A court has ruled that Lucian Freud’s will is to remain secret despite a challenge by his son Paul McAdam Freud. McAdam Freud one of 14 of Freud's offspring was told by the trustees of Freud’s £96 million estate that he was not on his father’s...
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Art Fund Museum of the Year Awarded To Yorkshire Sculpture Park
The £100,000 Art Fund Prize for Museum of the Year 2014 has been awarded to Yorkshire Sculpture Park. The announcement was made at the National Gallery in London on the 9 July. The prize was presented by the British film and theatre director, Sam...
Liverpool Biennial: Northern Synergy Abounds For England’s Biggest Art Festival
We set out from an extremely sunny London to head to Liverpool for its Biennial contemporary art event. It was unfortunate that the further north we travelled the sky became greyer and greyer until we finally arrived at a rainy Liverpool and the rain...
Adrian Ghenie: The Axiomative Figure and the Subjective Self
Adrian Ghenie's exhibition 'Golems', at the Pace Gallery, London, is a collection of the Romanian painters new figurative works. These are paintings in oil on traditional linen; in fact there are many elements to the artist's works that reference the history of...
Masterpiece London Preview Announces Sales In Excess of £40m
Masterpiece London's top art and antiques fair which is often compared to Maastricht has opened with reports of strong sales the highest visitor number to date. Collectors, curators, and designers are drawn here for the astonishing diversity of material with over...
Trip To Art Basel Ben Austin’s 2014 Diary Day One
Outward journey – Gatwick, North Terminal, standing in long and winding line to check in at the Easy Jet counter. Now, under normal circumstances I am quite tolerant and considerate of others, but here my patience was being tested. You see, I know the score, I...
Impressionism To Street Art Leads Summer Sales At Christies, Sotheby’s And Bonham’s
The Impressionist & Modern Art Evening Sale at Sotheby's 23rd June 2014 combines an outstanding level of quality across the board. Included in the sale are works by Claude Monet, Pablo Picasso, Piet Mondrian, Pierre Auguste Renoir, Joan Miró and Wassily...
John Deakin: Acerbic Court Jester With A Critical Gaze
Under the Influence, John Deakin, Photography and the Lure of Soho, curated by Robert Muir, explores the lost world of 50s and 60s Soho through portraits of its inebriated iconoclasts. From its artists to its literary bohemians; with the likes of Francis Bacon, and...
Sean Scully: A Modernist Meets The Masters Beneath The Dreaming Spires
Sean Scully Encounters: A New Master Among Old Masters is the first exhibition at the Christ Church Picture Gallery Oxford to juxtapose the work of a contemporary painter with its collection of old masters.The exhibition is comprised of eleven paintings and...