Chris Ofili Unveils ‘Requiem’ His Grenfell Fresco At Tate Britain
Chris Ofili was inspired to create his Grenfell Fresco ‘Requiem’ by a chance meeting at the 2017 Venice Biennale
12 September 2023
Chris Ofili was inspired to create his Grenfell Fresco ‘Requiem’ by a chance meeting at the 2017 Venice Biennale
12 September 2023
In December 2017, artist and filmmaker Steve McQueen (b. 1969, London, UK) made an artwork in response to the fire…
29 March 2023
A pea green fishing boat drifts mysteriously on a moonlit sea. Along its length stand ghostly figures looking out to port, many carrying instruments highlighted in warm, golden tones.
20 February 2023
“Drawing is the starting point to nearly all of Kentridge’s work. He sees drawing as a testing of ideas, a slow-motion version of thought.”
9 October 2022
Leighton House has been restored to its former glory after a major refurbishment that has taken several years.
7 October 2022
Horniman Agrees To Return Benin Bronzes To Nigeria – Henry Darger Federal Lawsuit Revealed – Green Light For Gormley Sculpture Celebrating Codebreaker Alan Turing
8 August 2022
The Turner Prize has announced that it will be presented at Towner Eastbourne in 2023, as the centrepiece of the gallery’s centenary celebrations.
15 June 2022
Cornelia Parker’s inaugural survey show in London spans a 35-year period, from the 1980s through to 2022…
5 June 2022
The art of Sean Scully is widely acknowledged as among the most influential proponents of abstraction during the last half-century — particular attention has often been paid to the square’s aesthetic potential and imaginative significance.
3 May 2022
Newlands House Gallery in Petworth, Sussex, is showing more than 65 paintings and smaller works on paper by Frank Auerbach,
13 April 2022
In the early morning hours, I walked beside a tranquil River Mersey towards Tate Liverpool’s press launch, where there was… Read More
12 April 2022
Iwona Blazwick Quits As Director of Whitechapel – London Art Fair Postpones Event Until April – New Director For The ICA Announced
6 January 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
Array Collective, has won the Turner Prize 2021. It was announced this evening at a ceremony at Coventry Cathedra
1 December 2021
Paula Rego (b 1935) is an artist who is vividly expressive and imaginative in her use of colour deployed in the service of brilliantly choreographed compositions.
8 July 2021
The Royal Academy of Arts has backed down and apologised to the German textile artist Jess de Wahls over transphobic row.
23 June 2021
Gagosian will reopen its Grosvenor Hill on 12 April, subject to government guidelines, with an exhibition of new work by Rachel Whiteread.
31 March 2021
The sale of Young Man Holding A Roundel 1470-80) by Sandro Botticelli, which went under the hammer today at Sotheby’s has made in excess of $80m ($92.1m plus fees).
28 January 2021
Kara Walker Boots Trump Out – Eileen Agar Whitechapel Show – Sotheby’s Latest Lawsuit
9 November 2020
An exclusive, new exhibition from one of Britain’s foremost painters, Chantal Joffe is to open this Autumn at the Bristol’s Arnolfini.
20 August 2020
Sotheby’s announced this week that a small, delicate Rembrandt self-portrait is to be auctioned on July 28th, here in London. The painting is unusually intimate, (about 17 x 22cm) and was painted in 1632 when the artist was 26 years old.
11 June 2020
Annya Sand (born 1983) is a British artist, currently completing an MA at Central Saint Martins, London. She explores abstract painting using her own original lexicon.
21 April 2020
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
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
London Art Fair is the UK’s oldest established Contemporary art fair. It returns from 22-26 January 2020, bringing museum-quality modern and contemporary art to the capital.
2 December 2019
The multidisciplinary artist Tacita Dean has been awarded the Robson Orr TenTen Award 2019 by the Government Art Collection (GAC).
27 September 2019
Sotheby’s has been sold to the French/Israeli Media Tycoon Patrick Drahi for $3.7 Billion, taking the second largest Auction House in the world from public ownership to private.
18 June 2019
Rachel Whiteread CBE, the Turner Prize-winning artist has been made a Dame in the 2019 Queen’s Birthday List. The painter… Read More
8 June 2019
Emil Nolde (1867–1956) was arguably one of the best known “degenerate artists” working in Germany at the time of the Third Reich. No other artist had as many works confiscated, nor were their works as prominently displayed in the ‘Degenerate Art’ exhibition of 1937/38.
10 April 2019
Phyllida Barlow has long been one of the heroines of the professional contemporary art establishment here in Britain
21 February 2019
The highly regarded British artist Phyllida Barlow RA will transform the Royal Academy’s Gabrielle Jungels-Winkler Galleries with an exhibition of… Read More
8 January 2019
It has been in many ways a somewhat melancholy year for art, here in Britain – or should I say: ‘here in London’? -since pretty well all the shows I will mention here took place in a capital city that seems to be drifting steadily away from the rest of Britain.
20 December 2018