17 January 2022
Banksy Spraycation Mural Sells For $2m – John Sainsbury Art Patron Dies – DCMS £30m Emergency Support For Culture
Banksy Spraycation Mural Sells Privately – John Sainsbury Art Patron Dies – DCMS £30m Emergency Support For Culture
13 January 2022
Fair Comment: What’s On And Off In 2022 – Artlyst Fair Guide
Artlyst has compiled a dateline of international Art Fairs scheduled to open in the next twelve months
Protester Attacks Eric Gill Statue At BBC Broadcasting House
A protester armed with a hammer has scaled BBC Broadcasting House near Oxford Circus and destroyed a sculpture by Eric Gill
10 January 2022
NFTs Sales Set To Match Global Art Trade Total – John Salt Photorealist Painter Dies Aged 84 – Gainsborough Blue Boy Returns
NFTs Sales Set To Match Global Art Trade Total – John Salt Photorealist Painter Dies Aged 84 – Gainsborough Blue Boy Returns
6 January 2022
Iwona Blazwick Quits As Director of Whitechapel – London Art Fair Postpones Event Until April – New Director For The ICA Announced
Iwona Blazwick Quits As Director of Whitechapel – London Art Fair Postpones Event Until April – New Director For The ICA Announced
Edward Colston Statue Four Acquitted Of Criminal Damage
Edward Colston’s statue was dragged from its plinth and thrown into Bristol Harbour during a Black Lives Matter protest have been acquitted.
NFT Phishing Scam $2.2m Lost – Banksy Vandal Given Prison Sentence – Protected Status Granted For £1500 Caravaggio
NFT Phishing Scam $2.2m Lost – Banksy Vandal Given Prison Sentence – Protected Status Granted For £1500 Caravaggio
29 December 2021
Alt Power 100 Artlyst 2021 – Art Makes People Powerful
Presenting the much-coveted Alt Power 100 Artlyst 2021. This is our way of acknowledging our industry’s hard work and achievement, as we see it.
Wayne Thiebaud American Proto-Pop Painter Dies Age 101
Tributes have been pouring in for the American artist Wayne Thiebaud who died yesterday in Sacramento, California age 101.
Richard Rogers Iconic Architect Of High Tech Movement Dies Age 88
Richard Rogers, one of the most highly regarded architects of his generation, has died at age 88.
16 December 2021
Sotheby’s Goes PLC After $7.3b Bumper Year – Omicron Variant Postpones TEFAF Maastricht Fair – Sally Mann Wins 9th Prix Pictet
Sotheby’s Goes PLC After $7.3b Bumper Year – Omicron Variant Postpones TEFAF Maastricht Fair – Sally Mann Wins 9th Prix Pictet
Piet Mondrian: Philadelphia Museum In Ownership Dispute – Banksy Releases T-Shirt To Support Colston Four – More Cornelius Gurlitt Nazi Restitution
Piet Mondrian: PMA In Ownership Dispute – Banksy Releases T-Shirt To Support Colston Four – More Cornelius Gurlitt Nazi Restitution
13 December 2021
Louvre Settles Legal Dispute With Cy Twombly Foundation – NFT Mistake: Bored Ape sells for $3,000 Not $300,000 – Animal Therapy: The Cats of Louis Wain Exhibited
Louvre Settles Dispute With Cy Twombly Foundation – Bored Ape NFT sells for $3,000 Not $300,000 Animal Therapy: The Cats of Louis Wain
UK Export Ban For 17th Century Multiracial Painting Of Two Ladies – PANTONE 17-3938 Very Peri Voted Colour Of The Year 2022 – Important Hepworth Donation
UK Export Ban For 17th Century Multiracial Painting – PANTONE 17-3938 Very Peri Voted Colour Of The Year 2022 – Hepworth Donation
10 December 2021
Royal Appropriation: Warhol Foundation Takes Lynn Goldsmith To Supreme Court Over Prince Photo
In 1984 Vanity Fair commissioned the Pop Artist Andy Warhol to create an image of the ‘artist known as Prince’ for a cover/feature
Sackler Name Removed From Seven Galleries At The Metropolitan Museum
After half a million known opioid-related deaths, mainly in the US, the Sackler family, owners of Perdue Pharma Corporation, have had their name wiped from seven exhibition spaces at the Met Museum NY
Alison Wilding RA To Coordinate RA Summer Show – Aziz Hazara Announced Winner Future Generation Art Prize 2021 – Rembrandt’s Standard Bearer
Alison Wilding RA To Coordinate RA Summer Show – Aziz Hazara Winner Future Generation Art Prize 2021 – Rembrandt’s Standard Bearer
Rembrandt The Night Watch: X-Ray Sheds Light On Hidden Sketch
X-Ray technology has uncovered a hidden sketch under the surface of Rembrandt’s The Night Watch at the Rijksmuseum
Banksy Pledges Mural To Save Reading Gaol From Developers – Largest Vermeer Retrospective Announced By Rijksmuseum – Monumental Stonehenge Exhibition For British Museum
Banksy Pledges Mural To Save Reading Gaol From Developers – Largest Vermeer Retrospective Announced By Rijksmuseum – Monumental Stonehenge Exhibition For British Museum
Lawrence Weiner Conceptual Art Movement Godfather Dies
Lawrence Weiner, one of the leading godfathers of the Conceptual art movement, has died, in New York, age 79
1 December 2021
Array Collective Scoops The Turner Prize 2021 Held In Coventry
Array Collective, has won the Turner Prize 2021. It was announced this evening at a ceremony at Coventry Cathedra
30 November 2021
AA Bronson and General Idea Film Launches World AIDS Day In Piccadilly Circus – Derek Jarman’s Modern Nature A New Exhibition
VideoVirus is a powerful new film by AA Bronson and General Idea. Reimagining their historic Imagevirus for a global audience
25 November 2021
NFT Mania: NFT Selected As Collins Dictionary Word Of The Year
Who would have guessed a year ago that NFTs would take the world by storm, creating one of the most overhyped phenomena the art world has ever experienced.
Art Wars Founder Ben Moore In NFT Scandal – Flipper: Inigo Philbrick Pleads Guilty To Art Fraud – LACMA’s Christine Y. Kim Appointed Tate Britton Family Curator-at-Large
Art Wars founder and curator Ben Moore has been warned by lawyers representing several artists, including Anish Kapoor and David Bailey, to expect litigation
20 November 2021
Appropriated NFT Ethereum Blockchain Art Leaked Online
Australian artist, Geoffrey Huntley, has launched a website that allows users to torrent an entire blockchain’s worth of NFTs.
18 November 2021
Parthenon Marbles Will Not Affect UK Greece Partnership – Frida Kahlo Self Portrait Sells For Record-Breaking $34.9m – Mariam Zulfiqar Appointed Director Of Artangel
Parthenon Marbles Will Not Affect UK Greece Partnership – Frida Kahlo Self Portrait Sells For Record-Breaking $34.9m – Mariam Zulfiqar Appointed Director Of Artangel
Etel Adnan Lebanese Born Female Abstractionist Dies Age 96 – John Singer Sargent Painting At Risk Of Leaving UK – Anish Kapoor To Exhibit At Gallerie dell’Accademia In Venice
Artist Etel Adnan Dies – John Singer Sargent Painting At Risk – Anish Kapoor To Exhibit At Gallerie dell’Accademia In Venice
12 November 2021
Warhol’s Portrait of Basquiat Tops Christie’s Sale Achieving $40,091,500
Andy Warhol’s 1982 portrait of his friend, the artist Jean-Michel Basquiat from the collection of Peter Brant, achieved $40,091,500 at Christie’s
Gulf Leonardo da Vinci Salvator Mundi Attribution Downgrade – Actor Christopher Walken Rubs Out Genuine Banksy – Tate Curator Achim Borchardt-Hume Dies Age 55
The Prado, Spain’s leading Museum, has downgraded the Salvator Mundi, a controversial painting attributed to Leonardo da Vinci.
The Courtauld Gallery Reborn After Lavish Three Year Refurbishment
The Courtauld Gallery, Somerset House opened their doors today to the press for a sneak preview after a three-year refurbishment and modernisation scheme.
8 November 2021
Harry And Linda Macklowe Headline Sotheby’s Most Caustic Divorce Sale
Harry Macklowe, a billionaire property developer from New York and his ex wife Linda are auctioning their collection.