On Tuesday, a Banksy painting from the artist's Crude Oil series sold for £4.3 million ($5.5 million) at Sotheby's Modern and Contemporary Evening Auction in London. "Graffiti writers and drunken teenagers do not do the real damage done to our environment, but by big...
Jack Vettriano, a popular Scottish painter who created memorable works reproduced by 'Athena' as posters in the 1990s, has died in France at the Age of 73. The artist was found dead at his apartment in Nice on Saturday, according to his publicist. Authorities have...
Jack Vettriano the Scottish painter famous for his 'Athena style’ kitsch paintings has announced he is to give up painting due to a recent accident which has caused his shoulder to be dislocated. In a released statement the artist...
Paintings by the popular commercial artist Jack Vettriano are estimated to reach £1.2m when they are sold at auction, in Edinburgh, in March. Bonham's are selling the lots consisting of 12 paintings which have never been offered before. The works, belong to an...
A major new retrospective exhibition of paintings by the highly commercial Scottish artist Jack Vettriano is opening at Kelvingrove Art Gallery in Glasgow on 21st September. The Museum is staging what will be the most comprehensive exhibition ever devoted to...
Here's a reminder of the art-world figures who died in 2025. Frank Gehry, Martin Parr, Joel Shapiro, David Lynch, Koyo Kouoh and Alan Yentob were among those who died in 2025. David Lynch: Influential Director And Artist David Lynch was not only an Oscar-nominated...
Banksy’s Balloon Girl or Girl With A Balloon as it is officially titled, has been voted the nation’s favourite artwork. The populist poll sponsored by a new device which displays art as a TV screensaver when idling, spoke to over 2000 art enthusiasts to reach the...
Good artists can create bad art, and fine artists are included in this selection; even they can create low-brow, mass produced work, in a perpetual state of gaudiness, with work designed to have calculated popular appeal - yet sometimes the work is so bad it's good -...
I know I bytch a lot about how museums should remain free to enter, and how it's not so bad to accept cash from a giant evil global oil conglomerate to achieve this goal. Also to this end - staying free that is - I'm even not against some good hard wringing of...