Portraits of leading figures of power from twentieth century including Castro, Pinochet and Brezhnev by the American artist Leon Golub are to go on display at the National Portrait Gallery on 18 March. They are being shown for the first time in the...
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Photo Feature: Philipp Goldbach Explores Analogue Communication At Annely Juda
Annely Juda Fine Art is currently presenting an exhibition of work by German artist Philipp Goldbach. For this exhibition, the artist’s second with the gallery, Goldbach is presenting three new series of works. In a new series of photographs, telephone utility...
Marion Wagschal One Of Canada’s Leading Figurative Artists Unveiled At Canada House
Following her successful retrospective show at the Museum of Fine Arts in Montreal last year, the Canada Gallery is currently presenting the Canadian artist Marion Wagschal's first ever exhibition in the UK. Born in 1943 in Port of Spain, Trinidad and...
Damien Hirst: Another Basement Conversion In Hampstead And Other Tales
I‘ve spent many a year working in Knightsbridge and Belgravia, and the tell-tale signs of a cellar dig out – blocked off scaffolding with conveyor belts emerging into a skip – pop up like mushrooms in the area. The relative smallness of these...
Conservationists Tell Damien Hirst Swimming Pools And Art Don’t Mix
The Turner Prize winning Artist Damien Hirst has applied for further planning permission to build a mega basement under his Grade I listed Regent’s Park mansion, which has been nicknamed 'San Simeon' after W. R. Hurst's castle in California....
ICA London Celebrates 70 Years Of Cutting Edge Excellence
The 70th Anniversary of the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA London) is celebrated to the day today. Edouard Léon Théodore Mesens, Roland Penrose and Herbert Read called the first ever meeting of the ICA at 23 Brook Street on 30...
Lucian Freud Daughter Portraits Reunited In Christie’s Contemporary Sale
Two Portraits by the English artist Lucian Freud’s depicting his daughters will be united in Christie’s Post-War and Contemporary Art Evening Auction on Thursday 11 February in London, King Street. Head of Esther (1982-83, estimate:...
A Year Of Blatant Art Consumerism Our 12 Days Of Christmas
On the first day of Christmas my true love gave to me:A partridge in an Ai Weiwei Tree This year has been a sort of ‘homecoming’ for Ai Weiwei: with his passport returned galleries all around the UK welcomed his return with a flurry of activity,...
Contemporary Art Society Launches New Acquisition Initiative For Regional Museums
A new scheme launched by The Contemporary Art Society (CAS), aims to address the lack of important works of Contemporary Art in regional museums, across the UK. British contemporary artists who have established international reputations over the last 20...
