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Sotheby’s Spring 2017 Contemporary Art Sale Reinforces Art Market Strength
Sotheby’s Spring London Contemporary Art Evening Auction in London out-shined predicted estimates to total £118,015,150 – an increase of 70% (GBP) /...
Christie’s To Close South-Ken Salesroom Despite Art Evening Auction Achieving $117,781,248
Christie’s record-shattering Contemporary sale in London last night has not halted downsizing of their operations in London and Amsterdam. The...
Milton Avery Estate To Be Represented By Victoria Miro In Europe
Today, 7 March is Milton Avery’s 132 birthday. Avery was one of the most important homegrown modernist painters in America before modernism was...
Controversial Francis Bacon Crucifixion Drawings Go On Display In London Church
Last year a Gallery in Mayfair exhibited a selection of drawings and collages from the Cristiano Lovatelli Ravarino collection of works by Francis...
Gerald Scarfe Political Cartoons To Be Auctioned At Sotheby’s
Gerald Scarfe (b. 1936) will be selling a chunk of his political cartoons at Sotheby’s in April. Over 130 drawings by this important caricaturist...
Banksy Walled Off Hotel His biggest Project Since Dismaland
Banksy, the elusive British street artist has opened a hotel next to Israel's brutalist style wall in Bethlehem. This is the latest artwork by a key...
Gustav Metzger Creator Of Auto-Destructive Art Dies In London Aged 90
Gustav Metzger, (1926–2017) creator of “auto-destructive art,” has died in London aged ninety. Metzger made a number of works, ranging from...
Manifesta 12 Appoints Team of Four international, interdisciplinary Creative Mediators
The selection of Rotterdam-based Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA) as the Manifesta 12 team for urban studies in Palermo, Sicily, has been...
Sotheby’s Breaks Ceiling Achieving Highest Total For Any London Auction
Sotheby’s has achieved the highest total for any auction ever staged in London. The Impressionist, Modern & Surrealist Art Evening...
Facebook Bans Painting By Leading Australian Artist Charles Blackman For Indecency
Facebook is at it again! The taste and moral police have blocked an Australian auction house from advertising a well-known figurative painter's work...
Global Art Sales Fall 22% As Market Reacts To Trump And Brexit
Global art sales are down by 22% from 2015, as the Art market reacts to a turbulent year with the election of Donald Trump and Brexit. The number of...
Ashley Bickerton Solo Show Announced For Damien Hirst’s Newport Street Gallery
The Newport Street Gallery has announced their next solo exhibition which follows Gavin Turk’s successful exhibition at Damien Hirst’s private Art...