Christopher Gray was born in 1965 and has always lived and worked in London. He first started making the boxing puppets when he was a young boy and has never stopped developing the concept, but it wasn't until he went to art school in his late 40s that he started to...
London Art Week, summer 2017 gets underway today 30th June. This is mostly geared up to the ‘Old Masters’ and Blue Chip market which will be offering an array of special exhibitions hosted across more than forty of the capital’s galleries and three leading auction...
A major exhibition of works of art by Alphonse Mucha (1860-1939) one of the most influential artists of the Art Nouveau movement is on view at the Walker Art Gallery. This major touring exhibition from the Mucha Foundation explores the work of Alphonse Mucha around...
Dana Lixenberg a Dutch photographer has won the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize at London’s Photographers’ Gallery for her portraits of the residents and community of the Imperial Courts housing project in Watts, Los Angeles. She was announced at the...
A bronze sculpture by the Modernist artist Constantin Brancusi has sold for the record-smashing price of $57.37 million in New York on Monday. This is the highest price achieved for the Romanian-born sculptor and more than twice the pre-sale estimate. La muse...
My first introduction to Henry Moore took place in Toronto which houses the most important collection of the artist’s work. It only wound up in Canada after Tate refused to accept the sculptor’s gift of some forty major works due to the stipulation of the gift which...
Objection, a collaborative exhibition unites two emerging women artists, Michal Cole Israel/UK and Ekin Onat Turkey/Germany, at the Pavilion of Humanity during the 57th Venice Biennale. Objection is situated in a magnificent villa with gardens at the base of the...
Sotheby’s has achieved the highest total for any auction ever staged in London. The Impressionist, Modern & Surrealist Art Evening Sales Totalled £194.7m / $240.8m / €227.6m The sale was led by Gustav Klimt’s Luminous Bauerngarten which achieved £48m / $59.3m /...
Throughout the History of Art, there are examples of loving couples in passionate embraces. From ancient Indian temples, Greek vases, Japanese prints, Renaissance paintings and sculpture, through the golden age of Dutch painting, the 18th and 19th centuries and...