Picasso Masterpiece Guernica At 80 New Exhibition Unveiled
A new exhibition marking the 80th anniversary of the creation of Picasso’s masterpiece Guernica is unveiled in Spain on 5 April.
1 April 2017
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Important Picasso Muse Dora Maar Portrait To Be Sold At Christie’s
Femme assise, robe bleue by Pablo Picasso will go under the hammer at Christie’s NY as a highlight of its Impressionist and Modern Art Evening Sale (Estimate: $35,000,000-50,000,000).
31 March 2017
Eddie Martinez Speaks To Artlyst About His Latest London Exhibition
The American abstract painter Eddie Martinez speaks to Paul Carter Robinson ahead of his London Exhibition Cowboy Town which opened today at Timothy Taylor London.
30 March 2017
Ageism Sucks: Turner Prize Scraps Under Fifty Age Restriction
The Tate announced today that The Turner Prize will scrap the stipulation that shortlisted artists must be under 50.
29 March 2017
Greta Garbo’s Sophisticated Modern Art Collection To Be Sold At Christies
The avant-garde collection of Greta Garbo’s modern art will go under the hammer at Christie’s NY, in its Evening Sale of Impressionist and Modern Art.
29 March 2017
Art Night 2017 Announces Programme For London’s Most Atmospheric Art Event
Art Night 2017 has announced their programme for London’s most atmospheric art event. The East End will again be transformed with free art, performance and music by some of the world’s leading artists for the night of Saturday 1 July 2017.
28 March 2017
Ai Weiwei Builds Fences To Highlight Attitudes Towards Immigration
The Chinese dissident artist and activist Ai Weiwei will return to New York with gallery shows covering four venues. He will utilise the public exhibitions as a metaphor for his travel ban in China as well as the U.S. attitudes towards immigration under the leadership of Donald Trump.
27 March 2017
Tate Modern And Royal Academy Visitors Rise By Over A Million
The British Museum was again the most popular visitor attraction in the UK in 2016 for the 10th year running.
27 March 2017
Art Basel HK Verdict – Encouraging Sales Across The Board For 2017
Art Basel’s fifth edition in Hong Kong has closed with encouraging sales recorded across all levels of the market.
26 March 2017
Established London Galleries Vilma Gold and Ibid To Close Their Doors
Established London galleries Vilma Gold and Ibid are to shut their London spaces. Vilma Gold announced yesterday that it will close to concentrate on what they call “a new model of collaboration” with its artists. Rachel Williams, the gallery owner and director, who started the business alongside Steve Pippett in 2000 said they would “continue to work on behalf of the gallery artists.”
25 March 2017
Fourth Plinth Commission “Good For A Disposable Laugh” – Edward Lucie-Smith
The next two occupants of the so-called Fourth Plinth Commission in Trafalgar Square have just been announced and, true to form, the British visual arts establishment has laboured and given birth to a mouse. Or, to be fair, to two mice, one of them just slightly larger than the other. I speak not in terms of size, but in those of probable effect.
24 March 2017
Art Basel HK Compete With TEFAF By Introducing Global Art Market Report
Art Basel along with partners UBS have launched the first Art Basel and UBS Global Art Market Report. T
23 March 2017
Largest Piet Mondrian Exhibition To Be Mounted at Holland’s Gemeentemuseum
The complete collection of works by Piet Mondrian at the Gemeentemuseum in The Hague will go on display in the largest exhibition of the artist’s work ever mounted.
22 March 2017
Trisha Brown Artist And New York choreographer Dies Aged 80
The New York artist and choreographer Trisha Brown who was associated closely with the visual arts scene in downtown New York in the 1960s and 1970s has died age 80.
21 March 2017
Whitney Biennial 2017 Evolves Beyond Precious, Pretentious Or Tired
The 2017 Whitney Biennial, the first at the new spacious downtown location, is a total home run. Form, function and fun come together.
21 March 2017
Pavilion of Humanity Unites Two Diverse Women Artists During 57th Venice Biennale
Objection, a collaborative exhibition unites two emerging women artists, Michal Cole Israel/UK and Ekin Onat Turkey/Germany, at the Pavilion of Humanity during the 57th Venice Biennale.
21 March 2017
Michael Rakowitz And Heather Phillipson Awarded Next Fourth Plinth Commissions
Michael Rakowitz and Heather Phillipson were today announced as the two artists who have won the next commissions for the Fourth Plinth in Trafalgar Square.
21 March 2017
Thomas Gainsborough Masterpiece Vandalised At London’s National Gallery
An iconic English painting, The Morning Walk, by Sir Thomas Gainsborough has been vandalised by a visitor to the gallery. Members of the public and staff restrained a man who scratched the work, with a sharp object causing surface damage to the masterpiece.
19 March 2017
Rachel Whiteread Village Installation Given Permanent Home At V&A MOC
Rachel Whiteread’s celebrated artwork Place (Village) (2006-2008) will go on permanent display at the V&A Museum of Childhood
18 March 2017
Superflex: Innovative Danish Collective Selected For 2017 Tate Turbine Hall Commission
Superflex the Danish Collective best known for displaying a giant Euro coin on the side of the Hayward Gallery have been chosen to undertake this year’s Hyundai Commission for Tate’s Turbine hall.
17 March 2017
Gilbert & George And David Adjaye Elected As Royal Academicians
The Royal Academy of Arts has announced the election of the internationally renowned architect Sir David Adjaye and artist Gilbert & George as new Royal Academicians.
17 March 2017
Trump Shows His Intent To Axe National Endowment for the Arts
The Trump administration’s intention to cut the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) and National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) in its federal budget plan has been leaked.
16 March 2017
Damien Hirst Targeted In Venice By Animal Rights Activists At Palazzo Grassi
Damien Hirst’s exhibition in Venice which open to the public on April 9 has been targeted by animal rights activists who dumped bags of dung outside the palazzo where the YBA is planning to return following a quiet period.
15 March 2017
Annie Leibovitz Archive Procured By Swiss Non Profit LUMA Foundation
The LUMA Foundation a Zurich-based not for profit organisation have announced that they will be the keepers of the archives of the renowned photographer Annie Leibovitz.
15 March 2017
WW1 Conscientious Objectors Highlighted In New Immersive Sound Piece
One Hundred years ago sixteen conscientious objectors were detained in the 19th-century cell block of Richmond Castle, leaving their poignant and personal testimonies in drawings on the cell walls.
15 March 2017
Eileen Cooper RA. To Co-ordinate 249th Royal Academy Summer Exhibition
The Royal Academy’s has announced Eileen Cooper RA. will co-ordinate the 249th Summer Exhibition, which runs from mid-June until late August.
14 March 2017
TEFAF Maastricht 2017 Buoyant Sales And Brisk Activity – Market Report
TEFAF Maastricht the world’s leading fine art and antiques Fair has reported buoyant sales with brisk activity during the opening days of the event.
14 March 2017
Howard Hodgkin A Road Trip Through India By Paul Carter Robinson
I met Howard Hodgkin in New York at the opening of his first US solo show at the Jill Kornblee… Read More
13 March 2017
Elmgreen & Dragset Istanbul Biennial Curators To Collaborate With Istanbul Film Festival
The Turner Prize nominated artists Elmgreen & Dragset have taken inspiration from the 10 films nominated for the program at the 36th Istanbul Film Festival, which will be collaborating with the 15th Istanbul Biennial.
12 March 2017
Andy Warhol Museum Names Patrick Moore As New Director
The Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh have announced that Patrick Moore has been named the Director of The Andy Warhol Museum. Moore joined the museum in 2011 as director of development and went on to serve as deputy director and managing director before being named the interim director in 2016.
11 March 2017
Jeff Koons And Pompidou Center Lose Plagiarism Lawsuit In France
Jeff Koons and the Pompidou Center have been found guilty of plagiarism in a legal dispute over the artist’s work Naked (1988) The work of art was part of Koons’s Banality series
10 March 2017
Sir Howard Hodgkin RA Sumptuous Colourist Dies Aged 84
The English painter Sir Howard Hodgkin has died in London aged 84. Howard was born 6 August in 1932 in Hammersmith, London.
9 March 2017