Christo and Jeanne-Claude Posthumously Wrap The Arc de Triomphe – Donald Judd Now Represented By Gagosian – Gavin Turk Pisses Himself
5 September 2021
Can Art Basel Take Place Without The Brits and Americans – Banksy Shred-Art Back On Market For £6m – First Art World Led NFT Platform Gets Physical
Tate Gauguin Is A Fake – Bank of England Removes Slave Trade Portraits – Stedelijk Museum Kandinsky Returned To Heirs
Elizabeth Blackadder RA, RSA one of Scotland’s greatest artists, has died, age 89. She was born in Falkirk in 1931.
The pioneering Photorealist painter Chuck Close has died at age 81. The artist was best known for his unforgiving portraits.
13 August 2021
Bellagio To Sell Eleven Picassos Valued At $100m – Stefan Kalmár Steps Down From London’s ICA- Helsinki Biennial Blends Art With Environment
10 August 2021
Folkestone-based performance art organisation, ]performance s p a c e[ has been busy this summer celebrating its tenth anniversary.
Watch A $3m painted bronze Kusama Pumpkin Wash Out To Sea In Typhoon. The sculpture was rescued by locals and is now in a safe place.
The Government Art Collection has been going for over 120 years, through Government and private investment.
Despite current COVID restrictions, FIAC Paris has optimistically announced their 2021 exhibitors list plus the cultural programmes on offer this year.
Government University Arts Cuts A Soft Target – Helen Cammock Art On The Underground Commission – Tate Announces 2022 Programme
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.