A special effects artist who has fashioned an ‘urban burka’ from a pair of running trainers, a former artist in residence at the Royal Shakespeare Company who confronts the awkwardness of adolescence, and a Glasgow-based artist concerned with the notion of...
The Millennium Bridge, officially known as the London Millennium Footbridge was closed today in order to allow artists to paint and record the Queen's Diamond Jubilee flotilla celebrations. The bridge, a steel suspension construction is used for pedestrians only to...
The Ferens Gallery is mounting a major exhibition of Andy Warhol, one of the most influential and infamous artists to emerge in post-war America. A broad range of Warhol’s work from the ARTIST ROOMS collection will be included, from rarely-seen...
A magnificent view of Venice’s Rialto Bridge, a masterpiece by the great Venetian painter Francesco Guardi (1712-1793), has gone on display at The Courtauld Gallery. Privately owned, The Rialto Bridge from the North with the Palazzo Camerlenghi was painted...
An elderly art-dealer is the victim of a brutal art heist during which the thieves were instructed what to steal via iPhoneTwo thugs broke into the home of the Northern Irish ex-vicar on 3 January 2012, beat, and then gagged him. Using an iPhone, they undertook a...
£26,697,250 price tag to save painting for NationThe Culture Minister, Ed Vaizey, has placed a temporary export bar on a painting by Francesco Guardi, Venice, A View of the Rialto Bridge from the Fondamenta del Carbon. This will provide a limited period in...
HUGE MEAL, BIG GALLERY, SMALL SHOW Most of the commercial galleries are closed over the Christmas and New Year period. The big museums and galleries tend to be open, but will the major shows – Gauguin, Canaletto, Muybridge etc.. - be too heavy after a matching dinner?...