20 April 2019
The Body Installation artist Spencer Tunick has staged more than 75 large-scale installations using hundreds or thousands of nude participants in urban and natural...
20 April 2019
Christie’s NY is to offer a rare Amedeo Modigliani’s limestone sculpture, Tête, carved circa 1911-1912, in its New York Evening Sale of Impressionist and...
16 April 2019
The V&A has announced a new, long-term collaboration with Elton John and David Furnish to improve public access to photography.
15 April 2019
A catastrophic fire has destroyed the main roof and spire of Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris. The fire broke out at 5:50 pm local...
Dame Jillian Sackler, third wife of the late Arthur Sackler has defended her branch of the family's philanthropic donations with a statement to the...
Claude Lalanne best-known for her Surrealist inspired sculptures and Neo-Art-Nouveau bronze furniture and jewelry depicting flowers and playful animals has died in Fontainebleau, at...
10 April 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...
8 April 2019
The British art dealer, Anthony d’Offay, who was 'me-tooed' last year by three former colleagues, has been reinstated as an adviser to the Artist...
7 April 2019
Grayson Perry's timely pair of vases depicting Brexit, one leave the other remain go on permanent display in the V&A’s Ceramics Galleries from today.
5 April 2019
Jimmie Durham has been announced the recipient of the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement at the 58th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di...
4 April 2019
The Hiscox online art trade report 2019 was released this week and besides revealing some very discouraging growth figures it has explored the indeterminate...
3 April 2019
Anish Kapoor has created a new work titled 'A Brexit, A Broxit, We All Fall Down'. The work depicts an open wound representing the...
2 April 2019
A series of dynamic performances have been announced for the opening week and final weekend of the 58th Venice Biennale of Art.
27 March 2019
The public has chosen Tate Modern over the British Museum for the first time since records began. The UK's most popular visitor attractions' list...
26 March 2019
The Jerwood Gallery in Hastings is to relaunch as Hastings Contemporary: Independent gallery for the South East on 6th July with a major presentation...
20 March 2019
High-end art, antiquities, and antiques have become more and more attractive to money launders says, Peter D. Hardy a partner at Ballard Spahr, writing...
17 March 2019
Just in time for Easter, the sensational/YBA artist Gavin Turk has unveiled an ambitious new project in collaboration with Photo London, Somerset House, and...
11 March 2019
The African American Artist Kara Walker has been selected to create the next annual Hyundai Commission at Tate Modern.
The 58th International Art Exhibition held at the Giardini and Arsenale in Venice from Saturday 11 May until Sunday 24 November 2019 will be...
12 February 2019
Fatoş Üstek has been appointed as the new Director of Liverpool Biennial.
30 October 2018
The Alt Power 100 Artlyst 2018, now in its 8th edition is a celebration of artists and art professionals who have made a difference...
12 Apr '19-18 May '19
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Rembrandt’s legendary painting Self-Portrait with Two Circles (c. 1665) will be the centrepiece of an exhibition of self-portraits including works
13 Apr '19-27 Oct '19
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Iconic artist Dale Chihuly will once again exhibit his luminous glass artworks in our spectacular landscape, featuring pieces never seen
06 Apr '19-16 Feb '20
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From miniskirts and hot pants to vibrant tights and makeup, discover how Mary Quant launched a fashion revolution on the British high
13 Apr '19-11 Aug '19
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See new work by Sean Scully inspired by the National Gallery Collection and Joseph Mallord William Turner’s ‘The Evening
11 Apr '19-21 Jul '19
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Discover more about Edvard Munch, the pioneering, subversive artist as the British Museum lifts the veil on his life and works in the largest show
16 Mar '19-18 Aug '19
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For the inaugural exhibition at Pitzhanger Manor & Gallery, Anish Kapoor will present a series of sculptures, some previously unseen in Britain,
07 Mar '19-27 May '19
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This major new exhibition brings together works by one of Britain’s best-known and most widely celebrated photographers, Martin
13 Feb '19-06 May '19
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Diane Arbus: in the beginning includes nearly 100 photographs that redefine the achievement of one of the most prominent and influential artists of
02 Feb '19-01 Sep '19
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Spanning 1947 to the present day, this exhibition will trace the history and impact of one of the 20th
27 Mar '19-11 Aug '19
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This major exhibition brings together 45 works by Vincent van Gogh to reveal how he was inspired by Britain and how he inspired British
20 Feb '19-02 Jun '19
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Ironic, irreverent, yet profoundly philosophical, Franz West was a key figure of European art in the late 20th
23 Jan '19-06 May '19
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This is the first major exhibition of Pierre Bonnard’s work in the UK since the much-loved show at Tate 20 years
At first glance, the Sean Scully show that just opened at the National Gallery in London couldn’t be more different from the exhibition not...
14 April 2019
Kashmiri born, London based Raqib Shaw has created his first dazzlingly immersive and multicultural landscape series.
13 April 2019
The Gerhard Richter show currently in the smaller of Gagosian’s three London galleries is maybe best described as “a bit of a tease”.
11 April 2019
A new exhibition of work by the Norwegian artist Edvard Munch now at the British Museum claims to be the biggest ever devoted to...
11 April 2019
Unit London & their emergence as a leading gallery brand on Instagram, (355K people can’t be that wrong?) are a serious force to be...
1 April 2019
FACT Liverpool: Erika Beckman’s film, ‘Cinderella’ created in 1986 is a strange slip of time. I was quite intrigued by the film. At first,...
28 March 2019
Tate Britain has one very good reason to offer us a Vincent Van Gogh show, which is that it is sure to raise attendances...
27 March 2019
Two shows have just opened at major London institutions –Sorolla at the National Gallery and Mike Nelson at Tate Britain. Different as they are, they...
27 March 2019
After catching only the last few moments of the atmospheric Faust (2017) at the 57th Venice Biennale, I was excited to discover that Anne...
26 March 2019
In Liliane Tomasko’s current exhibition at Kerlin Gallery, the veil between the conscious and unconscious world is swept away.
17 March 2019
The London exhibition scene is currently so enamoured with dead avant-gardists that it was a pleasure to see work by the well-established American artist...
14 March 2019
At the moment Tate Modern offers retrospective exhibitions of three very different artists – Bonnard (French), Franz West (Austrian) and Dorothea Tanning (American).
11 March 2019
Jeff Koons has brought his blingy kitsch to the world's oldest public gallery. The Ashmolean Museum in Oxford is presenting the master of hollow...
9 March 2019
Henry Moore Helmet Heads: As an etcher, I have a long term interest in armour as one of the early applications of the process....
2 March 2019
The RA’s new exhibition The Renaissance Nude, upstairs in the Sackler Wing of Burlington House, tackles an ambitious theme – the portrayal of the...
Dorothea Tanning is the artist, face hidden to me back then, who drew and painted a short series of paintings that I have loved...
27 February 2019
The Franz West show at Tate Modern, with a smaller spin-off at the London branch of Zwirner, the late artist’s long-time dealer, presents the...
23 February 2019
My favourite thing is to go where I’ve never been’ wrote the photographer Diane Arbus, the poor little rich Jewish girl who walked on...
20 February 2019
A major retrospective of the war photographer Don McCullin at Tate Britain showcases his images from Vietnam, Northern Ireland and more recently Syria alongside...
16 February 2019
With his Bob Dylan mop of curls and pug nose, he looks every inch the rebellious teenager that he was.
7 February 2019
I visited the white, white cube for the Emin show a day after the people-jammed preview opening. I'm a little allergic to crowds so...
21 January 2019
Bonnard was one of those betwixt and between artists, part of the Modern Movement
22 April 2019
Artist Ela Xora opened eyes and minds in her recent exhibition Intersex Superstars at the Royal College of Art. The mask artist presented two...
13 April 2019
The New Jerusalem, the visionary city, imagined in the Book of Revelation as the eternal environment for redeemed humanity, provided the initial inspiration for...
9 April 2019
Grayson Perry has donated a work of art to raise funds for the leading HIV and sexual health charity Terrence Higgins Trust.
8 April 2019
In September 2019, the Royal Academy of Arts will present a solo exhibition of the internationally acclaimed British sculptor Antony Gormley (b. 1950), the...
7 April 2019
The M Word exhibition is curated by local Artist and mother of three, Amy Dignam is a visual and material representation of concepts that...
2 April 2019
Over half of London’s LGBTQ+ venues closed between 2006 and 2016 New exhibition explores queer spaces through contemporary artworks and rare archival material. It...
27 March 2019
The world’s largest arms fair will quietly set up shop in London, In September 2019. It will sell weapons and tools of torture to...
20 March 2019
The Freelands Foundation is presenting Fault Lines, a group exhibition curated by Edward Ball, Freelands Artist Programme Curator. The show brings together four UK-based...
6 March 2019
The Irish/American painter Sean Scully will be presenting Human: an exhibition of recent works and new, unseen pieces at the Basilica of San Giorgio...
14 February 2019
To mark the 500th anniversary of Leonardo’s death a once-in-a-lifetime occasion: a series of his very beautiful drawings displayed simultaneously in 12 cities across...
19 December 2018
A new display dedicated to women artists working in Britain over the past 60 years will open in April 2019.
27 November 2018
The Hayward Gallery is to present a major retrospective exhibition devoted to the work of the celebrated British artist, Bridget Riley.
Looks like Tate Liverpool has once again trumped (if that word is still acceptable) Tate Modern or in fact all of the major London Galleries...
20 April 2019
Outside of the Giardini and Arsenale, the main venues for the 58th Venice Biennale, there is an overwhelming abundance of other exhibitions and events....
17 April 2019
Dale Chihuly is known for transforming the Studio Glass movement and elevating the possibilities of glass as a medium for fine art.
17 April 2019
Art Cologne 2019 Report – founded in 1967 and so the first of the modern-style art fairs – had a lean time in the...
10 April 2019
There is no doubt Hong Kong is becoming one of the leading destinations for art lovers, collectors, curators and art professionals in general.
7 April 2019
The Academy Museum which is set to launch in Autumn 2019 will be the go-to institution dedicated to the art and science of film....
6 April 2019
A current wave of artists are exploring internationalism and interspecies relationships in order to find ways of relating to the environment and to generate...
6 April 2019
Vincent van Gogh arrived in Britain as a young trainee art dealer who then had a spell as a teacher before leaving Britain to...
Just recently Tate Modern was named as Britain’s most popular tourist attraction: 5.9 visitors went to the gallery last year. Sounds impressive, doesn’t it...
Shows To See: Up Now in London: Paul Carey-Kent gives us his focus on the London galleries and what to see for April 2019.
2 March 2019
Empire II finally lands in Mexico, for an expansive museum show at Maco, Oaxaca, before heading to its final screening destination at 58th Venice...
27 February 2019
When I landed in Mexico City to attend the Artweek earlier in February, I was not sure what to expect. Apparently, for the past...
17 February 2019
I am an Artist Curator. I also teach the short course 'How To Become an Independent Curator' at Central St Martins, University of the...
17 February 2019
One of my favourite galleries Blain Southern presented at the time the first exhibition of renowned Brooklyn based Mexican artist, Bosco Sodi.
16 February 2019
Day One Frieze LA: Rain! Some things are just out of our control. This was torrential rain sheets of water like you see in...
29 December 2018
Here's a month by month guide to the highlights of the year's exhibitions at the major museums and art galleries.
3 December 2018
Kelly Grovier discusses his new book A New Way of Seeing: The History of Art in 57 Works with Sara Faith.
