Hauser & Wirth Buy Soho’s Groucho Club For £40m
The Groucho Club, an infamous Soho watering hole known for its literary and arty crowd, has been purchased by gallerists Hauser & Wirth
12 August 2022
The Groucho Club, an infamous Soho watering hole known for its literary and arty crowd, has been purchased by gallerists Hauser & Wirth
12 August 2022
London 18 March 2022 – Fine art ceramicist Yurim Gough will have a solo exhibition, supported by Arts Council England, at APT Gallery in London from 12-29 May, 2022.
9 May 2022
The pandemic has wreaked havoc on the art world. Fairs have been cancelled, galleries closed and artists confined to their studios. The London Art Fair, which was supposed to have taken place in January, finally opened its doors on the 20th of April.
21 April 2022
The Whitechapel Gallery is presenting a 100-year survey of the studio through artists and image-makers from around the world.
24 February 2022
is a mythmaker and a storyteller. A chronicler of the self who has used her life to create narratives that speak of female desire
13 February 2022
After a year’s hiatus, we are all excited at the prospect of the UK’s first major art event of 2022. The London Art Fair (LAF)connects collectors from UK-based and international galleries
4 January 2022
Welcome to this new series of monthly artist interviews by critic Paul Carey-Kent. Paul has written for Art Monthly and Frieze Magazine
26 October 2021
Egypt Frees Ai-Da The Robot Artist – Gillian Wearing Unveils Statue Of Diane Arbus – New Munch Museum Opens
22 October 2021
Following the major museum retrospective of Chris Gollon’s music-related works at Huddersfield Art Gallery in 2019
9 October 2021
Welcome to this year’s Artlyst Frieze Week 2021 printable pull-out Guide.
6 October 2021
The event was a travesty of everything the Colony stood for, organised by people who thought they could recreate a special place.
24 June 2021
A full scale exhibition of the Photorealist painter Richard Estes born 1932 covering the last 35 years of his career will be presented at Damien Hirst’s Newport Street Gallery
10 June 2021
20th Serpentine Pavilion Unveiled – Sarah Hardie Wins Inaugural Soho House Art Prize – Madge Gill: Nature in Mind Exhibition Announced
8 June 2021
The Turner Prize continues to be in trouble. The competition has an aim: to single out the best new artists living and working in Britain
21 May 2021
Creative Folkestone has announced the new dates for the fifth Folkestone Triennial, The Plot, from 22 July – 2 November 2021.
11 March 2021
UPDATED
Well, the exhibitions schedule for 2020 didn’t quite go as planned. But here is an idea of what exhibitions to expect in 2021.
2 January 2021
John Lennon’s Death 40 Years On – What Sold At Art Basel Miami Beach – Jeffrey Epstein’s $139m Christie’s and Sotheby’s Sales
8 December 2020
Information on new national restrictions from the Gov.UK website state closures from 5 November of Museums Galleries and Auction Houses
31 October 2020
In present circumstances, both public and private galleries have had to think hard about what is practical and within their reach to do. Sometimes they come up with curiously similar solutions. This is the case with two shows that have just opened in London – one at the National Gallery and the other at Colnaghi in St James’s.
8 October 2020
Lee Cavaliere is currently experiencing the busiest point of his career. He has worked tirelessly through the COVID crisis, as founder of The Sixteen Trust, an arts and education charity
29 September 2020
The Royal Academy has against all odds unveiled its 252 annual Summer Exhibition. Today is ‘varnishing day’ where the artists can see their works for the first time in situ. Agreed it was supposed to take place in June as tradition dictates but these are unprecedented times and it is a relief that the exhibition has gone ahead at all.
28 September 2020
Frank Dunphy, the man behind Damien Hirst and many leading YBAs financial success has died age 82.
30 August 2020
Judges including Maria Balshaw CBE, Director of Tate, Hebru Brantley, contemporary American artist and Kate Bryan, Head of Collections for Soho House will select the winner, who will be commissioned to create an exhibition and site-specific installation at Miami Beach House during Art Basel Miami Beach
2 July 2020
You saw it here first, Tate, The National Gallery and the Royal Academy have announced plans to reopen in July.
30 June 2020
The Southbank Centre including the Hayward Gallery may close until April 2021. This is as a result of the economic impact of COVID-19.
28 May 2020
Joe Machine The London Magazine Online: The pandemic, for all its woes, has brought a few benefits with it. In the art world, one of the most conspicuous of these is the multiplication and diversification of the places where you can see images, as opposed to having to trek to a gallery of some kind where you can see the supposedly ‘real thing’.
27 May 2020
Darren Coffield’s well-presented Tales from the Colony Room, Soho’s Lost Bohemia, memorialises an epoch in the London world of the arts that now seems very far away, even though the once-famous Colony Room closed its doors as recently as December 2008.
23 April 2020
As the contemporary art world goes dark, and as galleries – official spaces and commercial ones – slam shut their doors, one inevitably starts to wonder what the art world will be like once all this is over—the British art world, and also the global one.
22 March 2020
Sonia Boyce OBE RA has been announced as the artist to represent the UK at the 59th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia in 2021.
12 February 2020
Fags, Birds and a Couple of Guns, a retrospective dedicated to the extraordinary work of Nancy Fouts has been announced… Read More
10 February 2020
We’ve just welcomed in not only a new year but a new decade. So let’s look forward to the exciting exhibitions that will be on offer in London during 2020.
2 January 2020
A New Year, a new decade – I’ve been thinking about all the things I currently don’t like about the contemporary art scene here in Britain. Most of all, I don’t like its pervasive self-righteousness, the ever-increasing assumption that ‘official art’ has all the answers.
1 January 2020