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Viva London aMAZEme Showcases Brazilian Artists In 2012 Festival
The Brazilian programme as part of the London 2012 Festival celebrates the hand over by London to Rio for the 2016 games. The Brazilian elements...
Canaletto View Of London Goes Under The Hammer In Vienna
An historic painting showing the New Horse Guards from St James’s Park by the Venetian painter Canaletto is to be auctioned at the Dorotheum...
Banksy Lays Low As Olympic Street Art Goes Underground
Where are the new Banksy pieces? The media has been a buzz since the artist displayed two new photographs of graffiti that he created specifically...
Stolen Lichtenstein Painting Worth Four Million Discovered In Warehouse
A painting by the American pop artist Roy Lichtenstein that was lost 42 years ago has reappeared in a New York City warehouse. Lawyers for Barbara...
Alex Katz Exhibition Moves To Turner Contemporary Margate
Alex Katz Give Me Tomorrow is moving from Tate St Ives to the Turner Contemporary in Margate, this autumn. Katz, now in his 85th year, is one...
Edinburgh Art Festival Prepares To Outshine Itself With Major Exhibitions
This year the ninth annual Edinburgh Art Festival prepares to outshine itself with major exhibitions by leading international artists including...
Gerhard Richter Painting Pulled From Pompidou Center Facebook Page
Les Notes de Véculture a well respected French blog alerted the art world on Monday that Facebook removed an image of Gerhard Richter’s...
Design Museum Awarded £4.65m Lottery Funding
The Design Museum has been awarded a grant of £4.65million from the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) to assist with its plans to create the...
London Art Events Not To Miss During The Cultural Olympiad
ArtLyst has composed a guide to the very best art exhibitions and events designed as part of the 2012 Cultural Olympiad. All are open to the public...
Chris Marker French Experimental Transmedia Artist Dies In Paris
Marker’s best known film was the 1962 dystopian masterpiece La Jetée (The Jetty). It had the impact necessary to inspire many leading science...
Mel Bochner Survey For Whitechapel Gallery In October
The Whitechapel Gallery has announced the first major British survey show of the New York artist Mel Bochner, one of the founding figures of...
Tate’s Lost Art Gallery Resurrects Emins Momart Fire Tent
Art is sometimes lost. History is riddled with stories of how museums and galleries around the world have had works stolen, destroyed or misplaced....