Adam Clayton Bassist in the Rock band U2 has put a rare Jean-Michel Basquiat Drawing up for auction at Christie’s. The self-portrait goes under the hammer next month, after residing for 25 years in his private collection. The pop star bought the artwork in 1990 when...
Hull, which has begun its year as UK City of Culture is already off to a strong start, with January seeing the reopening of the Ferens Art Gallery and the launch of the new Humber Street Gallery with its first exhibition: COUM Transmissions. Since winning the title in...
Welcome to the Top 10 - Art Disasters "A visual experience is vitalising. Whereas to write great poetry, to draw continuously on one's inner life, is not merely exhausting, it is to keep alight a consuming fire". - Sir Kenneth Clark Throughout the centuries art has...
If you finally have time on your hands to catch up on all the exhibitions now on in London, here’s our handy 2 part guide to what’s on. We are very fortunate to have free admission to public galleries to see their permanent collections. Museums only charge for their...
Last night's results for the Evening Sales of Impressionist & Modern Art in New York coupled with those in London this June, demonstrate there is strong demand for top-quality works at every price level,” said Simon Shaw, Co-Head of Sotheby’s Worldwide...
Somerset House Studios is a new experimental workspace within Somerset House connecting around 300 artists, makers, and thinkers with audiences. Located inside the former Inland Revenue offices, the Studios are a platform for the development of new creative projects...
Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571–1610) will be exhibited in the first major show in the UK to explore the work of this leading artist’s influence on the art of his contemporaries and followers. Caravaggio is considered one of the most...
It’s not so rare to find that the ideas to be unpacked behind explicitly conceptual art turn out, when you examine them, to be rather thin. John Stark’s work operates as something of an inversion of that: one’s initial attention...
An important drawing by the French Impressionist painter Edgar Degas has been donated to the nation under the Acceptance in Lieu scheme, overseen by the Arts Council. The drawing, which has never been on public view, has been allocated...