News
Tate and Bloomberg Join Forces To Launch New Creative Space
Tate’s ambitious digital strategy was highlighted this week at the launch of a pioneering new project called Bloomberg Connects. This will enable...
M F Husain’s Guernica After Bhopal Features In Bonham’s Indian Sale
The 8th October Indian and Islamic Art Sale at Bonhams New Bond Street is featuring 'Bhopal', by Indian artist Maqbool Fida Husain (1915-2011). This...
Damien Hirst Helps Tate Have Bumper Year Despite Government Cuts
The Damien Hirst exhibition has helped Tate have one of its most successful years ever in 2012-13 and has moved forward on a number of different...
Merge Festival Presents Exciting Artist Line Up For 2013
MERGE festival is presenting the award winning artist James Capper who will be artist in residence in the Kirkaldy Testing Museum, developing ideas...
Women Photographer’s Provocative Work Challenges Perceptions Of Middle Eastern Identity
A dozen Women photographers are featured in “She Who Tells a Story” which introduces the pioneering work of twelve leading women photographers from...
Gianni Versace Miami Beach Murder Mansion Sells For $41m
The opulent Miami Beach villa where the fashion designer Gianni Versace was murdered in 1997 Has been sold for $41.5 million. The furnished Miami...
Ben Okri Poem On Ayuba Suleiman Diallo Unveiled At NPG
Ben Okri has unveiled his poem (see below) dedicated to William Hoare’s compelling portrait of Ayuba Suleiman Diallo, the earliest known British...
Glafira Rosales Blows The Whistle On New York’s Biggest Art Fraud
A Long Island art dealer who operated a scam selling more than $80m (£50m) worth of fake Abstract Expressionist art, to a number of high profile...
Derek Jarman: New Exhibition To Mark 20th Anniversary Of His Death
To mark the 20th anniversary of Derek Jarman’s death from HIV-related illnesses in February 1994, King’s Cultural Institute presents Derek Jarman:...
The Secrets of Outsider Art Revealed In New London Exhibition
Once the term Outsider Art, Raw Art or Art Brut was used to describe work produced by artists working in cultural isolation, following their own...
Praemium Imperiale Prize Awarded To Gormley, Chipperfield And Pistoletto
The Turner Prize winning Sculptor Antony Gormley, British architect Sir David Chipperfield and painter Michelangelo Pistoletto are amung the...
Stik On The Lower East Side Ilka Scobie Meets The Artist
“A true patriot must always be ready to defend his country from his government” - Herman Melville quote via Stik Finished just before a torrential...