Stanley Spencer: Largest Survey Exhibition In 15 years Opens At Hepworth Wakefield
The Hepworth Wakefield is presenting Stanley Spencer: Of Angels and Dirt – the first UK major survey exhibition in 15 years of work… Read More
25 June 2016
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Brexit Effect On UK Art Market Tested At Summer Fair Corridor
One thing the referendum has done is to throw into extremely sharp relief the cultural divide between the metropolis and… Read More
24 June 2016
Komar and Melamid To Present Yalta 1945 Installation At Ben Uri Gallery
The Ben Uri Gallery will present a seminal, monumental installation by the Russian born artists Komar and Melamid this Autumn. The… Read More
24 June 2016
The Arts Need Europe vs The Reality Of A Looming Brexit
The nation has spoken. We are now on a trajectory which will unravel all of the work laid down by successive governments… Read More
24 June 2016
Rare Theodore Gericault Painting Goes Under the Hammer In Denmark
An important painting by the French Romantic artist Théodore Géricault (Rouen 1791-Paris 1824) Study for “Medusas Flåde” (Louvre collection) is… Read More
23 June 2016
Exaggerated Narratives and Performativity Feature In Luxembourg Dayan’s New Summer Show
“The constraints of melodrama can be a great blessing, because they demand that all the characters involved – as absurd and… Read More
23 June 2016
Why The Arts Industries In Britain Need Europe – Artlyst Votes Remain
I am not a Daily Mail reader nor do I read any of the Murdoch owned newspapers and yes this… Read More
22 June 2016
David LaChapelle Auctions Keith Haring’s Last Great Canvas At Sotheby’s London
One of Keith Haring’s final great works is being offered by Sotheby’s, from the collection of photographer David LaChapelle, in its… Read More
22 June 2016
Sotheby’s Achieves New Record Price For Picasso Cubist Work Of Art
Sotheby’s evening sale of Impressionist & Modern Art in London has totalled £103,280,000 (est. £81.8 – 98.95m). Almost two thirds of the works… Read More
22 June 2016
Girl In Vintage Liberty Dress Wins BP Portrait Award 2016
Girl in a Liberty Dress by Clara Drummond is the winner of the 2016 BP Portrait Award. The artist was announced at the National Portrait… Read More
21 June 2016
Chris Dercon Appointment At Berlin’s Volksbuhne Theatre In Crisis
The appointment of former Director of Tate Modern Chris Dercon as Director of Berlin’s Volksbühne Theatre is not going smoothly. 172 actors,… Read More
21 June 2016
Pinchuk Foundation: World’s Largest Art Prize Competition Opens Today
The fourth edition of The Future Generation Art Prize worldwide competition established by the Victor Pinchuk Foundation in Ukraine opens… Read More
21 June 2016
Banksy SWAT Van To Go Under The Hammer At Bonham’s London
One of Banksy’s most iconic works , a SWAT van, spray-painted by the elusive street artist, is to go under the… Read More
21 June 2016
Art Basel 2016 Reports Buoyant Sales To International Private Collections And Institutions
Outstanding art from some of the world’s best art galleries leads to buoyant sales to private collections and institutions worldwide. The 47th… Read More
20 June 2016
Camberwell Comes Alive With Expanded Summer Arts Festival
Camberwell Student Florence Goodhand-Tait takes a tour of Camberwell Arts Festival 2016. The Camberwell Arts Festival is a yearly event celebrating… Read More
20 June 2016
Pied Pipers: Artist John Piper And Dealer Robert Frazer – Book Reviews
These books are worth noticing together (even though one of them is in fact a reissue) because of the things they… Read More
20 June 2016
Will Tate Modern’s £215m Brick Palace Spend Reverse Visitors Slump
In 2015, BBC art editor Will Gompertz asked, “What can the Tate do to regain those hundreds of thousands of… Read More
20 June 2016
Volcano Extravaganza 6 Presents I Will Go Where I Don’t Belong
The Sicilian Island of Stromboli hosts the sixth edition of Volcano Extravaganza, the yearly festival of contemporary art presented by Fiorucci Art… Read More
18 June 2016
Jarman Award 2016 Shortlist Announced By Film London
The shortlist for the annual Jarman Award, now in its ninth year, has been announced. The six outstanding artists nominated for… Read More
18 June 2016
Photo Feature: Louise Nevelson, Iconic Groundbreaking Sculptures At Pace London
Pace London is currently presenting an exhibition of works by Louise Nevelson, surveying the artist’s practice from the mid-1950s until… Read More
17 June 2016
Ron Arad RA Chosen For St Pancras International Station Art Commission
The second instalment of a four year partnership between the Royal Academy of Arts and HS1 Ltd (owners of St Pancras International… Read More
17 June 2016
Artist Michael Craig-Martin Reimagines London Underground Logo At Southwark Station
Recently Knighted artist Michael Craig-Martin has reimagined the iconic London Underground roundel at Southwark station in collaboration with Tate Modern and Art… Read More
17 June 2016
Tate Builds A New Dream Palace In the forefront of what?
In this latest opinion piece Edward Lucie-Smith gives us the low down on London’s ‘most significant’ cultural building since the… Read More
16 June 2016
Picasso $100m Family Dispute Moves In Favour Of Billionaire Leon Black
A dispute involving Pablo Picasso’s family, over the 1931 “Buste de Femme (Marie-Therese),” has been settled out of court. The sculpture valued… Read More
16 June 2016
Olafur Eliasson Presents Green light An artistic Workshop At Art Basel
Olafur Eliasson’s Green light is an artistic workshop presented at Art Basel on June 18 and 19. This presentation will… Read More
16 June 2016
New Tate Building Welcomes 3000 Schoolchildren As First Visitors
Schoolchildren and young people from across the UK will be the first public visitors to the new Tate Modern at a… Read More
16 June 2016
Sotheby’s Modern & Post-War British Art Evening Achieves £10.6m
Sotheby’s Modern & Post-War British Art Evening and Day Sales on 13 – 14 June 2016 achieved a combined total… Read More
15 June 2016
Gifted Barbara Hepworth Sculptures Realise £2.2m But Not Everyone Is Celebrating
Two sculptures gifted to Wakefield Girls High School by the iconic 20th century artist Barbara Hepworth have sold for £2.2m at Sotheby’s. Hepworth attended… Read More
15 June 2016
Unseen Lucian Freud Self Portrait and Drawings Go On Display At National Portrait Gallery
A selection of drawings from the unseen sketchbooks of Lucian Freud, together with a newly-discovered self-portrait by the artist, have… Read More
15 June 2016
Tate Modern Launches Most Important Cultural Building Since New British Library
Tate Modern has previewed the new Herzog & de Meuron,extension to the press and impressive is the only word I… Read More
14 June 2016
The Smithsonian Announce Plans Of Joint Venture With London’s V&A
The Smithsonian in Washington has officially announced plans to cooperate with London’s Victoria and Albert Museum on a major international joint venture in… Read More
14 June 2016
Artist Places Real Heads In Iconic Art Galleries To Create Artwork
A new interactive art project entitled ‘Put Your Head into Gallery’ presents four different models of famous galleries’ rooms.
13 June 2016