£2.5 Million Funding Announced For Iconic Poppies Tour
14-18 NOW today announced the three venues that have been chosen to host the iconic poppy sculptures Wave and Weeping… Read More
1 December 2015
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Poppy Field Sculpture Moves North With New Installations Announced
The Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Woodhorn Museum in Northumberland and St George’s Hall Liverpool have been announced as locations that will… Read More
30 July 2015
Gavin Turk Welcomes Duchess of Cambridge To Turner Contemporary Selfie Exhibition
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cambridge was welcomed to Turner Contemporary yesterday on a visit which saw her introduced… Read More
12 March 2015
Selfies And Horror At Turner Contemporary
Turner Contemporary presents the exhibition ‘Self’ which posits the question, in a world where ‘selfies’ have become everyday expressions and… Read More
2 February 2015
Wedgwood Collection To Stay In Staffordshire After Appeal Success
One of the worlds most important industrial archive, the Wedgwood Collection has been saved for the nation after a public… Read More
3 October 2014
Kelly Clarkson Obstructed From Exporting Rare Jane Austen Ring
A beautiful yet simple gold and turquoise ring, one of only three pieces of jewellery in existence that is known… Read More
2 August 2013
Edward Burra And Ithell Colquhoun Bring Joy To Tate Britain – Sophie Parkin
Edward Burra and Ithell Colquhoun were both Surrealists, which makes you understand their twinning at Tate Britain
16 June 2025
London Gallery Weekend: A Snapshot of some favourite shows – Nico Kos Earle
London Gallery Weekend: Nico Kos Earle stalked these spaces with a critic’s eye and a flâneur’s instincts. What emerged wasn’t a coherent narrative, but something better…
12 June 2025
Notre Dame Reopens: First Look At Iconic Cathedral Post-Fire
Notre Dame Cathedral, one of the best examples of Gothic architecture and an iconic representatives of French heritage is about to open its doors….
29 November 2024
Frank Auerbach: Influential British Post-War Painter Dies Aged 93
Frank Auerbach (b. 1931), one of Britain’s greatest painters, has died at 93. He was a German-born British painter celebrated for his intense…
12 November 2024
Out of Oblivion: Documenting Ukrainian Modernism – Clare Finn
The publication accompanying the exhibition currently at London’s Royal Academy of Arts, has toured Europe, In the Eye of the Storm…
23 July 2024
Foreigners Everywhere: My Mad Dash At The 60th Biennale di Venezia – Clayton Calvert
Collectors and art world cognoscenti clamoured for first access to Stranieri Ovunque (Foreigners Everywhere) at the 60th edition of the Biennale di Venezia
6 May 2024
60th Venice Biennale Twelve Essential Highlights – Nico Kos Earle
Brazilian curator Adriano Pedrosa proposed the title for the 60th Edition of La Biennale di Venezia. ‘Foreigners Everywhere’.
23 April 2024
The Art Diary December 2023 – Revd Jonathan Evens
December’s art diary begins with books that would make interesting gifts this Christmas before focusing on our usual eclectic mix of exhibition
4 December 2023
John Bellany: The Italian Connection, Open Eye Gallery, Edinburgh – Clare Henry
John Bellany died 10 years ago. Internationally renowned, charismatic, chaotic, iconic, heroic, influential.
31 July 2023
Kunstmuseum Basel Unveils Degenerate Art Exhibition From Their Own Collection
The Kunstmuseum Basel has unveiled an exhibition from their unique German and French Modernism collection.
15 November 2022
Seafaring Hastings Contemporary A Symbiotic Experience – Jude Montague
In a stormy wind, the choppy waves of the Stade Hastings felt dangerous. No fishing boats could be seen out today on the lively sea, although the working beach was active with a few tidying up and taking care of things on land.
29 May 2022
Eight Of The Best Collateral Events – 59th Venice Biennale – Lee Sharrock
Writer and PR Consultant Lee Sharrock has selected eight of the best collateral events taking place in Venice during the 59th Biennale.
26 April 2022
Duncan Grant An Enigmatic Bohemian Rhapsody – Marina Vaizey
The artist Duncan Grant (1885-1978) was a charismatic, much-loved central figure in the Bloomsbury Group, a collection of friends, including the writer Virginia Woolf, the critic Clive Bell, the painter Vanessa Bell – Virginia’s sister – and the deeply influential economist and writer Maynard Keynes that has fascinated scholars and readers for decades. Their intertwined relationships and sexualities, not to mention intellectual and artistic achievements, have proved of lasting fascination from the latter half of the 20th century and on into the present, with an ever-growing audience nourished by academic studies, major biographies, popular books and exhibitions.
5 October 2021
Sidney Nolan’s Africa Interview With Andrew Turley And Revd Jonathan Evens
Nolan’s Africa will be the first book on Sidney Nolan written with access to the newly opened Sidney Nolan archives
3 October 2021
Edge to Edge The Cello Factory Review by Simon Streather
Edge to Edge features artists who use hard edges of some kind in their work but who are not necessarily defined by them. Simon Streather takes a closer look at the artists in this show.
26 July 2021
Keith Haring: Personal Spiritual Imagery – Revd Jonathan Evens
Keith Haring was a revolutionary artist who transformed the art world during his short but impactful life
13 April 2021
Artemisia Painting Acquired By Getty Museum – Musée d’Orsay Rebranded – Museum Visitors Plummet By 77%
Artemisia Painting Acquired By Getty Museum – Musée d’Orsay Rebranded – Museums Visitors Plummet By 77%
31 March 2021
Solitude An Essay By Jeremy Cooper
Some of us have spent much of our lives seeking first to explain to self and then to justify to loved others the need to spend most of our time in solitude. It is oddly gratifying now to be ordered by the Prime Minister, whose personality and politics I do not like, to live exactly as I have chosen to for the last twenty years.
6 April 2020
London Art Gallery Closures Latest COVID19 Updates
The National Gallery has unprecedentedly cancelled their highly anticipated Artemisia Gentileschi exhibition, scheduled to open on 4th April. The ICA, Wellcome Collection, South London Gallery, Camden Arts Centre, Beaconsfield, and Modern Art Oxford has also suspended opening to the public.
16 March 2020
Art, Faith, Church Patronage and Modernity – Rev Jonathan Evens
Two recent publications explore the place that religious Art occupied in 20th century Britain. Paul Liss writes in ‘Art, Faith… Read More
25 July 2019
Edinburgh Printmakers New Home – Clare Henry
A new era pre-supposes the old. EDINBURGH PRINTMAKERS new £12m home at Castle Mills, Edinburgh is spectacular!
4 May 2019
Behold The Botch Job: Latest Spanish Restoration Destroys 15th Century Sculptures
Two 15th Century wooden sculptures in a Spanish church have been unsympathetically restored
8 September 2018
Censored Stations Of The Cross Exhibition Curator Ben Moore Goes Public
I was honoured and surprised when Revd Jonathan Evens invited me to curate a ‘Stations of the Cross’ Group Exhibition at St. Stephen Walbrook, a Christopher Wren church based in the heart of the city of London.
19 March 2018
Lubaina Himid: Lost Voices Of Slavery – Walker Art Gallery – Alice Lenkiewicz
Lubaina Himid’s significant starting point for her exhibition ‘Naming the Money’, at the Walker Art Gallery is
21 November 2017
Impressionist Refugees Monet, Tissot And Pissarro In Britain New Tate Exhibition
Tate Britain brings together over 100 important works by Impressionist masters such as Monet, Tissot, Pissarro, and others for a blockbuster exhibition this Autumn.
18 July 2017
Refugee Artists Learning from The Lives Of Others – Revd Jonathan Evens
The Lives of Others is two exhibitions of work by German refugee artists at Ben Uri Gallery and Museum from 29 March – 18 June 2017, while Chaim Stephenson: Between Myth and Reality at St Martin-in-the-Fields (to Wednesday 10 May) showcases work by an artist with a lifelong concern for people driven from their homes.
19 March 2017