Art16 London Gets Ready To Launch Its Fourth Edition Art Fair
Art16 opens its fourth edition on Thursday with a focus on exciting and innovative contemporary art from established, emerging and mid-career artists across… Read More
16 May 2016
News
Fine Arts Society 140 Years Of British Art Celebrated In New Exhibition
The Fine Art Society is presenting an anniversary celebration of 140 years of British art. This major exhibition will take over… Read More
16 May 2016
Yinka Shonibare Unveils New Large-Scale Work At The Royal Academy
A major new large-scale public artwork by Yinka Shonibare MBE RA has been unveiled at the Royal Academy. It wraps… Read More
16 May 2016
Peckham: South London’s Art Capital keeps Pumping Out Surprises
Peckham is filled with art, so what else is new! Whether it be street level, graffiti or spontaneous performance art, the… Read More
15 May 2016
Contemporary East: Soviet and Satellite Art Hits The Auction Block
“There are signs that the contemporary art market is so cluttered with supposedly avant-gard rubbish that the pendulum is beginning to swing… Read More
15 May 2016
Andy Warhol Museum Acquires Early Paint By Numbers Work
The Andy Warhol Museum has announced that it has acquired an early and important Warhol Pop art painting to add to… Read More
14 May 2016
Art Now: Cologne, Brussels, Berlin And New York By Virginie Syn
Virginie Syn is Artlyst’s roving art correspondent. As an international art insider with a respected eye for what’s new Virginie has… Read More
14 May 2016
Tehran 20th Century International Art Collection Exhibited In Berlin
The Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art is to tour an exhibition that will feature both international Contemporary/Modern masterpieces and Iranian… Read More
13 May 2016
Auctionata And Paddle8 Announce Global Merger Despite Shill Bidding Accusations
Auctionata the German based online auctioneers and Paddle8 have announced that they are merging to create the largest online art,… Read More
13 May 2016
Photo Feature: Dense Mesh: Exploring The Global Technological Apparatus At Carroll/Fletcher
Carroll/Fletcher is currently presenting ‘Dense Mesh’, a group exhibition of seven artists exploring technological progression in society via a collective… Read More
13 May 2016
Francois Morellet Kinetic and Neon Art Pioneer Dies aged 90
The French Kinetic and Neon artist Francois Morellet has died age 90. Morellet’s work is currently on show in London at two west end galleries,
12 May 2016
A-list Artists Prove Value At Sotheby’s £167,689,576 Contemporary Art Sale
Sotheby’s evening sale of Contemporary Art in New York has achieved a staggering $242,194,000 £167,689,576.22 The result included several record… Read More
12 May 2016
Turner Prize Shortlisted Nominees Announced For 2016 Award
Tate Britain has announced the four artists shortlisted for the Turner Prize 2016, which will be held in London. The… Read More
12 May 2016
RIBA Announces 30 Buildings Considered For Inaugural RIBA International Prize
RIBA has announced the 30 buildings selected to be visited by the RIBA awards committee this summer under consideration for the inaugural RIBA… Read More
11 May 2016
Rachel Maclean To Represent Scotland At 57 Venice Biennale
The British Council Scotland has announced that Rachel Maclean will represent Scotland at the 2017 Venice Biennale. The Scotland + Venice partnership… Read More
11 May 2016
Jean-Michel Basquiat Sets £40m World Auction Record At Christie’s
Christies Post-War and Contemporary Art evening sale in New York has realised a total US $318,388,000 / £220,796,117 /€279,086,291. The sell-through rates… Read More
11 May 2016
Auguste Rodin Marble Sells For £14m In Otherwise Disappointing Sotheby’s Sale
A marble statue by the French sculptor Auguste Rodin has sold at Sotheby’s, New York for a record $20.4m (£14m)…. Read More
10 May 2016
Japanese Vagina Artist Megumi Igarashi Found Guilty In Obscenity Trial
Megumi Igarashi, the Japanese artist best known for her vagina shaped construction of a kayak has been convicted after a high-profile obscenity… Read More
10 May 2016
London Design Museum Auction Raises Over £1m For New Kensington Building
Phillips has successfully hosted a Design Auction to benefit the new Design Museum in Kensington London. The sale has raised over £1.1 million towards… Read More
10 May 2016
Maurizio Cattelan Kneeling Hitler Sculpture Breaks Auction Record At Christie’s
Maurizio Cattelan’s statue of Hitler on his knees has broken auction records for a work by the artist. It was… Read More
9 May 2016
Frieze NY Round-Up Lizanne Merrill Spots Sparkle At A Lacklustre Fair
The New York iteration of London’s seminal Frieze art fair event, held on the idyllic landscape of Randalls Island was… Read More
9 May 2016
Bienal de Sao Paulo 32 Prepares To Open In September
The Bienal de São Paulo readies for its grand opening on September 10 – December 11, 2016. The event was… Read More
8 May 2016
Car Boot Sale Painting Sells For £92k At Rosebery’s London
London Auctioneers, Rosebery’s enjoyed a classic rags to riches story during their specialist Islamic & Indian Arts auction on Friday… Read More
8 May 2016
Julian Schnabel To Leave Gagosian And Return To Pace
Julian Schnabel the New York multidisciplinary artist best known for his paintings in the 1980s is to leave Gagosian and return to… Read More
8 May 2016
Frieze Week NY: Eleven Satellite Fairs To Get Excited About This Weekend
1) NADA: Its fifth Edition welcomes 105 exhibitors from 44 cities in 18 countries. Organized the New Art Dealers Alliance nonprofit, the… Read More
7 May 2016
Monumenta Paris Unveils Huang Yong Ping’s 2016 Installation
Huang Yong Ping unveils this year’s Monumenta commission on Sunday 8 May. Since 2007, Monumenta has invited an artist with an international… Read More
7 May 2016
Marcel Duchamp National Treasure Goes Under The Hammer In Paris
The Impressionist and Modern art sale at Artcurial in Paris is offering the seminal oil painting on panel, Nu sur nu by Marcel Duchamp…. Read More
7 May 2016
L.S. Lowry Paintings Owned By Cilla Black To Be Auctioned At Sotheby’s
Sotheby’s will present at auction three outstanding works by L.S. Lowry,this June. One of Britain’s best-loved artists, from the collection… Read More
6 May 2016
British Artists Emin, Gormley And Hodgkin Unveil Major New York Exhibitions
Three major British artists, Antony Gormley, Tracey Emin and Howard Hodgkin have unveiled exhibitions in New York in time for… Read More
6 May 2016
Maurizio Cattelan: Solid Gold Toilet Blockage At NY’s Guggenheim
The Italian/American artist Maurizio Cattelan has often been described as the art world’s resident prankster and provocateur. He now emerges… Read More
5 May 2016
Stanley Spencer: Early Drawings To Be Displayed In Hepworth Wakefield Exhibition
The Hepworth Wakefield, Yorkshire’s award-winning art gallery, has uncovered a sketchbook by the artist Stanley Spencer dating from 1907 containing the earliest… Read More
5 May 2016
Palestinian Museum Appoints Dr Mahmoud Hawari As First Director General
The appointment of Dr Mahmoud Hawari as the Director General of the new $30m Palestinian Museum located in Ramallah Palestine has been… Read More
5 May 2016