New Zaha Hadid Middle East Centre in Oxford Breaks Ground
The Iraqi born British architect, Dame Zaha Hadid, was in Oxford last week to mark the start of work on… Read More
5 February 2013
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Oxford’s Ashmolean Museum Exhibits Contemporary Chinese Artist Xu Bing
Oxford’s Ashmolean Museum’s first major exhibition of contemporary art opens with Xu Bing, one of China’s best known and critically… Read More
5 February 2013
Andy Warhol Museum Celebrates 100 Years Of Brillo With Free App
In 1964 Andy Warhol created his now iconic Brillo Soap Pads Box sculpture. Now nearly 50 years later the relationship… Read More
5 February 2013
Art Basel 44 Announces Unparalleled 2013 Gallery Line Up
Art Basel today announced the details of its 44th edition in Basel, Switzerland, taking place June 13 to June 16,… Read More
5 February 2013
Save Cork Street Receives 13,000 Signatures But Still Endangered
Artlyst reported back in June 2011 that rent rises and retail gentrification could displace the art galleries in London’s Cork… Read More
4 February 2013
Bacon and Rodin in dialogue: New Exhibition For February
At the beginning of September 1959, Francis Bacon travelled to Cornwall, seeking to escape the distractions of London, and took… Read More
4 February 2013
The Showroom Celebrates Thirty Years Of Innovative New Art
Since 1983, The Showroom has been at the forefront of its field, taking risks in producing exhibitions with artists in… Read More
4 February 2013
Lucian Freud Bequeaths Masterpieces in lieu of tax To Nation
The Lucian Freud estate has bequeathed works by Degas and Corot to the nation, under the government’s acceptance in lieu… Read More
4 February 2013
Yoko Ono’s Skyladders In Exhibition At Liverpool’s Walker
Yoko Ono is represented along with other important contemporary artists in a new exhibition at the Walker Art Gallery in… Read More
4 February 2013
Goodbye Haunch of Venison Christie’s Shuts International Gallery Brand
Christie’s International have announced the closure of its Haunch of Venison galleries. The struggling operation, Christie’s first undertaking (in its… Read More
4 February 2013
London Art Auctions Forecast Half Billion Sales In February
Over half a billion in Art goes under the hammer in London this month with the launch of Christies, Sothebys… Read More
3 February 2013
Etch A Sketch Inventor Andre Cassagnes Dies Aged 86
Andre Cassagnes the inventor of the classic 1950’s art toy the ‘Etch A Sketch’ has died in Paris, age 86…. Read More
3 February 2013
Hungary Is Powerless To Keep Stolen Art From Nazi Restitution
International pressure is mounting for Hungary to offer a settlement to the descendants of the Jewish industrialist Baron Mór Lipót… Read More
3 February 2013
Tracey Emin Gets Her Name Up In Lights On Broadway
The British artist Tracey Emin has been commissioned to do a project in New York City to tie in with… Read More
2 February 2013
Ed Vaizey Announces Competition To Find 2017 UK City of Culture
A nationwide competition to find the UK’s next City of Culture has been launched by Culture Minister Ed Vaizey. The… Read More
2 February 2013
Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 2013 All You Need To Know About Entering
Call For Enteries: The RA Summer Exhibition 2013 Submissions Close 8 March The 245th edition of the Royal Academy Summer… Read More
1 February 2013
New Sculpture To Replace Stolen £1m Dulwich Barbara Hepworth
Helen Nisbit, Art Consultant at the Contemporary Art Society has announced the shortlist for a new sculpture commission to replace… Read More
1 February 2013
Yinka Shonibare: POP – New London Exhibition At Stephen Friedman Gallery
Stephen Friedman Gallery has announced a new solo exhibition of new works by Yinka Shonibare, MBE.This exhibition of all recent… Read More
31 January 2013
Andy Warhol Foundation’s Landmark On-Line Auction Announced
Christie’s has announced details about Andy Warhol @ Christie’s, the first online-only sale in its long-term partnership with The Andy… Read More
31 January 2013
Contemporary Artists Light Show Opens At The Hayward Gallery
A new exhibition which explores the experiential and phenomenal aspects of light by bringing together sculptures and installations that use… Read More
31 January 2013
PATRICK HERON’S UNSEEN SKETCHES OF T. S. ELIOT GO ON DISPLAY NPG
Two studies for the highly abstracted 1949 modernist painting of the poet T. S. Eliot by Patrick Heron – never… Read More
31 January 2013
Jan Dibbets New London Solo Exhibition For March
Land Sea Colour is a new a solo exhibition of works by Dutch artist Jan Dibbets at the The Alan… Read More
31 January 2013
Ai Weiwei Unveils Nude Space Hopper Like Sculptures In Singapore
Ai Weiwei the Chinese activist and dissident artist has joined forces with the Hong Kong-based toy designer Eric So to… Read More
30 January 2013
Justin Bieber Portrait By Kelvin Okafor Unveiled In Sensational Video
London’s latest art sensation, Kelvin Okafor has produced a drawing of Justin Bieber and filmed the process on video to… Read More
30 January 2013
Tamsyn Challenger: Monoculture Expands Off Site With Online Interaction
Folklore, facebook, oilseed rape, the Higgs boson ‘God particle’, Scientology and instruments of medieval torture have all played a role… Read More
30 January 2013
Barbara Nessim’s Provocative Feminist Drawings And Paintings V&A London
The internationally renowned American artist and illustrator, Barbara Nessim has donated a collection representing some of her most significant artworks… Read More
29 January 2013
Parallax AF Returns To London In February For Sixth Edition
The Parallax Art Fair returns to London for its sixth outing 21 February. The fair grew out of an international… Read More
29 January 2013
Curating Contemporary Art: The RCA Celebrates 20 Years
2013 marks the 20th anniversary of Curating Contemporary Art exhibitions at the RCA. This year’s graduating students present No one… Read More
29 January 2013
Warhol California Surf Film Released After 45 Years In The Vault
San Diego Surf, the last remaining unreleased Warhol movie which was filmed in La Jolla Calf, in May 1968 has… Read More
29 January 2013
Kelvin Okafor’s Photo Realist Drawings Exhibited At London Science Museum
The Artist Kelvin Okafor, whose slick drawings are often mistaken for photographs, continues to make waves in the art world… Read More
29 January 2013
Kurt Schwitters’ Bombastic, Excitable And Utterly Life Affirming Exhibition – Review
Schwitters in Britain – the title of the exhibition, with its clipped sing-song tone and accompanied on billboards across London… Read More
28 January 2013
All Your Dogs Are Dead Davies & Monaghan Collaborative Exhibition Announced
Following on from their well received installation, exhibited on the ALISN stand, in the Art Projects space, at the London… Read More
28 January 2013