Salvador Dali Corpse Exhumed In Paternity Case Media Circus First Photo
The exhumation of the corpse of the Surrealist artist Salvador Dali took place this evening in Spain.
20 July 2017
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RIBA Stirling Prize Shortlist Includes Juergen Teller’s New Studio
The shortlist for the RIBA Stirling Prize an award honouring the UK’s best new building has been announced today (Thursday 20 July). The six… Read More
20 July 2017
Eightieth Anniversary of Nazis Degenerate Art Exhibition Marked By Ben Uri
Eighty years ago today, on the 19 July 1937, the Nazis unveiled their solution to terminate the freedom of artists to express themselves.
19 July 2017
Artangel Everywhere Commission Awarded To Evan Roth
Evan Roth has been announced as the Artangel Everywhere commission for a groundbreaking new project which will materialise throughout the world in 2018.
19 July 2017
Nicolas Poussin Four Seasons Panels Removed From Display After Louvre Floods
Two Panels by the French Artist Nicolas Poussin that are part of his iconic Four Seasons Quartet at the Louvre were damaged by heavy thunderstorms on the 9th July.
19 July 2017
Yorkshire Art Museum Triangle Launch International Sculpture Triennial
Four Yorkshire art galleries, including two Art Fund Museum of the Year winners, have secured funding of £750,000 in order to organise an international sculpture triennial, titled Yorkshire Sculpture International.
18 July 2017
Hackney WickED Launches Full Fledged East End Arts Festival 28-30 July
London’s most exciting art’s festival celebrate a Summer of Love at Hackney WickED DIY Open Studios (28th – 30th July)
17 July 2017
Assemble Art Collective Open Major New Museum Survey In Vienna
The Turner Prize winning art collective Assemble: are offered a major new survey of their work at the Architekturzentrum Wien.
17 July 2017
Scottish Painter John Bellany Works To Be Exhibited At Fortnum & Mason
The British art collector Frank Cohen is to present an exhibition of work by the late Scottish artist John Bellany who died in 2013. The works are drawn from his extensive private collection.
16 July 2017
Sarah Lucas Dialogues With Rodin In First Major US Museum Show
Sarah Lucas presents her first major museum exhibition in the United States titled Good Muse at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.
15 July 2017
Salvador Dali Body Ordered To Be Exhumed On 20th July
You couldn’t get more surreal than this! The exhumation of the body of the Surrealist artist Salvador Dali will go ahead on 20th July.
14 July 2017
Knoedler Art Fraud Case Glafira Rosales Ordered To Pay Back $81m
The art fraudster Glafira Rosales who was central to the Knoedler art fraud scam has been ordered to Pay $81 million in compensation to the victims of the scandal.
12 July 2017
Tate Announces Record Year With Over 8.4m Visitors
Tate has announced that it had more visitors in 2016/17 than in any previous year.
12 July 2017
Alan Vega The Final Paintings and Light-works Exhibited In New York
Alan Vega’s last visual artwork is presented in a New York exhibition of large-scale paintings. ‘Keep IT Alive’ completed in the run up to his death a year ago in July 2016 also contains many of his signature light pieces.
12 July 2017
Liberty Department Store Pull Art Installations And Performances For Being Off-Brand
The “Dark Side of Liberty, an exhibition launched with much fanfare at Liberty’s flagship Regent Street shop has removed a number of artworks and cancelled scheduled performance pieces.
12 July 2017
Edgar Degas Centenary Celebrated In New National Gallery Exhibition This Autumn
Marking the centenary of Edgar Degas’ (1834–1917) death on 27 September 1917, Drawn in Colour: Degas from the Burrell has been announced as a major new show at the National Gallery this Autumn.
11 July 2017
David Hockney Gallery Opens In Bradford To Mark His 80th Birthday
A new gallery opens to the public today in Bradford dedicated to the artist David Hockney. It is a birthday present from his hometown honouring his 80th birthday. The gallery is located in rooms on the first floor in Cartwright Hall a place he often visited in the 1940s and ‘50s.
8 July 2017
Benefactors Tim Sayer And Annemarie Norton Celebrate Hepworth Wakefield Prize Win
Tim Sayer and Annemarie Norton, whose personal collection, built up over the last five decades was generously donated to the Hepworth Wakefield last year were on stage to see The Hepworth Wakefield win this year’s Art Fund Museum of The Year £100,000 prize.
7 July 2017
George Frederic Watts Masterpiece Orpheus and Eurydice Auctioned At Sotheby’s
An important Important Work by the Artist George Frederic Watts is to be offered at Sotheby’s. This marks the Two-Hundredth Anniversary of Watt’s Birth.
6 July 2017
Hepworth Wakefield Wins Prestigious Museum Of The Year £100,000 Prize
The Hepworth Wakefield has won this year’s Museum of The Year Award. The gallery located in West Yorkshire has beaten Tate Modern, the Lapworth Museum of Geology in Birmingham, Sir John Soane’s Museum in London and the National Heritage Centre for Horseracing and Sporting Art in Suffolk. The Art Fund aims to reward an institution that has shown “exceptional imagination, innovation, and achievement across the preceding 12 months”.
6 July 2017
Grenfell Fire Art Auction Attracts A-List Artist Donations
Several of the best known UK artists have joined forces to donate works to an online auction to benefit the people affected by the Grenfell fire disaster. The auction will take place on Artsy the online platform from 18th July – 1st August 2017.
5 July 2017
V&A Unveil Amanda Levete Designed Exhibition Road Quarter By Edward Lucie-Smith
Just in time to greet its new Director, Tristram Hunt, former Labour MP for Stoke-on-Trent, the Victoria & Albert Museum has opened a rather grand new exhibition space.
4 July 2017
Daniel Buren Tottenham Court Road Tube Station Art Officially Unveiled
The first permanent public commission in the UK by the internationally acclaimed French artist, Daniel Buren, was officially inaugurated, this week utilising Tottenham Court Road Tube station as a backdrop to Buren’s signature geometric patterns and stripes. This replaces the controversial removal of the mosaic murals by the Modern British artist Eduardo Paolozzi.
4 July 2017
British Underground Press Circa 1960s Exhibition And Book Launched This Autumn
A new exhibition and book The British Underground Press of the Sixties brings together the iconic covers of International Times, Oz, Friends and Frendz, Gandalf’s Garden, Black Dwarf and Ink for the first time.
3 July 2017
Frieze Sculpture Park Unveils Free Summer Exhibition for London
Regent’s Park is to host London’s largest outdoor sculpture exhibition, featuring 23 leading artists beginning on Wednesday. Frieze Sculpture will open from 5 July to 8 October. The publication and fair organisers present this free out- door exhibition for London and its international visitors throughout the summer months.
3 July 2017
Art Night Festival: Tonight’s The Night To Be Adventurous
Art Night 2017 is one of the UK’s largest free arts festivals. It is sponsored by the Whitechapel Gallery and allows anyone with a spirit of adventure on a magical mystery tour of the edgier side of the London art scene.
1 July 2017
London Art Week Corridor Presents Blue Chip Fairs And Galley Openings
London Art Week, summer 2017 gets underway today 30th June. This is mostly geared up to the ‘Old Masters’ and Blue Chip market which will be offering an array of special exhibitions hosted across more than forty of the capital’s galleries and three leading auction houses. There are also two major art fairs on during this corridor week. Masterpiece in Chelsea and Olympia in Kensington are worth a visit.
30 June 2017
Lucio Fontana Environment Installations To Be Reconstructed In Milan
Visitors to a major exhibition which will be staged at Pirelli Hangar Bicocca in Milan this autumn will be able to walk through several of Lucio Fontana’s celebrated ‘environments’ featuring different forms and colours which unfold through rooms, corridors, glass walls and labyrinthine paths. The show, opening on 20 September 2017, has been developed in collaboration with Fondazione Lucio Fontana.
29 June 2017
Sotheby’s Contemporary Art Evening Sale Realises Respectable £62.3m Total
Sotheby’s Contemporary Art Evening Sale has realised a very respectable £62.3 million / $79.8 million / €70.4 million total.
29 June 2017
Tretchikoff’s Green Lady Model Monika Pon-Su-San Dies Aged 86
Monika Pon-Su-San the stunning model/sitter behind the1950s kitsch classic the Green Lady or The Chinese Girl as it was officially titled has died in South Africa aged 86.
28 June 2017
Max Beckmann Painting Achieves £36m World Record Price
The German expressionist painter Max Beckmann has achieved a new world record price for the artist
27 June 2017
Dazzling Modigliani Exhibition To Reunite Banned Nudes At Tate Modern
Some of Modigliani’s best known and most provocative nudes are to be reunited in London nearly 100 years after they were banned in Paris.
27 June 2017