Sotheby’s concluded their 2017 auctions this week, reaching an annual sales total of $4.7 billion that represents a 13.1% increase over our 2016 results. From the record-breaking sale of Jean-Michel Basquiat’s 1982 masterpiece Untitled to Japanese collector and...
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Migration, Cyber Women, and Breast Ironing: New Art Prize explores diverse themes
An exciting new prize has arrived on the UK art scene. The Emerging Female Artists prize was initiated by the arts and human rights charity, FiLiA, with a call for entries this summer. Since 2013, part of FiLiA’s mission has been to support the development of new...
Howard Hodgkin Personal Collection To Go Under The Hammer At Sotheby’s
Hodgkin Collection Sotheby's London: Howard Hodgkin had an eye for the exceptional when it came to collecting. His personal taste resonates through his paintings, his ability to identify the extraordinary in unexpected places was deployed in his incessant hunt for art...
Word On The Street – British Graffiti Art In Focus
British Graffiti Art In Focus: Is an indigenous rock painting showing off the number of kills any different to a rebellious teenager taking his girl to their local make-out spot where he declares his love to her spray-painted in crude bright colours the night before? ...
RIBA Stirling Prize Shortlist Includes Juergen Teller’s New Studio
The shortlist for the RIBA Stirling Prize an award honouring the UK’s best new building has been announced today (Thursday 20 July). The six shortlisted buildings will now go head-to-head for architecture’s highest accolade, to be awarded by the Royal Institute of...
Scottish Painter John Bellany Works To Be Exhibited At Fortnum & Mason
The British art collector Frank Cohen is to present an exhibition of work by the late Scottish artist John Bellany who died in 2013. The works are drawn from his extensive private collection. The Fortnum’s X Frank series 17 runs from 18 September – 28 October at...
Alistair Burtenshaw Appointed New Director of The Watts Gallery Trust
The Watts Gallery Trust has announced that Alistair Burtenshaw has been appointed as the new Director of Watts Gallery – Artists’ Village and will take up his appointment on 4th September 2017. Mr Burtenshaw is the current Director of Charleston in East Sussex, the...
Tate Britain Comes Out – Queer British Art 1861–1967 By Simon Tarrant
Imagine in 1988 the public furore if the Tate had hosted an exhibition of queer British art – marking the 21st anniversary of the 1967 Sexual Offences Act, which decriminalised private homosexual acts between men over 21 in England and Wales. To give it context, that...
Howard Hodgkin Portraits The Insider’s Insider Review By Edward Lucie-Smith
Howard Hodgkin died just two weeks before the opening of the current retrospective of his portrait works at the National Portrait Gallery. The location of the show presents a paradox, which the artist himself was well aware of. He didn’t paint recognisable likenesses...