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Dan Colen An American In Paris New Gagosian Exhibition
Gagosian Gallery has just announced Dan Colen's first solo exhibition in Paris. "Out of the Blue, Into the Black" It is a eulogy in three parts...
New Exhibition Exploring Photographer Jo Spence At Space
Jo Spence (1934 – 1992) emerged as a key figure in the mid 1970s from the British photographic left, crucial in debates on photography and the...
Sarah Morris Selected For Gloucester Road Underground Commission
The twelfth commission for Gloucester Road Tube Station, Art on the Underground has invited internationally renowned artist Sarah Morris to create...
Government U Turn On Charitable Donations Encourages Philanthropists
The Culture Minister Ed Vaizey was at the Tate Britain last week to welcome a major donation of British Art by prominent collectors and...
London Festival Of Photography Shifts Direction
This year’s London Photography Festival seems to mark a change of direction for its organisers. This shift away from what was an exclusively street...
Exhibition Celebrates Keith Vaughan Centenary
AN EXHIBITION OF FIFTY OILS, GOUACHES & DRAWINGS TO CELEBRATE THE CENTENARY OF THE BIRTH OF THIS IMPORTANT BRITISH FIGURATIVE ARTIST IS BEING...
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 Society’s new...
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 clothing...
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...