"O'Conor's daring has not been sufficiently recognised in the past" - Jonathan Benington Lead Curator Roderic O'Conor is very much someone who was historically in the right place at the right time. In the latter part of the 19th Century while Modernism was taking...
Hanne Kemfor has hung a few of her scribed, rubbed, trailed, scratched, brushed, gestured surfaces in the foyer of the Barbican Library. I met her on a hot afternoon, too hot to be standing in this institutional space to see how her studio paintings would feel pinned...
Art Basel Switzerland which is always an important barometer in the art market has reported that some of the world’s premier galleries experienced remarkable sales across all levels of the market. The fair in Basel closed on Sunday, June 17, 2018, amid reports of...
The RA’s celebration of its 250th-anniversary show has met with hosannas in the press, with maybe the loudest of all coming from those who see themselves as the declared foes and detractors of anything remotely conservative looking in the visual arts. The tone is...
Art Basel 2018 which launches 14-17 June offers a Premier line-up of galleries at Art Basel's 2018 edition in Basel Switzerland. The Basel show brings the international art world together, with 290 of the world's leading galleries showing the works of over 4,000...
Christie’s Record Spring auction series in New York achieved a grand total of $1.79 billion across two weeks of sales, marking another crowning achievement in the company’s more than 250-year history. New clients flocked to Christie’s from 52 countries around the...
Another successful Christies Impressionist and Modern Art Evening Sale has topped expectations with record prices for Constantin Brancusi (1876-1957) and Kazimir Malevich (1878-1935). Kazimir Malevich (1878-1935) Suprematist Composition 1916 an oil on canvas has...
Darren Coffield’s new book “Tales from the Colony: the Lost Bohemia of Bacon, Belcher and Board” is an authorised history of London’s most notorious arts club. The Colony Room Club was dominated, indeed created, by two personalities – its owner and founder, Muriel...
The V&A has announced a major gift of 63 photographs by Linda McCartney, generously gifted by Paul McCartney and his family. The photographs trace Linda McCartney’s career across four decades, from the 1960s to the 1990s. The collection encompasses portraits of...