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
Archives: News
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
Contemporary Artists, Critics and Industry Insiders Who Have Died In 2012
In Memoriam: 2012 has been a devastating year by virtue of the numbers of truly remarkable artists, critics, curators, gallerists… Read More
28 December 2012
Ai Weiwei Publishes His Answer To Mao’s Little Red Book
The Dissident Chinese artist, Ai Weiwei has published his answer to Mao Tse-Tung’s Little Red Book. Titled Ai Weiwei-isms it… Read More
28 December 2012
Tracey Emin Selected To Create Erotic Art For Playboy
Tracey Emin and Cindy Sherman both Royal Academicians are among seven artists chosen to create an original work of art… Read More
27 December 2012
Tommy Roberts Swinging Sixties Style Guru Dies Aged 70
Tommy Roberts, who died last week, left an enormous five decade mark on UK culture, as an integral part of Swinging London in the 1960s
27 December 2012
Kitsch Sells! Green Lady Artist Tretchikoff Achieves £337,000 At Auction
2012 was a year of surprises in the London auction rooms. It wasn’t only Munch, Picasso and Warhol that made… Read More
27 December 2012
Banksy ‘ll Fix It Controversial Mural Removed By BBC Television Bosses
A Banksy style mural has been destroyed by the BBC to avoid drawing attention to the Jimmy Savile scandal. It’s… Read More
26 December 2012
Back To The Future The Estorick Collection Goes Virtual
The Estorick Collection of Modern Italian Art in Islington, London has launched their first virtual exhibition concentrating on Futurism’s relationship… Read More
26 December 2012
Keiji Nakazawa Author of Barefoot Gen Manga, Dies Age 73
Keiji Nakazawa, author of “Barefoot Gen” a groundbreaking Japanese comic about the 1945 Hiroshima atomic bombing, has died of lung… Read More
25 December 2012
Pussy Riot Spend Their First Brutal Christmas In Jail
It will be a bleak day for Maria Alyokhina and Nadezhda Tolokonnikova spending their first Christmas in a draconian Russian… Read More
25 December 2012
V&A Explore Africa’s Hidden Histories In New Exhibition
An exhibition displaying around 100 objects from the V&A’s collections looks at the V&A’s engagement with and changing view of… Read More
25 December 2012
Elisabeth Frink Major New Retrospective For 2013 At Lightbox
A retrospective exhibition of the work of Dame Elisabeth Frink, a leading sculptor in post-war Britain is being mounted at the Lightbox
24 December 2012
Museum of Liverpool Wins 2013 Council of Europe Prize
The Museum of Liverpool has been awarded the European Museum prize for 2013 by the Council of Europe. The Council… Read More
24 December 2012
Gagosian Suffers Third Artist Defection As Yayoi Kusama Abandons Gallery
Jeff Koons, Damien Hirst and Now Yayoi Kusama are set to move on from the worlds largest Art Gallery. The… Read More
24 December 2012
Buckingham Palace Recreated As Gingerbread House for Christmas
Glenn Yehling, an aspiring gingerbread house artist has recreated a model of ‘Buck House’ in honour of the Queens Diamond… Read More
23 December 2012
Japanese Outsider Art New Wellcome Collection Exhibition For Spring 2013
London’s Wellcome Collection is mounting ‘Outsider Art from Japan’, in spring 2013. The exhibitionl brings together more than 300 works… Read More
23 December 2012
Joe Strummer Celebrated On the Tenth Anniversary Of His Death
Today is the tenth anniversary of the death of the legendary Joe Strummer the singer and guitarist of the Clash,… Read More
23 December 2012
Angela Flowers London Gallerist At 80 A Career Celebration
Angela Flowers, who celebrated her 80th birthday this month with ‘Angela Flowers at 80’, a survey of the work of… Read More
23 December 2012
Turner Contemporary £100,000 Cut As Council Introduces New 2013 Budget
Kent County Council has cut £200,000 for sports development, £200,000 for Kent Music and £100,000 to Turner Contemporary art gallery… Read More
22 December 2012
Simon de Pury Quits As Phillips Is Sold To The Russians
2012 has been one of the most lucrative years ever for the auction house Phillips de Pury & Company. With… Read More
22 December 2012