21 January 2021
Less than 24 hours before leaving office Donald Trump granted pardons to dozens of convicted criminals including the gallerist Helly Nahmad.
Trump Baby Blimp Acquired By Museum of London - Public Monument Removal Just Got Harder - Nicholas Serota Reappointed ACE Chair
Dasha Zhukova Buys Back Garage Magazine - Cornelius Gurlitt Hoard Remains Untraceable - Met Museum Launches Free Augmented Reality Tour
The Ben Uri Gallery in London has just come up with a new operation model, better suited to the needs of relatively small outfits,...
Louvre's 72% Visitor Drop - Wildenstein Family Back In Court - Richard Serra's Qatar Sculpture Defaced
I first met the well known American kinetic sculptor George Rickey in 1982. In celebration of his 75th birthday. The Scottish Sculpture Trust led...
In Memoriam Art Industry Deaths. Here is a roundup to honour the artists, curators and designers that passed away in 2020.
30 December 2020
Christopher Le Brun, (born 1951) artist and former president of the Royal Academy (PRA) has been Knighted in the New Year's Honours List. Other...
The appearance of a new Banksy graffito in Bristol more or less confirms his position as the genuine top dog in the current British...
Pantone 2021 Colours Of The Year - Rijksmuseum Slavery Exhibition - ICA Set To Re-Boot
Tate Cuts Staff - James Murdoch Buys Art Basel - Manifesta's Catalonian Beach Party
1 December 2020
The Museum of Modern Art in New York has rehung ‘a full third of its collection….the Art of the Internet Age Takes Center Stage
26 November 2020
Liverpool Biennial has launched their programme for their 11th Edition happening in spring 2021, running from 20 March – 6 June, with previews held...
Fatos Üstek Quits Directorship of Liverpool Biennial - Society of Antiquaries Priced Out Of Mayfair - Xora's Sleeping Protest Aimed At JK Rowling
Museums, galleries and historic houses across the UK are facing a crisis due to the impact of Covid-19, with six in ten (60%) surveyed...
Mada Masr invited the art collective Forensic Architecture to examine open-source information, including videos, photographs, and documents to provide a timeline and a precise...
12 November 2020
It's been quite a year for statues. Normally no more than street furniture that no one bothers to look at - old white men...
Tracey Emin, the YBA artist, best known for her Turner Prize-nominated 'Unmade Bed' has revealed that she has been suffering from bladder cancer. Last...
A cache of over four hundred homo-erotic drawings by the Bloomsbury artist Duncan Grant has been found decades after experts believed they had been...
6 October 2020
On 21 September, a statement quietly appeared on the website of the National Gallery Washington. It announced the postponement, of the "Philip Guston Now"...
2 October 2020
The British/Portuguese artist Paula Rego has severed ties with her long-term gallery Marlborough and joined Victoria Miro
At the moment there is an undeclared contest going on, both within the British art world and also, on a much larger scale, in...
8 June 2020
The Tate issued a statement in 2019 to put to rest talk about the gallery founder and namesake Henry Tate's involvement in slavery.
This is long overdue, but under the worrying circumstances that have dominated the news in the past week, I feel it is essential to...
2 June 2020
Over four decades ago I had one of the most exciting experiences of my life – encountering perhaps the most original and innovative artists...
30 Jan '21-18 Apr '21
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This powerful exhibition will focus on Francis Bacon’s unerring fascination with animals: how it both shaped his
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The 2021 edition of the London Art Fair Fair will present over 50 leading Modern and Contemporary galleries in an alternative digital
18 Nov '20-09 May '21
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The first major survey of Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, one of the most important painters working
05 Nov '20-07 Mar '21
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Tate Modern presents the first major UK survey of visual activist Zanele Muholi p p Zanele Muholi is one of the most acclaimed photographers working
15 Nov '20-28 Feb '21
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Tracey Emin selects masterpieces by Edvard Munch to show alongside her most recent
07 Oct '20-07 Mar '21
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Newport Street Gallery presents a solo exhibition of early works by Damien
09 Oct '20-24 Jan '21
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From Here to Eternity is the first major retrospective of UK based photographer, Sunil Gupta (b. 1953, New Delhi India) and offers a complex and
07 Oct '20-21 Feb '21
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This is the first major exhibition of the work of Bruce Nauman in London in more than 20
21 January 2021
Ed Ruscha: OKLA at Oklahoma Contemporary is the first exhibition to examine Ruscha's work within the context of those formative years in Oklahoma
14 January 2021
Robert Smithson explores interests in cartography, geology, architectural ruins, prehistory, philosophy and religion.
17 December 2020
Aliza Nisenbaum is a painter, living and working in New York. Describing herself as torn between wanting to be a social worker or a...
16 December 2020
Fly In League With The Night, at Tate Britain covers Lynette Yiadom-Boakye's work from her graduation in 2003 to the present day, with some...
12 December 2020
‘Here as in Heaven’ is the title of Ndidi Emefiele’s current exhibition, a body of work representing the artist’s philosophical attempt to understand the...
10 December 2020
Billy Childish has been around a long time. He is not only an artist but a poet and a composer of music.
3 December 2020
Tracey Emin is one of the two major survivors from the so-called YBA (Young British Artists) Group that made such a lot of noise...
25 November 2020
The big new Thames & Hudson book Shaping the World, by Antony Gormley and Martin Gayford, turns out to be a good deal better...
3 November 2020
Now in her mid-70s. Maggi Hambling is a senior figure in British art. She doesn’t have much presence abroad
1 November 2020
"I am re-writing a Black Queer and Trans visual history of South Africa for the world to know of our existence, resistance and persistence"...
29 October 2020
There can be no doubt that the new show devoted to Turner at Tate Britain is a meaty affair. The gallery is fortunate in...
18 October 2020
In the midst of the chaos in the London art world caused by the current pandemic an artist occasionally shows up who seems serenely...
8 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...
The Artemisia Gentileschi exhibition has opened at the National Gallery at long last. It is accompanied by a handsome, fully illustrated hardcover catalogue. The...
30 July 2020
Ai Weiwei IWM: History of Bombs. Little Boy, Fat Man, Daisy Cutter, Snake Eye, Grand Slam, Tomahawk, Tsar Boba, are seemingly innocuous even childlike...
11 July 2020
Painting, sculpture, architecture: here is a triumvirate wherein painting and sculpture remain in commanding dialogue with architecture throughout the impressive output of Sean Scully,...
The much-anticipated Artemisia Gentileschi exhibition at the National Gallery in London has now been indefinitely postponed, to the disappointment of many.
26 March 2020
Books written in exile by the exiled. It is this phenomenon, the triumph of the human spirit in dire circumstances, that is the focus...
13 December 2020
Lawrence Abu Hamdan: Turner Prize Winner's Second Solo Exhibition Opens At Maureen Paley
10 December 2020
The first significant survey of the influential 80s design movement Memphis takes place at MK Gallery in Milton Keynes this December-April.
23 November 2020
An exciting new exhibition Frank Auerbach / Tony Bevan: What Is A Head?, curated by Michael Peppiatt has been announced for Ben Brown Fine...
17 November 2020
Dürer's Journeys – Travels of a Renaissance Artist is a major new show announced for the National Gallery March 2021. This will be the...
Judy Chicago along with Light Art Space (LAS) is launching the first virtual artwork by this acclaimed American artist.
Visual art continues to flourish, despite the imminence of winter, in open-air city spaces.
5 October 2020
Rafael Pérez Evans, the most talked-about MFA candidate this year has created 'Grounding', an installation utilising 30 tonnes of fresh carrots.
28 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...
4 June 2020
The National Gallery has announced that the universally acclaimed exhibition Titian: Love, Desire, Death will be extended due to the generosity of its partners and lenders....
When an exhibition celebrating 800 years of spirit and endeavour at Salisbury Cathedral has to be installed against the clock and then its launch...
12 May 2020
The largest and most detailed ever photograph of Rembrandt’s masterpiece The Night Watch has been unveiled on The Rijksmuseum's website. The 44.8-gigapixel image will...
8 April 2020
This Living Hand, the exhibition curated by artist and writer Edmund de Waal for the Henry Moore Foundation, has now been postponed until 2021.
23 January 2021
Henry Darger was born in 1892 in Chicago, Illinois, he led a very isolated life and had no close relatives to speak of.
11 January 2021
Lockdown II - When the first lockdown started in March last year, Tate, like all Art Galleries, suffered financially.
In 1967, Richard Long a young Bristol artist made a line in the grass of a field by walking backwards and forwards and called...
4 January 2021
The National Gallery was hoping to open a re-arranged immersive digital experience inspired by Jan Gossaert's 16th-century masterpiece 'The Adoration of the Kings', on...
2 January 2021
Well, the exhibitions schedule for 2020 didn't quite go as planned. But here is an idea of what exhibitions to expect in 2021.
Looking at official galleries here in Britain (all temporarily closed as of this publication) - more especially at those situated in London - it...
9 December 2020
Luise Kaish was a key figure in the New York art scene. Petite, 38, beautiful, married and mother of a small child, by 1964...
Just as the new lockdown was being announced, the Sunday Times (UK) was unusually full of stuff about contemporary art. The main colour supplement...
29 September 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...
14 September 2020
Jude Cowan Montague's lasted series titled, 'Graphic Storytellers/Comic Creatives in Conversation' comes at a time when fine artists are increasingly using references from graphic...
9 September 2020
Christine Binnie and Jennifer Binnie have been collaborating as 'The Binnie Sisters' to create installations since 2009. These often include works from their individual...
6 September 2020
Geraldine Swayne is a highly regarded painter known for her intimate portrait and figure paintings in enamel on copper, aluminium and canvas. Her subjects...
1 September 2020
In this new series, Sue Hubbard explores single works by leading contemporary artists.
Anish Kapoor Houghton Hall Norfolk: Have you ever felt like you want to ring your mum to tell her you think you might have...
9 July 2020
There is no ignoring the odd upside from a certain angle, offered up by our current miasm. Over the last three months, all of...
25 June 2020
Renowned as one of the most important film directors of our time, Wim Wenders (b.1945, Dusseldorf) developed, in parallel, an extensive photographic oeuvre. It...
1 June 2020
This is a new series by historian James Payne demystifying great works of art. We will be adding to this page as the content...
4 May 2020
London Gallery Lockdown 4/05/2020: Greta Thunberg would undoubtedly agree with the first statement
6 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...
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