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Grenfell Art Auction Expected To Raise Big Money For Surviving Families

The ‘Art for Grenfell’ auction has been announced to take place on Monday 16 October at Sotheby’s, 34-35 New Bond Street, in London.

Tate Publishes Optimistic Annual Report for 2016/17

Tate has published their Annual Report for 2016/17. The opening of the Blavatnik Building in June 2016 firmly established Tate Modern as one of the...

Banksy Homage To Basquiat Appears In Barbican Tunnel Ahead Of Retrospective

The Street Artist Banksy has created two new artworks inspired by Jean Michael Basquiat at the Barbican.

Banksy Donates £250k Mural Proceeds To Anti-Arms Campaign Group

Banksy has donated £205,000 from the sale of a wall-sized artwork to anti-arms campaigners.

Tacita Dean Three Prong Exhibition To Spread Across Major London Galleries

The artist Tacita Dean will present three major London public gallery exhibitions at the National Portrait Gallery, Royal Academy of Arts, and National Gallery, in May...

Ann Freedman The End Or The Beginning For Knoedler’s Disgraced Director

Ann Freedman has settled her final lawsuit in what has been New York’s biggest art scandal.

Dame Julia Peyton-Jones Wins Critics Circle Visual Arts and Architecture Award

Dame Julia Peyton-Jones is the winner of the annual Critics Circle Visual Arts and Architecture Award which will be presented at the Thaddeus Ropac Gallery Dover...

Rachel Whiteread Talks To Sue Hubbard About Her New Exhibition At Tate Britain

Trying to get hold of Rachel Whiteread to talk about her new exhibition at Tate Britain, her largest to date is rather like attempting to gain...

Howard Hodgkin Personal Collection To Go Under The Hammer At Sotheby’s

Howard Hodgkin had an eye for the exceptional when it came to collecting. His personal taste resonates through his paintings, his ability to identify the extraordinary...

John Moores Painting Prize Jury Announced For 2018 Competition

The Walker Art Gallery has announced the names of the jury members who will judge the John Moores Art Prize competition in 2018, ahead...

Two Men Charged With Paris Invader Mosaic Theft After Twitter Campaign

Two men who posed as Paris city workers and stole up to 20 pixelated tile murals by the French urban artist Invader have been arrested,...

Pierre Bergé Leading Figure Of France’s Cultural Elite Dies Age 86

Pierre Bergé, a leading figure of France's cultural elite has died age 86. The partner of Yves Saint Laurent for many years and a powerhouse figure in...

Vinyl Factory Pays Homage To Lisson Gallery’s 50th Anniversary

The Vinyl Factory who last year partnered with the Hayward Gallery to bring London 'The Infinite Mix’, one the best shows of the year, is...

Grayson Perry Selected To Coordinate RA Summer Exhibition 2018

The sometime transvestite artist Grayson Perry RA has been chosen to select the 2018 Summer Exhibition at the Royal Academy.

Louvre Abu Dhabi Public Unveiling Set For November

The Louvre Abu Dhabi has announced that they are to open their doors to the public in November, in the first Louvre-branded museum outside Paris.

Salvador Dali DNA Confirms Pilar Abel Not Artist’s Daughter

The results of Salvador Dalí’s DNA samples taken when the body of the Surrealist artist was exhumed last June has proven that Pilar Abel is...

Stolen Georg Baselitz Artwork Valued At £2.5m Recovered In Germany

German police have recovered several stolen artworks by neo-expressionist painter Georg Baselitz. The art was stolen from a storage unit in Munich and is...

Francis Bacon Pope Portrait Resurfaces After 50 Years At Christie’s London

A portrait by the British artist Francis Bacon which has not been seen in public for over 55 years is to be sold at Christie’s Post-War...

Android Shortlisted For Taylor Wessing Portrait Prize 2017

The Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize jury has selected three photographers shortlisted for the 2017 competition.

Chris Dercon Launches His First Volksbuhne Production During Berlin Art Week

Chris Dercon unveils his first production as the new artistic director of the Volksbühne, a theater in Berlin, on 5 September.

EMPIRE II Launches First Event At Provincial Project Space Kendal Cumbria

Artist curators Rebecca Scott and Mark Woods are launching a new project space in Kendal Cumbria. The ironically named 'Provincial Project Space’ promises to offer up...

Jean Dubuffet: Theatres Of Memory Series First London Showing At Pace

The first exhibition of Jean Dubuffet's Théâtres de mémoire, series in over three decades will be unveiled at Pace London.

Artangel Presents Miranda July Pop Up Charity Shop At Selfridges

The Artist Miranda July will host a grandiose ‘Pop-Up’ charity shop in the luxurious surroundings of London’s most popular department store Selfridges. There are...

Frieze London 2017 The Galleries Curators And Vibe Inside The Tent

Frieze London 2017 will present more than 160 leading galleries from across the world will showcase ambitious presentations by international emerging and established artists.

Vauxhall Art Car Boot Fair Unveils Folkestone Triennial Edition This Saturday

The Vauxhall Art Car Boot Fair are thrilled to be returning to the very same spot in Folkestone that they occupied three years ago...

Folkestone Triennial Another Mind-blowing Independent Visionary Arts Experience

The next edition of the Folkestone Triennial is taking place 2 September - 5 November with 20 commissions from a host of international artists....

Fake Jackson Pollock Paintings – Oh No Here We Go Again

Fake Jackson Pollock paintings have again infiltrated the art food-chain. This time it’s not the upper-end of the market, as in the case of the...

Edward Albee Collection Unveiled By Sotheby’s Ahead Of September Auction

Sotheby’s has unveiled the full contents of The Collection of Edward Albee, which will be offered in a dedicated auction in New York on...

Antony Gormley Unveils Two Works From ANOTHER TIME In Kent

A sculpture by the Turner Prize winning artist Sir Antony Gormley from his Another Time series has been unveiled on the chalk bed in...

Sotheby’s Scraps Online Only Auction Buyer’s Premium But Hikes Regular Tariffs

Sotheby’s has taken the bold move to scrap buyer’s premium on all of its online-only auctions. The auction house has at the same time...

Yves Klein Installation Damaged By Careless Visitor Restored And Reopened

The Yves Klein exhibition currently at the Centre for Fine Arts in Brussels suffered mishaps when a museum visitor stepped over a barrier into...

Lost Banksy Coke Snorting Copper Found And Restored In Shoreditch

An important Banksy mural painted on the outside of a public toilet, in the east end of London, over ten years ago has been...