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Haroon Mirza Acquired By Five Northwest Public Galleries
Haroon Mirza’s A Sleek Dry Yell (2008) has been jointly acquired by five northwest public galleries thanks to the Contemporary Art...
National Portrait Gallery Acquires 18th Century Transvestite Portrait
The LGBT community is thrilled at the NPG London's acquisition of a painted portrait of a male transvestite. The subject dressed in women’s...
Contemporary Art Under Legal Pressure Over Copyright
Will artists be the next victims of the Napster/Pirate Bay effect? We blinked, and suddenly we've been jolted back into the late 1990s or early...
Buckingham Palace Becomes Council Flats For Jubilee Concert
Something subversive is happening here. 80's band Madness serenaded the Queen from the rooftop of Buckingham Palace in a showstopper which saw a...
God Save Mr Brainwash And His Diamond Jubilee Abomination
Mr Brainwash, perhaps the worlds worst non artist in history, has released a new mass produced print in order to properly exploit the Queen's...
Howard Hodgkin Celebration Of The Artist’s 80th Birthday
A major new exhibition of works on paper by Howard Hodgkin, one of Britain's most celebrated living artists, form the basis of a new show honouring...
Karl Lagerfeld Draws Jubilee Portrait Of The Queen
Karl Lagerfeld the creative director of the Paris based fashion house Chanel has sketched the Queen using pastels to depict her likeness. The...
One Artist’s Response To The Queen’s Diamond Jubilee
While the Queen’s barge sailed down the Thames with its 1,000 boat flotilla a flip side of the Royal coin was revealed, as dozens of...
Royal Academy Champions The Work Of Young Artists
'It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child'. Pablo PicassoThree children aged nine and ten have had their...
Artists Paint Queen’s Diamond Jubilee From Millennium Bridge
The Millennium Bridge, officially known as the London Millennium Footbridge was closed today in order to allow artists to paint and record the...
Banksy’s Six New UK Graffiti Masterpieces Unveiled
In the last month Banksy has been busy at work creating at least a half dozen new pieces in the UK. The first to appear was a portrait of a...
Anthony McCall’s £500k Spinning Column Gets Green Light
Installation artist Anthony McCall's £500,000 'Column' has finally been given the go ahead by Wirral Council, after months of delay. It was...
