A previously unpublished photograph of the British conductor Sir Simon Rattle by Rory Coonan has been unveiled at The National Portrait Gallery. The portrait was shot in 1982 on film, using a 150-year-old plate camera. The acquisition is announced to mark Sir...
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Gillian Wearing’s Multimedia Work Gets Los Angeles Exhibition
Regen Projects has unveiled 'Everyone', an exhibition of multimedia work by British artist Gillian Wearing. The exhibition debuts two new videos – We Are Here and Fear and Loathing – the latter of which is the artist’s first work produced in the...
Henri Martin’s French Impressionist Landscape Leads £770,000 Heritage Sale
Henri Martin's French Impressionist landscape, titled 'La vallée du vert à Labastide-du-Vert' (c. 1920), has sold for $485,000 or £311,000, the work lead Heritage Auction's $1.2 million (£770,000) December 10th European Art Signature Auction....
Daylight Robbery Of £400,000 Sculpture From Italy’s Modern Art Museum
UPDATE: In a strange turn of events, the sculpture has been found, inside a storage locker, at the entrance to the Museum in an area used by the public. This has prompted the police to state that the thief may have had a change of heart. The news was broken by...
German Government To Create Department To Hunt For Stolen Nazi Art
The German Government has approved funds for a center to search for and return art looted by the Nazis. The culture minister Monika Grütters has laid out the government's intentions, stating that 'Germany has a responsibility to find works stolen from across...
Turner Contemporary 2015 Programme To Include Grayson Perry Exhibition
Turner Contemporary has welcomed more than 1.3 million visitors, in just three and a half years. For 2015, the gallery has announced an ambitious programme that is set to draw diverse audiences to Margate, and highlight the gallery’s position as one of the...
Trio Of Monets Could Exceed £40 Million At Sotheby’s
Sotheby’s upcoming November Impressionist and modern art sale–has unveiled three major works by Claude Monet - all from the same private American collection - these works will be offered in New York on November 4 and could take over £40 million...
John Singer Sargent Blockbuster For National Portrait Gallery This February
The National Portrait Gallery will stage a major exhibition in 2015 of works by one of the world’s most celebrated portrait painters, John Singer Sargent. Organised in partnership with the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the exhibition will bring...
Richard Stone’s New Work Evokes Literary And Art Historical References
In his new exhibition Gleam, Richard Stone has created shrouded bronze and marble sculptures which explore a history that is collapsing in upon itself. Speaking about his work he describes; "A man that struggles bravely forward, his body braced against an...