ART IN MIND: Artists Raising Money For Mental Health Services – Clare Henry
Organiser June Carey’s initial idea was to ask 12 or 15 friends to paint vases for sale to raise money for mental health
24 May 2021
Organiser June Carey’s initial idea was to ask 12 or 15 friends to paint vases for sale to raise money for mental health
24 May 2021
Archie Brennan was a creative genius and pioneer who transformed tapestry from a method of slavish, rigid reproduction, replication and restriction into one of innovation, imagination, immediacy and wit.
25 April 2021
The world’s largest painting, created by a little-known British artist Sacha Jafri, has been sold at auction in Dubai for £45m to French crypto businessman Andre Abdoune.
25 March 2021
Sadiq Khan, The Mayor of London, has announced the six artists who have been shortlisted for Trafalgar Square’s future Fourth Plinth commissions: They are: Nicole Eisenman, Samson Kambalu, Goshka Macuga, Ibrahim Mahama, Teresa Margolles and Paloma Varga Weisz.
9 March 2021
The Modern Art Museum MAM Shanghai has announced Shai Baitel as its inaugural Artistic Director. The newly opened state of the art museum located at the heart of Shanghai’s cultural mile along the Huangpu River is a premier institution for contemporary art with a global and multidisciplinary approach.
9 February 2021
A momentous exhibition staged at the Museum of Fine Arts—Hungarian National Gallery in Budapest, “Sean Scully: Passenger—A Retrospective” celebrates
26 January 2021
Geraldine Swayne is a highly regarded painter known for her intimate portrait and figure paintings in enamel on copper, aluminium and canvas. Her subjects engage in everyday activities
6 September 2020
Richard Demarco, C.B.E., H.R.S.A., R.S.W., F.R.S.A., Hon. F.E.C.A., Hon. F.R.I.A.S. – where to start?
8 July 2020
Glasgow: Love it or loathe it, the Tate Turner prize is here to stay. It’s a huge accolade. And you don’t need to win. Being nominated (4 each year since 1984) is almost as good.
14 October 2019
Laszlo Moholy-Nagy’s long ‘lost’ optical sound film, Tönendes ABC / ABC in Sound (1933), missing for over 80 years has been rediscovered and restored at the BFI.
11 June 2019
Emil Nolde (1867–1956) was arguably one of the best known “degenerate artists” working in Germany at the time of the Third Reich. No other artist had as many works confiscated, nor were their works as prominently displayed in the ‘Degenerate Art’ exhibition of 1937/38.
10 April 2019
GLASGOW’s reputation has risen & fallen over the years. 1990 saw a peak. The city is now in a trough.
6 February 2019
The Royal College of Art (RCA), which has consistently topped the tables as ‘best art school in the world’ has launched GenerationRCA, an ambitious five-year campaign/programme
28 January 2019
The New Year revels are over. It’s January, and the art world is back to work. The first sign of this stirring is the London Art Fair 2019 that returns to the capital from 16-20 January.
17 January 2019
The Modern Couples show currently at the Barbican has eyes slightly too big for its own – or at any rate for my stomach. Nevertheless, it is, in the present climate for the visual arts, an event that is both timely and important.
5 November 2018
For 150 years KIRKCUDBRIGHT has been an artists’ town, the “St Ives of Scotland.
14 July 2018
Gallery Weekend Berlin has been rapidly evolving, over the past fourteen years, morphing into a leading international event, to be reckoned with.
2 May 2018
The latest artist to exhibit a work for the “Fourth Plinth’ commission is the US artist Michael Rakowitz’.
28 March 2018
On one of the coldest days this year I climbed down many steps into the deep railway cut that is Glasgow’s Queens Park Station. Here, next to a tiny ticket office, is perhaps one of the UK’s strangest galleries.
21 March 2018
Art Dubai Contemporary and Modern is the most diverse. edition to date.
18 March 2018
ArtBAB, under the Patronage of Her Royal Highness Princess Sabeeka bint Ibrahim Al Khalifa, President of the Supreme Council for Women has announced an impressive line-up of galleries participating in this year’s event.
3 March 2018
Anything but a conventional artist, Eddie Peake is a footballer, a musician, a dancer, a graffiti guy covered with spray-paint
20 February 2018
Here is the first view of Michael Rakowitz’s new commission, The Invisible Enemy, Should Not Exist which will be unveiled on the Fourth Plinth in London’s Trafalgar Square
15 January 2018
The Vauxhall Art Car Boot Fair has moved to Vauxhall for the latest edition of this annual London art extravaganza.
27 June 2017
The tenth edition of Young Gods, curated by Zavier Ellis, which opens at CHARLIE SMITH LONDON on 13 January is always an important exhibition to visit if you want to continue to have your ear to the ground!
23 December 2016
In his new book ‘How to See: Looking, Talking, and Thinking about Art’ 80’s art star David Salle aspires to teach nonartists to see art the way artists do!
6 November 2016
(click on name for more info) Writers Virginie is a consultant lecturer Sotheby’s Institute London and Managing Director… Read More
10 October 2016
David Shrigley the Turner Prize nominated artist unveiled his new commission for the Fourth Plinth titled, ‘Really Good’, this morning… Read More
29 September 2016
Denmark’s leading Contemporary Art fair finished on Sunday reporting the most successful edition yet. The fourth CHART ART FAIR with its ambitious presentations… Read More
31 August 2016
A new show of works on paper by Maggi Hambling has been announced by the British Museum. Working across all media, in painting,… Read More
11 August 2016
David Shrigley the Turner Prize nominated artist unveils his new commission for the Fourth Plinth titled, ‘Really Good’ on Thursday 29 September 2016…. Read More
18 May 2016
The Bienal de São Paulo readies for its grand opening on September 10 – December 11, 2016. The event was… Read More
8 May 2016