Annie Morris and Idris Khan have been a couple for over a decade, a personal union and artistic collaboration celebrated by a first-ever joint show running at the Newlands House Gallery in Petworth, Sussex, until May 7. "Artist couples are abundant in history," notes...
A 1953 painting by Laurence Stephen Lowry, R.A. (1887-1976), 'Going to the Match', has sold at Christie's for GBP 7,846,500. It is understood that the work of art will remain in the UK and was purchased by The Lowry gallery in Salford, where it was displayed for many...
Kim Jones, the creative director of Dior, has created a new collection of menswear inspired by the Bloomsbury Group painter Duncan Grant 1885 – 1978. Jones was brought up in Lewes, East Sussex, near Charleston, the country home shared by Grant and the artist Vanessa...
Turner Prize shortlisted artist Nathan Coley has installed a series of large-scale outdoor light sculptures at six spectacular locations across East Sussex as part of Sussex Modern. Tentative Words Change Everything is the largest exhibition of Coley's outdoor works...
The Whitechapel Gallery has announced that curator and writer, Gilane Tawadros, has been appointed their new Director. Tawadros is currently Chief Executive of DACS, a not-for-profit visual artists' rights management organisation, and previously founding Director of...
The Courtauld Gallery, Somerset House opened their doors today to the press for a sneak preview after a three-year refurbishment and modernisation scheme. The £50m project was money well spent, as the gallery has now been brought into the 21st century with new...
Following the major museum retrospective of Chris Gollon’s music-related works at Huddersfield Art Gallery in 2019, this exhibition focuses on his artistic boundary crossing with singer-songwriter Eleanor McEvoy. Inspired by a song written for him––that was inspired...
The artist Duncan Grant (1885-1978) was a charismatic, much-loved central figure in the Bloomsbury Group, a collection of friends, including the writer Virginia Woolf, the critic Clive Bell, the painter Vanessa Bell – Virginia’s sister – and the deeply influential...
London's Courtauld Gallery will reopen to the public on Friday 19 November 2021, following the most significant modernisation project in its history.This will provide a transformed home for one of the UK’s greatest art collections. The gallery in Somerset House has...