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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...
Bellagio To Sell Eleven Picassos Valued At $100m – Stefan Kalmár Steps Down From London’s ICA- Helsinki Biennial Blends Art With Environment
Is it risky to sell $100m worth of Picassos in one go? Well, the MGM Resorts and Sotheby's will be taking a gamble with a special, first-of-its-kind...
Watch A $3m Kusama Pumpkin Wash Out To Sea In Typhoon
An iconic Pumpkin sculpture by the artist Yayoi Kusama valued at $3m has been uprooted and washed into the sea during a typhoon in Naoshima, Kagawa...
Artists Are Workers Too! Long Live The Government Art Collection
The headline-grabbing story in The Mirror "EXCLUSIVE: Nearly £100,000 Spent On Downing St Paintings As Boris Johnson Plans To Slash Benefits"...
FIAC Paris Announces Autumn 2021 Exhibitor List And Programmes
Despite current COVID restrictions, FIAC Paris has optimistically announced their 2021 exhibitors list plus the cultural programmes on offer this...
Government University Arts Cuts A Soft Target – Helen Cammock Art On The Underground Commission – Tate Announces 2022 Programme
Arts courses are a soft target. When the going gets tough, they are the first area to suffer university funding cuts. That has proven to be the case...
Liverpool Loses UNESCO World Heritage Status – National Gallery To Buy Sir Thomas Lawrence The Red Boy – Art Fund Museum of the Year 2021 Shortlist
Liverpool has lost their UNESCO World Heritage status after a UN committee found overdevelopment approved by Liverpool council threatened the...
Royal Academy Piccadilly Art Takeover Unveiled – Largest Dame Laura Knight Exhibition – Oscar Murillo Hackney Secondary School Project
The Piccadilly Art Takeover is a partnership between the Royal Academy of Arts and Art of London along with Westminster City Council and the Mayor...