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Christie’s And Sotheby’s Impressionist And Modern Sales Soar In NY
Christie’s NY Evening Sale of Impressionist and Modern Art on Tuesday, May 6, has realised $285,879,000 (£168,668,610/€205,832,880), selling 89% by...
Banksy Breaks Silence In Landmark Letter Over Mobile Lovers Dispute
The internationally renowned street artist Banksy has passed a personal letter to the Broad Plain Boys' Club in Bristol sanctioning the disputed...
Edinburgh Art Festival Announces Off Site Projects And Commissions For 2014
The Edinburgh Art Festival has announced its 2014 city-wide commissions programme and further details of off-site projects. Bringing together a...
Maria Lassnig The Grande Dame Of Austrian Art Dies Aged 95
Maria Lassnig, the grande dame of Austrian art, has died age 95. Lassnig was born in Carinthia in 1919 and worked mostly in Vienna. She was one of...
Turner Prize Shortlist Revealed At Tate Britain For 2014 Competition
Tate Britain has just announced the four artists who have been shortlisted for the Turner Prize 2014. The artists are Duncan Campbell, Ciara...
Cornelius Gurlitt Nazi Treasure Trove Hoarder Dies In Munich
Cornelius Gurlitt the son of a notorious Nazi art dealer whose secret collection included many Third Reich looted pieces, has died in Germany age...
Designers in Residence Announced For Seventh Annual Design Museum Programme
The Design Museum’s 7th annual Designers in Residence programme is a platform to celebrate new and emerging designers at an early stage in their...
Obsessive Compulsive Order: Repetition Explored In Copperfield’s Opening Exhibition
With so many galleries closing or displaced by significant rent increases in the last 6 months, Copperfield, a new gallery guided by William Lunn,...
Dan Loeb Appointed Sotheby’s Board Seat After Ceding Legal Advise
The hedge fund activist Dan Loeb will be appointed a seat on the board of Sotheby's, after a seven month battle, avoiding a feared shareholder vote,...
La Dolce Vita The Birth of Celebrity Culture New Exhibition
The Years of La Dolce Vita, an exhibition which explores one of the most fertile periods in contemporary Italian cinema and the simultaneous...
Black Eye: Pop Up Of 21st Century Black Art Hits NY
Nicola Vassell, former director of Deitch Projects and Pace Gallery, presents “Black Eye”, a show of 21st century black art as a pop up gallery on...
Josef Albers: New Exhibition Explores The Importance Of Black And White
Josef Albers was a pioneering colour theorist and a historic teacher at the Bauhaus, Germany, Black Mountain College, North Carolina, and Yale...