London Festival of Architecture Stages Urban Actions
King’s Cross will come alive with a series of ‘Urban Actions’ organised in response to the Festival’s theme of The… Read More
3 July 2012
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NPG PRESENTS DOUBLE TAKE VERSIONS AND COPIES OF TUDOR PORTRAITS
Five pairs of nearly identical Tudor portraits have been brought together in a new display at the National Portrait Gallery…. Read More
3 July 2012
Zabludowicz Collection Presents A Project About Space For Summer
Francis Alÿs; Trisha Baga; Yael Bartana; Walead Beshty; Ethan Breckenridge; Gregory Crewdson; Shi Jin; Helene Kazan; Avi Mograbi; Miri Segal;… Read More
3 July 2012
GERRY JUDAH LOTUS SCULPTURE GOODWOOD FESTIVAL OF SPEED 2012
It is 2012 and every year a different car company sponsors a centrepiece sculpture for the Goodwood Festival of Speed…. Read More
3 July 2012
Guillermo Kuitca Perspective Diagonals and Light Shifts Review
“Paris is a gigantic work to be consulted, a species of encyclopaedia. The shops, for example, have their language, there… Read More
2 July 2012
Pace To Open David Chipperfield Designed London Gallery
Pace the New York based international gallery is set to open a 9,000 square foot space in London’s Mayfair. Located… Read More
2 July 2012
James Franco Speaks Up But Looks Down ICA London
Artist /Actor James Franco spent Sunday afternoon at the ICA (London 1 July), in the first of the gallery’s ‘Quick… Read More
2 July 2012
Isabella Blow foundation Christie’s Sale Exceeds All Expectations
The sale of the Daphne Guinness Collection has proven that the art market appears immune from the financial collapse that… Read More
1 July 2012
Contemporary Art Auctions A Case For Recession Proof Investment
As the Summer auction and fair season winds up and galleries mount their group shows, a mainstay of the art… Read More
1 July 2012
Stunning Environmental Sculpture At MoMa Clears The Air
Meet Wendy She’s Blue, Cool, and Responsible Too. For years now architects have been working to create environmentally friendly buildings… Read More
1 July 2012
A Question Of Sport LGBT 2012 PRIDE Art Exhibition
A Question of Sport: LGBT artists and their relationship to inclusivityThe Clifford Chance Art Group is again holding a joint… Read More
30 June 2012
Shepard Fairey And Ron English Tag London Pleasure Garden
London launches its first international ‘Street Art’ park, situated on the Royal Victoria Docks, which opens today. The London Pleasure… Read More
30 June 2012
Is Corporate Museum Sponsorship Influencing Exhibition Content
The British Museum is currently showing an exhibition which opened on the 24 of May. The subject is all about… Read More
30 June 2012
Frieze Projects Announced For London’s Autumn 2012 Fair
Frieze Projects has announced its Autumn line up for 2012. This years programme of artists and commissions realised annually at… Read More
30 June 2012
Stolen Dali Painting Recovered In Return To Sender Mystery
A painting by the Surrealist Salvador Dali stolen from a Manhattan gallery, last week has been recovered. Police said on… Read More
29 June 2012
Mark Wallinger And Chris Ofili Morph At Royal Ballet
In a unique collaboration between the Royal Ballet and the National Gallery, this summer will see the ballet and visual… Read More
29 June 2012
Ivan Karp Art Dealer Behind Warhol And Lichtenstein Dies In NY
When I was an 18 year old art student, I met Ivan Carp in his New York gallery OK Harris. He was standing around looking at his current show, the work of the Photorealist painter John Salt
29 June 2012
Damien Hirst’s Unfunny Stone Roses Quip
Damien Hirst said yesterday, ‘The Stone Roses are more important than Picasso.’ Would Picasso have said that Frank Sinatra was… Read More
28 June 2012
Amy Winehouse Anniversary Portrait Unveiled At Camden Tube
It is one year on from the tragic death of Amy Winehouse. To celebrate her life, Art Below have created… Read More
28 June 2012
Priceless Guggenheim Jackson Pollock Mural Undergoes Restoration
This summer a massive Jackson Pollock canvas will make the journey from Iowa to Los Angeles for restoration work. Painted… Read More
28 June 2012
Lesbian Photo Series Wins Big At Free Range Exhibition
Tania Olive set out to create a series of photographs that moved people. She may not have realised how moved… Read More
28 June 2012
Artnet Magazine Closes After A Sixteen Year Run
Artnet Magazine, the first online art magazine to be published solely on the internet, is ceasing publication, effective immediately. This… Read More
28 June 2012
Middle East Exposed In New Photography Exhibition
Light from the Middle East is a New Photography exhibition at both the V&A and the British Museum. It is… Read More
27 June 2012
Occupy Movement Takes On Anish Kapoor Residence
The Occupy Everything movement is at it again. This time taking a jab at one of the biggest names in… Read More
27 June 2012
Spencer Tunick’s Nude Ring Cycle In Munich Public Square
Over 1,700 nude men and women painted in red and gold body paint, created an interpretation of a scene from… Read More
26 June 2012
18th Biennale of Sydney Officially Launched Today
Major venues for the 18th Biennale of Sydney are the Art Gallery of New South Wales; the newly redeveloped Museum… Read More
26 June 2012
Earliest British Portrait Of Freed Slave Goes On UK Tour
The National Portrait Gallery has put on display a portrait of Ayuba Suleiman Diallo the first Black, Muslim emancipated slave…. Read More
26 June 2012
Yinka Shonibare New Ballerina Sculpture Debuts At Opera House
Last week the Royal Opera House received new adornment in the form of a ballerina in a snow globe. The… Read More
26 June 2012
Lance Loud Death Of An Alternative American Dream
In 1973 An American Family, a documentary about the darker side of the American suburban dream, first appeared on US… Read More
25 June 2012
Bureau Spectacular Creates Walk-In Comic Strip At The AF
For their first solo exhibition outside of North America, Chicago-based architecture practice Bureau Spectacular have transformed The Architecture Foundation’s Project… Read More
25 June 2012
The Rise And Rise Of Performance Art In London
With the opening of ‘The Tanks’ on 18 July, Tate Modern continues its transformation with the the world’s first museum… Read More
25 June 2012
Bruce Lacey Exhibition Explores The Obsessive Process Of Collecting
Exhibition Co Curated By Jeremy Deller At The Camden Arts Centre 7 July – 16 September Bruce Lacey (born 1927)… Read More
25 June 2012