This year’s Brighton Festival Guest Director – Aung San Suu Kyi brought her message for peace to the UK. Her dedicated plea for peace in Burma is highlighted by the program which is built around her message ‘use your liberty to promote ours’. This years festival presents a political edge and focus on global issues. […]
Three weeks of unrivalled arts celebration 7 – 29 May Brighton and Hove comes alive with a powerful and exciting programme of cultural events in celebration of this year’s Guest Director – Aung San Suu Kyi with her dedicated plea for peace in Burma. She won the Nobel Peace Prize for her passionately fought battle […]
MCH Exhibition Ltd, the Swiss owned Group organizer of Art Basel and Art Basel Miami Beach has bought Asian Art Fairs Ltd, the owners of ART HK the Hong Kong International Art Fair.The MCH Group will now take a majority shareholders stake in AAF Ltd. This sets out a significant move for Art Basel in […]
A superb wool tapestry by YBA artist Tracey Emin titled “Black Cat” is the centerpiece of the Craft Council’s “Collect” international art fair for contemporary objects,. The weaving was a collaboration between Turner prize-nominee Emin and the West Dean Tapestry Studio. Who got the cream – Emin stated: “I have always liked tapestries and they […]
The Frieze Art Fair 2011 has reviewed more applications than ever before to exhibit at the autumn event. This year will see a total of 171 exhibitors from 33 countries. The dynamism of galleries from emerging territories such as Asia and South America is balanced by a strong European and American contingent. (The latest Frieze […]
British Artist Anish Kapoor (Born in Bombay in 1954) has been invited to exhibit in the monumental space around the Grand Palais in Paris. His work creates a great opportunity for the vast space. MONUMENTA, in its fourth edition offers 13.500 m2 in the Nave of the large palace. After the success of the first […]
International Archive Established in World’s First Nazi Plunder Catalogue The National Archives and the Commission for Looted Art in Europe has signed a global agreement on 4 May in Washington DC with leading national archives and museums, to provide an international online catalogue of documentation on looted cultural artefacts to aid historians, researchers and families […]
Compensation to the family of a Jewish art dealer who was forced to sell a painting by Secessionist Artist, Egon Schiele, during the war, is finally going to be realised. The painting now in the collection of the Leopold Museum in Vienna was donated by a wealthy collector. The Museum is to sell off another […]
Ai Weiwei’s who is still under arrest in China, was absent from the dedication of his sculpture installation in New York yesterday. The public art project “Circle of Animals: Zodiac Heads” was unveiled by New York’s Mayor Bloomberg. The installation is located in the Pulitzer Fountain and depicts the bronze heads of animals which correspond […]
The 4 artists who have been shortlisted for the Turner Prize 2011 are Karla Black, Martin Boyce, Hilary Lloyd and George Shaw. – Read Review Of Turner Prize In Gateshead Here The Turner Prize is a contemporary art award that was set up in 1984 to celebrate new developments in British contemporary art. It is […]
Four stolen statues including two taken from the Cairo’s Museum have been recovered by police. These were all looted when rioting broke out during the Tahrir Square protests in Cairo. The looters smashed vitrines,damaging statues and mummies.The robbery took place while police attempted to quell the violent protests which erupted on the streets. The museum […]
4 May 2011 – 31 July 2011 A major retrospective exhibition celebrating the life and work of British fashion designer Alexander McQueen opens at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art tomorrow. His extraordinary contributions to fashion from his Central Saint Martins postgraduate collection of 1992 to his final runway presentation, which took place after his […]
Brazilian Street artist Eduardo Kobra with his assistant Eduardo Agnaldo have painted a new mural in Camden. It is a collage of images, some nostalgic, some contemporary. The work is located on the famous Banksy wall in Chalk Farm . The large painting has been authorized by Camden council and has been produced two years […]
Fans To Stop Westminster Council From Destroying This Valuable Work Of Art A new work by the artist Banksy has appeared in Fitzrovia during last week’s Easter break. The work features his trademark stenciled rat in in black and white with a blood red paw print and slogan, “If Graffiti changed anything – It would […]
As official photographers are preparing to record Kate and William’s big day tomorrow, a number of alternative images created by artists have appeared on the streets of London, There also seems to be a glut of work in the more ‘off west-end ‘ galleries. The street works are perhaps, best kept a secret and we […]
US photographer Jim Goldberg and Argentine born, Alejandro Chaskielberg have secured the top awards for two of this years most prestigious annual photography prizes. Goldberg’s photos for the Deutche Borse prize document displaced refugees and immigrants fleeing war torn countries to safe havens in Europe has won him the £30,000 award. The other shortlisted photographers […]
New Picasso Marie-Therese Goes Under the Hammer for £12m A Pablo Picasso painting of his mistress Marie-Therese Walter is to be offered by Christie’s London and is expected to fetch at least £9m to £12m in the June auction sales. The proceeds will go towards research at the University of Sydney to tackle obesity, diabetes […]
Tate Modern announced today that it is deeply concerned about the current disappearance of the artist Ai Weiwei. The organisation places artists at the very centre of its activities. The Unilever Series, Sunflower Seeds is on display until 2 May. To mark its final weekend in the Turbine Hall, Tate Modern will be holding a […]
London Artist, Anthony Caro who was born in 1924 and is considered one of the most influential British sculptors of his generation, will be featured this summer at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. The installation on The Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Roof Garden features a cross section of his work.The exhibition opened 26 April […]
Christie’s $30m -$40m ‘Warhol In A Fright Wig’ Out of Step If big is beautiful this is big. But since when has big equaled good? This series of self portraits are clearly one of Warhol’s low points. The red-on-black silkscreen on canvas which is offered at Christie’s New York in May with an estimate of […]
The exhibition Exquisite Corpse is the brainchild of Helen Frosi, Creative Director of Soundfjord, the UK’s first contemporary gallery devoted entirely to Sound Art, and which has been developing as a hub for events, research, development and mentoring in the sonic arts since 2009. Exquisite Corpse employs a method used by the Surrealists, also used in […]
Guy Wildenstein and his brother Alec have been surrounded by more scandal than any other wealthy family bar the Kennedys and the Gettys . The 65 year old billionaire, who is the president of Wildenstein & Co. presides over one of the most prestigious art dealerships in the world. It is a global multi billion […]
The Royal College of Art is set to put two of its most important collections online. It will be available to the general public through a new digitisation project which will be accessible online.It will consist of Student portfolio work and Graduate exhibitions. It will be taken from slides currently held in the RCA library […]
Top Job goes to German curator and academic Professor Martin Roth Professor Martin Roth a German curator and academic has been appointed by the museum’s board of trustees and Prime Minister David Cameron, as the new director of the Victoria and Albert museum in South Kensington London. He is currently the director general of the […]
A stolen Gustav Klimt painting worth £26m that was confiscated by the Nazis must be returned to the heirs of a Canadian Jewish family. It has been in the collection of a well known Austrian museum (the Museum of Modern Arts in Saltburg) for decades but under restitution laws is set to return to the […]
Southbank Centre celebrates the 60th anniversary of the Festival of Britain. This is going to be a beautiful holiday weekend so why not come to the South bank and see the Art shows You can also look forward to a series of exhibitions during the Festival of Britain anniversary celebrations, from a variety of well […]
Metamorphosis: Titian 2012 is set to pair Turner Prize artists with Royal Ballet choreographers for National Gallery ROH collaboration for the Cultural Olympiad. In a celebration of British creativity, this unique collaboration between The Royal Ballet and the National Gallery is part of the London 2012 Cultural Olympiad and the London 2012 Festival and opens […]
A Cairo court has jailed up to eleven local Government officials, including Mohsen Shaalan the head of the culture ministry’s fine arts department over the theft of a priceless Van Gogh painting worth at least $50m (£32m). It was stolen from a Cairo museum last summer. The painting titled “Vase with Viscaria” was stolen in […]
The Queen at 85 How Contemporary Artists Depict The Monarch Happy 85th Birthday ‘Ma’am’. The Queen celebrates her 85th birthday today just ahead of the Royal wedding between Prince William and Kate Middleton. Do we care? Not really! However, portraits of the Queen, I have a lot of time for. Here is a selection of […]
The announcement of the Turner Prize 2011 shortlist took place on Wednesday 4 May at Tate Britain. These are the Artists nominated: The 4 artists who have been shortlisted for the Turner Prize 2011 are Karla Black, Martin Boyce, Hilary Lloyd and George Shaw. This year the prize moves to The Baltic in Gateshead. The […]
Say Cheese! Who will be chosen as the official Royal photographer for the wedding between Prince William and Kate Middleton on the 29th April? This seems to be the subject of rampant speculation among Royal watchers and the London press. The Lima born photographer Mario Testino who is better known for his photos of celebrities […]
Twenty years ago London’s National Gallery introduced a new, balanced, warm and cool tungsten lighting system, which was state of the art in the 1990s. Once again proving itself a leader in the area of lighting systems for galleries. Over the next two years, LED (Light Emitting Diode) lighting will be installed throughout the Gallery, […]