UK Creative Industries Out Perform Financial Services In £71.4bn Bumper Year
This week official statistics were published by the DCMS revealing that the UK’s creative industries are now worth £71.4 billion… Read More
19 January 2014
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Delfina Foundation Relaunches After £1.4m Redevelopment
The Culture Minister Ed Vaizey, and artists Jane & Louise Wilson were amongst those attending the re-launch of Delfina Foundation… Read More
18 January 2014
Art of The Surreal Christie’s Offers Key Works In February Auction
Christie’s highly anticipated annual evening sale ‘The Art of The Surreal’ will take place on 4 February, presenting some of… Read More
18 January 2014
Elizabeth Ogilvie Creates An Immersive Installation At Ambika P3
Out of Ice portrays the psychological, physical and poetic dimensions of ice and water in a vast immersive installation in… Read More
18 January 2014
Peckham Space Relaunches As Peckham Platform With Ruth Beale’s Bookbed
Peckham Space recently took the exciting step of becoming a charity, independent from the University of the Arts London. Rebranded… Read More
17 January 2014
Jeremy Deller Exhibits His 2013 Venice Biennale Pavilion Work In London
The UK’s first opportunity to see the Turner Prize winning artist Jeremy Deller’s installation for the 2013 Venice Biennale will… Read More
17 January 2014
Hannah Rickard Major New Exhibition Announced For Modern Art Oxford
“Everything within this exhibition is to do with an uncertainty in language and how we might try to articulate a… Read More
17 January 2014
Frank Lloyd Wright Usonian House To Be Relocated To Crystal Bridges Museum
The Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art has purchased an important Frank Lloyd Wright Usonian house, built in 1954 along… Read More
17 January 2014
Chris Marker : First UK Retrospective Announced For The Whitechapel Gallery
Chris Marker is widely acknowledged as the finest exponent of the ‘essay film’ and is best known as the director… Read More
16 January 2014
Important Gerhard Richter Abstract Expected To Reach £15m At Sotheby’s
Sotheby’s Contemporary Art Evening Sale in London in February will be led by an exceptional abstract painting by Gerhard Richter…. Read More
16 January 2014
Phillip Prodger Appointed Curator of Photography At National Portrait Gallery
The National Portrait Gallery, London, has appointed Phillip Prodger, founding Curator of Photography at the Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, Massachusetts,… Read More
15 January 2014
Francis Bacon Portrait of Lover George Dyer To Be Auctioned
A major portrait by Francis Bacon will be offered at Christie’s in their upcoming Post-War and Contemporary Art Evening Auction… Read More
15 January 2014
British Museum 255 Year Anniversary Honoured With Google Doodle
The British Museum is celebrating 255 years today (opening 15 January 1759) with a good news report recording record numbers… Read More
15 January 2014
Mario Testino Presented With Honorary OBE By Culture Minister Ed Vaizey
Mario Testino the Peruvian-born photographer was today presented with an honorary OBE (Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the… Read More
15 January 2014
Ryan Gander Creates New Works For Erno Goldfinger’s Willow Road House
Ryan Gander has often chosen intriguing environments over traditional galleries to exhibit his work. His 2011 ‘Locked Room Scenario’ installation,… Read More
14 January 2014
Simon Fujiwara Explores A New Breed of British Born Warrior
The Contemporary Art Society have announced Simon Fujiwara as the next artist to exhibit as part of their DISPLAYS series…. Read More
14 January 2014
Major Arte Povera Exhibition To Be Mounted By Christie’s London
Arte Povera artists filled galleries with animals and decaying matter decades before Damien Hirst and Tracey Emin. With its idea… Read More
14 January 2014
Lady Randolph Churchill Portrait By John Singer Sargent Offered By Provincial Auctioneers
Nye and Company a small New Jersey auctioneers has announced the sale of an extraordinary and historic work by the… Read More
13 January 2014
Pussy Riot To Attend Prudential Eye Awards In Singapore
The inaugural Prudential Eye Awards celebrate and recognise artistic talent from across greater Asia and will be held at Singapore’s… Read More
13 January 2014
Art Dubai Announces Participating Artists For Projects 2014
Art Dubai Projects includes artists and collectives from the Middle East, North Africa and Asia, commissioned to create new works… Read More
13 January 2014
Tate Announces Shortlist For New Digital Industry IK Prize
The four shortlisted entries for the first IK Prize, a new annual prize presented by Tate celebrating creative talent in… Read More
13 January 2014
Banksy Painting Sells To Chris Martin For $650k At Haitian Charity Auction
Sean Penn’s Help Haiti Home Gala, which took place last night at the Montage Beverly Hills, saw Coldplay’s Chris Martin… Read More
12 January 2014
Hangwoman : New Exhibition Explores The Arrested Feminine Through Contemporary Masculinity
Hangwoman, a new exhibition at the Schwartz Gallery explores the arrested feminine and looks into constructions of contemporary masculinity through… Read More
12 January 2014
Kate Moss At 40: Retrospective By Artist Russell Marshall Announced
Kate Moss has been one of the most photographed, enigmatic icons of our time, to Celebrate Beautiful Crime and Imitate… Read More
12 January 2014
Michelle Handelman Unveils Her Latest Cinematic Installation Irma Vep – Interview
Michelle Handelman creates provocative works that are both confrontational and visually stunning. She deftly plumbs the depths of human morality… Read More
12 January 2014
Stolen Renoir Painting Judgement: The Winner and The Loser
A Federal judge in the United States has ruled that a small painting by the French impressionist artist Pierre-Auguste Renoir… Read More
11 January 2014
Hepworth Wakefield Exhibition To Be Mounted At The London Art Fair
Major pieces from the collection of the Hepworth Wakefield, including several given to the gallery through the Art Fund, will… Read More
11 January 2014
Alex Van Gelder: Photo Studies Of Slaughterhouse Animal Remains
‘African butchers don’t use electric saws as Europeans do but cut up the meat by hand which produces a variety of styles.
10 January 2014
New York Artist Joyce Pensato To Exhibit At Lisson Gallery
Joyce Pensato paints exuberant, explosive large-scale likenesses of cartoon characters and comic-book heroes. Her seemingly frenzied technique – actually involving… Read More
10 January 2014
Art of Angel: A New Exhibition Below And Above Ground
Art Below are presenting their annual ‘Art of Angel’ exhibition which showcases a selection of outstanding international artists work on… Read More
9 January 2014
Damien Hirst Demonstrates That He’s Not Just Another Mickey Mouse Painter
A ‘Spot Painting’ of Mickey Mouse by Damien Hirst has been donated to the Kids Company charity by the artist…. Read More
9 January 2014
Dale Chihuly Presents New Exhibition At London’s Halcyon Gallery
A new exhibition by the glass sculptor Dale Chihuly will open at Halcyon Gallery on 8 February. Dale Chihuly: Beyond… Read More
9 January 2014