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Damien Hirst To Publically Burn Paintings – Samson Kambalu To Unveil Fourth Plinth Commission – Rhea Storr New Art On The Underground Commission
Damien Hirst and HENI will collaborate to present a unique exhibition of paintings from his first NFT collection, The Currency, at Newport Street...
Claes Oldenburg Proto New York Pop Artist Dies Aged 93
Claes Oldenburg, the first-wave Pop Artist who turned everyday objects into hard and soft sculptures, has died aged 93. Pace his Gallery for many...
Documenta Director Sabine Schormann Resigns Over Antisemitism Row – Sotheby’s Sell $2.5m Tables Made From Asbestos – Complete Hilma af Klint Catalogue Raisonné To Be Published
Sabine Schormann, the director general of Documenta, which has been embroiled in an antisemitism row, has resigned from her post. Alexander...
Van Gogh and Modigliani Sketches Discovered Reverso – Museum Of The Year £100k Winner Announced – Harsh New Fines For Damaging Public Sculptures In Britain
A previously unknown self-portrait by the Dutch painter Vincent Van Gogh has been found on the back of a work by the artist, in the National...
Royal Academy Elects Three Dynamic New Academicians
Three new Royal Academicians have been elected to round off the year. Shirazeh Houshiary, Brian Griffiths and Clare Woods are all sculptors. They...
Paris+ par Art Basel: New Kid On The Block Announces Exhibitors
Paris+ par Art Basel, which has all but replaced the French art fair FIAC in the Grand Palais, has announced the lineup for the 2022 fair. The...
Duncan Grant Celebrated With New Dior Men’s Collection And Erotic Drawings Exhibition
Kim Jones, the creative director of Dior, has created a new collection of menswear inspired by the Bloomsbury Group painter Duncan Grant 1885 –...
Boris Johnson Denounced UK Government Over Parthenon Marbles What About Now?
As a student, Boris Johnson lambasted UK officials for not allowing the repatriation of the Parthenon Marbles. He even wrote a letter in 1986 to the...
Margaret Keane Kitsch Painter Of Big Eyed Children Dies Aged 94
The painter Margaret Keane, creator of melancholy portraits of big-eyed children, popular in the late 1950s-1960s, has died aged 94. The eyes are...
Victor Pinchuk Donates £10.2m Jeff Koons Balloon Monkey Proceeds To Aid Ukraine
The sale proceeds of Jeff Koons’ iconic Balloon Monkey (Magenta) (2006-13), which sold for £10,136,500 / $12,437,486 / €11,738,067 at Christie’s...
Sam Gilliam Pioneering African American Painter Dies Aged 88
One of the great innovators of postwar American art, Sam Gilliam, has died aged 88. Gilliam invented ways in which painting could be interrogated...
Banksy Bataclan Sad Girl Eight Convicted Of Art Theft
Eight men have been convicted of stealing A Banksy artwork depicting a weeping woman that was taken from the Bataclan concert hall in Paris. The...