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L.S. Lowry Paintings Owned By Cilla Black To Be Auctioned At Sotheby’s
Sotheby’s will present at auction three outstanding works by L.S. Lowry,this June. One of Britain’s best-loved artists, from the...
British Artists Emin, Gormley And Hodgkin Unveil Major New York Exhibitions
Three major British artists, Antony Gormley, Tracey Emin and Howard Hodgkin have unveiled exhibitions in New York in time for Frieze week. This...
Maurizio Cattelan: Solid Gold Toilet Blockage At NY’s Guggenheim
The Italian/American artist Maurizio Cattelan has often been described as the art world’s resident prankster and provocateur. He now emerges...
Stanley Spencer: Early Drawings To Be Displayed In Hepworth Wakefield Exhibition
The Hepworth Wakefield, Yorkshire’s award-winning art gallery, has uncovered a sketchbook by the artist Stanley Spencer dating...
Palestinian Museum Appoints Dr Mahmoud Hawari As First Director General
The appointment of Dr Mahmoud Hawari as the Director General of the new $30m Palestinian Museum located in Ramallah Palestine has been...
Gallerist Nigel Greenwood Archive To Go On Display At Chelsea Space
In the early 1970s the number of galleries in London committed to showing international developments in contemporary art, and especially European...
Mona Hatoum Expansive Career Exhibited At Tate Modern
The first UK survey of the work of Mona Hatoum opens today at Tate Modern in London. Hatoum (born in 1952) is one of the most important artists of...
La Biennale de Montréal Announces Participating Artists For 2016 Event
La Biennale de Montréal has announced the artists who will take part in its 2016 edition (BNLMTL 2016), on view to the public from October...
Marisol Key New York Pop Artist Dies In Obscurity Aged 85
Marisol, the Venezuelan-American artist who created assemblages combining folk and Pop Art has died in Manhattan. She was 85. Marisol was a...
Martin Creed Sculpture Commissioned For Brooklyn Bridge Park’s Pier 6
The Turner Prize winning artist Martin Creed is the subject of an exhibition featuring a new 25-foot-tall rotating ruby red neon...
Seminal Barbara Hepworth Sculptures To Be Offered At Sotheby’s
Two seminal Barbara Hepworth sculptures are to be offered in Sotheby’s forthcoming Modern & Post-War British Art Evening Auction on 13 June in...
Basil Blackshaw Northern Irish Painter Dies Aged 83
The Northern Ireland artist Basil Blackshaw has died aged 83. Blackshaw was regarded as one of the most significant painters of his period and one...