Alexander McQueen’s Working Process Revealed In New Photography Exhibition
Tate Britain is presenting a photography exhibition the result of which is an unique collaboration between the artist Nick Waplington… Read More
29 October 2014
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Simon Fujiwara Challenges Homophobia With Monolithic Sculpture Created For Jamaica Biennial
The British artist Simon Fujiwara has created a monolithic sculpture of a male nude to be unveiled in Kingston, Jamaica,… Read More
29 October 2014
Edvard Munch Museum Gets Green Light
Construction of the new Edvard Munch museum will begin next year and is estimated to be completed in 2019; Oslo’s… Read More
29 October 2014
Niki de Saint Phalle Receives Posthumous Google Honours On 84th Birthday
Google has honoured the artist Niki de Saint Phalle 1930–2002 with today’s doodle to celebrate her talents on her 84th… Read More
29 October 2014
Important John Constable Painting Saved For The Nation In Tax Lieu Scheme
An important painting by John Constable R. A, one of Britain’s greatest and best-known landscape painters has been accepted by… Read More
28 October 2014
Mayoral Candidate Promises To Fill London With Statues Of David Bowie And David Beckham
Labour MP David Lammy, a mayoral candidate, has made a strange campaign promise: if he is elected as the Mayor… Read More
28 October 2014
Paul McCarthy Plays A Crazed Willy Wonka At Monnaie De Paris Pop-Up Chocolate Factory
With the recent removal of Paul Mccarthy’s ‘Tree’ sculpture from Place Vendome, in Paris after the Parisian meltdown that took… Read More
28 October 2014
Seven Nazi Looted Artworks Found In German Badische Landesmuseum
The Badische Landesmuseum in Karlsruhe, Germany has recently announced that it has identified seven works of art within its collection,… Read More
28 October 2014
Chris Offili: First Major US Solo Museum Exhibition Prepares To Launch
The New Museum in New York will present the first major solo museum exhibition in the United States of artist… Read More
28 October 2014
Prince Albert Inaugurates Francis Bacon Foundation In Monaco
The Francis Bacon MB Art Foundation will be inaugurated by Prince Albert of Monaco in Monte Carlo today. The opening… Read More
28 October 2014
Art Room Launches New Ladbroke Grove Studio With Patron Grayson Perry
The Art Room has celebrated the opening of their 9th Art studio at Barlby Primary School in Ladboke Grove, West… Read More
28 October 2014
Sotheby’s And Christie’s In Egon Schiele Restitution Roulette
On November 5th, Christie’s is auctioning a 1910 Schiele watercolor ‘Town on the Blue River’. The auction house is doing… Read More
28 October 2014
Cult Photographer David Armstrong Passes Away Aged 60
New York-based photographer David Armstrong, who had been suffering from liver cancer, has died at the age of 60
27 October 2014
Genpei Akasegawa Japanese Artist And Convicted Forger Dead Aged 77
The well-known avant-garde Japanese artist and writer Genpei Akasegawa has died in a Tokyo hospital on Sunday morning. The 77-year-old… Read More
27 October 2014
Chinese Filmmaker First To Stand Trial Over Constitution Documentary
The trial of Chinese filmmaker Shen Yongping is set to begin on 4th November, making the filmmaker the first person… Read More
27 October 2014
Domus Aurea In Rome Reopens After Six Year Restoration
Italian authorities have partially reopened Rome’s magnificent Domus Aurea (House of Gold) on Sunday some six years into a decade-long… Read More
27 October 2014
New Caravaggio Masterpiece Found – Claims Italian Art Historian
It would seem that the long-lost original of Caravaggio’s ‘Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy’ has been identified by one of the… Read More
27 October 2014
Turner Contemporary 2015 Programme To Include Grayson Perry Exhibition
Turner Contemporary has welcomed more than 1.3 million visitors, in just three and a half years. For 2015, the gallery… Read More
27 October 2014
Walter Keane – Epic Art Fraud And The Big Eyes Of Hollywood
Walter Keane was an American artist who became famous in the 1950s and 1960s for painting a series of widely-reproduced images depicting vulnerable children with enormous eyes.
27 October 2014
Lawrence Abu Hamdan Announced As Commissioned Artist For 2015 Armory Show
The Armory Show has announced that Lawrence Abu Hamdan, based between Beirut and London, is the Commissioned Artist for the… Read More
27 October 2014
Christie’s Shanghai Celebrates Their First Anniversary Of Activities In The City
Christie’s Shanghai has celebrated their first year of launch with a series of auctions that mark Christie’s activities in the… Read More
27 October 2014
Sotheby’s In High Court Over Alleged Misattribution Of Caravaggio
A highly contentious dispute has some of the world’s most prominent Caravaggio experts lining up to take sides in high… Read More
27 October 2014
Stolen Andy Warhol Liz Taylor Resurfaces After Thirty Years
The Andy Warhol foundation is to sue the Pop Artist’s former bodyguard, Agusto Bugarin of Jersey City for theft of… Read More
26 October 2014
Museums Association President David Anderson Criticised For Online Article
Museums Association President David Anderson has caused controversy after 19 museum directors contacted the Museums Journal to take issue with… Read More
26 October 2014
Margulies Collection Acquires Anselm Kiefer’s Centrepiece From Royal Academy Show
The Margulies Collection in Miami has acquired ‘Die Erdzeitalter’ (Ages Of The World) (2014), the impressive installation that serves as… Read More
25 October 2014
Frieze A Fading Memory: Paul Carey- Kent Recaps His 2014 Highlights
Paul Carey- Kent is no stranger to Frieze London. Here he recaps his top choices from this year’s mega fair… Read More
25 October 2014
Pablo Picasso Birthday Celebrated With Reopening of Musee Picasso Paris
The Musée Picasso Paris opens their doors today after five years of remodelling the 17th-century mansion in the Marais district…. Read More
25 October 2014
Paul McCarthy Responds To ‘Sex Toy’ Sculpture Attacks
Infamous American artist Paul McCarthy has responded to the removal of his ‘Tree’ sculpture from Place Vendome, in Paris after… Read More
25 October 2014
Art Below Showcases 40 Outstanding Artists In Tube Stations
This month Art Below are showcasing the work of 40 outstanding international artists throughout Regent’s Park and Pimlico tube stations. … Read More
25 October 2014
Olafur Eliasson Highlights IPCC’s 5th Assessment Report On Climate Change
One hundred tonnes of inland ice from Greenland melts on Copenhagen City Hall Square as part of a project to… Read More
24 October 2014
Female Banksy Has Charity Linked Art Stolen
The artist known as the ‘female Banksy’ has had her work stolen. Art thieves made off with street art by… Read More
24 October 2014
You Can Become A Chapman Brothers Work Of Art
The contemporary art duo Jake and Dinos Chapman, are exhibiting in the town in which they grew up in major… Read More
24 October 2014