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St Fagans National Museum of History Wins Museum of the Year 2019
The Art Fund's Museum of the Year 2019 has been awarded to St Fagans National Museum of History, near Cardiff. The prize winner was presented with a...
Sculpture In The City London Unveils Edition Nine
Sculpture in the City, the annual public art programme set amongst well-known architectural landmarks, has launched, celebrating their ninth...
Masterpiece London: How The Other Half Live – Edward Lucie-Smith
I have always had ambiguous feelings about the annual Masterpiece London fine art and antiques fair, now under the umbrella of the Art Basel Group....
Actor/ Collector Russell Tovey To Guest Curate Margate Now Arts Festival
To celebrate the 19th edition of the Turner Prize presented this year at Turner Contemporary, Margate is to host Margate NOW, an ambitious and...
Christie’s Contemporary Evening Auction Sees Cecily Brown, Dubuffet and Basquiat Soar
The London Summer Art week which includes Contemporary auctions at both Christie's and Sotheby's, Masterpiece London the art fair recently acquired...
Bacon, Freud and Saville Top Sotheby’s Evening Contemporary Sale
Sotheby’s London Evening Sale of Contemporary Art has realised £69,143,300/ $87,811,991/ €77,440,496 (est. £58-82.8 million/ $73.5-105 million /...
Serpentine Pavilion Unveiled By Architect Junya Ishigami
The Serpentine launched their annual Pavilion this morning with a press view attended by the architect Junya Ishigami and the artistic director of...
Controversial Caravaggio Goes Under The Hammer In Toulouse
A long lost painting attributed by a French provincial auction house to Caravaggio, which languished in a chateau attic in France, for over 100...
Refugee Week Marked With Art Exhibition Highlighting Global Migration
Sink Without Trace presents works by seventeen artists on the subject of migrant deaths at sea. The exhibition held during International Refugee...
Yana Peel Quits Serpentine After Negative Lobbying Campaign
Yana Peel, the Serpentine Galleries' CEO has resigned from her role, after three years, following a concerted lobbying campaign against her...
Sotheby’s Sold To Private French/Israeli Media Tycoon Patrick Drahi
Sotheby's has been sold to the French/Israeli Media Tycoon Patrick Drahi for $3.7 Billion, taking the second largest Auction House in the world from...
UK Museums Now Protected From Court-Ordered Seizure For Loaned Artworks
UK Culture Secretary Jeremy Wright has vowed to protect objects on loan from abroad in temporary exhibitions in UK museums from seizure by the UK...