London, 14 October 2024—Frieze London and Frieze Masters closed their doors after a successful five-day run, with significant sales and solid international attendance. With 90,000 visitors, the fairs again became a leading global art event. This year, the fairs...
Francis Bacon: Human Presence is a highly considerate book that explores the artist’s many-sided relationships with portraiture from the 1950s onwards. It shows how he continued to redefine this discipline taking it beyond its capacity into a highly original,...
A group of pro-Palestinian protesters disrupted the unveiling of a mural by the U.S. Street Artist Shepard Fairey in east London, on Monday. The event, held in Shoreditch, was to promote a new climate-themed mural in the presence of the U.S. ambassador, Jane Hartley,...
Salon Des Etrangers (Strangers Lounge) is a salon-type exhibition devised for the historic 60th Biennale Di Venezia. Inspired by Albert Camus's classic The Outsider, this intriguing exhibition will feature works of 100 international artists from Spain, Great Britain,...
In the multi-tiered hierarchy of academic painting, Still Life has traditionally ranked on the bottom rung, its everyday meat-and-veg celebrations considered lowly compared to massacres, mythologies, martyrdoms, landscapes and portraits of the great and good. Still,...
To accompany his current retrospective at the Royal Academy, Sir Michael Craig-Martin CBE RA (b. 1941), a popular figure in British art, has published a lush exhibition catalogue. He is among his generation’s most influential artists and teachers since his rise to...
This month, 180 Studios in London will host a benefit art exhibition and auction spearheaded by designer George Underwood, the man behind some of David Bowie's most iconic album covers. Underwood, a childhood friend of Bowie, will have his work on display as part of a...
'Why did the greatest colourist of all, Eugène Delacroix, judge it indispensable to go to the south and as far as Africa? Obviously, not only in Africa but even from Arles onwards, you'll naturally find fine contrasts between reds and greens, blues and oranges,...
Barbara Nessim (b. 1939, Bronx, NY) is an artist recognised as a pioneer in early computer art. She was among the first to explore the creative potential of computers and extensively used them as an artistic tool at the dawn of the computer age in the early 1980s....