Poundland Banksy May Have Been Illegally Exported To America
The ‘Poundland’ Banksy mural which appeared around the time of the Diamond Jubilee last year has been hacked off of… Read More
18 February 2013
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Rare Andy Warhol Polaroids On Display In New London Exhibition
The Privatus Gallery in Mayfair have mounted an exhibition, taken from a private collection of never publicly seen photos by… Read More
18 February 2013
£43m Chinese Ceramic Vase Goes For Half Price After Dispute
Peter Bainbridge director of the Ruislip auctioneers of the same name, has confirmed that the payment dispute centring around the… Read More
17 February 2013
Happiness and Revolution: Welcome to Supermarket Stockholm 2013
This years ‘Supermarket’, the satellite art fair which runs concurrently with ‘Market,’ Stockholm’s prestigious contemporary art fair exhibited 88 emerging… Read More
17 February 2013
The Art Of Photographic Manipulation Explored In New Washington Exhibition
The National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC is presenting the first major exhibition devoted to the art of photographic… Read More
17 February 2013
Jake & Dinos Chapman: Chicken In The Ukraine New Exhibition
The Pinchuk Art Centre (Kyiv, Ukraine) is presenting the first solo exhibition of Jake & Dinos Chapman in Ukraine titled… Read More
17 February 2013
Ruins in Reverse: New Tate Project Space Exhibition
This group exhibition considers the relationship between historical monuments and discarded urban ruins. Presented in Tate Modern’s Project Space, it… Read More
16 February 2013
Garth Evans Exhibition Curated By Richard Deacon At Yorkshire Sculpture Park
The Arts Council Collection is presenting a new exhibition of sculpture by Garth Evans, selected by his friend and former… Read More
16 February 2013
Ryan Gander Joins Magic of the State Collaboration With Beirut
Lisson Gallery is presenting The Magic of the State, an exhibition and editorial project conceived in collaboration with Beirut, a… Read More
16 February 2013
Gloria Steinem and Zandra Rhodes Pay Tribute To Artist Barbara Nessim
Barbara Nessim, the highly influential Bronx-born artist and illustrator was in London last night for the launch of an exhibition… Read More
16 February 2013
Thierry Noir Berlin Wall Artist Spotted In Shoreditch and Dalston
Street Art London is hosting the iconic Berlin street artist Thierry Noir as he makes his London debut. Noir is… Read More
15 February 2013
Japanese Architect Sou Fujimoto To Design Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2013
The Serpentine Gallery has announced that Pavilion 2013 will be designed by multi award-winning Japanese architect Sou Fujimoto. He is… Read More
15 February 2013
Macca And Me: Photographer Chalkie Davies Reminisces About Encountering Paul McCartney
The chance came up for the NME to interview Paul McCartney, it was quite surprising as we were not likely… Read More
14 February 2013
James Franco: Gay Town New Solo Exhibition in Berlin
Just when we may have thought that James Franco couldn’t possibly be busier, he opened a solo show at Peres… Read More
14 February 2013
The Best Valentines Created By A-List international Contemporary Artists
Today is Valentines day, a time when you show your appreciation to someone that you desire or love by sending… Read More
14 February 2013
Sotheby’s Contemporary Art Sale Brings In £74m In Market Boost
Sotheby’s London Contemporary Art Evening Auction has achieved a total of £74,364,200/ $116,357,664/ €86,321,943, within pre-sale expectations (estimate: £61.2-84.5 million),… Read More
13 February 2013
Restoration To Begin On Henry Moore Sculpture Near Parliament
Henry Moore’s Old Flo made headlines earlier this winter with council legal disputes, but this week another Moore sculpture is… Read More
13 February 2013
Kate Fowle Appointed Chief Curator of Dasha Zhukova’s Garage Centre
The Garage Centre for Contemporary Arts announced today that Kate Fowle, the former Co-Director of the London based curatorial partnership… Read More
13 February 2013
Is China Still The Global Market Leader For Art Sales?
We reported a year ago that the global art market had recovered from the financial crisis with both confidence and… Read More
13 February 2013
BODY I AM BIRGIT JÜRGENSSEN, ANA MENDIETA & HANNAH WILKE ENDS SATURDAY
‘Feminist art of the 1970s sometimes has a reputation for being combative and crass, but these women demonstrate that they… Read More
12 February 2013
Pop Artist Peter Blake To Feature At Chiswick House Festival
Peter Blake, one Britain’s most important living artists, will attend the launch of the third annual Chiswick House Camellia Festival,… Read More
12 February 2013
Arts Council England And VisitEngland Announce New Cultural Partnership
Arts Council England and VisitEngland have announced that by working together to coordinate activity, both will grow the value of… Read More
12 February 2013
Uber-Confident Art Dealers Lose Face As Cases Go To Court
Art dealers have been getting a hard time of it recently, their profession’s reputation shaken by a succession of high-profile… Read More
12 February 2013
Last Collaborative Fischli Weiss Work Exhibited At Serpentine Gallery
The Serpentine Gallery is presenting an installation by the Swiss artists Fischli/Weiss. This will be the first and the only… Read More
11 February 2013
Alfredo Jaar To Represent Chile At 55th Venice Biennale
Alfredo Jaar will represent Chile at the 55th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia with a major new… Read More
11 February 2013
Cindy Sherman and Taryn Simon Donate Work For Asperger’s Auction
The Frostig Collection has announced a fundraising exhibition and auction of photographs by some of the leading photographers of our… Read More
11 February 2013
Damien Hirst: Official Year Of The Snake Prediction Outlook
This is the ‘Year of the Snake’ under the Chinese zodiac and ‘allegedly’ the snake is quite an interesting person…. Read More
11 February 2013
Culture Minister Places Temporary Export Bar On Three Paintings
A 19th century painting of a London park and two canvases by the animal painter George Stubbs could leave the… Read More
10 February 2013
Director Mike Leigh to Create Film On JMW Turner’s Life
The British director Mike Leigh is to create a film based on the life of the English painter JMW (Joseph… Read More
10 February 2013
Richard Artschwager Pop Minimalist And Conceptual Artist Dies
Richard Artschwager, was one of the most influential artists of the 20th century. He was never the first name that sprung to mind amongst his contemporaries
10 February 2013
Georg Baselitz: Why Women Artists Don’t Paint Very Well
The outspoken German painter Georg Baselitz, has caused controversy in an interview, in the German newspaper, Der Spiegel. On this… Read More
9 February 2013
Eugene Delacroix Defaced In Act Of Mindless Vandalism At Louvre
A woman has been detained accused of damaging a masterpiece by the French romantic artist Eugene Delacroix, at a branch… Read More
9 February 2013