Stéphane Aquin, curator of contemporary art at the Montreal Museum of Fine Art since 1998, has been named chief curator of the Smithsonian’s Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, effective early 2015. He will lead a department of five staff curators and...
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Michel Du Cille Pulitzer Winning Photographer Dies At 58
The three-time Pulitzer Prize winning photojournalist Michel du Cille, has died unexpectedly on Thursday of a heart attack while on assignment in Liberia. The Washington Post, where du Cille worked for more than twenty years, has reported that the photographer...
Dante Gabriel Rossetti Nude Watercolour Sets Auction Record At Sotheby’s
Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s watercolour painting, Venus Verticordia has sold this afternoon at Sotheby's for £2,882,500 / $4,522,931, soaring above its pre-sale estimate of £1,000,000-1,500,000, and establishing the highest price for a watercolour by...
Luxury explored In New V&A Contemporary Design Exhibition For Spring 2015
The V&A will present exceptional examples of contemporary design and craftsmanship alongside conceptual projects which interrogate fundamental ideas of luxury, its production and future. From a diamond made from roadkill to a vending machine stocked with DNA, a...
Deptford Stories Launches Mini Arts Festival To Showcase Legends of Deptford
Deptford Stories is more than an exhibition mounted by some very talented artists from the local scene. It is in fact a small arts festival celebrating the lives and legends of Deptford . It launched on Friday 31st October & and will continue until 16th November...
Olivia Colman Portrait Unveiled As Taylor Wessing Prize Exhibition Opens
The celebrated British actress Olivia Colman is the subject of a striking, newly commissioned photograph which will go on display for the first time at the National Portrait Gallery to coincide with the opening of the Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize...
Gabo, Burgert, Merz, And Bochner – London West End Exhibition Reviews November 2014
STÜCK HIRN BLIND - Jonas Burgert At Blain/SouthernBlain/Southern presents the exhibition 'STÜCK HIRN BLIND'; this is a new body of work by German artist Jonas Burgert – his first solo show in London in over five years. The exhibition includes his...
Alexander McQueen’s Working Process Revealed In New Photography Exhibition
Tate Britain is presenting a photography exhibition the result of which is an unique collaboration between the artist Nick Waplington and the acclaimed fashion designer Alexander McQueen. This well timed exhibition will reveal McQueen’s working practice through...
Turner Prize 2014: Headscratchingly Challenging And Not Very Public Friendly
The Turner prize, created thirty years ago to promote public discussion about new developments in contemporary British Art, couldn't be less public-friendly this year, and will be hard pressed to lure the masses. Aside from elements like the exuberant colour in Ciara...