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Contemporary Artists, Critics and Industry Insiders Who Have Died In 2012
In Memoriam: 2012 has been a devastating year by virtue of the numbers of truly remarkable artists, critics, curators, gallerists and industry...
Ai Weiwei Publishes His Answer To Mao’s Little Red Book
The Dissident Chinese artist, Ai Weiwei has published his answer to Mao Tse-Tung's Little Red Book. Titled Ai Weiwei-isms it is a collection of the...
Tracey Emin Selected To Create Erotic Art For Playboy
Tracey Emin and Cindy Sherman both Royal Academicians are among seven artists chosen to create an original work of art for Playboy Magazine. Playboy...
Tommy Roberts Swinging Sixties Style Guru Dies Aged 70
Tommy Roberts, who died last week, left an enormous five decade mark on UK culture, as an integral part of Swinging London in the 1960s, the glam...
Kitsch Sells! Green Lady Artist Tretchikoff Achieves £337,000 At Auction
2012 was a year of surprises in the London auction rooms. It wasn't only Munch, Picasso and Warhol that made the headlines. South African artist,...
Banksy ‘ll Fix It Controversial Mural Removed By BBC Television Bosses
A Banksy style mural has been destroyed by the BBC to avoid drawing attention to the Jimmy Savile scandal. It's not clear who the actual...
Back To The Future The Estorick Collection Goes Virtual
The Estorick Collection of Modern Italian Art in Islington, London has launched their first virtual exhibition concentrating on Futurism’s...
Keiji Nakazawa Author of Barefoot Gen Manga, Dies Age 73
Keiji Nakazawa, author of "Barefoot Gen" a groundbreaking Japanese comic about the 1945 Hiroshima atomic bombing, has died of lung cancer at a...
Pussy Riot Spend Their First Brutal Christmas In Jail
It will be a bleak day for Maria Alyokhina and Nadezhda Tolokonnikova spending their first Christmas in a draconian Russian jail. Unlike the British...
V&A Explore Africa’s Hidden Histories In New Exhibition
An exhibition displaying around 100 objects from the V&A’s collections looks at the V&A’s engagement with and changing view of...
Elisabeth Frink Major New Retrospective For 2013 At Lightbox
A retrospective exhibition of the work of Dame Elisabeth Frink, a leading sculptor in post-war Britain is being mounted at the Lightbox in Woking...
Museum of Liverpool Wins 2013 Council of Europe Prize
The Museum of Liverpool has been awarded the European Museum prize for 2013 by the Council of Europe. The Council of Europe Museum Prize is the most...