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Nicholas Serota Quits Ben Uri Advisory Panel Over Collection Deaccession
We reported 0n 30th October that the Ben Uri Gallery trustees had decided to de-access around 700 artworks, in order to fund wider plans to include...
Paul Hamlyn Foundation Announces Awards To UK Visual Artists And Composers
The Paul Hamlyn Foundation have unveiled the Ten visual artists and composers living and working in the UK who will each receive £60,000 with no...
Billion Dollar Week For Christie’s And Sotheby’s As Iconic Works Smash Records
It's been a week of record-breaking sales for the two leading auction houses Christie's and Sotheby's recording billion dollar sales totals and...
RCA Secret 2018: Postcard Masterpieces Return At £60 A Pop
Once again it's RCA Secret time where the public is invited to try and spot the named artists from the students in order to acquire a...
David Hockney Pool Painting Breaks All Records For Living Artist $90 312 500
A David Hockney painting depicting an iconic landscape with swimming pool has broken world records in New York. Portrait of an Artist (Pool with Two...
Cerith Wyn Evans Wins The Second Hepworth Prize For Sculpture
Cerith Wyn Evans has won The Hepworth Prize For Sculpture now in its second edition. This year’s shortlisted artists were Michael Dean, Mona Hatoum,...
Street Artist Ron English Buys Banksy Slave Labour Mural To Whitewash
The US Street Artist Ron English has purchased Banksy's Poundland wall mural 'Slave Labour' for £561,000, with the plan to whitewash over the...
Michel Comte Multimedia Arctic Installation Commissioned By Wavelength Foundation
Responding to an international call to the global arts and culture community, acclaimed artist and photographer Michel Comte will be the first...
Hopper’s Iconic Chop Suey Painting Achieves $91,875,000 In Blockchain Sale
Important paintings from the Barney A. Ebsworth Collection totalled $317,801,250, at Christie's, last night with record prices achieved for the...
Rijksmuseum Marks 350th Anniversary of Rembrandt’s Death With New Exhibition
Rijksmuseum marks the 350th anniversary of Rembrandt’s death in 2019 with ‘Year of Rembrandt’. The year-long celebration opens with All the...
Paris Photo Closes 22nd Edition With Robust Sales And Optimism
Paris Photo, the well established fair dedicated to the photographic medium, closed the doors to its 22nd edition on Sunday 11 November, following...
Ashurbanipal – Assyrian King of the World – British Museum – Edward Lucie-Smith
The new Ashurbanipal show at the British Museum raises all sorts of questions in one’s mind – some of them discomforting. It consists of an...