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Frank Dunphy: Damien Hirst Manager’s Art Collection Sells For Millions At Sotheby’s
Sotheby’s, London, have sold the collection of Damien Hirst's business manager, mentor and ‘partner in crime’, Frank Dunphy for a total of...
Steve McQueen To Document London’s Year Three Classes For Art’s Sake
Steve McQueen the Turner Prize and Oscar-winning filmmaker together with Tate Britain, Artangel and A New Direction, have announced one of the...
Edward Hopper: Controversial Chop Suey Painting To Be Auctioned At Christie’s
Edward Hopper’s Chop Suey, 1929, one of the most important works by the artist still in private hands is to go under the hammer at Christie's NY,...
V&A Dundee – Kuma’s Ship Brings Cultural Riches To Scotland – Paul Black
Illuminated by undulating light from the Firth of Tay, and set against a Scottish blue sky - the V&A Dundee is Scotland's impressive new design...
David Hockney’s £80m Splash To Go Under The Hammer At Christie’s
One of David Hockney’s most important paintings from the 1970s is to go under the hammer at Christie’s. Portrait of an Artist (Pool with Two...
Urs Fischer Immortalises Roman Abramovich Ex Wife Dasha Zhukova In Wax
The Swiss contemporary artist Urs Fischer has created a life-size wax sculpture of the art collector, curator and director of the Garage Museum of...
Behold The Botch Job: Latest Spanish Restoration Destroys 15th Century Sculptures
Two 15th Century wooden sculptures in a Spanish church have been unsympathetically restored by an over-enthusiastic parishioner in an amateur botch...
Sean Scully Exhibition Announced By National Gallery London
The National Gallery London has just announced an exhibition of new work by Irish-born, American-based contemporary artist Sean Scully (b.1945)....
Bonhams Auction House Acquired By Epiris Fund II
Epiris Fund II, a private equity fund has announced the acquisition of Bonhams, the global auction house. It was purchased from private...
Hix Award 2018 Announces Winners For Prestigious £10k Prize
The highly regarded chef and restaurateur Mark Hix has announced the winner for this year’s 2018 HIX Award, the nationally acclaimed competition for...
C R Mackintosh: Rebirth Of The Willow Tea Rooms Glasgow – Clare Henry
Over a hundred years after it first opened, C R Mackintosh's Willow Tearooms has been revived, restored, remade and reborn. Again in the limelight,...
Uncheapening By Stealth: Should Our Museums Remain Free? – Edward Lucie-Smith
I don’t often read the financial sections of newspapers. I’m too dim and out of touch for that. Occasionally, however, when flipping through the...