Derek Boshier, an influential figure in British Pop Art, has died in Los Angeles aged 87. Born in Portsmouth, England in 1937, Boshier developed into one of the most distinctive voices in contemporary art, bold enough to give his often acidly trenchant commentary...
Pop Art Portraits by the seminal British Pop Artist Derek Boshier will be shown in the UK for the first time in a new display of the artist’s work opening at the National Portrait Gallery on 28 September 2013. Derek Boshier: Imaginary Portraits (28...
As London Gallery Weekend returns for its fifth edition (6-8 June), we present an alphabetical selection of standout recommended exhibitions across the capital's 126 participating galleries. From newly established spaces to landmark enterprises, this year's programme...
Here's a handsome new volume, well-illustrated, but more social history than art book, which tells of the emergence of London as an international art scene, during the years that followed World War II. Its subtitle is Art and Culture in the 1960s. Its weakness, if it...
The London Summer Art week which includes Contemporary auctions at both Christie's and Sotheby's, Masterpiece London the art fair recently acquired by Art Basel as well a Olympia and newcomer FairForSaatchi is well on the way. The auction saw global participation and...
A tribute to the British Pop artist Peter Blake (b.1932) at Waddington Custot, in collaboration with designer Robin Brown and producer Anna Pank. Will feature at Frieze Masters this October. The stand will bring together the artist’s work, collections, and studio...
Antony Gormley is to display a life-size sculpture suspended from the ceiling of the Ondaatje Wing Main Hall of the National Portrait Gallery, together with a suite of drawings, seen for the first time in Britain, this autumn.On 7 September 2016 as part...
Marlborough Fine Art is to present Colour Matters, an exhibition of new sculptural works by British artist Allen Jones. Jones first showed with Marlborough Fine Art in 1971, and this marks his fourth exhibition with the gallery.One of the most significant British...
Students from the Painting and Printmaking programmes at the RCA have a new scholarship, courtesy of the David Hockney Foundation. Select pupils ranging across art and design disciplines, in the UK and EU were considered for the Hockney Scholarship. In...