Tate Ordered To Reveal BP Sponsorship Figures After Ruling
After Tate gallery management appeared before an Information Tribunal to defend their right to withhold details of the galleries’ financial… Read More
24 December 2014
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Sheikh Saud $7.5 Million Rare Stamp Debt to Qatar’s Rulers
Sheikh Saud bin Mohammed Al-Thani of Qatar died suddenly at his home in London on November 9th, age just 48;… Read More
24 December 2014
Jeff Koons Sculpture Removed From Pompidou Centre Amidst Plagiarism Allegations
A porcelain sculpture by the American artist Jeff Koons has been taken off display at his retrospective exhibition at the… Read More
24 December 2014
Sotheby’s Achieves Record Year With Women The Unexpected Power Players
Sotheby’s has seen a notably intensified focus on the emergence of female power players in the art market in 2014…. Read More
23 December 2014
Gustav Klimt’s Woman In Gold Subject Of New Helen Mirren Film
Woman in Gold is a new film starring Helen Mirren based on the restitution of a masterpiece by Gustav Klimt…. Read More
23 December 2014
Tony Cragg Denies Involvement In Achenbach Fraud
Following on from the trial of German art dealer Helge Achenbach that began the week before last – after the… Read More
23 December 2014
Michelangelo’s David Under Threat From Recent Earthquakes
Dario Franceschini, the Italian minister of culture, has announced that the state will invest €200,000 (£156,000) on an “anti-seismic plinth”… Read More
22 December 2014
The Year Of The Postcard Celebrated With Online Project Postcardwall
Online project Postcardwall is making 2015 the ‘year of the postcard’. For nearly five years, Sophie Hill has written about… Read More
22 December 2014
James Turrell To Create Site-specific Light Work For Houghton Hall Norfolk
The American artist James Turrell is to create a site-specific light work which will illuminate the entire west façade of… Read More
22 December 2014
There’s A Giant Floating Head Over Japan
Just over 60 miles north of Tokyo, in the sky over Utsunomiya, there floats a giant head. Yes, a giant… Read More
22 December 2014
Christie’s Theft: £1m In Jewels Stolen In London Headquarters Heist
Thieves have breached stringent security at Christie’s London flagship headquarters to pull off a heist valued at up to a… Read More
22 December 2014
Jane Bown British Portrait Photographer Dies Aged Eighty Nine
The British portrait photographer Jane Bown, known for her images of famous people including the Beatles and Francis Bacon
21 December 2014
$100 Million Cézanne Secret Detroit Bankruptcy Sale By Ford House
The Edsel & Eleanor Ford House, Detroit sold a Paul Cézanne oil painting in 2013, keeping the sale of the… Read More
21 December 2014
Gillian Wearing’s Multimedia Work Gets Los Angeles Exhibition
Regen Projects has unveiled ‘Everyone’, an exhibition of multimedia work by British artist Gillian Wearing. The exhibition debuts two new… Read More
21 December 2014
Bridget Riley’s Op Art: First US Museum Exhibition In 15 Years
The Art Institute of Chicago has mounted the first American museum show of the British artist Bridget Riley in nearly… Read More
21 December 2014
First Rate Sculptors’ Jewellery Exhibited In New Selling Exhibition
Sculptors’ Jewellery is an exhibition that celebrates works of art on a miniature scale created by those that are more… Read More
20 December 2014
Street Artist JR’s Installation Saves Immigrants In Dramatic Sea Rescue
An art installation by French street artist JR has been involved in the sea rescue of African migrants, the Wall… Read More
19 December 2014
Top UK Anti-Graffiti Officer Wants To Put Banksy In Prison
Detective Constable Colin Saysell, the top anti-graffiti officer in the UK has Spoken at a conference on graffiti at London’s… Read More
19 December 2014
New Jannis Kounellis Exhibition At Sprovieri
Sprovieri presents the fifth solo exhibition by Jannis Kounellis at the gallery. The show will present a single large installation… Read More
19 December 2014
Get Naked Art Exhibition Could Be Emperors New Clothes
Visitors to a nude art exhibition who are encouraged to get naked has proven to be a big hit. A… Read More
19 December 2014
Dante Gabriel Rossetti Sketch Of Jane Morris To Be Auctioned
A sketch by the leading Pre-Raphaelite artist, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, goes under the hammer at Bonham’s in their 19th Century… Read More
19 December 2014
India And Pakistan Unite for 56th Venice Biennale 2015 Event
The must see collateral event of the 56th Venice Biennale International Art Exhibition is the Gujral Foundation’s ‘My East is… Read More
18 December 2014
America’s Only Art Cop Recovers £6.3 Million Of Stolen Work
One of the biggest art thefts in Los Angeles history has been solved by the country’s only full-time art detective…. Read More
18 December 2014
Major Richard Diebenkorn Exhibition Announced For Royal Academy In March
The Royal Academy of Arts is presenting the first survey of Richard Diebenkorn’s figurative and abstract works to a UK… Read More
18 December 2014
Juan Gris Painting Embroiled In Nazi Restitution Case
A long-standing restitution dispute between Germany’s Kunstsammlung NRW and the heirs of the Jewish art dealer Alfred Flechtheim, regarding the… Read More
18 December 2014
Winston Churchill Painting Sells For Record £1.7 Million
It would seem that there is a new fashion for the paintings of World War II political ‘hobbyists’. First we… Read More
18 December 2014
Henri Martin’s French Impressionist Landscape Leads £770,000 Heritage Sale
Henri Martin’s French Impressionist landscape, titled ‘La vallée du vert à Labastide-du-Vert’ (c. 1920), has sold for $485,000 or £311,000,… Read More
18 December 2014
John Grillo Abstract Expressionist Painter Dies At 97
Abstract Expressionist painter John Grillo died of heart failure at the grand age of 97 just over a month after a five-decade retrospective
17 December 2014
Sotheby’s Sets New World Record With Photography Auction
“175 Masterworks To Celebrate 175 Years of Photography: Property from Joy of Giving Something Foundation” auction held at Sotheby’s New… Read More
17 December 2014
Cézanne From The Courtauld Collection Under The Hammer At Christie’s
Paul Cézanne’s painting ‘Vue sur L’Estaque et Le Château d’If’ (1883–1885) will go under the hammer at Chrisite’s London in… Read More
17 December 2014
Fourth Plinth Artist Hans Haacke Unveils Skeletal Horse Sculpture In March
Gift Horse by artist Hans Haacke, a new commission for the Fourth Plinth, will be unveiled on Thursday 5 March… Read More
17 December 2014
Sean Lynch To Represent Ireland At 56th Venice Biennale
Ireland will be represented at the 56th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia – by Sean Lynch with… Read More
17 December 2014