Google Art Project Takes Tate Britain and National Gallery Online
Google, The Internet colossus has now turned its technical innovation to Art. Their latest offering is called, Art Project, a… Read More
1 February 2011
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Cairo Museum Looted As Protesters Clash On Streets
Looters broke into the Museum of Egyptian Antiquities near Tahrir Square in Cairo smashing vitrines,damaging statues and mummies.The robbery took… Read More
30 January 2011
Arts Council Creates Fund For Arts To Enter Digital Age
“The Arts should embrace new business models and technology” – Ed Vaizey Culture Minister Ed Vaizey, speaking at the Culture… Read More
30 January 2011
Tony Cragg Exhibits At The Louvre
Figure out / Figure in The Louvre is now playing host to a group of works by the leading British… Read More
29 January 2011
Arts Donations From UK Business Falls By 11%
Businesses investment in UK arts fell last year by 11%. This was despite Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt’s DCMS directive to… Read More
29 January 2011
Christie’s Sales Total Record-breaking £3.3 Billion
Contemporary art market bounces back In 2010 Christies has announced sales figures of £3.3 billion or $5.0 billion for 2010…. Read More
28 January 2011
London Art Fair 2011 Post Fair Round Up
London Art Fair 19–23 January 2011 at the Business Design Centre, Islington Reporting excellent visitor figures, strong sales and positive feedback,… Read More
28 January 2011
Arts Council England To Sell Off Artworks
Dame Liz Forgan, the chair, of the Arts Council told a group of MPs in the Culture Select Committee that… Read More
25 January 2011
Banksy Nominated for Oscar and Bafta Latest
It’s official Banksy’s film, Exit Through The Gift Shop, has been nominated for an Academy Award as well as a… Read More
25 January 2011
Dennis Oppenheim Conceptual Art Pioneer Dies Aged 72
Dennis Oppenheim the pioneering conceptual artist has died of complications from liver cancer, he was 72. Oppenheim was born in 1938
24 January 2011
Art 42 Basel Who’s In Who’s Out
June 15 – 19, 2011 Richard Green and Patrick Painter have pulled out of the worlds biggest Art Fair, Art… Read More
24 January 2011
Has Jeff Koons Gone Bonkers?
Forever an egotistical megalomaniac, Koons is obsessed with himself. His inflated self-importance has overstretched all sensible boundaries, reaching the point… Read More
23 January 2011
VIP Art Fair Is Virtually There
ArtLyst Review The first online art fair featuring top international dealers, artists and prime location galleries, launched today… Read More
22 January 2011
MODERN BRITISH SCULPTURE OPENS
Royal Academy Of The Arts London 22 January – 7 April 2011 Unknown work by Damien Hirst, a barnyard outbuilding… Read More
21 January 2011
Stolen Masterpieces Recovered in Scotland
Works by Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot, Samuel Peploe and Federico Barocci Returned. Poor record keeping and slack security by the Kelvingrove… Read More
20 January 2011
Wallace Collection Appoints Christoph Vogtherr As New Director
Sir John Ritblat,Chairman of the Wallace Collection has announced the appointment of Dr Christoph Vogtherr as the next Director of… Read More
20 January 2011
UK Museum Storage Costs Millions
Storage costs for art in British Museums is costing over a million pounds per year. A Freedom of Information request… Read More
19 January 2011
Yoko Ono Wins Hiroshima Art Prize
Yoko Ono, the avant-garde artist and widow of John Lennon, has been awarded the eighth Hiroshima Art Prize. This is… Read More
17 January 2011
Picasso and Dyslexia
Scientists at Middlesex University in London claim that Picasso’s success may be attributed to his dyslexia The 20th century master… Read More
16 January 2011
Fourth Plinth Sculpture Winners Announced
A giant blue rooster by Katharina Fritsch and a curly haired boy on a rocking horse by Elmgreen & Dragset are the next two sculptures chosen for the Fourth Plinth platform in London’s Trafalgar Square.
14 January 2011
Josh Baum Wins Zabludowicz Collection Future Map Prize
The Zabludowicz Collection Future Map Prize has been won by Josh Baum, a recent MA Fine Art graduate from Central… Read More
13 January 2011
Shepard Fairey vs. AP Case Dismissed
The copyright lawsuit between the American Urban Artist, Shepard Fairey and AP (Associated Press), came a step closer to a… Read More
13 January 2011
ICA Appoints Gregor Muir New Executive Director
The ICA has named the successor to Ekow Eshun by appointing Gregor Muir, as its new head. He is currently… Read More
12 January 2011
Tom Lubbock Artist / Critic dies at 53
The chief art critic for the Independent, Tom Lubbock died yesterday, aged 53. This has come two years after he was diagnosed with a brain tumour.
10 January 2011
Brian Eno Exhibits 77 Million Paintings in Canada
Brian Eno,the musician/producer, who developed the genre known as ambient music, presents his work 77 Million Paintings, in Calgary Canada…. Read More
10 January 2011
Photographers Gallery Charity Auction at Christie’s
The Photographers Gallery in London is holding a charity auction at Christie’s South Kensington on Thursday 17 February 2011, to… Read More
9 January 2011
New Banksy Interview – Documentary Tipped For Oscar
As the Oscars approach the bickering begins. Joachim Levy a 34-year-old Swiss filmmaker is contesting the omission of his name… Read More
8 January 2011
Dennis Hopper Shot Chairman Mao – Warhol Results At Christie’s
Christie’s NY has offered a 1967 Warhol screen print of Marilyn Monroe in purple, yellow, and orange tones on a shocking pink background
7 January 2011
London Art Fair Latest
London Art Fair 19 – 23 January 2011, presents over 100 galleries featuring the great names of 20th Century British… Read More
5 January 2011
Mick Karn Artist Musician With The Band Japan Dies At 52
Tributes are pouring in for the Sculptor/Musician Mick Karn who died yesterday after a long battle with lung cancer.
5 January 2011
Art Stock Exchange To Launch In Paris
Pierre Naquin, a French entrepreneur is to create a fund offering shares in 20th – 21st century master works. Collectors,… Read More
4 January 2011
Edvard Munch Thieves Convicted
Three works stolen from the Malmo Art Museum including a 1.2 million dollar painting by the Norwegian expressionist Edvard Munch.”Two… Read More
31 December 2010