Jean Michel Basquiat Painting Primed To Reach $30m At Christie’s
The upcoming May evening sales in New York at Christie’s have unveiled their centrepiece for the 21st-century evening sale: Jean-Michel… Read More
15 April 2024
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Emma Cousin: Interview of the Month February 2024 – Paul Carey-Kent
Emma Cousin’s show ‘Tunnel Vision’ is the first in Niru Ratnam’s new space in Fitzrovia. The vibrant paintings were made either side of her giving birth…
2 February 2024
Van Gogh And His Contemporaries An Artistic Revolution Along the Seine – Mariella Guzzoni
Van Gogh along the Seine is the title of the new exhibition now open at the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, concluding the Museum’s 50th anniversary year
6 November 2023
Charmaine Watkiss: Interview of the Month August 2022 – Paul Carey-Kent
Charmaine Watkiss is the daughter of Jamaicans who came to post-war Britain in the 1960s when immigration from former colonies was encouraged to help with the significant labour shortage.
1 August 2022
Frank Auerbach: Head of E.O.W.II – Significant Works – Sue Hubbard
The painter Frank Auerbach, sent in 1939 to England learned years later, that his parents had perished in Auschwitz.
25 January 2022
Anish Kapoor: A Painter Working As A Sculptor – Modern Art Oxford
Modern Art Oxford has announced a new exhibition of paintings by the internationally celebrated artist Anish Kapoor
26 July 2021
Banksy Unveils New Painting Honouring George Floyd’s Memory
The elusive Street Artist Banksy has unveiled a new artwork inspired by the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis.
6 June 2020
Salvator Mundi Loan Declined For Louvre Da Vinci Exhibition
Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, named as the buyer of the highly contentious Salvator Mundi painting by Leonardo da Vinci has declined the loan of the painting to the Louvre in Paris for the large Da Vinci 500 Years show, set for this Autumn.
30 May 2019
Daniel Richter: Why German Painting Still Dominates Europe – Edward Lucie-Smith
A new exhibition of paintings by Daniel Richter at Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac exemplifies the way in which German painting has become dominant in Europe.
11 September 2018
Dale Lewis And Emma Cousin The Painterly Post Digital Vernacular – Paul Carey-Kent
The story of painting has become, in large part, the story of its response to other media, especially photography.
12 February 2018
Turner’s Relationship To The Sun In Paintings Explored In Hampshire Exhibition
The sun appears in many different guises in Turner’s work. Sometimes it is something very natural and elemental, at others, it is more mysterious and mystical. Turner was working in an era when the sun – what it was, what it was made of and the source of its power – was still a source of mystery and wonder.
7 June 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
Mersad Berber: Pera Museum Launches An Opulent Allegory of Bosnia
Mersad Berber (1940 – 2012) is one of the greatest and the most significant representatives of Bosnian – Herzegovinian and Yugoslav art in the second half of the 20th century
25 February 2017
Maria Lassnig New Painting Survey 1950 – 2007 At Hauser & Wirth London
A new survey exhibition of painting by Maria Lassnig, at Hauser & Wirth, spanning a period from the 1950s to the end of the artist’s life opens in early March.
17 February 2017
Andrew Salgado Talks Painting Ahead Of His Forthcoming London Survey Exhibition
ANDREW SALGADO (b.1982, Canada) is one of the most promising young figurative painters working today. His forthcoming solo exhibition TEN is a survey of his work at The Canadian High Commission, Trafalgar Square, London. The show opens this week (Jan-Feb 2017) an artist monograph of the same name accompanies the show. – Interview
11 January 2017
American Depression Era Painting Chronicled In New Royal Academy Exhibition
America after the Fall: Painting in the 1930s is a new RA exhibition chronicling the turbulent economic, political and aesthetic climate that dominated the decade following the Wall Street Crash of 1929.
28 November 2016
Stolen Picasso Cubist Masterpiece Returns To The Pompidou
A Picasso oil painting valued at $15m (£10m), that was stolen from a Paris museum 14 years ago has been returned by US… Read More
14 August 2015
Antiques Roadshow Van Dyck To Go Under The Hammer At Christie’s
Christie’s has announced that a striking head study by Sir Anthony van Dyck (1599-1641), which was recently re-discovered on the… Read More
30 May 2014
Ian Dury: Royal College Graduate Honoured With Retrospective Exhibition
Jemima Dury, the daughter of the late, great musician/songwriter and visual artist, has spent the last two years putting together… Read More
4 July 2013
George W Bush Joins David Hockney In Creating Tablet Art
This week former president George W Bush dedicated his library and Museum to the US nation. It has become an… Read More
2 May 2013