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Fatos Üstek Quits Directorship of Liverpool Biennial – Society of Antiquaries Priced Out Of Mayfair – Xora’s Sleeping Protest Aimed At JK Rowling
Fatos Üstek Goes Quietly From Liverpool Biennial Fatos Üstek, one of the most highly regarded young curators in the UK, has departed from her post...
60% UK Museums Facing Permanent Closure – Banksy vs The Bicycle Thief – Zaha Hadid Estate Settled
Museums, galleries and historic houses across the UK are facing a crisis due to the impact of Covid-19, with six in ten (60%) surveyed worried about...
Art Collective Forensic Architecture Analyse The Beirut Port Explosions
Mada Masr invited the art collective Forensic Architecture to examine open-source information, including videos, photographs, and documents to...
Pace Take Over Empty Blain Southern Premises – Helen Frankenthaler Show For DPG – Austin Osman Spare Painting Discovered
Marc Glimcher, President and CEO of Pace Gallery, has announced plans to expand in London taking over the empty Blain Southern space located at 4...
Frieze And Basel 2021 Fairs Have A Rethink As COVID Takes Its Toll
Frieze Art Fairs seem to be having a rethink as a result of closures due to COVID. First off, the 2020 New York and London fairs were cancelled and...
Chagall’s Largest Artwork Auctioned – Prix Pictet Theme Announced – Jade Montserrat Performs
Chagall's Largest Detached Artwork Goes Under The Hammer At Bonhams. Artists have always been fascinated by the world of Ballet and Opera. Picasso,...
Imelda Marcos’ Botticelli Vanishes – Happy 100 Wayne Thiebaud – Iconic JFK Rockwell Painting Auctioned
Imelda Marcos Botticelli Masterpiece Vanishes An Italian Renaissance masterpiece depicting the Madonna and Child (1485), from the studio of Sandro...
Mary Wollstonecraft: A Lumpen Statue By Maggie Hambling – Sue Hubbard
It's been quite a year for statues. Normally no more than street furniture that no one bothers to look at - old white men standing on plinths in all...
John Waters Gift To Baltimore Museum – Spain’s Latest Horrific Art Restoration – CINOA Begs UNESCO For Art Trade Cooperation
John Waters Gifts Art Collection To beleaguered Baltimore Museum John Waters, filmmaker/king of kitsch, has promised to donate his art collection to...
National Gallery And Nikon Announce Online Content Partnership – Edward Lucie-Smith
Always on the ball - often much more effectively so than other sister institutions here in London, the National Gallery has just announced a...
Feminist Icon Mary Wollstonecraft Gets Statue – Deutsche Börse Prize Shortlist – Stanley Spencer’s Last Self-Portrait
Maggi Hambling's Statue Of 'Mother Of Feminism' Mary Wollstonecraft Unveiled A statue honouring Mary Wollstonecraft the "mother of feminism" by the...
Kara Walker Boots Trump Out – Sotheby’s Latest Lawsuit – Eileen Agar Whitechapel Show
Today's news, in brief, sees Kara Walker give the boot to Trump, Sotheby's sued for sales tax fraud and Eileen Agar retrospective announced at the...