Young Collectors Meet A List Artists At Art Car Boot Fair
The 9th Annual Vauxhall Art Car Boot Fair returned to Brick Lane today with A-Listers, Street Artists and emerging names… Read More
27 May 2012
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Tracey Emin Chosen As Margates Official Olympic Torchbearer
The unstoppable British Artist Tracey Emin has been asked by Margate council to carry the Olympic torch through the town… Read More
26 May 2012
Simon Roberts Opens London Festival of Photography Month
It is rare to find a working photographer who thoroughly discusses the role that identity plays in our lives. It… Read More
26 May 2012
Damien Hirst An Array Of Victorian Sideshow Oddities
New White Cube Bermondsey Show ironically self-reflexive Two Weeks, One Summer – ReviewAt first glance, you wouldn’t know the exhibition… Read More
26 May 2012
Seoul Gets Its Own Landmark Shard Tower
While the finishing touches are being put on the Shard in London, architect Renzo Piano is looking east with the… Read More
25 May 2012
London Gears Up For The Art Car Boot Fair
Crowds will once again be flocking to the art-packed car-park near the Truman Brewery in Brick Lane all queuing up… Read More
25 May 2012
Queen Glitters For The Arts At Royal Academy
Hockney and Rego Greet Monarch With A Diamond Welcome Over 850 of the best known artists, actors, directors, dancers, choreographers,… Read More
24 May 2012
Disabled Artist Noemi Lakmaier To Crawl The Streets Of London
On Monday 28th May, disabled artist Noëmi Lakmaier will set off from Toynbee Studios towards the City of London and… Read More
24 May 2012
El Anatsui Masterpiece Achieves Record Price At Bonham’s
Bonhams has achieved a world record price for El Anatsui, he Ghanaian artist. The work titled ‘New World Map’… Read More
24 May 2012
Allen Jones 1m Pound Misogynistic Table Stimulates Sotheby’s Sale
Art from the estate of Gunter Sachs, the German billionaire former husband of Brigitte Bardot, has been sold for £35.6m… Read More
24 May 2012
Colombian Artist Doris Salcedo At White Cube London
White Cube Mason’s Yard, is featuring the Colombian artist Doris Salcedo who will present two new, large-scale works. ‘Plegaria Muda’… Read More
23 May 2012
Liverpool Biennial 2012 Ready Steady Go
This week, an intimate gathering of important people came out to Tate Britain in London to witness the international launch… Read More
23 May 2012
The Booming Asian Art Market and It’s Influence on Britain
If the world did not have problems enough speculating about future failures of single currencies and the threat of climate… Read More
23 May 2012
Antony Gormley Plans Foundation And Sculpture Park For Norfolk
Turner Prize winning Sculptor Antony Gormley has let slip his intentions to build an art foundation on his Norfolk property…. Read More
22 May 2012
Tracey Emin Sets Up Shop At Turner Contemporary
Tracey Emin’s first exhibition in her home town of Margate opens at the Turner Contemporary on 26 May. Titled; ‘She… Read More
22 May 2012
Artist Richard Wilson’s Installation Takes Off At Heathrow
The shiny new Terminal 2 of Heathrow Airport will feature a shiny new sculpture by Richard Wilson upon opening in… Read More
22 May 2012
Hayward Gallery Makes Way For Wide Open School
Artists Include three Turner Prize winners, Antony Gormley, Martin Creed and Susan PhilipszThe Hayward Gallery is being transformed into Wide… Read More
22 May 2012
Alinka Echeverria Explores Boundaries Between Documentary And Fine Art
Alinka Echeverria was born in Mexico City in 1981 and although she has spent most of her life in the… Read More
22 May 2012
Fourth Plinth Designs By School Kids Winners Announced
An awards ceremony was held today to present schoolchildren with prizes for their winning designs as part of the Fourth… Read More
21 May 2012
Richard Long Artist Rooms Comes To Hepworth Wakefield
Coming soon to The Hepworth Wakefield is an exhibition by Richard Long, one of Britain’s most significant artists. Extending the… Read More
21 May 2012
Edinburgh Art Festival Events Announced
Edinburgh Art Festival is delighted to present Festival Promenade, a major programme of newly commissioned artworks and one-off performances, which… Read More
21 May 2012
ART HK REPORTS GOOD SALES AT ITS FIFTH EDITION
ART HK, organised by Asian Art Fairs Ltd and produced in collaboration with Art Basel, has reported good sales in… Read More
21 May 2012
MIMA Secures Two Major Funding Awards
The Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art has been awarded a potential £120,000 from Arts Councilnon. The Catalyst funding, awarded over… Read More
21 May 2012
Major Julian Opie Exhibition For Summer 2012
The Lisson Gallery has announced a new exhibition of the work of Julian Opie. In the broadest single display of… Read More
21 May 2012
40m Fitzwilliam Museum Chinese Art Theft Third Man Charged
Steven Coughlan of Eleanor Street in London, has been charged in connection with the theft of Chinese decorative arts, mostly… Read More
20 May 2012
ARTS COUNCIL REJECTS TORY HUMBUG AT PHOTOGRAPHERS GALLERY LAUNCH
Dame Liz Forgan, the outgoing chair of Arts Council England, reminder that tentpoles like the Cultural Olympiad cannot solve deeper… Read More
20 May 2012
Amy Winehouse Morbid Blood Splattered Painting Sells For £35k
A painting using the blood of Amy Winehouse and Pete Doherty as a medium has sold for £35,000. The collaboration… Read More
20 May 2012
Maxxi Museum Of Contemporary Art Could Close
On Thursday, Rome’s Maxxi museum went into a form of special administration under Italy’s culture ministry. Fears are growing that… Read More
19 May 2012
Major Jeff Koons Exhibition Opens At Fondation Beyeler
The Fondation Beyeler is featuring the first exhibition ever devoted by a Swiss museum to the American artist Jeff Koons… Read More
19 May 2012
UK Catlin Art Prize Winner Announced
The winner of the 2012 Catlin Art Prize is Julia Vogl, a 2011 graduate of the Slade School of Fine… Read More
19 May 2012
Mike Kelley Ranch House Museum Gets Go Ahead
A museum in the memory of the artist Mike Kelley sponsored by Artangel has been given the go ahead as… Read More
19 May 2012
Art Reaches Vanishing Point As Hayward Gallery Goes Invisible
A new exhibition at the Hayward gallery could prove the most subtle or the most pretentious exhibition of all time…. Read More
18 May 2012