Monet Masterpieces Lost in Fire: $45m Legal Battle For Insurance Payout
In a year-long, high-profile dispute between a private collector and their insurance company, documents have unveiled an unsettling revelation.
4 October 2023
In a year-long, high-profile dispute between a private collector and their insurance company, documents have unveiled an unsettling revelation.
4 October 2023
An exciting rediscovery: a late drawing by the celebrated High Renaissance artist Raffaello Sanzio, known as Raphael.
29 September 2023
An newly attributed oil sketch by the renowned 19th-century English landscape painter John Constable has gone under the hammer in Guernsey.
28 September 2023
Last August, 1,200 to 2,000 valuable objects were reported “missing, stolen or damaged” by officials at the British Museum.
26 September 2023
A major painting by the Baroque artist Artemisia Gentileschi, has been identified in the Royal Collection after it was misattributed at least two centuries ago.
25 September 2023
Oligarch Roman Abramovich and his ex-wife Dasha Zhukova’s billion-dollar art collection contains some of the best examples of Contemporary and… Read More
23 September 2023
The materials used in Christo and Jeanne Claude’s monumental artwork Arc de Triomphe, Wrapped (1961-2021) are to be recycled
22 September 2023
Seven significant artworks by the Austrian artist Egon Schiele have been restituted to the family of the Jewish art collector Fritz Grünbaum.
21 September 2023
Paris Art Dealer Guy Wildenstein appeared in court yesterday for the third time since he was accused of Tax Evasion.
20 September 2023
The Victor Pinchuk Foundation has opened the Russian War Crimes Exhibition in Berlin in partnership with the Pinchuk Art Centre
14 September 2023
An early painting by Vincent Van Gogh titled “The Parsonage Garden at Nuenen in Spring”, stolen from a Dutch museum
12 September 2023
Chris Ofili was inspired to create his Grenfell Fresco ‘Requiem’ by a chance meeting at the 2017 Venice Biennale
12 September 2023
Sonia Boyce OBE RA has announced Hauser & Wirth and Apalazzo Gallery in Italy will now represent the artist.
5 September 2023
The V&A museum in Dundee has removed all signs associated with the disgraced Sackler name.
5 September 2023
The artist Marina Abramović will attend the private view and some opening days of her highly anticipated retrospective exhibition at the Royal Academy
4 September 2023
Mark Jones has been named interim director of the British Museum. He will replace Hartwig Fischer who stepped down last week.
3 September 2023
Hartwig Fischer, the director of the British Museum, has resigned with immediate effect.
26 August 2023
Claude Ruiz Picasso, the French/Spanish photographer, film director, and eldest son of the leading 20th-century painter Pablo Picasso, has died aged 76.
25 August 2023
The talented artist and illustrator Michael Leonard has died in London aged 90. Best known for his classical style and “Homo Erotic” subject matter
24 August 2023
Over the last few days, a new dialogue has opened up in light of the theft of 1200 to 2000 objects by a senior Curator at the British Museum.
22 August 2023
The Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize shortlist has been announced by the National Portrait Gallery in London.
21 August 2023
The British Museum has sacked a senior curator who worked at the British Museum for more than 30 years after priceless jewellery and gems vanished from a locked storage cupboard.
16 August 2023
Brice Marden seminal American artist known for his significant contributions to abstract painting and his unique exploration of colour, form, and surface, has died aged 84.
11 August 2023
Jamie Reid the infamous British artist and graphic designer best known for his iconic and influential work within the realm of punk rock and political activism has died aged 76.
9 August 2023
Hsiao Chin (b1935), who died on 30 June, is one of a tiny number of postwar artists who made significant contributions both to European art and to the art of Greater China.
28 July 2023
AI has been all over the papers lately. It has even prompted Government intervention on both sides of the pond….
26 July 2023
The Artist Yoko Ono, who turned 90 earlier this year, has decided to leave her New York City Upper West Side residence in the Dakota Building
23 July 2023
Lee Cavaliere has been appointed the new Artistic Director of VOLTA art fairs beginning July 2023.
20 July 2023
An export bar has been placed on a £2.9 million chandelier by the Swiss/French artist Alberto Giacometti. This will allow time for a UK institution to acquire the work.
18 July 2023
Simon Lee Gallery one of London’s most prestigious commercial spaces has gone into joint administration with the firm BDO LLP.
12 July 2023
The Financial Times has published an article highlighting allegations of sexual misconduct concerning the British architect Sir David Adjaye.
6 July 2023
Grayson Perry, the Turner Prize-winning artist and broadcaster has received his knighthood in a ceremony conducted by Prince William at Windsor Castle yesterday.
29 June 2023