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Norman Foster’s Sainsbury Centre Granted Grade II Listed Status
The Hi-Tech Sainsbury Centre at the University of East Anglia has been given Grade II listed status after a decision by the Heritage Minister Ed...
Art Stories That Mattered In 2012 – The First Six Months
Art is usually a subject that gets missed off of the popular year end roundups, but as I sit here in our editorial office, reminiscing about the...
Tate Presents Contemporary Sexual And Gender Politics In LGBT Congress
Tate's involvement in LGBT month, in February presents a series of events in The Tanks at Tate Modern which considers pressing questions around...
Gagosian Gallery Empire Under Threat As Top Artists Jump Ship
In the latter half of December, the largest gallery in the world suddenly found its future dominance in doubt. The Gagosian Gallery, which turned...
Warhol Exhibition Explores Sixty Artists Influenced By Andy
Andy Warhol has exerted an enormous impact on contemporary art. For decades, critics have observed this phenomenon but no exhibition has yet...
Maurizio Cattelan Erects Hitler Praying Sculpture In Warsaw Ghetto
A sculpture of Adolf Hitler, praying on his knees by the well known Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan, has created controversy after it was installed...
Art Installation Sees 300 Illuminated Paper Boats Sail On Thames
Voyage, is an installation by Aether & Hemera consisting of 300 illuminated floating ‘paper boats, encased in coloured dynamic LED lights that...
Tracey Emin and Quentin Blake Receive New Years Honours
The YBA artist Tracey Emin becomes a CBE, Quentin Blake Receives a Knighthood and the Sculptor Richard Long an OBE in this years New Years Honours...
Cutting Into January: London Art Exhibitions By Paul Carey- Kent
Perhaps I could warm up by recommending three shows I’m writing about for other places: * the two venue retrospective of Sanja Iveković at Calvert...
Lady Gaga Documentary The Creation Of Artpop And You
Lady Gaga has always known how to mix art with popular culture. Her art school background seems to surface at every opportunity. Now the mega...
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...