Sculptor Anish Kapoor To Use Blackest Black Ever

Sculptor Anish Kapoor To Use Blackest Black Ever

Acclaimed sculptor Anish Kapoor, renowned for the use of colour and pigments in his production of his sculpture, is embracing the newly invented blackest black ever created, The artificial substance Vantablack which was created by London-based Surrey NanoSystems,...
Seoul’s Gallery Seomi Owner Arrested By Authorities

Seoul’s Gallery Seomi Owner Arrested By Authorities

Some say that the artworld is the most unregulated industry next to that of the illegal drugs trade. The controversial Hong Song-won, owner of Seoul’s Gallery Seomi, has been arrested over suspicions that she sold artworks ordered to be seized by a Seoul court, the...

Christie’s Multiplied Launches For Frieze Week

MULTIPLIED is the UK’s only art fair dedicated to contemporary prints and editions. The fair is in its The fifth instalment; returning to Christie’s, South Kensington this autumn. The event will be open to the public from 17-20 October, and will take place...

Jeff Koons Is Going Back To School

Controversial American artist Jeff Koons is going back to school. An elementary school in Sunnyside, Queens, New York, is now offering an extracurricular art class for children inspired by the works of Koons. After all, the teachers say, the contemporary mater’s...

Ai Weiwei Is Filling Alcatraz With A LEGO Showcase

There is something resolutely apposite about Chinese activist-artist Ai Weiwei exhibiting in the derelict Alcatraz island prison, considering the artist’s ‘difficult’ – yet seemingly quite beneficial – relationship with the Chinese...