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Golden Lion For Sonia Boyce GB and Simone Leigh US At 59th Venice Biennale
The 59th Venice Biennale's top prize, the Golden Lion, has been awarded to Great Britain's Sonia Boyce OBE RA for Best National Participation at La...
French Culture Ministry Seize Russian Paintings Owned By Sanctioned Oligarchs Petr Aven And Viatcheslav Moshe Kantor
French Culture Ministry authorities have seized Pyotr Konchalovsky's "Self-Portrait", a painting owned by the Russian oligarch Petr Aven, a director...
Turner Prize 2022 Shortlist Announced In Liverpool
In the early morning hours, I walked beside a tranquil River Mersey towards Tate Liverpool’s press launch, where there was an exciting buzz as we...
Royal College of Art Still Number One In The World – Stolen Charles Darwin Notebooks Returned – Philip Guston Painting Expected To Break Records At Sotheby’s
The Royal College of Art (RCA), London, has been ranked the number 1 university for art & design internationally for the 8th consecutive year...
Rembrandt Landscape Discovered In Berlin Museum Collection – Titian Penitent Magdalene To Be Auctioned In Vienna
A Landscape painting depicting an arch bridge thought to be the work of one of Rembrandt's students, Govert Flinck, has been attributed to the...
UK And France Export Bar For Cézanne And Chardin Paintings
The UK Government has placed an export bar on 'Ferme Normande, Été' (Hattenville) 1882 by Paul Cézanne to allow time for a UK gallery or institution...
UNESCO Condemns 53 Ukraine Cultural Sites Damaged In Russia Invasion
UNESCO, the international body that assesses damages to cultural sites during crisis, has reported that 53 sites of international importance have...
Delfina Foundation Founder Delfina Entrecanales Dies Age 94
The Delfina Foundation has announced the death of its founder, Delfina Entrecanales CBE, at the age of 94. Over the last four decades, through her...
Anish Kapoor Calls For Boycott Of Russian Owned Phillips Auctioneers – Damien Hirst Claimed Millions in Furlough Payments – Cecilia Vicuña Awarded Hyundai Commission At Tate Modern
The Turner Prize-Winning sculptor Anish Kapoor has called for a boycott of Phillips Auctioneers. In a statement published in the New York Times, he...
Mega Dealer Ivor Braka Sued By Artist Collection Societies – Mariupol Museum Levelled – Artist Steve McQueen Knighted
The Art dealer Ivor Braka is being sued by artists' resale rights groups for not paying royalties to living artists or their estates. The Artists'...
Should The V&A Close Their Fabergé Egg Exhibition – Tate And RA Sever Relations With Russian Billionaires – Sotheby’s, Christie’s and Bonhams Cancel Russian Art Sales
Whenever you hear the name Fabergé, you think of opulent, lavish, jewelled, decorated, and, let’s face it, kitsch, Russian Imperial eggs. Fabergé in...
Russian Raphael Painting Withdrawn From London Show – Jeff Koons Loses Another Court Battle – Metropolitan Museum To Deaccess $30m Picasso Bronze
One of the centrepieces of the National Galleries' long-awaited Raphael exhibition has been withdrawn due to the escalating war in Ukraine....