London once again is gearing up for Art Night 2018 this Saturday 7 July from 6 pm to 6 am. Art Night is London’s largest free contemporary arts festival. Each year the festival partners with a leading cultural institution and curator, focusing on a different area of...
St John’s Waterloo is an Anglican church with a big heart and an open door. Their mission is to be at the centre of Waterloo’s community, helping people fulfil their potential. As part of that mission every summer they host the acclaimed Waterloo Festival, which...
The London Open 2018 is again upon us bringing critical work by some of the most dynamic contemporary artists in the capital today. The latest edition of this triennial summer exhibition offers a free, lively space to discover new work and reflect on a time of...
The UK’s largest national loan collection of modern and contemporary art, the Arts Council Collection, has unveiled the full list of 47 works by 25 artists that it has acquired for the nation in 2017-18. It was a noteworthy year for female artists coming into the...
London’s contemporary sales both evening and day at Sotheby's and Christie's have totalled £295 million ($407 million). Bonham's realised £5.3 million in sales and Phillips evening sale in London £73.1 million £97.8 million ($135 million), a record for the auction...
Here is our annual report on how the other fairs did this year during Art Basel Miami Beach week. We are still looking for the figures from Pulse but here are Art Miami, Context, Untitled and Edition. Celebrating its 28th edition, Art Miami kicked off Miami Art Week,...
The Art on a Postcard Secret Auction returns for its 4th year next week. Art on a Postcard raises money for The Hepatitis C Trust’s campaign to eliminate the Hepatitis C virus as a major public health concern by 2030. Last year’s auction raised over £75,000 for the...
Mona Hatoum (b. 1952) is the fifth artist to receive the prestigious annual Art Icon award at the Whitechapel Gallery. The Art Icon 2018 award will be presented on Monday 29 January 2018. “This award celebrates the work of an artist who has made a profound...
This year’s big graduation show of work by Fine Arts students from the Royal College of Art is both inspiriting and at the same time just a little bit depressing. Let’s start with the good bit. The R.C.A. offers new crop of painters – many of whom are worth at least...