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Henry Moore Masterpiece Old Flo Reinstated By Tower Hamlets Mayor
A bronze sculpture by Henry Moore that was the subject of an ownership battle when corrupt former mayor Lutfer Rahman attempted to sell it for...
Howard Hodgkin Estate Sale Soars At Sotheby’s
“The response to the sale has been quite remarkable, and I think Howard would have been taken aback by it" - Antony Peattie A testament to the...
UK Holocaust Memorial Design Awarded To David Adjaye And Ron Arad
The British architect Sir David Adjaye and the Israeli architect Ron Arad have been awarded the commission to design the UK's National Holocaust...
Mona Hatoum Selected For Whitechapel’s Art Icon Award 2018
Mona Hatoum (b. 1952) is the fifth artist to receive the prestigious annual Art Icon award at the Whitechapel Gallery. The Art Icon 2018 award will...
Bloomberg Launches Art-worthy New European Headquarters
I have just returned from an outing to Bloomberg's new European headquarters in London and it certainly doesn't disappoint. The building designed by...
Missing Matisse Cut-Outs To Be Returned To Artist’s Heirs
Two cut-outs by the Post Impressionist artist Henri Matisse ‘White Palm on Red’ and ‘Green Snail on Blue’, valued at $4.5 million are to be returned...
Stolen Stanley Spencer Painting Worth £1m Recovered From Drugs Den
A painting by Sir Stanley Spencer titled Cookham from Englefield, that was stolen five years ago from the Stanley Spencer Gallery in Berkshire has...
Major Sean Scully Exhibition Set To Tour Russia
The internationally acclaimed abstract artist Sean Scully is to launch a major touring exhibition in Russia following a series of highly successful...
2017 Canadian Biennial Unveiled At National Gallery of Canada
The 2017 Canadian Biennial opens today at the National Gallery of Canada. More than 100 recent acquisitions of Canadian and Indigenous contemporary...
Piotr Pavlensky Arrested For Arson Attack On Paris Banque de France
Update Thursday 19 October: Pyotr Pavlensky and his partner Oksana Shalygina have been detained, and placed in pre-trial detention, in Paris,...
Grenfell Tower Art Auction Raises £1.9m At Sotheby’s
London: An auction held at Sotheby’s in aid of survivors of the Grenfell Tower fire has raised £1.9m. Thirty one lots donated by artists including...
Auguste Rodin: $12m Masterpiece Missing Since 1920 Found In New Jersey
A long-lost marble bust by Auguste Rodin depicting Napoleon Bonaparte, has turned up in a municipal building in Madison, New Jersey. The major work...