The contemporary art world seems an increasingly strange place to be. It’s a realm where many of the people you meet – not so much the artists themselves, but the commentators, the organisers, the would-be movers-and-shakers – seem hubristically sure of themselves,...
Damien Hirst the Turner Prize-winning former YBA has unveiled a sample of his evolving painting style, and it's not Bacon inspired like his skull series nor is it exotic like his 'Parrot' paintings. The new works hark back to his original 'Spot' canvases painted in...
Modern psychology has shown considerable interest in understanding the self. Investigations into the problems of selfhood spread during the 20th century from clinicians and humanistic psychologists to be explored in laboratories and by artists. The individual search...
The 20/21 British Art Fair, is to be rebranded as The British Art Fair and move to the Saatchi Gallery, as part of a major investment by its new owners. The 30 year old fair, which specialises in Modern and Post-War British art, was acquired by Robert and Johnny...
Christie’s has released their year ending December 2017 global figures and it is another record year for the auction corporation. Sales increased by a staggering 26% in 2017 to £5.1 billion ($6.6 billion. The year was led by the record breaking sale of Leonardo da...
2018 will offer a variety of exhibitions to cater for everyone's taste in art from spending time with modern masters such as a year in the life of Picasso, Monet's relationship with architecture, drawings by Klimt and Schiele, through classical artists Ribera and...
Sotheby’s concluded their 2017 auctions this week, reaching an annual sales total of $4.7 billion that represents a 13.1% increase over our 2016 results. From the record-breaking sale of Jean-Michel Basquiat’s 1982 masterpiece Untitled to Japanese collector and...
Once lauded as the greatest British artist of the 20th century, Moore has - in recent years - been usurped by the great sadomasochistic gambler of old, Francis Bacon; where, in the battle for the representation of the human form, Moore has become the muted child...
The Mexican painter Chantal Meza (born 1989) takes us on a deeply moving and challenging journey through the intimate realities of her worlds of beauty and pain. Born into a family of local artisans in Tecali de Herrera, Puebla, Chantal draws upon the history of local...