There’s just time to see the collection of the late Brian Sewell, coming up for auction at Christie’s saleroom in London on 27th September. It will be on view from 24h September.Christie’s, once Sewell’s employers, are making...
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Notorious Colony Room Featured In New Pallant House Gallery Exhibition
The Colony Room: Masterpieces from Pallant House Gallery, is a major new exhibition, chronicling the life and times of the legendary Colony Room, haunt for artists, musicians, and street-life. It is to be held at Bonhams in London from 2 to 11 October over the...
Sir Nicholas Serota To Resign As Director of Tate Next Year
Sir Nicholas Serota will be stepping down as Director of Tate next year. It was announced by the Museum's Board of Trustees that it’s all change at the top of the organisation. The process of finding a new director will begin immediately and is being...
Unveiled: Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art Masterpieces Go Digital
The Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art (TMoCA) has gone digital. Considered one of the finest collections of Western modern art outside Europe and North America, the collection was kept hidden away for nearly four decades after the 1979 Islamic revolution. It was...
Peter Blake Explores Alphabets Letters & Numbers At The De La Warr Pavilion
The De La Warr Pavilion is presenting an exhibition of Peter Blake's Alphabets Letters & Numbers, comprising three print series, Alphabet (1991), An Alphabet (2007) and Appropriated Alphabets (2013), and a personally chosen...
Contemporary Art Not Really Avant Garde Just Truly Irrational By Edward Lucie-Smith
Deep in August, gazing at the rather forlorn contemporary art landscape that is standard for this time of year, when major exhibition openings are lacking, I’m left wondering why in fact it seems a good deal more forlorn than I...
JMW Turner Paintings Return To Tate Britain After World Tour
A number of important paintings by the British artist JMW Turner have returned home to Tate Britain following a major international tour. Having travelled over 12,000 miles and been seen by over three-quarters of a million people in the UK, USA and Canada as part...
Should Tate Britain Be Turned Into The Long-overdue Turner Gallery?
Edward Lucie-Smith’s excellent article in Artlyst posed the problem of what to do with Tate Britain, now that Tate Modern has become, “the epicentre of the booming global contemporary art world.“ It simply can’t compete with either the...
Brexit: Not The Only Big Split In The Art World By Edward Lucie-Smith
August is nearly here – the time when the contemporary art world in London begins its annual snooze, to wake up, hopefully refreshed, some time in mid-September. It’s the moment to draw breath, sit down and take stock.It’s hard to...