SelgasCano Commissioned To Design 15th Serpentine Pavilion In 2015
The Serpentine Galleries have announced that architects SelgasCano will design the 15th Serpentine Pavilion. The commission celebrates its 15th anniversary… Read More
4 December 2014
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Extreme Footwear Explored In Shoes Pleasure And Pain Exhibition At V&A
The transformative power of extreme footwear will be explored in the V&A’s summer 2015 fashion exhibition, Shoes: Pleasure and Pain…. Read More
4 December 2014
Turner Masterpiece Sells For £30.3 million At Sotheby’s London Auction
Last night, at Sotheby’s London, one of the last great Turner masterpieces remaining in private hands set a world auction… Read More
4 December 2014
Tony Oursler London Solo Exhibition Set For January
A solo exhibition of the work of Tony Oursler is to be mounted by the Lisson Gallery in January. The… Read More
4 December 2014
Japanese Artist Megumi Igarashi Arrested For Obscenity In Tokyo
Megumi Igarashi the Japanese artist who created a kayak based on an image of her vagina has been arrested for… Read More
4 December 2014
Andy Warhol Marilyn Tapestry On Display In UK For First Time At Modern Art Oxford
A tapestry of Marilyn Monroe by Andy Warhol is on display to the public for the first time in the… Read More
4 December 2014
Second ‘Smile Britannia’ Charity Art Auction To Be Held At Houses Of Parliament
Some of the UK’s best contemporary and urban artists will auction off their work to support projects improving lives across… Read More
4 December 2014
Brit Artist Tracey Emin’s Design For Brit Awards Statuette Unveiled
Tracey Emin is the latest artist to have her design for a Brit Award unveiled, ahead of the ceremony which… Read More
3 December 2014
£45 Million Of Art Gifted To The Nation In 2014
A report published by Arts Council England has revealed the details of 27 gifts offered by private owners to British… Read More
3 December 2014
Steven Murphy Resigns From Chief Executive Officer Role At Christie’s
In September 2010, former Rodale president Steven Murphy became the first American CEO in the history of the auction house…. Read More
3 December 2014
Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation Announces Shortlist For Helsinki Museum
The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation has announced that an independent, 11-member jury has unanimously selected six concept designs as finalists… Read More
3 December 2014
Cornelia Parker’s Magna Carta And Alice In Wonderland At 150 Celebrated At British Library
The British Library has announced a new commission by the leading British artist Cornelia Parker, which responds to the legacy… Read More
3 December 2014
Privately Owned Turner Masterpiece Under The Hammer At Sotheby’s
Sotheby’s London 3rd December 2014 Evening sale of ‘Old Master & British Paintings’ is set to be a major highlight… Read More
2 December 2014
Paris Court Declines Ruling On Alleged Rodin Cast Forgery
Paris’s criminal court has declared in a statement that it had no jurisdiction in a high profile case of suspected… Read More
2 December 2014
Art Basel Miami Has Over Twenty Satellite Fairs On Offer This December
Art Basel Miami Beach, the biggest contemporary-art fair in the U.S. will offer $3 billion of art, as auction revenue… Read More
2 December 2014
Sarah Lucas To Represent British Pavilion At 56th Venice Biennale
Sarah Lucas has become recognised as one of Britain’s most significant contemporary artists. Spanning sculpture, photography and installation, her work… Read More
2 December 2014
Audrey Hepburn Explored In New Photography Exhibition At National Portrait Gallery
The exquisite Audrey Hepburn, will be the subject of a new photography exhibition opening at the National Portrait Gallery in… Read More
2 December 2014
Man Pleads Guilty To Faking Jackson Pollock And Willem De Kooning Art Works
A New York man accused of selling dozens of fake paintings and sketches purported to be by famous artists including… Read More
2 December 2014
Duncan Campbell Wins The Turner Prize 2014
Favourite Duncan Campbell has won this year’s Turner Prize on the anniversary of its 30th year; the artist presented his… Read More
1 December 2014
London Curators Direct Public Art Experience Behave’s International Residencies For 2015
London-based curators Stéphanie Delcroix and Michael Pinsky are the artistic directors for the first residency programme for Public Art Experience,… Read More
1 December 2014
Felix Dennis Collection By Deviant Artist Eric Gill To Be Auctioned
The estate of the legendary British editor of Oz Magazine Felix Dennis, who died in June 2014, is to auction… Read More
1 December 2014
Drunken German Students Steal Emil Nolde Painting Worth Millions
Two students from the southern German town of Erlangen will appear before a court on Tuesday to face charges that… Read More
1 December 2014
20th Century Women Artists Dominate Art Basel Miami’s New Survey Section
Art Basel Miami Beach launches a new program, which opens this week, seeing the launch of “Survey,” a new art-historical… Read More
1 December 2014
Turner Prize Winner 2014 Announced Tonight At Tate Britain By Chiwetel Ejiofor
This year’s Turner Prize competition will be announced at Tate Britain following the Channel 4 News from 7:45pm this evening…. Read More
1 December 2014
Banksy’s Folkestone ‘Art Buff’ Mural Has Been Flown To Miami Art Fair For Sale
Approximately two months after Banksy’s mural ‘Art Buff’ appeared in Folkstone – and was subsequently vandalised by the addition of… Read More
1 December 2014
British Museum To Display Rare 18th Century Watercolour
With the support of the Art Fund, the Ottley Group, the Oppenheimer Fund, Jean-Luc Baroni, the Society of Dilettanti Charitable… Read More
1 December 2014
Sigmar Polke: Comprehensive Works On Paper Exhibition Announced For London
An exhibition of early works on paper by Sigmar Polke, the largest and most comprehensive exhibition in London in just… Read More
30 November 2014
Josef Albers Masterpiece Destroyed By MetLife Could Be Recreated
For several decades thousands of people walked by an enormous red, white and black mural created by the German-born artist… Read More
30 November 2014
Frida Kahlo’s Beloved Garden To Be Re-created in New NYBG Exhibition
The New York Botanical Garden’s 2015 programme will re-create Frida Kahlo’s famous garden, as a show-stopping feature. Focusing on the… Read More
30 November 2014
Christie’s Reports Strong Results For British and Irish Modern Art Sale
The auction house Christie’s has recorded exceptional results for their Autumn British and Irish Modern Art Sale.The market seems to… Read More
29 November 2014
The V&A Museum’s Cast Court Reopens With Queen Victoria’s David
Queen Victoria’s personal plaster cast of Michelangelo’s David. The sculpture, made from a mold taken from Michelangelo’s original marble work… Read More
29 November 2014
Stik Creates Tallest Piece Of Street Art In UK Highlighting Shortage Of Social Housing
The UK’s tallest piece of public art has appeared on the side of a condemned council estate in West London…. Read More
28 November 2014