Beyond Basel A Final Glance At 2013 By Ilka Scobie
Barely recovered from Venetian art overload, we arrived in Zurich just in time for Galerie Eva Presenhuber’s dinner for Ugo… Read More
21 June 2013
Archives: News
Christies Sale Of Impressionist & Modern Art Realises Over £100m
Christies sale of Impressionist & Modern Art, held at their King Street London rooms, which took place on Tuesday 18… Read More
20 June 2013
Artists Explore The Blue Lagoon As A Vehicle For Multifaceted Associations
RICHARD HEALY, ALEXANDRA GORCZYNSKI , MIA GOYETTE and CALVIN SANGSTER are four artists who have been invited to respond to… Read More
20 June 2013
Katharina Fritsch Unveils Her Giant Blue Cock In Trafalgar Square
Katharina Fritsch has unveiled her fourth plinth commission (Thursday 25th July 2013) in London’s Trafalgar Square. The 4.7m high sculpture… Read More
20 June 2013
Sam Taylor Johnson’s Career Fades To Grey As Hollywood Beckons
The Turner Prize nominated Artist, Sam Taylor (Wood) – Johnson is to direct a film of the blockbuster erotic novel… Read More
20 June 2013
Impressionist & Modern Art At Sotheby’s Totals £106m Exceeding Expectations
Sotheby’s London Evening Sale held on 19 JUNE 2013 of Impressionist & Modern Art totalled £105,939,000, exceeding its pre-sale high estimate of £74-104 million.
20 June 2013
BP Portrait Prize Awarded To Susanne du Toit For 2013
Susanne du Toit has been awarded the BP Portrait Award 2013 prize. It was announced at the National Portrait Gallery… Read More
19 June 2013
Christopher Brown To Stand Down As Director Of The Ashmolean
The Ashmolean has announced that Professor Brown will retire from his post as Director of the Ashmolean on 30 September… Read More
19 June 2013
Alexander Calder And Fausto Melotti Examined In New London Exhibition
Ronchini Gallery is presenting a new exhibition titled; “Calder & Melotti: Children of the Sky”, from 11 October – 30… Read More
19 June 2013
New Windsor Castle Exhibition Explores Art Made By Kings And Queens
Britain’s kings, queens and their families have been inspired to paint, sketch and sculpt for generations . Now a new… Read More
18 June 2013
V&A’s Memory Palace Explores Fiction Imagined As A Walk-In Book
Memory Palace a new exhibition at London’s V&A Museum brings together a new work of fiction by the author Hari… Read More
18 June 2013
Saatchi Online Brand Damaged As Artists Remove Profiles Over Assault Caution
The Saatchi Online brand, which sells contemporary artist’s work online was dragged into the Nigella-Gate scandal today as several artists… Read More
18 June 2013
William Kentridge Prints Featured In Hayward Gallery Touring Exhibition
William Kentridge is an innovative and prolific printmaker who studied etching at the Johannesburg Art Foundation; printmaking has remained central… Read More
18 June 2013
Tate Modern Exhibition Explores The Relationship Between Language And Power
Tate Modern is presenting a new group exhibition in its Project Space about the relationship between language and power. Word…. Read More
17 June 2013
Did Art Collector Charles Saatchi Really Try To Throttle Nigella Lawson?
Do we really want to lower ourselves and comment on this sort of tabloid banter? Well, after several requests in… Read More
17 June 2013
Design Museum Exhibition Explores The Technology Revolution
London’s Design Museum is collaborating with the UK’s innovation agency, the Technology Strategy Board, to deliver a major new exhibition… Read More
17 June 2013
Art Basel Excels With Buoyant Sales And Record Visitor Numbers
Art Basel’s 44th edition closed this evening, (Sunday, June 16, 2013), with galleries reporting exceptionally buoyant sales across the board…. Read More
16 June 2013
Antony Gormley’s Angel of the North Sculpture Turns Fifteen
Antony Gormley’s iconic Angel of the North, which is one of the most popular British public art commissions in history,… Read More
16 June 2013
VOLTA Basel Proves A Success For Emerging London Galleries
The eager visitors to Dreispitzhalle, VOLTA’s ninth Basel edition were not dissapppointed. The bright color of the carpet, ‘hot pink’,… Read More
16 June 2013
100 Years Of The Suffragettes Celebrated Through Visual Art
On 14 June 1913, 6,000 women took to the streets to remember a pivotal activist and martyr. They were walking in… Read More
16 June 2013
New Exhibition To Mark The Summer Solstice At Waterside Contemporary
To mark the summer solstice – an astronomical moment of repose and contemplation, and the high point of the short… Read More
15 June 2013
New Exhibition Of Allen Ginsberg And The Beat Generations Opens
A new exhibition centring around the Poet, performer and antimilitarist, Allen Ginsberg (1926–1997) opens in Metz, Rennes near Lille, France… Read More
15 June 2013
Kapoor, Perry and Serota Honoured In Queen’s Birthday List
Anish Kapoor, the 59 year old, Indian-born British sculptor has been Knighted in the Queen’s birthday honours list. Kapoor said;… Read More
15 June 2013
DCMS Announces 8% Cut In Arts Spending For 2015-2016
The (DCMS) Department for Culture, Media and Sport has announced an 8% cut in spending for the period 2015-2016. The… Read More
14 June 2013
SHUBBAK CONTEMPORARY ARAB CULTURE ARTS FESTIVAL UNVEILED FOR LONDON
Shubbak is a window on contemporary Arab culture, with 15 days of art exhibitions, concerts, films, theatre, family events, talks… Read More
14 June 2013
Massimiliano Gioni’s New Dialectic At The 55th Venice Biennale
Il Palazzo Enciclopedico / The Encyclopedic Palace, this is the title for the 55th International Venice Biennial of contemporary Art,… Read More
14 June 2013
Tate Modern Film Curator Stuart Comer To Head Media and Performance At MoMA
Stuart Corner, who has been curator of film at Tate Modern since January 2004, has been appointed the new curator… Read More
14 June 2013
Queen Elizabeth Portrait By Ralph Heiman Vandalised By Protester
A recent portrait of Queen Elizabeth II, unveiled for the diamond jubilee in Westminster Abbey has been defaced with spray… Read More
14 June 2013
House of Peroni Pop Up Defines Contemporary Italian Culture In London
Peroni Nastro Azzurro is creating ‘The House of Peroni’, an event to celebrate the new wave of visionaries defining contemporary… Read More
13 June 2013
Identity And Migration Themes within Contemporary Art Explored In New Exhibition
The Ben Uri gallery is presenting the exhibition, Looking In: Photographic Portraits by Maud Sulter and Chan-Hyo Bae. This is… Read More
13 June 2013
New Photography Exhibition Explores The Impact Of DNA
The discovery of DNA was arguably the most significant breakthrough of modern science. From DNA fingerprinting to personalised genomes the… Read More
12 June 2013
Royal Swan Counting Celebrated In New Museum Exhibition
The River & Rowing Museum, Henley on Thames, has created a major exhibition that celebrates and reveals the art of… Read More
12 June 2013