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Cornelia Parker Selected As Official Election Artist For Parliamentary Art Collection
Cornelia Parker has been named as the official artist for the 2017 general election. This has been a tradition since 2001 when the portrait painter...
Vito Acconci Seminal Performance Art Pioneer Dies Aged 77
Vito Acconci the New York-born Brooklyn-based conceptual and performance artist has died age 77. He is best known for his seminal art performances. ...
Art Fund Museum of the Year 2017 Finalists Announced
The Art Fund has announced the five museums which have been selected as finalists for Art Fund Museum of the Year 2017, the most prestigious prize...
V&A Announces DesignLab Nation National Programme To Support Design Education
The Victoria & Albert Museum (V&A) have announced DesignLab Nation, a national programme to support design education for 11 to 16-year-olds,...
IM Pei Leading Late-Modernist Architect Celebrates His 100th Birthday
IM Pei the Chinese-American architect is 100 today. Born, Leoh Ming Pei on the 26 April 1917 in Guangzhou, China, he moved to the US to study...
Arts Council Collection Unveils 2017 List Of Works Acquired For The Nation
The Arts Council Collection has unveiled the full list of 45 works by 29 artists that it has acquired for the nation in 2016-2017. Among the...
Online Art Trade Report Shows Art Market Sales Reach £2.92 Billion
Online art market sales have reached £2.92 Billion $3.75 billion. This is up 15% according to Hiscox, who commissioned the report. The increase of a...
Bristol’s Arnolfini Appoints Claire Doherty As New Director
The Board of Trustees at Arnolfini have announced that Claire Doherty has been appointed as the new Director, following the departure of Kate...
Antony Gormley Denies UEA Sculptures Have Suicidal Subtext
The Turner Prize-winning artist Sir Antony Gormley has spoken for the first time about criticisms of his latest installation at the University of...
Tate Announces Autumn Opening Date For Expanded St Ives Gallery
Tate has announced the 14 October 2017 as the opening date for the newly expanded St Ives gallery. The four-year building project will have...
African American Black Power Painter Barkley Hendricks Dies at 72
Barkley Hendricks the well known African American painter and photographer who evoked the spirit of everyday Black People, in his life-size...
Alistair Burtenshaw Appointed New Director of The Watts Gallery Trust
The Watts Gallery Trust has announced that Alistair Burtenshaw has been appointed as the new Director of Watts Gallery – Artists’ Village and will...