Government Encourages Museums to Sell off Some Family Treasures
Does the new Coalition Government want Museums to sell off some of the family treasures? In late October, Culture Minister Ed Vaizey was asked...
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Whitney Biennial Choses 2012 Curators
The seventy-sixth Whitney Biennial in 2012 will be co-curated by Independent curator Jay Sanders and the Whitney’s Elisabeth Sussman.
Leading UK Museum Director Resigns
Sir Mark Jones, The Victoria & Albert Museum director, is leaving his job to become Master of St Cross College Oxford,the London museum made...
Banksy Favorite For Oscar 2011
It has been reported that Exit Through the Gift Shop, the Banksy documentary that was released earlier this year is now seen as a...
Cindy Sherman Becomes Honorary Member The Royal Academy of Arts
Photographer Cindy Sherman, has been invited by The Royal Academy Of Arts in London, to become an honourary member. This rare token has been...
Eight UK Museums Lose Government Funding
The DCMS, as part of its four-year business plan, has announced that it will no longer fund eight Museums that it currently sponsors. It...
Neville Gabie Appointed Artist In Residence For 2012 Olympics
Artist Neville Gabie has been appointed by the ODE (Olympic Delivery Authority) as the Artist in residence for the 2012 Olympic park, in East...
13 November 2010
£53 Million “Pinner” Chinese Vase Sets Record
An auction record was set this week for a piece of Chinese art, when a 16 inch high ceramic vase decorated with 4 circular...
11 November 2010
Christie’s Record Breaking Contemporary Art Sale
Auction News The highest total for a Post-War and Contemporary Art sale was achieved yesterday when Christie’s New York led by an exceptional group...
Jack Levine American Social Realist Painter Dies Aged 95
Jack Levine the American Social Realist Painter has died, he was 95. Levine was born in Boston on January 3, 1915
9 November 2010
Stuart Cary Welch Collection Of Islamic and Indian Art Offered By Sotheby’s
Sotheby’s has announced today the sale of works from the personal collection of Indian and Islamic Art acquired by the late American academic, Stuart...
Museums Denied Access To Private Donations By Treasury
The British Museum and the National Gallery are finding it difficult to access over £50m given by private donors because of changes to Treasury...
Artist Ai Weiwei Under House Arrest
Ai Weiwei The Chinese Artist responsible for the Sunflower seed installation, this years Unilever sponsored exhibit in the Turbine Hall at Tate Modern, has...
Arts Council England To Cut 100 Organisations
More than 100 smaller organisations are likely to lose their Arts Council funding. The announcement follows the government’s decision to slash funding for the...
Kengo Kuma To Design V&A Museum Dundee
The Japanese architectural firm Kengo Kuma & Associates have been chosen to design a new museum in Dundee. The project, sponsored by the V&A,...
New Serpentine Gallery Building For 2012
The Serpentine Gallery along with the Royal Parks have agreed to a contract for a new venue in Kensington Gardens. This will work along...
RCA SECRET 2010
COLLECT A PIECE OF ART HISTORY FOR JUST £45 It’s November again and this means it’s time for the RCA Secret annual contemporary art...
Peckham Space OPEN – Call for Artworks
Peckham Space is pleased to announce its first OPEN exhibition and calls for artworks. This will be a unique exhibition that will showcase artworks...
Photo Miami Cancelled For 2010
One of the most popular art shows during Art Basel Miami has been cancelled this year, a month shy of their press preview, on...
Is A Warhol ‘Soup Can’ Worth 30-50 Million Dollars?
Bid Here…. In the 48 years since it was executed Big Campbell’s Soup Can with Can Opener (Vegetable) has only had three private owners....
Sylvia Sleigh British Born Feminist Figurative Painter Dies Aged 94
Sylvia Sleigh, the British-born artist known for her provocative portraits has died of complications from a stroke at her home in Manhattan,she was 94.
BROKEN AND BRILLIANT: HOW CLOSURE ONLY MADE WEIWEI’S SUNFLOWER SEEDS PERFECT
The happiest person in London right now might just be the member of Tate Modern night-shift staff who dares wander alone in Ai Weiwei’s...
Save The Hotel Chelsea From Donald Trump
First it was CBGB’S now the Hotel Chelsea, an underground landmark in Manhattan where Dylan Thomas, William S. Burroughs, Bob Dylan, Andy Warhol ,Eugene...
Arts Cuts In Osborne’s Spending Review Unveiled
Latest News: George Osborne’s statement this lunchtime was only the tip of the iceberg figure for the (DCMS) Department for Culture Media and Sport’s...
Frieze Review – 2010
Art Exhibitions • Events • Galleries By Paul Carey-Kent October NINE NEW TWISTS AT FRIEZE There are two kinds of stand at Art Fairs:...
A Response To Proposed Arts Cuts
The state of advanced capitalism which we are in has no ethical limitations. Organisations, and more importantly the top-dogs awarding themselves obscene amounts of...
Henry Moore Exhibition Moves to The Art Gallery Of Ontario
An exhibition heralded as “the most important exhibition of Henry Moore’s work for a generation” is coming to the A G O this fall....
The Affordable Art Fair London October 2010
It’s late October in London and the frantic Frieze Art fair week has finished. All of the multi-million pound international dealers have left to...
Ai Weiwei’s Cloud of Dust
Two days after Ai Weiwei’s installation of sunflower seeds opened, in the Turbine Hall at Tate Modern staff took the decision to restrict access...
Yto Barrada Deutsche Bank Artist 2011
As part of the Frieze Art Fair in London today, Deutsche Bank will names Yto Barrada as its “Artist of the year” for 2011....
The ArtReview Power 100 Published
1. Larry Gagosian2. Hans Ulrich Obrist3. Iwan Wirth4. David Zwirner5. Glenn D. Lowry6. Bice Curiger7. Sir Nicholas Serota8. Eli Broad9. RoseLee Goldberg10. François Pinault11....
Arts Cuts For Quangos Announced
A hit list of hundreds of taxpayer-funded bodies were axed in a “bonfire of the quangos” today. Cabinet Office Minister Francis Maude announced the...