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Turner Prize To Be Presented At Towner Eastbourne In 2023
The Turner Prize has announced that it will be presented at Towner Eastbourne in 2023, as the centrepiece of the gallery’s centenary celebrations....
Paula Rego: A Generation’s Defining Figurative Painter Dies Aged 87
Dame Paula Rego, one of the finest UK based figurative painters of her generation, has died suddenly in London aged 87. Her gallery, Victoria Miro...
Isaac Julien Cornelia Parker and Quentin Blake On Queen’s Jubilee Birthday Honours List
The Queen's Jubilee Birthday Honours list 2022 has given the nod to several people involved in the Visual Arts, including a knighthood for the...
Royal College of Art Unveils New Herzog & de Meuron Campus Upgrade
The Royal College of Art, the world’s leading university of art and design, unveiled its new campus in Battersea, London on 23 May 2022, the most...
Whitechapel Gallery Appoints Gilane Tawadros As New Director
The Whitechapel Gallery has announced that curator and writer, Gilane Tawadros, has been appointed their new Director. Tawadros is currently Chief...
Man Ray Sets New Photography Record Price at $12.4m
A Man Ray photograph 'Le Violon d'Ingres' has set a new record price for a photograph at auction, selling for $12.4 million. After more than 10...
Otto Dix Watercolours From The Gurlitt Hoard Auctioned
Ten years after the Gurlitt Hoard ("Schwabing Art Trove") hit the headlines worldwide, two excellent watercolours from Otto Dix will go under the...
Donald Baechler Seminal NY 1980s Painter Dies Age 65
Donald Baechler, who died in April, was one of the most promising artists of the 1980s. He was associated with a group of painters in New York that...
Andy Warhol Marilyn Breaks 20th c Auction Records – Art Fund Museum Of The Year Shortlist Announced – Sackler Name Removed From National Gallery London And Guggenheim
Andy Warhol's 'Shot Sage Blue Marilyn' made double history last night as the most costly painting ever sold by a US artist and the most costly...
Maurizio Cattelan Sued – New York Auction Industry Deregulation – Major Tate Liverpool Refurbishment
The Italian Conceptual artist Maurizio Cattelan is being sued in Paris over intellectual property infringement. The French sculptor Daniel Druet...
Controversial Philip Guston Exhibition To Open In Boston – Art Gallery of New South Wales To Open In December – Professor Deborah Swallow To Step Down At Courtauld
After two years of indecision from museum directors both in the US and UK, The Philip Guston exhibition will finally open to the public in Boston on...
Hermann Nitsch Austrian Multidisciplinary Artist Dies Age 83
The Nitsch Foundation, has announced the sad news of Hermann Nitsch’s death at age 83 on April 18, 2022. Nitsch was known as a multidisciplinary...