For the first time, a new project merges contemporary artworks installed among the ancient ruins of Herculaneum and Pompeii, creating two art venues in stunning, historically resonant settings.
18 July 2018
London once again is gearing up for Art Night this Saturday 7 July from 6 pm to 6 am. Art Night is London’s largest free contemporary arts festival. Each year the festival partners with a leading cultural institution and curator, focusing on a different area of London to explore its distinctive identity, culture and architecture through various forms of art.
2 July 2018
Within a rough and ready Manifesta 12, there are few things that stand out head and shoulders above the rest.
17 June 2018
Fire crews have spent a third day at the scene of the latest fire to hit the historic Glasgow School of Art.
17 June 2018
txtʃərz is a two-channel projection work of high-definition video, approximately 10 minutes long.
16 June 2018
Art Basel 2018 which launches 14-17 June offers a Premier line-up of galleries at Art Basel’s 2018 edition in Basel Switzerland.
11 June 2018
In 2016 world-renowned curator Azu Nwagbogu invited James Ostrer to show his 2014 Wotsit All About series in Lagos, Nigeria. Naturally, Nwagbogu expected Ostrer to come along with his fetishised junk food portraits that had warned the west of over-consumption.
29 May 2018
The V&A has announced a major gift of 63 photographs by Linda McCartney, generously gifted by Paul McCartney and his family.
3 May 2018
New Contemporaries has announced this year’s selected artists with support from Bloomberg Philanthropies.
3 May 2018
Art Fund has announced their shortlist of five UK museums selected as finalists for Art Fund Museum of the Year 2018, the world’s largest and most prestigious prize for museums.
1 May 2018
This year’s list of finalists for the Turner Prize has just been announced. While the names on the shortlist are virtuously unfamiliar, the general artistic direction is not.
30 April 2018
London 30 April: Tate Modern reveals the intertwined stories of photography and abstract art in a new exhibition.
30 April 2018
Desperate Artwives in collaboration with Leyden Gallery are launching a new series of events starting on Friday 27th April 2018.
24 April 2018
Based on the current growth trajectory, the Hiscox Online Art Trade Report, published today, reveals that the value of the online art market could reach $8.37 billion by 2023.
16 April 2018
Anne Vierstraete, the Managing Director of Art Brussels in conversation with Paul Carter Robinson ahead of the opening of the fair next week.
12 April 2018
The Metropolitan Museum of Art has a new director, Max Hollein.
11 April 2018
The UK’s largest national loan collection of modern and contemporary art, the Arts Council Collection, has unveiled the full list of 47 works by 25 artists that it has acquired for the nation in 2017-18.
4 April 2018
Superstition is a four-walled mineral cabinet consisting of artists that all depict geological rocks such as crystals, gemstones, or Geodes.
2 April 2018
The noted writer and curator Paul Carey-Kent gives us his rolling ten recommended contemporary art shows in London for April 2018. Paul currently freelances for Art Monthly, Frieze, Elephant, STATE, Photomonitor, Border Crossings and World of Interiors, and has a weekly online column at FAD Art News.
31 March 2018
Ethiopian Artists at Art Dubai were notably some of the best African work exhibited at the fair.
26 March 2018
On one of the coldest days this year I climbed down many steps into the deep railway cut that is Glasgow’s Queens Park Station. Here, next to a tiny ticket office, is perhaps one of the UK’s strangest galleries.
21 March 2018
Art Dubai Contemporary and Modern is the most diverse. edition to date.
18 March 2018
While many collectors and Art world professionals were in Europe for TEFAF and the Auctions in London, I went instead to visit the New York art scene for the Armory week.
14 March 2018
The story of painting has become, in large part, the story of its response to other media, especially photography.
12 February 2018
Reviewer at large Paul Carey-Kent reports on BRAFA Brussels Antiques & Fine Arts fair (BRAFA), which ran from 27 Jan – 4 Feb 2018.
5 February 2018
Overview: The London Art Fair is the capitals longest running Contemporary and Modern art fair. Now in its 30th year, the event presents leading British and international galleries alongside specially curated spaces, Art Projects and Photo50.
16 January 2018
Artist studios at Tate Modern, created by 200 students from Central Saint Martins, UAL, will open the second year of the Tate Exchange Associates programme at the gallery on 15 January 2018.
15 January 2018
2018 will offer a variety of exhibitions to cater for everyone’s taste in art from spending time with modern masters such as a year in the life of Picasso, Monet’s relationship with architecture, drawings by Klimt and Schiele, through classical artists Ribera and Murillo to contemporary greats like Tacita Dean and Joan Jonas not to mention Frida Kahlo’s iconic wardrobe. In addition, London increases its exhibition spaces with the re-opening of the Hayward Gallery in January and the Royal Academy of Arts extension opening in May.
28 December 2017
The Arts Council has published its 2016/17 Cultural Gifts Scheme and Acceptance in Lieu annual report.
23 December 2017
Answer the three questions below correctly and we will enter you into our draw for a free ticket (Value £46) admitting two to the highly anticipated London Art Fair.
22 December 2017
Sir Edwin Landseer’s ‘The Monarch of the Glen’ (c. 1851) at National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh, was announced today as winner of the Art Fund Work of 2017.
13 December 2017
The UBS annual art market report released last week (6 December 2017) has recorded that despite high-profile sales; art collectors were largely driven by legacy and love, not investment and profit.
10 December 2017
