The Society of London Art Dealers has announced the reopening of many of the major commercial galleries and Auction Rooms from Monday 15 June 2020. The galleries will be opening on a pre-booked basis to comply with social distancing measures. Visitors are encouraged...
London Art Week is launching a new online platform this summer. LAW DIGITAL which will showcase the world's leading pre-contemporary galleries from 3 - 10 July 2020, with a Private View on Thursday 2 July. Over the past years, London Art Week (LAW) has developed into...
Annya Sand (born 1983) is a British artist, currently completing an MA at Central Saint Martins, London. Annya has embarked on a new project entitled 'Renaissance- Lockdown' where she takes a blank canvas and meditates on the process of creating something to revive...
David Hockney's iconic work, The Splash, has been sold for £23.1m at Sotheby's in London. The name of the buyer has not been disclosed. It had been estimated to sell for £20m-£30m - and ended up going for £23,117,000. It's an icon of Pop that defined an era and also...
When someone attacked Michelangelo's Pieta with a hammer in the 1970s, the sculpture was severely damaged. It was restored and put back on display at the Vatican. A few years later a paranoid schizophrenic slashed Rembrandt's masterpiece 'The Night Watch' putting a...
Rebecca Pow, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Arts, Tourism and Heritage in Boris Johnson's government has made her first move since his election by putting into place a temporary export bar on The Dark Rigi, the Lake of Lucerne by JMW Turner. It is hoped...
Sotheby's has been sold to the French/Israeli Media Tycoon Patrick Drahi for $3.7 Billion, taking the second largest Auction House in the world from public ownership to private. For the last few years, the 275-year-old auction house has struggled with a board of...
I think it's hilarious that Kenny Schachter's 'April-fool-style' reporting of Da Vinci's Salvator Mundi hiding aboard Saudi Prince MBS's yacht (as reported in ArtNet News) has been picked up by the wire services. I find it equally funny that what started as a quip is...
Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, named as the buyer of the highly contentious Salvator Mundi painting by Leonardo da Vinci has declined the loan of the painting to the Louvre in Paris for the large Da Vinci 500 Years show, set for this Autumn. The Salvator...