Skarstedt’s fascinating new exhibition Painter / Sculptor brings together a sculpture and a painting by nine artists who says the gallery, ‘have mastered both painting and sculpture to formulate a unique artistic language’: Alberto Giacometti, Willem de Kooning,...
Yinka Shonibare To Coordinate 253rd RA Summer Exhibition - National Gallery The Summer Exhibition Committee members are Royal Academicians Tony Bevan, Vanessa Jackson, Mali Morris, Humphrey Ocean, Eva Rothschild, Bob and Roberta Smith and Emma Stibbon. David Adjaye...
Venice town council is trying to make it impossible to rent private exhibition spaces during the Venice Biennale and the Architecture Biennale. Limits will be imposed to shorten the duration of the exhibitions with a twelve-month no return policy on the property. This...
Update: 9 April 2021 - Nike says MSCHF, the art collective which made "Satan Shoes" that contain a drop of human blood in the soles has agreed to issue a voluntary recall as part of a legal settlement. MSCHF will now offer a full refund to customers in order to remove...
Upon entering the Brooklyn Museum to view “KAWS: What Party”, the visitor is confronted by a colossal and strikingly iconic sculpture titled “Along the Way” (2013). Impeccably fabricated in wood, the two figures paired here are derived from KAWS' character Companion,...
The Turner Prize nominated artist Simon Patterson, an original participant in Damien Hirst's Freeze exhibition and closely associated with the YBA movement in the UK is the subject of a major exhibition at the Serlachius Museum Gustaf in Finland. Patterson uses maps,...
Guerrilla Girls Call For MoMa Chairman Leon Black To Resign Guerrilla Girls, one of the leading feminist art collective, are putting MoMa under much-publicized pressure to remove Leon Black from their board of directors. Leon Black was born in 1951, he is an American...
This has been a tough year for all of us. The art world was especially hard hit with the loss of so many of our leading figures. Here is a roundup to honour the artists, curators and designers that passed away in 2020. January 2020 John Baldessari - Artist John...
Tracey Emin is one of the two major survivors from the so-called YBA (Young British Artists) Group that made such a lot of noise in the 1990s. Damien Hirst is the other - the rest have largely faded away. She didn’t win the Turner Prize, then in its palmy days, as...