Kettle’s Yard, part of the University of Cambridge, is the venue for a new exhibition of celebrated contemporary artist Ai Weiwei (born 1957, Beijing). Titled ‘The Liberty of Doubt’, the solo show curated by Andrew Nairne explores our perception of authenticity and...
The Artist Support Pledge platform has successfully raised over £30m for artists during the pandemic. The cancellation of art fairs and gallery exhibitions created a void filled by a simple hashtag. It was a lifeline to many artists worldwide. In response to the war...
The widow of Pop artist Roy Lichtenstein has announced that the Lichtenstein family has donated the late artist's studio building to the Museum. The Whitney, who since moving downtown in 2015 has been a neighbour of the studio, operating four blocks north on...
After exploring Oaxaca and the iconic Casa Wabi designed by Tadao Ando in Puerto Escondido, I was happy to be back in Mexico for Art Week. The City has so much to offer, from Roma's old fashioned charm and architecture to the Barragan Houses, the delicious lunches at...
Living through the pandemic and re-reading an article from 2003 by Steven Vincent on her Crucifixion sculpture, fashioned as a response to 9/11, made Rachel Feinstein want to use religious iconography in her work again. The result is Mirror, her current art exhibition...
According to the Financial Times, the market in NFTs (non-fungible tokens), an unregulated form of digital art and collectables, is now approaching the combined global art trade year end total. The value of trade for NFTs was estimated to be worth $40.9bn last year,...
I was taken back to the roots of my love for the visual art on a visit to galleries around Cork Street just before Christmas. Among the Impressionist, Modern and Contemporary works in the Gallery Showcase at Alon Zakaim Fine Art were works by Marc Chagall, reminding...
Tributes have been pouring in for the American artist Wayne Thiebaud who died yesterday in Sacramento, California age 101. His daughter Twinka Thiebaud made the following statement on Facebook, "Master painter, art professor, tennis player, joke teller extraordinaire,...
The last Art Basel Miami Beach to take place was in 2019. It was an optimistic time for the international art world but who would have thought we were about to be locked down with all fairs cancelled for nearly two years. Roll-on 2021 and after successes like Art...