It was a personal pleasure to visit the Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair, now in its third year. The ambitious project has taken over the huge warehouse scale structure at Woolwich. I visited on the New Collectors Evening on a dark, damp night in early November and...
Once you struggle through the fairly formidable Introduction to this biography – a chapter devoted to orientating the reader concerning Josef Albers’ major achievement, the long Homage to the Square series of paintings – this book offers a clear narrative concerning...
A David Hockney painting depicting an iconic landscape with swimming pool has broken world records in New York. Portrait of an Artist (Pool with Two Figures), painted in 1972, realised $90.3 million after frantic bidding. This is a world record price for a living...
Annely Juda (1914-2006) had a great eye, a passionate interest in the visual arts, a gift for communication, an ability to see details as well as the larger picture and to take care and nurture – complemented by the necessary business like eye for the balance sheet....
An Artist-led campaign to save a street dubbed the ‘Living War Memorial’ has resulted in a dramatic victory for a community stirred into art-activism. A remarkable story of a community artists’ campaign to save an avenue of trees in Sheffield has finally resulted in a...
Courage Calls to Courage Everywhere, an exhibition documenting the creation of Turner Prize-winning artist Gillian Wearing’s recently- unveiled statue of Suffragist leader Millicent Fawcett, situated in Parliament Square, London. It will also feature many works drawn...
A new exhibition by Bruce McLean 'MINIMAL INVISIBLE MISSING' is opening at School Gallery. For the show, McLean has revisited the documentation of early sculptural works that were often temporary or invisible. Four of these sculptures have been reproduced for the...
An exhibition of 20 newly-commissioned artworks celebrating London women was unveiled in public spaces across the city today Thursday 18 October. In conjunction with the Mayor of London and the London Tate Collective team, Tate’s group for 16 to 25-year olds, artists...
During Frieze Week 2018, overshadowing hundreds of art events throughout the city, a history-making incident occurred when Banksy’s iconic painting “Girl With Balloon” was auto-shredded by its own picture frame just minutes after the hammer came down at £1.04m, at...