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Peter Phillips British Pop Art Trailblazer Dies Aged 86
Peter Phillips, a founding figure of British Pop Art whose vibrant, iconoclastic canvases helped define a new visual language for Post-War Britain,...
Mark Wallinger: Terminal 1 Installation At Glastonbury Confronts Border-State
Turner Prize winner Mark Wallinger, never one to retreat from a politically explosive terrain, has returned with Jungle Gym, a starkly conceived...
Beamish Wins 2025 Museum Of The Year Securing £120K Prize
Beamish, The Living Museum of the North, has been named Art Fund Museum of the Year 2025, securing the £120,000 prize—the largest of its kind in the...
You Gotta Roll With It: Elizabeth Peyton’s Gallagher Portrait Squeaks By At Sotheby’s
Elizabeth Peyton’s Liam + Noel (Gallagher), one of her most significant portraits of the Oasis brothers, sold on the low part of the estimate at...
El Greco Belonging To Russian Billionaire Dmitry Rybolovlev In Legal Restitution Fight
The fate of El Greco's Saint Sebastian (c. 1610-14) hangs in limbo as Romania escalates its legal battle to reclaim the masterpiece, alleging it was...
Lord Norman Foster Chosen To Design Queen Elizabeth II Memorial
The late Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh, will be united in stone and light in Lord Norman Foster’s winning design for a...
LACMA Acquires Jeff Koons’ Living Sculpture Split-Rocker
The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) has secured a major addition to its public art program with the acquisition of Jeff Koons’ Split-Rocker...
Antoni Gaudí Casa Batlló: Historic Facade Revealed Following €3.5m Restoration
After more than a century, Antoni Gaudí's original design for Casa Batlló's rear facade and a private courtyard has been meticulously restored to...
Rubens Oil Sketch: DCMS Export Ban Aims To Save Masterpiece For The Nation
A rare oil sketch by Peter Paul Rubens, Cimon Falling in Love with Efigenia (c. 1616–17), now faces an export bar in a bid to retain the work for...
Joel Shapiro: Sculptor Who Made Wooden Beams Dance Has Died Aged 83
Joel Shapiro (1941–2024), the American sculptor whose deceptively simple wooden figures pulsed with life, tension, and wit, died on Saturday in...
Maurizio Cattelan Golden Toilet Caper Ends In Jail Time For Career Criminals
A story that played out like a comedy caper has now finished in the courts. Two men have been sentenced for their part in the infamous 2019 theft of...
Lost Rodin Marble Sells for $1.2 Million In A French Auction
A rediscovered Auguste Rodin marble sculpture, kept in plain sight for decades atop a piano in a French family home, has fetched €1.1 million ($1.2...