The Mayor Gallery, Cork Street's longest established art gallery has succumbed to pressure from The developers, Ten Acre (Mayfair)/ Native Land and given up the fight to stay in their current premises. Work by six abstract Women artists will be brought together for...
Photographs by Francis Goodman (1913-89) will go on display from 23 April 2013 at the National Portrait Gallery, London to mark the centenary of Goodman’s birth. This first museum retrospective display will include his portrait, fashion and photojournalistic...
In November 2011, Christina Mackie won the Contemporary Art Society Annual Award for Museums – Commission to Collect with Nottingham Castle Museum & Art Gallery. The prestigious £60,000 prize is one of highest value contemporary art awards in the...
Sotheby’s London Contemporary Art Evening Auction has achieved a total of £74,364,200/ $116,357,664/ €86,321,943, within pre-sale expectations (estimate: £61.2-84.5 million), representing Sotheby’s second-highest total for a February Sale of Contemporary Art in...
Over half a billion in Art goes under the hammer in London this month with the launch of Christies, Sothebys and Phillips February Impressionist/Modern and Contemporary Art Evening Sales. Christies features exceptional works by artists such as Amedeo Modigliani, Pablo...
Francesco Clemente found fame as part of the Neo-Expressionist movement of the late 1970s and early 1980s, or the ‘transavanguardia’ as their early supporter Achille Bonito Oliva named them. The intent was to react against the anti-painting sentiments...
Christie’s London are offering David Hockney's 'Great Pyramid at Giza with Broken Head from Thebes' (1963) in their February Post-War & Contemporary Art sale. This is an early landmark painting by the British artist known for his painterly Pop realism. The...
Sotheby’s, the international auction house have reported their third most successful year ever for global auctions and a new record for Contemporary Art (2012), which totalled $1.25 billion and saw a new record set for the work of any living artist. The company...
The Hi-Tech Sainsbury Centre at the University of East Anglia has been given Grade II listed status after a decision by the Heritage Minister Ed Vaizey. The building, which opened in 1977, is considered a masterpiece. Designed by Norman Foster, one of...