The British/Portuguese artist Paula Rego has severed ties with her long-term gallery Marlborough and joined Victoria Miro. Rego’s prints will now be represented separately by Cristea Roberts Gallery. Over the past few months, Marlborough Gallery and the gallery's...
Portrait of a Young Man Holding a Roundel by Sandro Botticelli painted in the 15th century will go under the hammer at Sotheby's in January. Young Man Holding a Roundel is expected to fetch more than 80 million dollars the highest estimate ever placed on a work by an...
The return of Canadian- British artist Andrew Salgado for his fourth solo exhibition entitled Strange Weather at Beers London has been announced. I have been polemic, subversive, political, and outspoken in the past, but I tired of that; I wanted to be Romantic....
Geraldine Swayne is a highly regarded painter known for her intimate portrait and figure paintings in enamel on copper, aluminium and canvas. Her subjects engage in everyday activities – listening to music; sewing; putting on lipstick; drinking. Sometimes they are...
Last month I wrote an impassioned article for Artlyst about the auction at Sotheby’s of a tiny Rembrandt self-portrait. Last night I followed the auction live online. This was an unusual auction with a lot of fanfare in the run-up. I also visited the auction house to...
The legendary Marlborough Gallery is to close their NY premises with an announcement about the future of their London flagship pending. Gilbert Lloyd the son of gallery founder Frank Lloyd ousted his nephew Pierre Levai A family power-struggle is responsible for...
Andrew Lambirth's The Life of Bryan, recently published by Unicorn, describes itself rather demurely as a celebration, rather than as a biography. It offers a large number of voices describing the late Bryan Robertson's activities as a celebrator and promoter of new...
Update: the Hayward Gallery will now reopen on the 1st August. Originally the Southbank Centre including the Hayward Gallery announced that they may close the gallery until April 2021. This was the result of the economic impact of COVID-19. The complex had drained...
Joe Machine The London Magazine Online: The pandemic, for all its woes, has brought a few benefits with it. In the art world, one of the most conspicuous of these is the multiplication and diversification of the places where you can see images, as opposed to having to...