A portrait of a serene mother breastfeeding her eight-month-old daughter has won this year’s BP Portrait Award, winning the sitter’s husband the £30,000 first prize. The winner of the BP Portrait Award 2017 was announced this evening at the National Portrait Gallery,...
Iranian artist Azita Moradkhani has been announced as the winner of the Young Masters Art Prize and inaugural Young Masters Emerging Woman Art Prize, both generously supported by Dr. Chris Blatchley. She was presented with her combined £3,000 prize at an award...
Art Basel 2017 is a curated selection of 291 first-rate galleries exhibiting at the fair's 48th edition in Basel. The gallery list for the Swiss event, taking place from June 15 to June 18, 2017, is a corker. This year sees the return of leading...
Central St Martins BA and MA degree shows kicked off this weekend with a number of multidisciplinary exhibitions stretching across the Kings Cross campus. The MA was a bit more colourful and fun this year with a heavy emphasis on Performance and Installation Art with...
The first ever solo exhibition of the iconic 60s pop artist Larry Smart (1945-2006) including his iconic Hendrix and Lennon silkscreen prints launches to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Summer of Love 1967-2017. Larry Smart RETRO-spective is the first ever solo...
Tate Modern’s new Giacometti show, following hot on the heels of a recent show dedicated to the same artist at the National Portrait Gallery, is nevertheless welcome for the comprehensive view it gives of one of the major stars of the Modern Movement. "Giacometti...
The Camden Arts Centre, which is one of London’s leading contemporary art venues, has a new director, the first in 27 years. Martin Clark previously at the Kunsthall in Norway, will take up the post in September, it has been announced. He replaces the highly regarded...
The Irish photographer Richard Mosse has won the seventh Prix Pictet, Space it was announced in a ceremony last night at the V&A Museum. The winner was selected from a shortlist of twelve. Mosse was chosen for his series Heat Maps 2016-17. The prize, with a...
Vito Acconci the New York-born Brooklyn-based conceptual and performance artist has died age 77. He is best known for his seminal art performances. I was always fascinated by diagramming a sentence. Because that is going into a space, going into a world of language...