Results from the major Modern and Contemporary art sales at Christie's, Sotheby's and Bonhams' NY has conveyed a message of optimism to the COVID hit art market. First off, the Collection of the late Dr Teruo Hirose comprised three paintings and eight works on paper,...
MoMA Appoints Marie-Josée Kravis Chairperson To Replace Tarnished Leon Black The Museum of Modern Art has replaced their Chairman Leon Black, a private equity investor and owner of Phaidon Press, with Marie-Josée Kravis, a highly regarded Canadian philanthropist and...
A Banksy painting left in a foyer at Southampton General Hospital at the start of the COVID19 crisis has sold at Christie's for £16.8m, a record for the artist at auction. All proceeds will now go to the NHS. The painting titled 'Game Changer' depicts a young boy...
Less than 24 hours before leaving office Donald Trump granted pardons to dozens of convicted criminals including the gallerist Helly Nahmad. The Art dealer was jailed for a year in a federal correctional facility but only spent five months of his sentence. He was...
The appearance of a new Banksy graffito in Bristol more or less confirms his position as the genuine top dog in the current British art scene. His only possible rival is Hockney, now living in comfortable exile in France. Bacon and Freud are dead - in any case one of...
Eddie Peake 1 December – 31 December 2020 Piccadilly Circus, London Eddie Peake has created a public commission for CIRCA, presented on the large-scale screen at Piccadilly Circus, London from 1 December 2020. A Dream of a Real Memory (2020) features three characters,...
An iconic portrait by the British Artist David Hockney of Royal Opera House boss Sir David Webster will go under the hammer this month at Christie's. It has been suggested that the painting will fetch up to £18m. We knew we had to look at any assets we had," said...
The daughter of advertising mogul/collector Charles Saatchi has announced the launch of a new gallery in London's Mayfair. Phoebe Saatchi Yates and her husband, Arthur Yates, plan to open Saatchi Yates, a 10,000-square-foot commercial space at 6 Cork Street on October...
A new public art project, Breath is Invisible (7 July – 9 October 2020), will be launched by the MP David Lammy in Notting Hill on Tuesday 7 July with an installation of works by Khadija Saye, the young Gambian-British artist who tragically lost her life in the...