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Connect, BTS: Global Project Merges Music And Visual Art
What better way to launch a global art event than to have a K-Pop band (BTS), Hans Ulrich Obrist and a host of first-rate artists including Sir...
59th Venice Biennale Appoints Cecilia Alemani Visual Arts Director
Cecilia Alemani has been appointed as the Director of Visual Arts for the 2021 Venice Biennale. The Board of Directors of La Biennale di Venezia,...
Whipped Cream And Other Delights: Fourth Plinth Goes Soft Serve
A giant soft-serve dollop of whipped cream topped with a cherry, a fly and a drone by Heather Phillipson will grace the Fourth Plinth in Trafalgar...
London Galleries Warn Clients About New Anti-Money Laundering Laws
Cristea Roberts, one of London's leading art galleries, has sent a memo to all of their clients warning of strict Anti-Money Laundering legislation,...
John Baldessari Conceptual Art Pioneer Dies Age 88
John Anthony Baldessari (June 17, 1931 – January 5, 2020) has died aged 88. He was an American conceptual artist best known for his work featuring...
Pablo Picasso Painting Vandalised At Tate Modern
Pablo Picasso's Bust of a Woman (1944) on view at the Tate Modern has been removed from display and is undergoing conservation after a member of the...
Gainsborough Landscape Painting Granted Temporary Export Bar
Helen Whately the Arts Minister has placed an export bar on Thomas Gainsborough’s ‘Going to Market, Early Morning’ in the hope that a UK gallery or...
Steve McQueen and David Shrigley On New Year Honours List 2020
The New Year Honours list 2020 has given the nod to several people involved in the Visual Arts. A knighthood for the Turner Prize and Oscar-winning...
Lost LS Lowry Painting Sells At Christie’s For £2.65m
A long lost painting by LS Lowry which hadn't been seen for 70 years has realised £2.65m at Christie's. The work titled The Mill, Pendlebury,...
Ten UK Exhibitions You Should Have Seen In 2019 – Edward Lucie-Smith
From a critic’s point of view, It is pretty difficult to sum up the year 2019. It was for example, a year when greater and greater emphasis was...
Bedwyr Williams Creates 31st Edition Of Pocket Tube Map
Art on the Underground is pleased to present a new work by Welsh artist Bedwyr Williams for the 31st edition of the Pocket Tube map. As we approach...
Alt Power 100 2019 Artlyst – Back To Basics
The Alt Power 100 2019 Artlyst is our annual way of acknowledging and thanking all of the recipients for making a difference to the 'art world' that...