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Raqib Shaw and Chapmans Pub Sign Artwork To Be Auctioned
Raqib Shaw’s pub sign artwork - The Queen Elizabeth - is being auctioned for over £100k for Space In Between gallery’s fundraiser ARTISTS MAKE PUB...
Art Basel Miami Beach 2013 The Final Verdict Is In
Art Basel Miami Beach 2013 has closed with a resounding thumbs up from both the public and gallerists exhibiting. The fair also drew strong praise...
The Couturier White Wedding Dress Explored In New V&A Exhibition
A new exhibition will trace the development of the fashionable white wedding dress and its interpretation by leading couturiers and designers,...
Tom Barnett Exhibition Enters Final Phase With Performance Piece
A new exhibition by Tom Barnett will see a space in Peckham transformed from the immersive, multimedia environment of the past two weeks into its...
Sean Scully Sculpture Commissioned As Centrepiece For New London Embassy
The commissioning of a million dollar sculpture by the abstract painter Sean Scully, for the United States' new London embassy has caused an outcry...
First American Museum Exhibition Dedicated To Tracey Emin Opens
A new exhibition titled Tracey Emin: 'Angel Without You', the first American museum exhibition dedicated to the British artist Tracey Emin has...
Edward Hopper and Norman Rockwell Achieve Record Prices At Auction
It has been a record breaking week for two icons of American realism. A Depression era view of New Jersey by Edward Hopper has sold for $40m...
London Art Exhibitions To Explore In December 2013 By Paul Carey Kent
ANYWHERE GOES IN DECEMBER Christmas, I hear, is coming. I’m tempted to ignore it on the basis that biennially would be quite enough, but maybe it’s...
English Heritage Receives Extra £5 Million Funding Boost
A further £5 million funding – on top of the £80 million already committed - to create a new charity arm of English Heritage to manage England’s...
Ai Weiwei Inaugural Retrospective Exhibition Opens Miami’s Perez Art Museum
The Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) opened to the public yesterday with an exhibition of the Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei. The exhibition lineup...
Christie’s Releases A Preliminary Appraisal for Bankrupt Detroit
Christie’s the international auctioneers has confirmed that it has delivered a preliminary report on its valuation project at the request of the...
Works By Baselitz and Richter Donated To British Museum
The British Museum in London has announced the acquisition of a generous gift of 34 important works on paper by 20th-century German artists to their...