Grand Theft Auto Inspires Self-portraits By David Blandy And Larry Achiampong
Grand Theft Auto (GTA), one of the world’s most successful video games, has a reputation for violence, now a new… Read More
29 May 2016
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Hormazd Narielwalla: Reinterpreting The Human Form Through The Cubist Legacy
Over 40 new works by the emerging artist Hormazd Narielwalla will be featured in his second solo exhibition in the… Read More
29 May 2016
Artbelow Presents Contemporary Alternative Portraits Of The Queen At 90
In honour of the Queen’s Official 90th Birthday, curatorial group Art Below presents ‘Queen Themed’, an exhibition of contemporary portraits… Read More
28 May 2016
Nuke Descending A Staircase: Paul Carey Kent On John Stark’s DoL Po
It’s not so rare to find that the ideas to be unpacked behind explicitly conceptual art turn out, when you examine them,… Read More
28 May 2016
Rachel Whiteread Unveils Site Specific Installation In New York
The Turner Prize winning artist Rachel Whiteread has opted for a chilly but exhilarating site on New York’s Governors Island for… Read More
27 May 2016
Ana Genoves: Creates Site Specific Transformation Installation At MOCA London
The Spanish/English artist Ana Genovés (born Madrid, 1969) has created a site-specific installation in a response to the architecture and… Read More
27 May 2016
Norman Foster’s Drone Airport Design Unveiled At Venice Architecture Biennale 2016
The prototype for a droneport designed by the British architect Sir Norman Foster has been built on site in the… Read More
27 May 2016
Shia LaBeouf, Ronkko and Luke Turner Take A Road Trip
From 23 May, Hollywood’s artist in residence Shia LaBeouf, Rönkkö & Royal College graduate Luke (I take myself too seriously) Turner have… Read More
26 May 2016
James Richards Selected To Represent Wales At 57th Venice Biennale
Arts Council of Wales has announced that artist James Richards has been selected to represent Cymru yn Fenis Wales in… Read More
26 May 2016
Important John Constable To Be Auctioned But Will It Get An Export Licence
A major work by the English painter John Constable, R.A. (1776-1837) is to go under the hammer at Christie’s at… Read More
26 May 2016
Judy Blame: Work Explored Within A Wider Artistic Context
London’s Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) is celebrating the life and work of the influential accessories designer, art director and… Read More
25 May 2016
Kurt Schwitters Exhibition Opens New Zaha Hadid Designed Gallery In Zurich
Kurt Schwitters: Merz is a major new retrospective exhibition at Galerie Gmurzynska in Zurich that builds and expands on the gallery’s five decade long… Read More
25 May 2016
Virtual Reality Blurred Boundaries: Enter This Exhibition Through The Headset
Enter Through the Headset is a new exhibition of works by artists working in VR (virtual reality) to highlight the blurred… Read More
24 May 2016
Yayoi Kusama: Largest UK Exhibition Since Tate Retrospective Launches At Victoria Miro
A new exhibition of paintings by the Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama opened last night at Victoria Miro’s West End, George St… Read More
24 May 2016
Art Fund Appeal To Save Elizabeth I Portrait For The Nation
An appeal to save a masterpiece of the English Renaissance for the Nation has been launched jointly by the Art Fund… Read More
24 May 2016
Elton John’s Basquiat Warhol Painting To Be Auctioned In Paris
A monumental painting by Jean-Michel Basquiat and Andy Warhol, two enfants terribles of the art world, will be offered at auction from the collection of Elton… Read More
23 May 2016
London Visual Arts Degree Shows: Artlyst Reveals The 2016 Calendar
The month of May launches the London degree show season, for the Visual Arts, where students are given the opportunity to… Read More
23 May 2016
Van Gogh Museum Forthcoming Exhibition Focuses On Artist’s Mental Health Issues
The Van Gogh Musuem in Amsterdam’s forthcoming exhibition entitled On the Verge of Insanity (15 July to 25 September 2016) focuses for the first… Read More
22 May 2016
Ai Weiwei Exhibition Opens At Museum of Cycladic Art in Athens
The Museum of Cycladic Art (MCA) in Athens has unveiled Ai Weiwei at Cycladic (20 May – 30 Oct 2016). This is the artist’s first major exhibition… Read More
22 May 2016
Public Sculpture Unveilings: Alex J Wood And Frances Segelman Commissions Revealed
Artist Alex J Wood has been announced as the winner of the prestigious Picton Art Prize, as his winning work ‘Celestial’ was unveiled at… Read More
22 May 2016
ART16: A Cure For Avant Garde Guilt Trips By Edward Lucie-Smith
Art16, the Olympia Art Fair this year was considerably more fun than its immediate predecessor. It was more spacious in feeling, better… Read More
21 May 2016
Marco Godoy Explores Visual Relationships Between Authority And Power At Copperfield London
The first UK solo exhibition of Marco Godoy (b. 1986 Madrid) titled ‘EUROPE’ has been announced by Copperfield, London. This follows his Royal… Read More
21 May 2016
Punk Weekender: Photographers Gallery Mark 40 Years Of Punk
The Photographers’ Gallery is to present ‘Punk Weekender’, a weekend of special events marking forty years of punk heritage and influence in… Read More
21 May 2016
Photo London 2016 Assertively Swaggers After Last Year’s Experiment
This year’s Photo London moves with swagger after last year’s experiment, asserting itself as an international event of note, clear… Read More
20 May 2016
Jiri Georg Dokoupil: Furniture, Bubbles And Sexual Energy – New Prague Exhibition
Jiri Georg Dokoupil- Chech Republic’s most renowned artist opens his new and unpredictable exhibition at DSC Gallery in Prague. While Dokoupil is renowned… Read More
19 May 2016
British Black and Asian Lives Explored At The National Portrait Gallery
Black and Asian lives in Britain from the 1860s through to the 1940s are explored in a new display at… Read More
19 May 2016
Joan Miro Grandson Donates Twenty Eight Works To Help Refugee Crisis
Twenty eight original prints by the Spanish painter Joan Miro will be auctioned in London today, with profits donated to… Read More
19 May 2016
Jeff Koons Now Exhibition Opens At Damien Hirst’s Newport Street Gallery
Newport Street Gallery has unveiled ‘Now’, a solo exhibition of work by US artist Jeff Koons (b.1955), which opens to… Read More
18 May 2016
David Shrigley Fourth Plinth Unveiling Announced By Sadiq Khan’s Office
David Shrigley the Turner Prize nominated artist unveils his new commission for the Fourth Plinth titled, ‘Really Good’ on Thursday 29 September 2016…. Read More
18 May 2016
Ex-Boxer Christopher Gray Wins The Influential XL Catlin Art Prize 2016
The XL Catlin Art Prize has been won this year by the highly original ex boxer Chris Gray. His work… Read More
17 May 2016
Banksy Exhibition Is Extensive But Unauthorised By The Street Artist
A new Unauthorised exhibition of the Street Artist Banksy is to open in Rome on 24th May. War, Capitalism & Liberty… Read More
17 May 2016
Cornelia Parker Curates Fifty+ Contemporary Artists At The Foundling Museum
In order for something to be ‘found’, it has to at some point in its history been ‘lost’ – Cornelia Parker Cornelia Parker… Read More
17 May 2016