JENNY SAVILLE'S show at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art (GMA), Edinburgh is long, LONG overdue. She has been famous for the last 26 years, exhibited widely in America, yet this is Scotland's first chance to see her powerful signature larger-than-life,...
Liz Taylor's Van Gogh Vue de l’asile et de la Chapelle de Saint-Rémy is back on the market again after selling in an auction at Christie’s in February 2012 for £10,121,250. For decades a centrepiece of Elizabeth Taylor’s collection, this late work from the artist’s...
Three very different books that somehow reflect different facets of the same situation. The most obvious relevant – the title tells the tale – is Georgina Adam’s The Dark Side of the Boom, subtitled The Excesses of the Art Market in the 21st Century (Lund Humphries)....
London’s contemporary sales both evening and day at Sotheby's and Christie's have totalled £295 million ($407 million). Bonham's realised £5.3 million in sales and Phillips evening sale in London £73.1 million £97.8 million ($135 million), a record for the auction...
For the first time as a one-off, the 167-year-old SCOTTISH SOCIETY OF ARTISTS has joined forces with the younger VISUAL ARTS SCOTLAND selecting 160 artists from an open submission of 1000 to fill Edinburgh's palatial RSA building. Though based in Scotland, it's open...
Here is our annual report on how the other fairs did this year during Art Basel Miami Beach week. We are still looking for the figures from Pulse but here are Art Miami, Context, Untitled and Edition. Celebrating its 28th edition, Art Miami kicked off Miami Art Week,...
Bill Gates has agreed to lend The Leicester Codex by Leonardo da Vinci to the Uffizi Gallery in Florence for the first time in 20 years. The manuscript will go on display from October 2018 until January 2019, to mark the Renaissance master's 500th anniversary of his...
Highlights from what many have dubbed the sale to watch in 2018, the collection of Peggy and David Rockefeller has been revealed by Christie's. It will be unveiled in Hong Kong on November 24, which marks the start of a global tour of collection highlights presented...
A Leonardo da Vinci painting depicting Christ has become the world's most expensive work of art sold at auction. The rediscovered masterpiece by the Renaissance artist sold for an historic $450,312,500, superseding the previous world record for the most expensive work...