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Leonard Lauder Donates $1 Billion Cubism Collection To Metropolitan Museum
An A-list collection of Cubist paintings by Picasso, Braque and Leger has been gifted to the Metropolitan Museum of art in New York by the prominent...
Christie’s Auctioneers Granted First Operating Licence For Mainland China
Christie’s Auctioneers has announced that it will be holding sales in Shanghai beginning autumn 2013. These will be independently operated...
Margaret Thatcher Statue Could Replace Trafalgar Fourth Plinth Project
Several prominent figures including Mayor Boris Johnson and Lord Norman Tebbit have called for a permanent statue of Baroness Thatcher to be erected...
Eduardo Chillida New Exhibition Exploring 50 Years Of Sculpture
Eduardo Chillida (1924-2002) is regarded as one of the foremost pioneers of modern sculpture and over a period of 50 years he produced an...
Dame Maggie Smith Immortalised At National Portrait Gallery
The National Portrait Gallery, London, has unveiled its most recent commissioned portrait, a painting of Dame Maggie Smith by the artist James...
A Contemporary Portrait Of Margaret Thatcher By Marcus Harvey
In 2009 the YBA artist Marcus Harvey painted one of the few contemporary depictions of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. It was rendered in a...
Van Gogh Museum Reopens Doors Shortly After Rijksmuseum Relaunch
The Netherlands have been busy with a long over due modernisation programme. Two major museums which have seen complete renovation are The...
Rachel Whiteread Unveils Detached Her New Exhibition Of Sculpture
A new exhibition by artist Rachel Whiteread CBE opens at Gagosian this Thursday. “Detached,” is an exhibition of new sculpture which...
Sally Tallant Announces Liverpool Biennial Curators for 2014
Liverpool Biennial has announced the joint appointment of Mai Abu ElDahab and Anthony Huberman as curators of the 2014 Biennial, which will take...
Stolen Renoir Painting Found At Flea Market The Plot Thickens
A Renoir painting that caused a viral press sensation in September 2012, when it was put up for auction, after allegedly being discovered at a flea...
Andy Warhol Politics And Power Exhibition For Scotland’s Holyrood
Fancy a cultural visit to Holyrood? This autumn, forty of Andy Warhol's paintings and prints will be exhibited at Holyrood, Scotland's centre of...
Matisse Painting Stolen By Nazis Reignites Sonja Henie’s Dark Past
Relatives of the legendary Parisian art dealer Paul Rosenberg are demanding the return of a Matisse Masterpiece from the Henie-Onstad Art Centre in...