Rebel Women: Suffragette Centenary Celebrated At National Portrait Gallery
The National Portrait Gallery will exhibit a portrait slashed with a butcher’s cleaver by a suffragette for the first time in over twenty years.
29 January 2018
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Hull Banksy Mural ‘Should Be Cleaned Off Says Tory Councillor
A new stencilled mural by the street artist Banksy has appeared on a Hull bridge. It was first spotted by passers-by on Thursday. The graffiti shows a small boy brandishing a wooden sword with a pencil attached to the end, carrying the slogan “Draw the raised bridge!” The work references the Brexit crisis.
28 January 2018
Turner Prize Winner Martin Boyce Unveils New Commission At Tate Britain
Martin Boyce the Turner Prize-winning artist has been commissioned to create a new installation outside Tate Britain.
26 January 2018
Grayson Perry RA Appointed Coordinator Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 2018
Grayson Perry RA will be the co-ordinator of the Royal Academy annual Summer Exhibition in June 2018.
24 January 2018
African American Painter Jack Whitten Dies Aged 78
The African American painter Jack Whitten has died age 78. His gallery Hauser & Wirth put out the following statement on Sunday.
23 January 2018
Jeremy Deller Helps Relaunch 1940s School Prints Programme At Hepworth Wakefield
Turner Prize winner Jeremy Deller is helping to relaunch the pioneering school prints project which brought contemporary art to children who would not otherwise have had the opportunity to see ‘good’ work.
20 January 2018
Anish Kapoor Donates $1m Genesis Prize Foundation Award To Refugee Charities
Anish Kapoor has announced that he will donate his $1m Genesis Prize Foundation (GPF) award to five prominent NGOs engaged in alleviating the global refugee crisis.
19 January 2018
Ed Moses Pioneer West Coast Abstract Painter Dies Aged 91
ED MOSES the pioneering West Coast artist has died age 91.
19 January 2018
Michael Rakowitz Fourth Plinth Commission First Photo Unveiled
Here is the first view of Michael Rakowitz’s new commission, The Invisible Enemy, Should Not Exist which will be unveiled on the Fourth Plinth in London’s Trafalgar Square
15 January 2018
Top Photographers Testino and Weber Suspended From Vogue Over Sexual Harassment
Two of the world’s highest paid fashion photographers Mario Testino and Bruce Weber have been suspended from working for Conde Nast
14 January 2018
Art Dealer Anthony d’Offay Faces Inappropriate Behaviour Allegations
The art dealer Anthony d’Offay, who gave his £200m art collection to the nation and created Artist Rooms a touring exhibition which has had an audience of over 30 million is being investigated over historical allegations concerning his behaviour towards three women in the 1990s -2004. All were former employees.
14 January 2018
Picasso Portrait Painted The Same Year As Guernica To Be Auctioned
Pablo Picasso’s Femme au béret et à la robe quadrillée (Marie-Thérèse Walter), goes under the hammer at Sotheby’s after an… Read More
14 January 2018
Queen Appoints Fitzwilliam Chief Tim Knox Director Of Royal Collection
Tim Knox has been appointed Director of the Royal Collection by Her Majesty The Queen.
14 January 2018
Arabella Dorman Unveils New Installation At St James Church Piccadilly
St James Piccadilly is one of the best loved churches in London. It is the perfect pairing for a new installation by the artist Arabella Dorman.
13 January 2018
Nan Goldin: Epidemic Opioid Addiction Demands Sackler Family Accountability
Nan Goldin has woven a practice revolving around human crisis whether it be the 1980s AIDS epidemic or domestic abuse…. Read More
9 January 2018
Damien Hirst Underwater Mocumentary Big Hit For Netflix
Damien Hirst’s has released a mocumentary film on Netflix following the storyline of his Disney-like exhibition
8 January 2018
Exposed: Institutional Male Bias In Official UK Government Art Collection
Kevin Brennan, the shadow arts minister, has revealed that there is an ‘Institutional’ male bias in the government’s art collection. He pointed out that only a quarter of works acquired by the government in the last five years are by female artists.
7 January 2018
Betty Woodman Feminist Pioneer Painter/Ceramicist Dies Aged 87
Betty Woodman (b. 1930, Norwalk, Connecticut, USA) has died age 87, on 2 January. Woodman was a highly respected Feminist painter and ceramicist.
3 January 2018
Condo London Announce Gallery Line Up For 2018 Event
Condo London opens its third edition (13 January-10 February) with 17 galleries in the capital hosting 27 of their international contemporaries.
2 January 2018
Transgender Artist Ela Xora Hospitalised During Hunger Strike Over Piers Morgan Comment
Over the New Year period, transgender artist Ela Xora collapsed and was taken to hospital after six days of hunger strike against historically inaccurate comments made on ITV’s Good Morning Britain, by its presenter Piers Morgan.
2 January 2018
Dearly Departed: Acknowledging Art Figures Who Died In 2017
Dearly Departed: 2017 has been a momentous year with a first-rate Documenta and Venice Biennale. The year introduced us to a number of new emerging artists as well as the sad reality of losing some of the great talents of our generation both young and old. Here are some of the Artists and Art World Figures we have lost in the past year.
29 December 2017
Top Art News Stories Featured On Artlyst In 2017
It has been a challenging year in the art world with record auction prices and soaring fair costs.
29 December 2017
Superflex Hospital Equipment Installation Repurposed And Shipped To Syria
SUPERFLEX the Danish collective who have currently taken over the Turbine Hall at Tate Modern have repurposed and donated their Hospital Equipment, installation originally presented at von Bartha, S-chanf in February 2017, to Salamieh Hospital, Syria.
27 December 2017
Stolen Hans Hofmann Paintings Recovered – Scandalous Inside Job Exposed
Part of a collection of Hans Hofmann paintings stolen in 2004 from a New York City-based fine art storage facility has been recovered. Working with the NYPD and the FBI, Art Recovery International negotiated the release of one of the paintings.
26 December 2017
Art On The Underground Mark Woman’s Right To Vote Centenary With Year Of Women Artists
A large London-wide exhibition of work by women artists will run across the capital in 2018 to celebrate 100 years since women won the right to vote in the UK, as part of Mayor Sadiq Khan’s new gender equality campaign.
24 December 2017
Arts Council Publishes 2016/17 In Lieu Cultural Gifts Scheme Annual Report
The Arts Council has published its 2016/17 Cultural Gifts Scheme and Acceptance in Lieu annual report.
23 December 2017
New Asian Art Gallery At British Museum A Let Down – Edward Lucie-Smith
The new galleries of Asian art at the British Museum, named after benefactor Sir Joseph Hotung and numbered 33 on the museum’s floor plan, ought to mark a big step forward in the B.M’s engagement with historic Asian cultures. The sad fact is that for various reasons, they don’t.
22 December 2017
Sotheby’s Rounds Off 2017 Reaching $4.7 billion Annual Sales Total
Sotheby’s concluded their 2017 auctions this week, reaching an annual sales total of $4.7 billion that represents a 13.1% increase over our 2016 results.
21 December 2017
Richard Avedon Foundation Calls On Random House To Suspend Biography
The Richard Avedon Foundation have set their lawyers to work by calling on Spiegel and Grau, an imprint of Random House, to cease publication, distribution or any derivative or collateral use of Avedon: Something Personal, by Norma Stevens and Steven M.L. Aronson, which it is billing as an “intimate biography” of the late photographer.
21 December 2017
V&A Unveil Uniforms More Suitable For Rambling Than Museuming
V&A staff have new uniforms designed by the British fashion designer Christopher Raeburn. Sorry, Tristram, you could have done much better! You are in fact a museum with a well-respected fashion collection!
20 December 2017
Elisabeth Murdoch Appointed To Arts Council England National Council – Should We Worry?
On 5th December, seven new appointments were quietly made to Arts Council England’s (ACE) National Council, its governing board. This included the controversial choice of Elisabeth Murdoch, daughter of media mogul Rupert Murdoch.
18 December 2017
Genetic Hirsute Portrait From 17th Century Acquired By Wellcome Collection
A 17th century portrait of internationally renowned hirsute Barbara van Beck has been acquired by the Wellcome Collection.
15 December 2017