On the 16th September, the Art Car Boot Fair celebrates its fifteenth anniversary with the launch of an additional event – the Art Cycle Basket Fair. The Art Cycle Basket Fair will run in an adjacent space to the main fair and involve artists bringing everything they...
The highly regarded chef and restaurateur Mark Hix has announced the winner for this year’s 2018 HIX Award, the nationally acclaimed competition for art students and recent graduates. The prize giving ceremony took place Thursday evening 25th October. Each year...
There can be no doubt that the Turner Prize is pretty much of a sick puppy right now. Supposedly Britain’s premier award for new art, it is defined as being either for ‘an artist working primarily in Britain,’ or for ‘a British artist working anywhere’. It seems now...
The BP Portrait Award 2018 currently at the National Portrait Gallery offers interesting parallels with the London Open 2018 on view at Whitechapel. Both are free entry. Both report on what is currently happening in art, though from very different standpoints. Neither...
At a time when London’s big art museums are going all out to be populist, they also seem to be witnessing a fairly general fall in attendances. The National Portrait Gallery has been particularly hard hit: attendances were down from over 2 million in 2015 to 1.2...
The presentation of work by Yves Klein in the staterooms of Blenheim Palace, the stateliest of all Britain’s stately homes, is part of a growing trend. The show follows hot on the heels of the Damien Hirst show, currently on view at Houghton Hall, another legendary...
Sacred Noise explores themes of religion, faith and divinity in post-war and contemporary art through 30 works shown at Christie’s and on show until 21 July,. The exhibition seeks to charts the reinterpretation and subversion of these themes in the 20th century. The...
Charlie Smith London has long been one of the most reliable innovative galleries in Shoreditch. The gallery is celebrating its tenth anniversary this year. Which makes it interesting that, in its current exhibition, called Mythos, it is deliberately taking a turn...
New Contemporaries 2018 has opened in Liverpool to coincide with the 20th birthday of the Liverpool Biennial. The exhibition selected from recent graduates of UK art schools, is a good insight into practices, showcasing some of the most dynamic work being made by...