Art Fund Launches £100k Museum Of The Year Prize 2013
Applications for the Art Fund’s Museum of the Year prize is now open for 2013. The national fund which also… Read More
10 January 2013
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Sotheby’s Reports Astounding $1.25 billion Results For Contemporary Art
Sotheby’s, the international auction house have reported their third most successful year ever for global auctions and a new record… Read More
10 January 2013
Harry Beck Tube Map Honoured With Anniversary Google Doodle
Harry Beck’s iconic map of the tube network has been honoured today with a Google Doodle .This is to mark… Read More
9 January 2013
Lebanese Artist Saloua Raouda Choucair Exhibits At Tate Modern
The world’s first major museum exhibition of Lebanese artist Saloua Raouda Choucair (b. 1916) has been announced for Tate Modern… Read More
9 January 2013
English Heritage Halts Popular 150 Year Old Blue Plaque Scheme
Blue plaques have been used to Inspire Londoners commemorating the personal achievements of exceptional residents for the past 150 years…. Read More
9 January 2013
Chapman Brothers To Boycott Russia After Blasphemy Protest Spoiler
If the Russian Authorities haven’t done enough damage to their countries human rights reputation by jailing the Artist/punk collective Pussy… Read More
8 January 2013
Masterpieces Sold To Hermitage Return To Britain For Exhibition
Masterpieces by Rembrandt, Poussin and Velazquez are among a collection of over 40 works from the Hermitage Museum in St… Read More
8 January 2013
Tate Modern Record 5.3 Million Attendance Figure for 2012
Tate Modern one of London’s most popular cultural attractions has seen a record 5.3 million visitors in 2012. This is… Read More
8 January 2013
Stolen Henri Matisse Recovered By Small Time Essex Art Dealer
A stolen painting by Henri Matisse which disappeared 25 years ago from the Moderna Museet in Stockholm, has turned up… Read More
7 January 2013
Mat Collishaw Returns To Oil Painting In New London Exhibition
Mat Collishaw makes a return to oil painting, in a new London exhibition, for his second solo exhibition at Blain|Southern…. Read More
7 January 2013
Zaha Hadid Building Complex Knocked Off By Chinese Rival
The Chinese are notorious for their knock off designer bags and pirated DVDs. They have even set up an Apple… Read More
6 January 2013
Mr Brainwash Beatles Mural Erased From Oxford Street
A 5 meter high mural of the Beatles by the French born American artist Mr Brainwash, which was the centrepiece… Read More
6 January 2013
White Cube São Paulo’s Inaugural Exhibition Presents Tracey Emin
Tracey Emin has stated; ‘I’m not drawn to the erotic. I’m confused by it. There is very little in my… Read More
5 January 2013
Gallerist John Kasmin Curates London Art in the Sixties
The New Situation, Art in London in the Sixties is a new exhibition planned for Autumn 2012. Curated by the… Read More
5 January 2013
Mariana Silva Mounts Smell-o- Vision Video Experience At Whitechapel
A single screening event which introduces the work of Mariana Silva is previewed at the Whitechapel on Thurs. 10 January…. Read More
4 January 2013
Stuck Up: London Underground Poster History Captured In Exhibition
The River Thames in ‘Poster Art’ is explored in a new exhibition at the River and Rowing Museum in Henley-on-Thames…. Read More
4 January 2013
Artists Tim Noble And Sue Webster To Divorce
Artist Power Couple Tim Noble and Sue Webster are to end their marriage after 20 years together. For the last… Read More
4 January 2013
Yinka Shonibare Features In Exhibition At Yorkshire Sculpture Park
Yinka Shonibare,the artist that brought you the Fourth Plinth ‘Ship in a Bottle’ will open a solo exhibition at Yorkshire… Read More
3 January 2013
Rare Photo of Kate Middleton’s Late Mother In Law Auctioned
Kate Middleton’s late mother in law, Princess Diana, is depicted in a rare photograph with her brother Earl Spencer, which… Read More
3 January 2013
Richard Wentworth A Room Full of Lovers And Gaudi’s Structural Calculations
Richard Wentworth, a leading figure in contemporary British Sculpture is to exhibit at the Lisson Gallery from 30 January to… Read More
2 January 2013
Art of Angel Exhibition Goes Underground At Angel Tube Station
Kicking off 2013, Art of Angel, showcases the work of 20 international artists, throughout Angel tube station for 2 weeks… Read More
2 January 2013
Art Sales Reach £40 Billion In 2012 Outperforming Equities Market
International Art sales realised more than $64bn (£40bn; 49bn euros) last year with analysts predicting that this area of the… Read More
2 January 2013
Norman Foster’s Sainsbury Centre Granted Grade II Listed Status
The Hi-Tech Sainsbury Centre at the University of East Anglia has been given Grade II listed status after a decision… Read More
1 January 2013
Art Stories That Mattered In 2012 – The First Six Months
Art is usually a subject that gets missed off of the popular year end roundups, but as I sit here… Read More
31 December 2012
Tate Presents Contemporary Sexual And Gender Politics In LGBT Congress
Tate’s involvement in LGBT month, in February presents a series of events in The Tanks at Tate Modern which considers… Read More
31 December 2012
Gagosian Gallery Empire Under Threat As Top Artists Jump Ship
In the latter half of December, the largest gallery in the world suddenly found its future dominance in doubt.
30 December 2012
Warhol Exhibition Explores Sixty Artists Influenced By Andy
Andy Warhol has exerted an enormous impact on contemporary art. For decades, critics have observed this phenomenon but no exhibition… Read More
30 December 2012
Maurizio Cattelan Erects Hitler Praying Sculpture In Warsaw Ghetto
A sculpture of Adolf Hitler, praying on his knees by the well known Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan, has created controversy… Read More
30 December 2012
Art Installation Sees 300 Illuminated Paper Boats Sail On Thames
Voyage, is an installation by Aether & Hemera consisting of 300 illuminated floating ‘paper boats, encased in coloured dynamic LED… Read More
29 December 2012
Tracey Emin and Quentin Blake Receive New Years Honours
The YBA artist Tracey Emin becomes a CBE, Quentin Blake Receives a Knighthood and the Sculptor Richard Long an OBE… Read More
29 December 2012
Cutting Into January: London Art Exhibitions By Paul Carey- Kent
Perhaps I could warm up by recommending three shows I’m writing about for other places: * the two venue retrospective… Read More
29 December 2012
Lady Gaga Documentary The Creation Of Artpop And You
Lady Gaga has always known how to mix art with popular culture. Her art school background seems to surface at… Read More
28 December 2012