Two recent publications explore the place that religious Art occupied in 20th century Britain. Paul Liss writes in ‘Art, Faith and Modernity’ of the under-researched nature of religious Art in 20th-century British visual culture which has meant that those artists who...
Sir David Adjaye OBE will design the architecture for the first Ghana Pavilion at the Venice Biennale Arte 2019. It will take place under the patronage of Ghana’s President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo and advised by Okwui Enwezer. Ghana Pavilion Fratured Artists:...
Day One Frieze LA: Rain! Some things are just out of our control. This was torrential rain, sheets of water like you see in the tropics. I thought it could be mudslide time for the Silver Lake house we were staying at but magically the water drained off and the sun...
To mark the 200th anniversary of the birth of the influential writer, thinker, artist and social reformer John Ruskin (1819 -1900), galleries, universities and cultural institutions across the world will celebrate his work, ideas and influence in a year-long programme...
Jo Baring a former Director of Christie’s UK is currently the Director of the Ingram Collection of Modern British and Contemporary Art. She has curated exhibitions at public galleries and museums across the U.K and has arranged loans of privately-owned artworks to The...
"I had an invitation to the event and had decided I’d donate ‘by stealth’ a series of 7 Trump portraits" - Dan Llywelyn Hall The new American Embassy is a vast sparkling monolith in London's Nine Elms area. It’s a fine building. Presumably, the powers that be felt the...
Fortnum & Mason will be continuing their annual artistic collaboration Fortnum’s X Frank 2018 (FXF18), 10th September – 20th October, with the prolific art collector, Frank Cohen, presenting a rich body of work by British landscape artist, John Virtue. Virtue was...
The Koestler Trust, the UK’s best-known prison arts charity, has curated an exhibition which has been touring central London churches. Koestler Trust,The exhibition tour of ‘First Impressions – Portraits from Prison’ began at St James’s Piccadilly, travelled to...
Rachel Whiteread the Turner Prize winning sculptor is returning to the university where she learned her craft to create an artwork that will be a centrepiece of UCL’s new multi-million pound student centre. Whiteread, an alumna of the UCL Slade School of Fine Art and...