Liverpool Loses UNESCO World Heritage Status – National Gallery To Buy Sir Thomas Lawrence The Red Boy – Art Fund Museum of the Year 2021 Shortlist
21 July 2021
The Piccadilly Art Takeover is a partnership between the Royal Academy of Arts and Art of London along with Westminster City Council and the Mayor of London.
14 July 2021
Damien Hirst Launches His First NFT Series – Pornhub Classic Art Museum Nudes – Tate Modern Offers Free COVID Vaccines
The new over-life size statue group of Princess Diana, just unveiled at Kensington Palace, to celebrate what would have been her sixtieth birthday, shows the late princess surrounded by three children.
9 July 2021
James Lingwood and Michael Morris, Artangel’s Co-Directors, have announced their decision to step down from the organisation they have led for 30 years.
8 July 2021
Da Vinci Drawing Export Freeze – Leonardo Bear Drawing Auctioned – Restituted Van Dyck Painting Sells At Sothebys
30 June 2021
The Blue Boy an iconic masterpiece by Sir Thomas Gainsborough will return to Trafalgar Square, precisely one hundred years to the day since it was last seen in this country.
29 June 2021
A portrait by the English figurative painter Lucian Freud depicting his friend David Hockney has sold for £14.9 million ($20.7 million) with buyer’s premium at London’s Sotheby’s.
The Royal Academy of Arts has backed down and apologised to the German textile artist Jess de Wahls over transphobic row.
23 June 2021
Rembrandt’s The Night Watch has been recreated in its original form for the first time in 300 years. Visitors to Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam can now see the reconstructed composition uniting several sections cut from the painting over the centuries.
17 June 2021
Art Night 2021 is back for the Summer expanding out of London across the country and taking place in locations
16 June 2021
Christo and Jeanne-Claude Posthumously Wrap L’Arc de Triomphe – MacKenzie Scott Gives $2b Cultural Organisations – Robert Indiana Estate Reaches Legal Closure
La Biennale di Venezia Announce Title and Theme – Monumental Kokoschka Triptych On Display At Relaunched Courtauld – QUEERCIRCLE New LGBTQ+ Community Space
20th Serpentine Pavilion Unveiled – Sarah Hardie Wins Inaugural Soho House Art Prize – Madge Gill: Nature in Mind Exhibition Announced
3 June 2021
The inaugural edition of London Gallery Weekend, a new initiative celebrating art galleries in the UK capital, launches Friday, 4 June 2021.
Cecil Rhodes Oxford Statue Academics Sign Petition – French Woman Ends Legal Battle Over Nazi-Looted Pissarro – Sprüth Magers Takes On John Baldessari Estate
The twentieth century was a time of great change for women. Those born, raised and educated in the 19th century, then forming relationships and working in the 20th century
Richard Nonas Post-Minimalist sculptor Dies – Victoria Pomery To Leave Turner Contemporary – Banksy Loses Second Copyright Battle
Eric Carle, the much-loved artist, illustrator, and writer has died at his summer studio in Northampton, Massachusetts. He was 91.
24 May 2021
The latest proposals for the Fourth Plinth commission project in Trafalgar Square were announced in London today.
23 May 2021
Lord Hall National Gallery Chairman Resigns Over Diana Interview – 20th Serpentine Pavilion – Art Basel HK What The Galleries Said
21 May 2021
The Turner Prize continues to be in trouble. The competition has an aim: to single out the best new artists living and working in Britain
19 May 2021
Paris: The Bourse de Commerce, François Pinault’s new mega contemporary art gallery launches officially on May 22.
19 May 2021
The Liverpool Biennial opens today, showcasing nine new exhibitions, bringing together the complete presentation of the 11th Edition
The varied artwork in this exhibition represents a hand-picked selection of artists sharing their imagination, their creative talent and their unique response to the theme of ‘God is
On the eve of a major new show at the Royal Academy, Britain’s best-loved artist David Hockney has been criticised, by members of the public
The 2021 Turner Prize nominated artist collective, Black Obsidian Sound System has lashed out at Tate in a statement following their surprise nomination. They are demanding; ‘The right to thrive in conditions that are nurturing and supportive’.
The shortlist for the Turner Prize 2021 has been revealed by Tate Britain, and for the first time, the Turner Prize jury has selected a shortlist consisting entirely of artist collectives. Array Collective, Black Obsidian Sound System, Cooking Sections, Gentle/Radical, and Project Art Works have all been chosen by the jury, chaired by Alex Farquharson, Director, Tate Britain.
Bill Gates Art Collection And The Divorce – Ackroyd & Harvey 100 Oak Tree Joseph Beuys Homage – Search For Art Fund Museum of the Year
The Philanthropist and entrepreneur Eli Broad, who co-founded with his wife Edye the contemporary art museum, The Broad, in LA has died age 87.