Street Artist Sought In Connection With Vandalised Picasso
A vandal who spray painted a Pablo Picasso painting on exhibit at the Houston Museum with a stencil of a… Read More
20 June 2012
News
Art Fund Museum of the Year Awarded To Royal Albert Memorial Museum
The Art Fund have announced today that Exeter’s Royal Albert Memorial Museum has won this year’s £100,000 Art Fund Prize… Read More
20 June 2012
Vicky Wright illuminating Current Power Struggles
Review – The Garments of the Dominators 1 June -6 July 2012 Josh Lilley Gallery Josh Lilley Gallery, situated on… Read More
20 June 2012
Environment Is A Strong Informant Embracing Energies That Inspire
Artist Amanda McGregor explores the connection between nature and creativity I was at the Rural Museum in Reading at the… Read More
19 June 2012
Cultural Olympiad Launches With First Rate Visual Art Lineup
The London 2012 Festival opens with a bang and a bounce as Turner Prize winning artist Jeremy Deller exhibits his… Read More
19 June 2012
Howard Hodgkin Robert Frost A Dark Beyond Colour – Review
I have only just thought that the title of this exhibition may well be a pun, as well as a… Read More
19 June 2012
Nancy Holt Mechanisms of Perception Haunch of Venison
Review – Holt’s work ‘places emphasis on the mechanisms of perception, on ideas about place and time and consciousness, and… Read More
19 June 2012
Sotheby’s Contemporary June Sale Offers Pop Art Masterpiece Plus
Sotheby’s is to offer for sale a magnificent and encompassing assembly of Post-war & Contemporary art on 26 June. Headlining… Read More
18 June 2012
Michael Landy Artist In Residence At National Gallery
SAINTS ALIVE, is a new sculptural installation by Michael Landy who will also be the 2013 Rootstein Hopkins Associate Artist… Read More
18 June 2012
Paul Jenkins New York Color Field Painter Dies At 88
Paul Jenkins the post abstract expressionist and ‘Color Field’ painter has died in New York age 88. He was widely associated with the Color Field movement
17 June 2012
Kate Middleton Takes Art Room To C S Lewis Classic
Kate Middleton has had a very busy weekend indeed. On Friday she attended a special performance of the C S… Read More
17 June 2012
Olympic Homage Gagosian Presents Warhol and Basquiat Painting
To coincide with the 2012 Summer Olympic Games in London, Gagosian Gallery is pleased to presentOlympic Rings, a painting made… Read More
17 June 2012
Allen Jones Retrospective Celebrates His 75th Birthday
The British Pop artist Allen Jones who caused an international furor in 1969 with his provocative furniture sculptures is mounting… Read More
16 June 2012
Victoria Pomery Turner Contemporary Director Awarded Diamond OBE
It was announced this morning that Victoria Pomery, Director of Turner Contemporary has been awarded an OBE for services to… Read More
16 June 2012
Peter Blake and Zaha Hadid Create BT Artboxes
The tried and true old British phone box which was designed by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott to commemorate King George… Read More
16 June 2012
The Way Artists See Themselves New Courtauld Exhibition
Portrait of the Artist As. Sarah Lucas Marc Quinn Frances Bacon Edvard Munch and Vincent van Gogh. The exhibition Portrait… Read More
15 June 2012
James Franco Comes To The ICA For A Chat
The artist, author, and Oscar nominated Hollywood actor James Franco will be appearing in conversation with Katie Puckrik at the… Read More
15 June 2012
Baloise Art Prize Announced at Art 43 Basel
The 14th annual Baloise Art Prize has been awarded to Simon Denny from New Zealand and Karsten Födinger from Germany…. Read More
15 June 2012
Anish Kapoor New Exhibition At Yorkshire Sculpture Park
The first major survey of Anish Kapoor’s work opens tomorrow (16 June) at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park. It is the… Read More
15 June 2012
Ai Weiwei Art Basel Broadcast Protests His House Arrest
Ai Weiwei has released a new video on YouTube stating that his house arrest, which has lasted since his release… Read More
14 June 2012
Christie’s Contemporary Art Evening to Open Up June Auction Season
On the evening of the 27 of June Christie’s will feature a plethora of amazing artists and sell above and… Read More
13 June 2012
Apple Set To Take Art World By Storm
Apple has finally launched its latest and greatest Macbook which is set to take the art world by storm. With… Read More
13 June 2012
Georges Mathieu Pioneer Lyrical Abstract Painter Dies
One of the best known abstract painters Georges Mathieu has died age 91. In the 1950s and 1960s his reputation was widespread and he was one of best known artists in France.
13 June 2012
Heatherwick Studio Creates Surprising New Facade For London’s V&A
In honour of the new special exhibition opening today, Heatherwick Studio: Designing the Extraordinary, the V&A commissioned a temporary installation… Read More
12 June 2012
Gloria Zein Can’t Stop The Dancing Chicken
A historic building on Exhibition Road re-opens its doors to an unexpected art installation: a vibrantly painted staircase inside complemented by shape-shifting sculptures
12 June 2012
ICA Announce Collaboration With There We Will Be Buried
The beginning of a new partnership, LIFT and the ICA was announced today with the collaboration producing the performance ‘There… Read More
12 June 2012
Damien Hirst Installs Two Major Works in A London Restaurant
Damien Hirst has designed two new works of art that have become the centrepiece of a new restaurant in Shorditch…. Read More
12 June 2012
BBC Diamond Jubilee Mosaic Unveiled At Turner Contemporary
In celebration of the Diamond Jubilee BBC South East asked their viewers and listeners to help create a unique artwork… Read More
12 June 2012
BP Travel Award Winner Jo Fraser Exhibits At NPG
National Portrait Gallery features the work of the 2011 winner A large scale portrait depicting weavers from a remote mountain… Read More
12 June 2012
Yoko Ono Recreates Highlights From Her Book Grapefruit
The Moderna Museet in Stockholm is presenting an exhibition highlighting Yoko Ono’s 1964 book Grapefruit. It features a selection of… Read More
12 June 2012
IS VYNER STREET REALLY DEAD? (Bye Bye Nettie)
Vyner Street is far from perfect, God knows the East End art scene can be an infuriating multi-headed beast at… Read More
11 June 2012
Ralph Heimans Official Portrait Of The Queen For Jubilee
New Painting will be unveiled at the National Portrait Gallery in Australia later this year and displayed in London in… Read More
11 June 2012