Ekow Eshun To Curate British Art Show 10 In 2026
Hayward Gallery Touring has tapped curator and writer Ekow Eshun to steer the British Art Show 10, opening September 2026
7 August 2025
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Doris Saatchi: The Silent Force Behind Britain’s Art Revolution Dies Aged 88
To speak of British art’s transformation in the 1980s without acknowledging Doris Saatchi is to tell half the story. Born Doris Lockhart in 1947, the Glasgow-raised….
6 August 2025
Pearlman Foundation Donates Modern Masterpieces to MoMA, LACMA, and Brooklyn Museum
The Henry and Rose Pearlman Foundation has announced the dispersal of its entire collection to three major institutions: New York’s Museum of Modern Art, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and the Brooklyn Museum….
4 August 2025
Seized Picasso and Basquiat Works Hit U.S. Government Auction Block
A trove of blue-chip artworks—once owned by fugitive financier Jho Low and Wolf of Wall Street producer Joey McFarland—has surfaced in an unlikely venue: an online auction run by the U.S. Marshals Service.
31 July 2025
Met Trustee Wesley LePatner Among New York Shooting Victims
Wesley LePatner, a Blackstone executive and newly elected Metropolitan Museum of Art trustee, was killed in Monday’s shocking shooting at 345 Park Avenue…
29 July 2025
U.S. Withdraws From UNESCO As ‘Woke’ Culture Wars Go Global
The United States has formally notified UNESCO of its intention to withdraw from the United Nations’ cultural arm by December 2026, reigniting a decade-long dispute over the organisation’s political direction….
24 July 2025
Caravaggio’s Provocative Cupid Makes UK Debut At Wallace Collection
For the first time on British soil, Caravaggio’s Victorious Cupid (1601-02) prepares to unsettle London audiences this November. On loan from Berlin’s Gemäldegalerie, this life-sized depiction of a winged, grinning adolescent…
24 July 2025
Bridget Riley Donates Major New Work To Tate Britain’s Collection
Bridget Riley’s Concerto I (2024) enters the Tate collection—a gift from the artist herself. The painting debuts alongside Fall (1963) in a focused display running through June 2026, tracing six decades of Riley’s optical alchemy….
21 July 2025
Bayeux Tapestry: UK Return Reignites Regional Heritage Wars
After over 958 years in exile, the Bayeux Tapestry’s impending UK return has reignited old battles – not with swords this time, but with policy papers…
14 July 2025
MIMA To Host Turner Prize 2026: A Cultural Coup For Middlesbrough
The Turner Prize is coming to Teesside. Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art (MIMA) will stage the prestigious contemporary art award in autumn 2026…
14 July 2025
Rory Pilgrim: Find Miracles A Sonic Soundwork Arrives At Waterloo Station
The Underground takes on a different timbre this month as Find Miracles, a new sound work by Turner Prize-nominated artist Rory Pilgrim…
14 July 2025
Sir Brian Clarke Visionary of Contemporary Stained Glass Dies Aged 72
Artlyst Obituary | 7 July 2025: Sir Brian Clarke, whose restless experimentation and a driving ambition updated stained glass from an ecclesiastical craft into a powerful contemporary art form….
9 July 2025
Moira Cameron Wins Annual NPG Portrait Award 2025
Moira Cameron has been awarded first prize in the 2025 Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer Portrait Award for her contemplative and boldly executed self-portrait, A Life Lived….
8 July 2025
Bayeux Tapestry: France Agrees To Historic Loan To British Museum
The British Museum has secured the long-anticipated loan of the Bayeux Tapestry, marking its first return to British soil in nearly a millennium….
8 July 2025
Peter Phillips British Pop Art Trailblazer Dies Aged 86
Peter Phillips, a founding figure of British Pop Art whose vibrant, iconoclastic canvases helped define a new visual language for Post-War Britain, has died at the age of 86…
3 July 2025
Mark Wallinger: Terminal 1 Installation At Glastonbury Confronts Border-State
Turner Prize winner Mark Wallinger, politically explosive terrain, has returned with Jungle Gym, a starkly conceived structure at Glastonbury’s Terminal 1 stage…
30 June 2025
You Gotta Roll With It: Elizabeth Peyton’s Gallagher Portrait Squeaks By At Sotheby’s
Elizabeth Peyton’s Liam + Noel (Gallagher), one of her most significant portraits of the Oasis brothers, squeaked by at Sotheby’s recent June sale….
25 June 2025
El Greco Belonging To Russian Billionaire Dmitry Rybolovlev In Legal Restitution Fight
The fate of El Greco’s Saint Sebastian (c. 1610-14) hangs in limbo as Romania escalates its legal battle to reclaim the masterpiece, alleging it was looted…
24 June 2025
Lord Norman Foster Chosen To Design Queen Elizabeth II Memorial
The late Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh, will be united in stone and light in Lord Norman Foster’s winning design….
24 June 2025
LACMA Acquires Jeff Koons’ Living Sculpture Split-Rocker
The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) has secured a major addition to its public art program with the acquisition of Jeff Koons’ Split-Rocker (2000)
24 June 2025
Antoni Gaudí Casa Batlló: Historic Facade Revealed Following €3.5m Restoration
After more than a century, Antoni Gaudí’s original design for Casa Batlló’s rear facade and a private courtyard has been meticulously restored to its 1906 splendour.
20 June 2025
Rubens Oil Sketch: DCMS Export Ban Aims To Save Masterpiece For The Nation
A rare oil sketch by Peter Paul Rubens, Cimon Falling in Love with Efigenia (c. 1616–17), now faces an export bar in a bid to retain the work for the UK….
17 June 2025
Joel Shapiro: Sculptor Who Made Wooden Beams Dance Has Died Aged 83
Joel Shapiro (1941–2024), the American sculptor whose deceptively simple wooden figures pulsed with life, tension, and wit, died on Saturday in Manhattan at 83….
16 June 2025
Maurizio Cattelan Golden Toilet Caper Ends In Jail Time For Career Criminals
A story that played out like a comedy caper has now finished in the courts. Two men have been sentenced for their part in the infamous 2019 theft…
13 June 2025
Lost Rodin Marble Sells for $1.2 Million In A French Auction
A rediscovered Auguste Rodin marble sculpture, kept in plain sight for decades atop a piano in a French family home, has fetched €1.1 million ($1.2 million)…
10 June 2025
Tate Liverpool: Waterside Transformation Backed By Major Funding Injection
Liverpool’s cultural landscape is set for a dramatic change as Tate secures £12 million in government funding alongside major private donations for its landmark redevelopment…..
9 June 2025
East End Art Dealer Jailed in Landmark Terror Financing Case
In a landmark prosecution, art dealer and television personality Oghenochuko Ojiri has been sentenced to two and a half years in prison…
7 June 2025
Barbara Hepworth: Pivotal Masterpiece Must Be Saved For The Nation
The Hepworth Wakefield and the Art Fund have launched an urgent £3.8m appeal to prevent a rare Modernist sculpture from leaving the UK….
4 June 2025
Ukraine Plundered Heritage: Over 6,000 Cultural Artefacts Lost Or Stolen
Among the most devastating casualties of Russia’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine is the systematic looting and destruction of the country’s cultural heritage….
4 June 2025
Erotic Condom: Rare Georgian Johnny Goes On Display At Rijksmuseum
A rare condom from 1830 is currently on show at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. This nearly two-century-old contraceptive, likely crafted from sheep’s entrails…
4 June 2025
Banksy Unveils New Cryptic Lighthouse Artwork His First In Six Months
The elusive street artist Banksy has struck again, revealing a mysterious new stencil artwork on his official Instagram account. The piece features a lighthouse…
30 May 2025
TEFAF Klimt Painting May Have Been Illegally Exported From Hungary
A previously unknown Gustav Klimt masterpiece has become the centre of an international art scandal after appearing at TEFAF Maastricht with a €15 million price tag. The…
29 May 2025