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Vanitas: New Exhibition Explores Contemporary Reflections Of Love And Death
Vanitas refers to the futility of achievement, love, knowledge, riches. In the 14th century, the pandemic of plague commonly known as the Black...
Britain’s Position In Global Art Market Threatened
New figures show sales decreasing in the UK but growing globally; Britain’s status as a centre for the international art market is under threat from...
Fathers For Justice Protester Deface Gillian Wearing Birmingham Family Sculpture
Gillian Wearing's 'Real Birmingham Family,' a sculpture dedicated last week, in front of Birmingham's library, has been defaced by a Fathers for...
LGBT History Month Invites Artists To Join The Art Trail
The University of Kent is planning to make LGBT History Month, in February 2015, the country’s largest university LGBT History Month and the best...
Shanghai Biennale 2014: Landmark Tenth Edition Explores The Social Factory
The Shanghai Biennale 2014 will be hosted at Power Station of Art, China's foremost state-run institution for contemporary art. Held in a converted...
Lost Masterpiece Discovered In French Attic At Christie’s Auction
Two works by the artist John Duncan Fergusson were recently rediscovered in France by a brother and sister while they were sorting through the...
Polish Museum Celebrates A Millennia Of Jewish History
The Polin Museum of the History of Polish Jews, a new museum dedicated to the history of Jews in Poland, was once Warsaw's Jewish ghetto has opened...
Mr. Turner On Film – Chipping Away At The Art Biopic
With the opening of Mike Leigh's film 'Mr. Turner', starring Timothy Spall as the great British painter Joseph Mallard William Turner, Artlyst turns...
Mairead McClean Wins £20k MAC International Art Prize 2014
The winner of the MAC International Art Prize has gone to the London-based artist, Mairéad McClean, who wins the £20,000 prize at the Mac gallery...
Damien Hirst And Yayoi Kusama Pumpkins For An Artistic Halloween
The warmest Halloween since UK records began is heating up and what better way to celebrate than to get a pumpkin and carve it! Here are a few...
£100 Million Added To Scottish Arts Funding
The national development agency for the Scottish arts, screen, and creative industries - Creative Scotland - has announced the 119 beneficiaries of...
Film Producer Sues Warhol Icon’s Widower Over Image Copyright
Film producer David Weisman and the widower of Edie Sedgwick; Michael Post are fighting a bitter legal battle over the image rights of the late...