Art Fund has announced their shortlist of five UK museums selected as finalists for Art Fund Museum of the Year 2018, the world’s largest and most prestigious prize for museums. The museums shortlisted are: Brooklands Museum, Weybridge, Ferens Art Gallery, Hull,...
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Picasso To Souza: The Crucifixion Imagery Rarely Exhibited – Revd Jonathan Evens
Overshadowed by iconic images from Picasso 1932 and Bacon/Freud two of the Tate’s current exhibitions feature powerfully expressive crucifixion images. In 1932, the ‘year of wonders’ explored by Tate Modern’s Picasso 1932: Love Fame Tragedy, Picasso created thirteen...
Tracey Emin Unveils Pro-Europe Neon Art At St Pancras International
Royal Academician Tracey Emin unveiled a monumental Pro-Europe neon work this morning, attended by RA Director Tim Marlow, the BBC presenter Alan Yentob and many other art officials. The installation titled, "I Want My Time With You" is part of the Terrace Wires,...
Jenny Saville A Passion For Flesh And Paint – GMA – Clare Henry
JENNY SAVILLE'S show at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art (GMA), Edinburgh is long, LONG overdue. She has been famous for the last 26 years, exhibited widely in America, yet this is Scotland's first chance to see her powerful signature larger-than-life,...
Controversial Stations Of The Cross Exhibition Set To Open Without Censorship
A sculpture by the ‘Street” artist Ryan Callanan, who goes under the pseudonym of RYCA has been moved by church officials at St Stephens Walbrook ahead of an annual Stations of the Cross exhibition, opening Thursday. Complaints from several parishioners at the church...
Record London Contemporary/Modern Art Auctions Set Spring 2018 Alight
London’s contemporary sales both evening and day at Sotheby's and Christie's have totalled £295 million ($407 million). Bonham's realised £5.3 million in sales and Phillips evening sale in London £73.1 million £97.8 million ($135 million), a record for the auction...
Glasgow Girls: Artists Heavily Engaged In Social Comment – Clare Henry
One Hundred years after the suffragette movement which culminated in women gaining the right to vote, it feels like this may finally be the year for Women and with International Women's Day this week, let's celebrate. So what about artists labelled GIRLS? - and even...
The Human Condition Relationships And Raw Desires – Tate Britain – Sue Hubbard
The 20th century saw God lose his central role within the scheme of human belief and philosophy. Nietzsche’s assertion that God was dead was followed by two of the bloodiest wars in human history, which further cemented feelings of alienation, scepticism and doubt....
Tracey Emin To Create Next St Pancras Commission
Tracey Emin has been selected as the next artist to be commissioned for St Pancras International’s Terrace Wires – the station’s public commissioning programme for new artwork by leading international artists. Emin’s I Want My Time With You, 2018, will be unveiled at...
