18 June 2019
Yana Peel Quits Serpentine After Negative Lobbying Campaign
Yana Peel, the Serpentine Galleries CEO has resigned from her role, after three years, following a concerted lobbying campaign against her husband's recent investment...
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18 June 2019
Sotheby’s Sold To Private French/Israeli Media Tycoon Patrick Drahi
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...
UK Museums Now Protected From Court-Ordered Seizure For Loaned Artworks
UK Culture Secretary Jeremy Wright has vowed to protect objects on loan from abroad in temporary exhibitions in UK museums from seizure by the...
16 June 2019
Art Basel 2019 Bubble-Wrap What The Dealers Said
Art Basel closed the doors on the 2019 edition reporting buoyant sales to private collectors and public institutions by galleries across all market sector....
12 June 2019
UK Regains Number Two Position In Annual UBS Art Market Report
Each year during Art Basel in Switzerland, UBS publishes its annual art market report. The document has become one of the most essential barometers...
12 June 2019
Da Vinci Salvator Mundi Not Onboard Saudi Prince’s Yacht
I think it’s hilarious that Kenny Schachter’s ‘April-fool-style’ reporting of Da Vinci’s Salvator Mundi hiding aboard Saudi Prince MBS’s yacht (as reported in ArtNet...
11 June 2019
Lost Laszlo Moholy-Nagy Film Found In BFI Archive
Laszlo Moholy-Nagy’s long ‘lost’ optical sound film, Tönendes ABC / ABC in Sound (1933), missing for over 80 years has been rediscovered and restored...
11 June 2019
BP Portrait Award 2019 Won By Charlie Schaffer
Charlie Schaffer has won the prestigious BP Portrait Award 2019. It was announced last night at the National Portrait Gallery, London. The painting titled...
8 June 2019
Rachel Whiteread Made Dame In Queen’s Birthday List
Rachel Whiteread CBE, the Turner Prize-winning artist has been made a Dame in the 2019 Queen’s Birthday List. The painter Glen Brown and Photographer...
6 June 2019
Da Vinci Notebooks Displayed Together In British Library First
To mark the 500th anniversary since the death of Leonardo da Vinci, the British Library is to mount an exhibition of the Renaissance master's...
Stonewall Uprising 50th Anniversary Celebrated With Felix Gonzalez-Torres Billboard Reboot
The Public Art Fund is presenting the iconic billboard "Untitled", 1989 by Felix Gonzalez-Torres (American, b. Cuba, 1957-1996) to coincide with the 50th anniversary...
4 June 2019
Spencer Tunick Nude Protest Challenges Facebook Censorship Rules
About 100 people stripped naked in front of Facebook's New York offices as part of a censorship protest against Facebook and Instagram's policies surrounding...
3 June 2019
RA Summer Exhibition Returns To Form Under Jock McFadyen
This year the RA Summer Exhibition has returned to form with a talented lineup of artists chosen by an inexhaustible group of jurors. The...
2 June 2019
Paula Rego Abortion Paintings To Feature In MK Retrospective
The first major retrospective of Paula Rego’s work in England for over twenty years will go on show at MK Gallery in Milton Keynes...
Salvator Mundi Loan Declined For Louvre Da Vinci Exhibition
Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, named as the buyer of the highly contentious Salvator Mundi painting by Leonardo da Vinci has declined the...
Banksy Sets Up Anti Cruise Ship Market Stall In Venice
Banksy has created a new collateral event in Venice for the Biennale.
17 May 2019
Susan Meiselas Wins Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize 2019
The Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize 2019 has been won by Susan Meiselas.
I M Pei World Renowned Architect Dies Age 102
The world-renowned architect I M Pei, best known for his iconic design for the Louvre pyramid, has died aged 102.
16 May 2019
Jeff Koons $91m Rabbit Sets World Auction Record for Living Artist
Christies Postwar and Contemporary Sale in New York has realised a total of $538,971,750 / £418,131,691 million, reaching their revised presale estimates after the...
15 May 2019
Monet Haystacks Breaks the $100m Mark At Sotheby’s
Sotheby’s New York has broken yet another record for the Impressionist artist Claude Monet. The painting titled Meules (Haystacks) from 1890 sold for $110.7...
Bomb Scare Shuts Lithuanian Pavilion At Venice Biennale
An Italian bomb squad swooped on the Golden Lion winning Lithuanian pavilion at the Venice Biennale yesterday after a group of British Journalists and...
12 May 2019
Lithuania Wins Golden Lion Award At 58th Venice Biennale
The Golden Lion awards for Best National Participation at the 58th Venice Biennale has been announced. Lithuania's Sun & Sea (Marina) an immersive sound...
Discarded Gerhard Richter Drawings – Man Found Guilty Of Theft
A German man has been found guilty by a court on charges of stealing discarded works of art from the well-known abstract painter Gerhard...
Maurizio Cattelan: Blenheim Art Foundation Exhibition Announced For Autumn
The first solo exhibition in twenty years of work by Maurizio Cattelan is to be mounted at Blenheim Palace this autumn, running from 12...
2 May 2019
Frieze New York Launches 2019 Edition Without A Hitch
The opening day of this year’s Frieze New York, which featured galleries from 26 countries was a roaring success following last year's scorching fiasco
1 May 2019
Diverse Turner Prize 2019 Tate Britain Announces Nominees
The four artists who have been shortlisted for the Turner Prize 2019 have been announced at Tate Britain today.
BP Portrait Award Shortlist For 40th Year at NPG
The shortlist for the BP Portrait Award 2019 has been announced by the National Portrait Gallery, London. The prize which will be presented on...
Nancy Fouts Sculptor Who Reconfigured Commonplace Objects Dies
The artist Nancy Fouts who has died age 74 found herself starting adult life in what, for a girl from Kentucky, must have been...
Banksy Creates New London Artwork Highlighting Extinction Rebellion
A New Banksy mural has appeared, timed to the second at Marble Arch where climate activists have been protesting for the last few weeks....
Art Fund Museum of the Year 2019 Finalists Announced
The Art Fund has announced the five museums which have been selected as finalists for Art Fund Museum of the Year 2019, the world’s...