This Is a Robbery: Netflix Takes On $500m Gardner Museum Heist. The Gardner Museum Heist, the most significant art robbery in history, is the subject of a new Netflix series. Over St. Patrick's Day weekend in 1990, a criminal gang dressed as Boston police officers...
What’s up for art here in London, once the pandemic is finally over? Will we all be able to go back to the state of things as they were, in the jolly days before the plague? Right now everything is still shut up tight. Avant-gardism and populism were beginning to fall...
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...
Billy Childish has been around a long time. He is not only an artist but a poet and a composer of music. He was also at one time in the dim long ago Tracey’s Emin’s mentor, a connection that she now seems increasingly inclined to try and erase from the record. I...
The popular Street Artist Stik has created a new fund for Hackney that will commission artists to create public sculptures reflecting the diverse communities of the borough. Stik has also promised to give every household in Hackney a limited edition poster of the...
An iconic portrait by the British Artist David Hockney of Royal Opera House boss Sir David Webster will go under the hammer this month at Christie's. It has been suggested that the painting will fetch up to £18m. We knew we had to look at any assets we had," said...
Following on from previous fairs, ASP is hosting ASP6, the Sixth Edition of the fair, which features over 100 artists showcasing their work online. Usually held as an annual event at London's ICA, ASP6 will be taking place 100% online due to the current situation,...
The date was 13th June, When I first started writing this installment in this potentially infinite series, but everything I wrote felt stale. As it stands, Churchill is still standing, hoarding uncovered for a state visit from Macron. He experienced an Andy Warholian...
The Blessed Waldy - yes, it was he - appeared not once but twice in the Sunday Times last weekend. One-piece, in the Culture section, about a virtual exhibition of kimonos at the V&A Museum, did not detain me long. What it demonstrated was the near-desperate...