Jenny Saville A Passion For Flesh And Paint – GMA – Clare Henry
JENNY SAVILLE’S show at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh is long, LONG overdue.
27 March 2018
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Art Wars Launches New Exhibition At Hix Art Shoreditch
London Based Art initiative Art Wars and Hix Art have announced ‘Art Wars East’. Opening on March 29th.
20 March 2018
The Background To The Boom And Other Tales – Edward Lucie-Smith
Three very different books that somehow reflect different facets of the same situation.
19 March 2018
ArtBAB Bahrain A Contemporary Art Oasis – Fair Round-Up – Paul Carter Robinson
ArtBAB Bahrain, in its third edition, is an international event to be reckoned with.
18 March 2018
Armory Week – Snow and Art Virginie Puertolas-Syn Highlights
While many collectors and Art world professionals were in Europe for TEFAF and the Auctions in London, I went instead to visit the New York art scene for the Armory week.
14 March 2018
Marc Quinn Sculpture Of Zombie Boy Announced For Science Museum
London’s Science Museum has commissioned the YBA artist Marc Quinn to create a monumental sculpture of Zombie Boy for the new Medicine Galleries.
13 March 2018
Frida Kahlo Estate Raises A Monobrow To Artist Barbie Doll
Relatives of the estate of the Mexican artist Frida Kahlo are considering suing the Frida Kahlo Corporation over claims it holds the rights to her image.
9 March 2018
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4 March 2018
Giorgio Griffa: The Golden Ratio And Inexplicable knowledge – Revd Jonathan Evens
Camden Arts Centre is currently presenting the first solo exhibition in the United Kingdom of Giorgio Griffa, an Italian abstract painter who has been closely linked to the Arte Povera movement.
4 March 2018
Henri Michaux Indefatigable Experimenter Guggenheim Bilbao – Sue Hubbard
Modern psychology has shown considerable interest in understanding the self. Investigations into the problems of selfhood spread during the 20th century from clinicians and humanistic psychologists to be explored in laboratories and by artists.
7 February 2018
London Art Exhibitions For January 2018 By Paul Carey-Kent
With Christmas 2017 and New Year 2018 behind us we return to the normality of the London art gallery offerings.
2 January 2018
New Asian Art Gallery At British Museum A Let Down – Edward Lucie-Smith
The new galleries of Asian art at the British Museum, named after benefactor Sir Joseph Hotung and numbered 33 on the museum’s floor plan, ought to mark a big step forward in the B.M’s engagement with historic Asian cultures. The sad fact is that for various reasons, they don’t.
22 December 2017
Ten Recommended London Art Shows By Paul Carey -Kent December 2017
It’s hard to complain about the big institutional shows on display just now
8 December 2017
Unattributed Lucas Cranach the Elder Masterpiece Found At Windsor Castle
Unattributed Lucas Cranach the Elder Masterpiece Found At Windsor Castle A newly attributed masterpiece by the German painter Lucas Cranach the Elder (1472–1553) and his workshop has been discovered in the Queen’s Collection at Windsor Castle.
25 November 2017
Gurlitt Nazi Looted Art Collection Goes On Display
A simultaneous double exhibition focusing on artworks from the Cornelius Gurlitt hoard of art confiscated by the Nazis and hidden for more than three-quarters of a century by a disgraced family of Nazi collaborators will finally go on show from the 2 November in Germany and Switzerland.
28 October 2017
Turner Prize Evolves To Survive In Hull By Sue Hubbard
We know it’s late September because the Turner Prize is with us again.
26 September 2017
Francis Bacon Pope Portrait Resurfaces After 50 Years At Christie’s London
A portrait by the British artist Francis Bacon which has not been seen in public for over 55 years is to be sold at Christie’s Post-War and Contemporary Art Evening Auction
6 September 2017
Norman Rockwell Study Achieves Record $1.6 million At Heritage Auctions
Norman Rockwell’s “Tough Call,” an original study for his iconic cover for the Saturday Evening Post has sold for a staggering $1.6 million at an auction of high-end sports memorabilia held by Heritage Auctions in Dallas.
21 August 2017
Caravan – An Interview With Rev Paul Gordon Chandler On Arts Peacebuilding
CARAVAN is the international intercultural and interreligious peacebuilding arts NGO which has brought I AM, an art exhibition showcasing the insights and experiences of Middle Eastern women, to London.
20 August 2017
Lost Alberto Giacometti Drawings Auctioned To Benefit The Art Fund
Two original drawings by the artist, Alberto Giacometti have been discovered in the inventory of a deceased English antique dealer. They are to go under the hammer at Cheffins in Cambridge, UK, with proceeds from the sale given to The Art Fund. The drawings were discovered amongst the collection of the late London based dealer, Eila Grahame.
10 August 2017
Alice Cooper Discovers £8m Lost Warhol In Storage Lock-Up
The US rock star Alice Cooper has discovered an important early 1960s painting by Andy Warhol worth £8m in a storage unit where it lay undiscovered for over 40 years.
24 July 2017
Australian Artist Martin Brown Picks 10 Artists At The 57th Venice Biennale
As a regular attendee of the Venice Biennale, this was my sixth visit, I was fortunate to attend the Vernissage week with an invitation from the Australia Council for which I am eternally grateful. This is a summary of some of the things that I liked that caught my eye. There were many others of equal interest but I’ve pared it down to just a few.
1 July 2017
I love Christine Macel’s Venice Biennale By Virginie Puertolas-Syn
Much has been said about the Biennale. It is daring indeed from Christine Macel, the French curator from Pompidou appointed the curator of the Venice Biennale 2017, to extract herself from the actual political and social turmoil the world is facing.
29 June 2017
Tretchikoff’s Green Lady Model Monika Pon-Su-San Dies Aged 86
Monika Pon-Su-San the stunning model/sitter behind the1950s kitsch classic the Green Lady or The Chinese Girl as it was officially titled has died in South Africa aged 86.
28 June 2017
Art Basel Plus Satellite Fair Guide 2017 What To See
Art Basel 2017 is a curated selection of 291 first-rate galleries exhibiting at the fair’s 48th edition in Basel. The gallery list for the Swiss event, taking place from June 15 to June 18, 2017, is a corker.
7 June 2017
Philip Guston Nixon Drawings Revisited In The Age Of Trump – Hauser & Wirth
An exhibition of work by the American painter ‘Philip Guston titled Laughter in the Dark, Drawings from 1971 & 1975’, at Hauser & Wirth London opens this week.
15 May 2017
Frieze New York 2017 Lizanne Merrill Chooses Her Top Six Booths
Whether you reach the luxurious tent that is Frieze by waterway or highway, the art fair’s weekend home on Randall’s Island is as accessible as the art itself.
7 May 2017
Early Chinese Buddhist Art from Dunhuang Cave Recreated In London
Dunhuang, an oasis on the ancient Silk Road in northern China, is known for its caves containing some of the world’s finest examples of Buddhist art, created over a period of 1000 years. Millions visit this UNESCO world heritage site each year.
2 May 2017
John Minton From Wartime To Battles With His Own Sexuality
The British artist John Minton (1917 – 1957), is explored in a major new exhibition at Pallant House marking the centenary of his birth and 60 years since his death. It explores the artist’s achievements far beyond his reputation as a leading illustrator and influential teacher.
24 April 2017
Michelangelo Plaster Casts More Convincing Than Sebastiano – National Gallery – Edward Lucie-Smith
The current Michelangelo & Sebastiano show at the National Gallery here in London is very much the kind of exhibition that one feels a great institution ought to be doing: spaciously presented, tirelessly scholarly, you couldn’t wish for a better introduction to these major names in Italian Renaissance art.
16 April 2017
Latest HIV Research Inspires Compelling New Art Collaboration
Our understanding of HIV is the focus of a unique collaboration between a Professor of molecular virology at UCL (University College London), Greg Towers, and British artist and academic, Dr John Walter.
3 April 2017
Largest Piet Mondrian Exhibition To Be Mounted at Holland’s Gemeentemuseum
The complete collection of works by Piet Mondrian at the Gemeentemuseum in The Hague will go on display in the largest exhibition of the artist’s work ever mounted.
22 March 2017