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Courtauld Gallery Announces Reopening Dates – Frida Kahlo Trademark Dispute Dropped By US Court – Sonic Ray Installation Revives London’s Only Lighthouse
London's Courtauld Gallery will reopen to the public on Friday 19 November 2021, following the most significant modernisation project in its...
Lubaina Himid Unveils GAC Commission – Tate’s Turbine Hall Commission Dates Announced – British Museum Launches NFT Partnership Platform
The Turner Prize-winning artist Lubaina Himid CBE has been awarded the Robson Orr TenTen Award 2021 by the Government Art Collection (GAC). The new...
Brancusi Kiss: French Authorities Refuse Historical Monument Export Licence
A sculpture by the Romanian artist Constantin Brancusi is the subject of a long-running legal battle. The case has prompted French authorities to...
Frida Kahlo Last Self-Portrait Auctioned – Van Gogh And Frans Hals Theft Trial – Firstsite Selected Art Fund Museum of the Year
Frida Kahlo Last Self Portrait Expected To Reach $30m Sotheby's is auctioning an important self-portrait by the Mexican artist Frida Kahlo. The 1949...
Christo and Jeanne-Claude Posthumously Wrap The Arc de Triomphe – Donald Judd Now Represented By Gagosian – Gavin Turk Pisses Himself
In 1961, three years after they met in Paris, Christo and Jeanne-Claude began creating works of art in public spaces. One of their projects was to...
Francis Bacon Forgery Ring Italian Police Make Arrests
Italian police have seized 500 drawings and collages reputed to be by the Irish born artist Francis Bacon. The stash also included €3m worth of cash...
Wim Wenders 9/11 Photos Exhibited At Imperial War Museum
A new exhibition of photos by Wim Wenders taken at the site of the World Trade Center towers a month after 9/11 has gone on display at the Imperial...
Can Art Basel Take Place Without The Brits and Americans – Banksy Shred-Art Back On Market For £6m – First Art World Led NFT Platform Gets Physical
Can Art Basel Take Place Without The Brits and Americans? Art Basel, which should have taken place last Spring, will be held from September 21...
Fake Banksy NFT Artwork Sold For $350k Was A Hack
The elusive Street Artist Banksy has had his website hacked, resulting in the sale of a $336,000 NFT to a collector who was duped into thinking he...
Tate Gauguin Is A Fake – Bank of England Removes Slave Trade Portraits – Stedelijk Museum Kandinsky Returned To Heirs
A painting attributed to Gauguin for over 100 years, in the collection of London's Tate Gallery has been downgraded and omitted from the Gauguin...
Dame Elizabeth Blackadder Lyrical Scottish Painter Dies Age 89
Elizabeth Blackadder RA, RSA one of Scotland's greatest artists, has died, age 89. She was born in Falkirk in 1931 and studied at ECA from 1949...
Pioneering Photorealist Painter Chuck Close Dead At 81
The pioneering Photorealist painter Chuck Close has died at age 81. The artist, best known for his unforgiving portraits had been the subject of...