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Met’s Art and Antiques Unit Suspended Until Further Notice
If this story is true and I have no doubt it is, Scotland Yard may be closing its internationally renowned Art and Antiques Unit. Vernon Rapley...
Kara Walker Artist Statement Keeps The Motor Running On Civilization
The African American artist Kara Walker who is presenting her latest show at Sikkema Jenkins and Co in New York has written a serious though...
David Roberts To Close Camden Gallery And Open Somerset Sculpture Park
David Roberts the Scottish collector is to close his Camden Town project space in London. Opened in 2012 in a disused 19th-century furniture factory...
New Private Fotografiska Photography Museum To Open In London’s White Chapel District
A new Photography Museum is to open in London’s East End near the White Chapel Gallery. Swedish photography curator Fotografiska's first gallery...
Grenfell Tower To Be Covered And Projected With Drawings By Local Children
Grenfell Tower is to be covered in a white material and projected with drawings by local children lighting up the structure at night. This is a stop...
Stolen Willem de Kooning Painting Returns To Museum After 32 Years
Willem de Kooning’s iconic “Woman-Ochre,” which was stolen in 1985, has been returned to the University of Arizona Museum of Art by a good Samaritan...
Yayoi Kusama Museum To Open In Tokyo This October
Yayoi Kusama the creator of polka-dot “infinity” rooms and outsider paintings has announced she is to open her own dedicated museum in her hometown,...
Matisse vs The Multi-Cultural Multi-Ethnic 21st Century Art World – Edward Lucie-Smith
I went to see the R.A.’s new Matisse show, but not at the press view, as I was abroad. I did go very shortly after it opened. Not unexpectedly, it...
Lost Alberto Giacometti Drawings Auctioned To Benefit The Art Fund
Two original drawings by the artist, Alberto Giacometti have been discovered in the inventory of a deceased English antique dealer. They are to go...
Roundhouse Summer Project: Wayne McGregor Curates Random International
The international choreographer and director Wayne McGregor is curating a major new series at the Roundhouse with Random International. The...
Christie’s Photography Sales To Include MoMa And Thomas Koerfer Collections
Christie’s Paris has announced that it will offer Photographs from the Thomas Koerfer Collection,” comprising 74 lots led by the emblematic Man Ray...
Art Power-Couple Dasha Zhukova And Roman Abramovich To Split
Art power couple Dasha Zhukova and Roman Abramovich have announced that they are to split. The Russian billionaire power-couple founded Garage...