Gerry Judah Creates Massive Sculpture For Goodwood Festival Of Speed 2014
The artist Gerry Judah has created a monumental motor racing themed sculpture for this years Goodwood Festival of Speed. Mercedes-Benz… Read More
1 July 2014
Archives: News
Record Price For Francis Bacon Triptych And Peter Doig At Sotheby’s
Sotheby’s London was again breaking records this evening when a rare Francis Bacon triptych of George Dyer attracted bids from… Read More
1 July 2014
Glastonbury Festival Archive Donated To V&A For Future Generations
The Victoria and Albert Museum in Kensington has acquired the Glastonbury Festival Archive. The V&A has announced a collaboration with… Read More
30 June 2014
START Art Fair’s First Edition Ends On A High Note
London’s latest contemporary art fair START has ended on a high note, after receiving universal praise for its fresh approach…. Read More
30 June 2014
Tracey Emin Unmade Bed Goes Under The Hammer At Christie’s 1 July
Tracey Emin’s unmade, My Bed, 1998 goes under the hammer at Christie’s tomorrow and is expected to realise in excess… Read More
30 June 2014
Banksy Spy Booth: Stop Notice Could Be Issued By Cheltenham Council
Cheltenham Borough Council have not ruled out placing a stop notice on a Grade II building in order to prevent… Read More
29 June 2014
MANIFESTA 10 Opens To The Public In Contentious St Petersburg Russia
MANIFESTA 10 opened to the public yesterday on 28 June 2014, in St. Petersburg, Russia. As a location, St. Petersburg… Read More
29 June 2014
Picasso Mandolin And Guitar: The Mystery Of A Hidden Portrait
Picasso once said, “Art is a lie that tells the truth”, this statement offers great insight into his painting “Mandolin… Read More
28 June 2014
Banksy Mural Removal Could Damage Cheltenham Grade II Listed Building
The people responsible for removing a Banksy mural from a wall in Cheltenham may be acting illegaly under Section 9… Read More
27 June 2014
Masterpiece London Preview Announces Sales In Excess of £40m
Masterpiece London’s top art and antiques fair which is often compared to Maastricht has opened with reports of strong sales… Read More
27 June 2014
Ikon Celebrates 50th Anniversary With Best Of Paintings, Sculpture And Installation
Birmingham’s Ikon Gallery is marking its 50th anniversary with a best of exhibition survey of Ikon’s programme from the 1980s,… Read More
27 June 2014
Warhol, Doig And Bacon Star In Sotheby’s Contemporary Art Evening Sale
The market continues to storm ahead, ravenous for great works by great artists. This sale – one of the most… Read More
26 June 2014
Smiljan Radic Combines Flintstone With Jetson To Create New Serpentine Pavilion
Smiljan Radić has unveiled the fourteenth Serpentine temporary Pavilion located outside the entrance to the Serpentine Gallery in Kensington Gardens…. Read More
25 June 2014
London Art Book Fair 2014 Returns To The Whitechapel In September
The London Art Book Fair celebrates the best of international contemporary art publishing. Exhibitors include galleries, booksellers, colleges and leading… Read More
25 June 2014
Christie’s Reveals £86m Impressionist and Modern Evening Sales Figures
Christies London has released the results for the Impressionist and Modern Art Evening sale which took place on 24 June … Read More
25 June 2014
BP Portrait Award 2014 Thomas Ganter Announced Winner At NPG
The winner of the BP Portrait Award 2014 was announced last night at the National Portrait Gallery. The first prize… Read More
25 June 2014
Phyllida Barlow Presented As Inaugural Hauser & Wirth Somerset Exhibition
Phyllida Barlow’s ‘GIG’, is set to be the inaugural exhibition at Hauser & Wirth Somerset. Following Barlow’s critically acclaimed Duveen… Read More
24 June 2014
Start Of A New London Fair: Start Announces Inaugural Fair Dates
START Art Fair, has announced the appointment of its Fair Director, Niru Ratnam, and the final list of exhibiting galleries… Read More
24 June 2014
Claude Monet Water Lilies Achieves £31m At Sotheby’s Evening Sale
Sotheby’s evening sale of Impressionist and Modern Art in London has achieved a total of £121,957,000 / $207,875,707 / €152,555,889… Read More
24 June 2014
Dr Nicolas Penny To Retire As Director of London’s National Gallery
The Director of the National Gallery, London, Dr Nicolas Penny has announced his intention to retire from his role in… Read More
23 June 2014
Frank Gehry’s Vuitton Foundation Set To Open In October 2014
Bernard Arnault’s Louis Vuitton Foundation will open its doors to the public on Monday, 27 October 2014. The building, designed… Read More
23 June 2014
Cave of Pont d’Arc Added To World Heritage List Of Cultural Properties
The Decorated Cave of Pont-d’Arc known as Grotte Chauvet has been added to the World Heritage List of cultural properties… Read More
23 June 2014
Art Basel 45 Retains Its Supremacy In The Art Marketplace
Summing up the 2014 Art Basel fair is a daunting task. The fair founded in Switzerland has ended with galleries… Read More
23 June 2014
Inside Camberwell’s 2014 BA Degree Exhibition
Camberwell Student Florence Goodhand-Tait Scribbles Down Her Perspectives And Shares A Few Photos – What I enjoy most about Camberwell… Read More
22 June 2014
Travis Jeppesen Explores Object-oriented Writing Installations And Performances In New London Exhibition
Travis Jeppesen, who I recently met at his performance at the Cubitt Gallery in Islington, posits the notion of ‘editionality’… Read More
22 June 2014
Richard Tuttle To Have His Largest UK Survey Exhibition In October
The American sculptor and poet Richard Tuttle will have his UK’s largest ever survey in London this October. It will… Read More
22 June 2014
Fair Cop: Art Basel 2014 Ben Austin’s Final Words
I met up with the bunch of ‘kunsts’ being Sam Roddick, James Oster Antony Micallef and their friend Lindsay outside… Read More
21 June 2014
Glasgow School of Art Fire Appeal Joined By Brad Pitt and Peter Capaldi
A high profile endorsement from Hollywood actor Brad Pitt and the latest Dr Who, Peter Capaldi has fast tracked the… Read More
21 June 2014
Jane Morris Explored In New Liverpool Pre-Raphaelite Exhibition
A new exhibition titled Rossetti’s Obsession at the Lady Lever Art Gallery in Liverpool gives a small insight into Jane… Read More
21 June 2014
Jenny Saville: First Ever Solo Exhibition Opens In London
The first-ever solo exhibition, in London of work by the artist Jenny Saville has opened at the Gagosian Gallery. Captivated… Read More
20 June 2014
Renzo Piano’s Shard Wins Prestigious RIBA Award For Architectural Excellence
RIBA has unveiled the winners of the 2014 Royal Institute of British Architects National Awards. This is the most rigorously-judged… Read More
20 June 2014
The Void And Emptiness Explored In New London Group Exhibition
The Space Where I Am is a new group show at Blain Southern exploring ideas of the void and emptiness… Read More
19 June 2014