly anticipated industry barometer.
31 March 2022
The Art dealer Ivor Braka is being sued by artists’ resale rights groups for not paying royalties to living artists… Read More
24 March 2022
Whenever you hear the name Fabergé, you think of opulent, lavish, jewelled, decorated, and, let’s face it, kitsch, Russian Imperial… Read More
16 March 2022
One of the centrepieces of the National Galleries’ long-awaited Raphael exhibition has been withdrawn due to the escalating war in… Read More
11 March 2022
The organisers of the Venice Biennale have confirmed that the Ukraine pavilion will go ahead as planned this April.
10 March 2022
Grenville Davey, the Turner Prize-winning sculptor, has died at age 60. He was born in Launceston, Cornwall
6 March 2022
The Artist Support Pledge platform has successfully raised over £30m for artists during the pandemic. The cancellation of art fairs… Read More
3 March 2022
Christie’s has launched the inaugural 20th/21st Century: Shanghai to London sale series with staggering results. This pioneering cultural dialogue between… Read More
2 March 2022
Updated: Artists Alexandra Sukhareva and Kirill Savchenkov and curator Raimundas Malašauskas have pulled out of the Russian Pavilion at the… Read More
28 February 2022
The widow of Pop artist Roy Lichtenstein has announced that the Lichtenstein family has donated the late artist’s studio building… Read More
24 February 2022
The National Portrait Gallery has announced the end of its partnership with bp. The London Gallery confirmed that they would not… Read More
22 February 2022
The artist, Dan Graham, has died over the weekend in New York. Graham’s influence over the past half-century as a… Read More
20 February 2022
Last November’s Sotheby’s sale of 35 works from The Macklowe Collection was nothing less than historic, realising $676.1 million, the… Read More
18 February 2022
UK tax authorities have seized three Non-Fungible Tokens (NFT) as part of a probe into a suspected VAT fraud involving… Read More
17 February 2022
Carmen Herrera (1915 – 2022) The Cuban-born, American artist has died at the age of 106, only months before her… Read More
14 February 2022
The Chinese dissident artist/activist Ai Weiwei has recklessly posted an anti-vax video on his Instagram account. In the reposted media,… Read More
10 February 2022
Following the success of Sotheby’s inaugural NFT sales in 2021, which to date have achieved $100 million since launching less… Read More
9 February 2022
Tate has backtracked under public pressure and will now remove the existing Sackler names from two of its London museums…. Read More
8 February 2022
The U.S. Department of the Treasury has published their study on the facilitation of money laundering and the financing of… Read More
6 February 2022
