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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...
Art Basel 2019 Bubble-Wrap What The Dealers Said
Art Basel closed the doors on the 2019 edition reporting buoyant sales to private collectors and public institutions by galleries across all market...
UK Regains Number Two Position In Annual UBS Art Market Report
Each year during Art Basel in Switzerland, UBS publishes its annual art market report. The document has become one of the most essential barometers...
Da Vinci Salvator Mundi Not Onboard Saudi Prince’s Yacht
I think it's hilarious that Kenny Schachter's 'April-fool-style' reporting of Da Vinci's Salvator Mundi hiding aboard Saudi Prince MBS's yacht (as...
Lost Laszlo Moholy-Nagy Film Found In BFI Archive
Laszlo Moholy-Nagy's long 'lost' optical sound film, Tönendes ABC / ABC in Sound (1933), missing for over 80 years has been rediscovered and...
BP Portrait Award 2019 Won By Charlie Schaffer
Charlie Schaffer has won the prestigious BP Portrait Award 2019. It was announced last night at the National Portrait Gallery, London. The painting...
Antoni Gaudi Sagrada Familia Granted Building Permit After 137-year Hiatus
The city of Barcelona has issued a building permit for one of Spain's most famous tourist attractions. After 137 years the church, designed by the...
Rachel Whiteread Made Dame In Queen’s Birthday List
Rachel Whiteread CBE, the Turner Prize-winning artist has been made a Dame in the 2019 Queen’s Birthday List. The painter Glen Brown and...
Da Vinci Notebooks Displayed Together In British Library First
To mark the 500th anniversary since the death of Leonardo da Vinci, the British Library is to mount an exhibition of the Renaissance master's...
Stonewall Uprising 50th Anniversary Celebrated With Felix Gonzalez-Torres Billboard Reboot
The Public Art Fund is presenting the iconic billboard "Untitled", 1989 by Felix Gonzalez-Torres (American, b. Cuba, 1957-1996) to coincide with the...