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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...
Roald Dahl’s Francis Bacon Studies To Be Auctioned Estimate $50-$70m
Francis Bacon’s Three Studies for a Portrait of George Dyer, 1963 will be a featured highlight at Christie’s in its May 17 Post-War and Contemporary...
Jasper Johns Stolen Drawings Case Fred Dorfman Gallery Sued
A Canadian gallery has brought a federal complaint against a New York art dealer alleging he tried to give works by the American ‘Pop’ artist Jasper...
Doug Aitken Unveils Ranch Style House Mirage In Palm Springs
Doug Aitken, the American artist and filmmaker whose work explores mediums, from sculpture, film, installation to architectural intervention has...
Queer City Recreates London Club Culture 1918-1967 In New London Installation
Photographs, court reports, police papers and witness statements on The Caravan and other clubs of the era will be used to re-create the striking...
Pink Martini Van With Original Kenny Scharf Murals Destroyed By Thieves
The Latin/World Music band Pink Martini have recovered their stolen van which was handprinted by the artist Kenny Scharf. Only problem, the van has...
Anish Kapoor Unveils Pro Immigration Poster In LA’s Union Station
Anish Kapoor, The Turner Prize-winning artist has has unveiled his subtle protest reworking of Joseph Beuys’ seminal work, "I Like America...