The British art world is apparently in a healthy state at the moment. In particular, it is on extremely cuddly terms with a benevolent arts bureaucracy. Tate Modern has quite recently more or less doubled in size. There are a number of other major official and...
Dearly Departed: 2017 has been a momentous year with a first-rate Documenta and Venice Biennale. The year introduced us to a number of new emerging artists as well as the sad reality of losing some of the great talents of our generation both young and old. Here are...
It has been a challenging year in the art world with record auction prices and soaring fair costs. Many art dealers have had to rethink their business models while the top 5% of dealers have reported a bumper year. We have also seen the end of age restrictions at the...
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,...
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,...
Tate Britain has announced Anthea Hamilton as the next artist to undertake the Tate Britain Commission. Unveiled for the first time on 21 March 2018, Hamilton will reveal a major new work, transforming the heart of Tate Britain into an immersive installation that will...
Art Basel Miami Beach now in its 16th edition closed with buoyant sales across the board. The dealers remained positive this year with praise given to the new design of the fair, held in the Miami Convention Centre, which has been under extensive renovation for the...
How times have changed! In the 1980s, during the closing decade of the Soviet Union, Russian dissident artists, emerging on to the world stage under the increasingly benevolent gaze of Mr Gorbachev, were all the rage in the art worlds of the liberal West. Basically,...
It’s hard to complain about the big institutional shows on display just now: Whiteread, the Kabakovs, Modigliani at the Tates; Monochrome Painting and Rodin at the National Gallery; Cezanne at the NPG; Rose Wiley at the Serpentine Sackler; the US generational overview...