Frieze London and Frieze Masters, two of the art world's most prestigious events, concluded their 20th and 11th editions on the evening of October 15, marking a resounding success. The five-day extravaganza at Regent's Park witnessed a remarkable confluence of...
Frieze London arrived in Regent's Park two decades ago. In the 'noughties', it hit the London art scene running, bringing a new razzmatazz to the selling of art. On the opening night, anyone who was anyone was there. Even Anish Kapoor had to stand in the rain for an...
To get into Happy Gas, Sarah Lucas' new solo show at Tate Britain, you have to walk through a gift shop; floating on the sugary peach wallpaper is the repeating photographic image of cigarette orbs (tits) crafted from unsmoked Marlborough lights. Her original Tits in...
The Turner Prize is among contemporary British art's most prestigious and influential awards. It was established in 1984 to honour a British artist under 50 (This criteria has now been revised) for an outstanding exhibition or other presentation of their work in the...
Sarah Lucas's solo show has just opened at Tate Britain. Lucas has always been the baddest of the bad YBA girls. Unlike Emin, who was rather partial to attending private views in her Vivienne Westwood best, Sarah Lucas, who grew up on an Islington council estate,...
Oligarch Roman Abramovich and his ex-wife Dasha Zhukova's billion-dollar art collection contains some of the best examples of Contemporary and Modern British Art. It rivals the vast Tate Gallery for late 20th and early 21st century examples. As with many private...
Tate Britain is mounting a major survey of the work of Sarah Lucas. One of the leading figures of her generation, Lucas is internationally celebrated for her bold and irreverent work, often exploring the human body, mortality, and very British experiences of sex,...
Chris Ofili was inspired to create his Grenfell Fresco 'Requiem' by a chance meeting at the 2017 Venice Biennale, where he was introduced to the 24-year-old artist Khadija Saye, who later died in the tragedy along with seventy-two other people. Ofili told the...
AI has been all over the papers lately. It has even prompted Government intervention on both sides of the pond. Like some kind of incurable virus or toxic cloud of our own making, the threat is much ado about nothing... If only the powers that be would take climate...