Recently the Guardian newspaper here in Britain offered yet another of those 'best of' lists to which both the print press and websites of various kinds are now addicted. In this case, what it listed was 'the best art of the 21st century'. It contained a lot of...
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Turner Prize Plus Margate Now Festival Consolidates Seaside Town’s Art Credentials
I've watched Margate grow as a cultural hub since the launch of the Turner Contemporary Gallery in 2011. Each time I return to this faded seaside resort, I see progress taking place. It has now turned a corner, and I'm happy to proclaim Margate has become a...
Rose Wylie RA Picked For Gallery At Windsor Florida Solo Show
Leading British artist Rose Wylie will present an exhibition of paintings and drawings at The Gallery at Windsor, Vero Beach, Florida, opening 28 January 2020. This will be the third annual exhibition at Windsor presented in collaboration with the Royal Academy, as...
Tacita Dean Awarded Government Art Collection/Outset Commission
The multidisciplinary artist Tacita Dean has been awarded the Robson Orr TenTen Award 2019 by the Government Art Collection (GAC). The new work was unveiled at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office today Friday 27 September 2019 by Sir Simon McDonald, Permanent...
London Frieze Week Pull Out Guide 2019 – Artlyst
Welcome to this year's Artlyst Frieze Week 2019 printable pull-out Guide. This is our curated choice of the events not to miss during the busiest week in the London Contemporary Art calendar. "From the absurd to the sublime London Frieze week" - Artlyst This events...
Gavin Turk’s Latest Solo Show Inspired by Extinction Rebellion
The YBA artist Gavin Turk’s fascination with waste is a reoccurring theme throughout his body of work, exploring its aesthetic, function and value. Opening at Reflex Amsterdam on 19 October, and inspired by climate change, and activist movement Extinction Rebellion,...
Temporary Export Bar Placed On £10m JMW Turner Watercolour
Rebecca Pow, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Arts, Tourism and Heritage in Boris Johnson's government has made her first move since his election by putting into place a temporary export bar on The Dark Rigi, the Lake of Lucerne by JMW Turner. It is hoped...
Emigrés Who Transformed the British Art World – Marina Vaizey
2019 is the 80th anniversary of the beginning of World War II, which not only led to almost countless millions of deaths but waves of refugees seeking sanctuary where they could, beginning in the mid-1930s. Brave New Visions, this special exhibition at Sotheby's...
Art Exit 1939 – A Very Different Or Analogous Europe – Edward Lucie-Smith
There can be no doubt that Art-Exit: 1939, at the 12 Star Gallery in Europe House, Smith Square, is a highly political exhibition. Though it is subtitled ‘A Very Different Europe’ it is also about the way things are right now, and it is no accident that it is on show...
