Jack Smith, the Kitchen Sink realist painter who turned abstractionist has died age 82. Smith was one of four artists associated with the Beaux Arts quartet, a group formed in the early 1950s in London. Others in the group were John Bratby, Edward Middleditch and Derrick Greaves. Their particular brand of realism was highly acclaimed […]
October Exhibitions For Wadsworth Atheneum Museum Hartford, Connecticut / Cartier Foundation, Paris Patti Smith (b.1946) The pioneering artist, musician, and poet has made her mark on the American cultural landscape throughout her 40-year career, from her earliest explorations of artistic expression with friend and vanguard photographer Robert Mapplethorpe in the 1960s and 70s to her […]
YBA Artist defines what kindness is and how we respond to it YBA Artist Michael Landy, the man who brought us “Breakdown” 2001, the destruction of all of his worldly possessions in an abandoned department store and the well received “Art Bin” 2010 where other artists including Damien Hirst and Tracey Emin could dispose of […]
The prize winners for the BP Portrait Award 2011 were announced at the Awards Ceremony on 14 June 2011. The First Prize was awarded to Wim Heldens for Distracted an oil on canvas 750 x 550 mm. Wim Heldens is a self-taught artist whose work has been seen in numerous group and solo exhibitions in […]
China Exhibition Cancelled As Protest To Ai Weiwei Detention The Britain sculptor Anish Kapoor known for his monumental mirror finished public works has cancelled an upcoming exhibition at the National Museum of China, Beijing. The statement comes as a protest against the Chinese government’s detention of Ai Weiwei, the dissident artist and social critic who […]
The London and international Auctioneers, Bonhams has unveiled plans for a £30m redevelopment of its Bond Street headquarters in London. The building has been designed by award-winning architects Lifschutz Davidson Sandilands. The new building is to be constructed on the site of the company’s current headquarters at 101 New Bond Street. This scheme, now goes […]
Love it or loath it, Street Art is now everywhere and the genre is not only making the transition from the street to the gallery,it is also crossing over onto the walls of the museum. It has infiltrated advertising, graphic design, fashion, music and the Visual Arts as quickly as it has appeared on our […]
New Exhibition at Tate Britain Reevaluates This Short-lived Movement Vorticism, founded in the summer of 1914, during the out-break of the First World War, is considered to beBritain’s first major contribution to modernism in visual art. In the early part of the 20th Century, Mainland Europe lead the way in both influence and productivity for […]
$80m In Lost Art May Be Returned To Picasso Family We reported last December that 271 undocumented works by Pablo Picasso estimated to be worth at least €60 million (£50 million) were discovered in the South of France. Pierre Le Guennec, a retired French electrician and his wife revealed that the paintings drawings and prints, […]
The Serpentine Gallery has revealed that world-renowned Swiss architect Peter Zumthor is to design the Pavilion 2011. The eye-catching design will go on view in early July. This year’s Serpentine Pavilion is the 11th commission in the Gallery’s annual series, the world’s first and most ambitious architectural programme of its kind. It will be the […]
Urban Art Invades the Andipa Gallery with Major New Exhibition A two man exhibition of Banksy and War Boutique presents an exciting opportunity to see original works by two well known mavericks of urban art. The established Banksy and the popular, emerging War Boutique, a young artist who is just breaking onto the international stage, […]
CBE for Gillian Ayres, one of Britain’s finest and most original abstract artists and OBE for Ceramacist Edmund De Waal The artist Sam Taylor-Wood famous her photographs and films that examine, highly charged scenarios, depicting our shared social and psychological conditions, has been awarded an OBE in the Queen’s birthday honours. The 44-year-old from Croydon […]
The Clyde and the city of Glasgow have always been intertwined when it comes to historical development. Once leaders in shipbuilding now more people are employed in the arts than in this once integral occupation. The rivers architectural heritage is a unique legacy with the site situated where the Kelvin flows into the Clyde. Hadid’s […]
Louis Vuitton in partnership with London art institutions the Whitechapel Gallery, Royal Academy of Arts and Tate Britain, have launched REcreative. It’s a new website where emerging artists can post their work and learn how more established creatives start their careers. The website is for arts events and exhibitions through exclusive online content. Users can […]
Where else can you buy an original Damien Hirst for £300 or a Tracey Emin at a knock down price? The Art Car Boot Fair was an idea that grew out of previous events such as Joshua Compston’s ‘Fete Worse than Death’ and Gavin Turk’s ‘Livestock Market’ and Articultural Shows’ that blazed a trail in […]
Rent Rises and Retail Gentrification Could Displace Art Galleries Cork Street in Mayfair, London is about to suffer the nail in the coffin that has plagued much of the area including Dover and Old Bond Street, the identikit retail gentrification treatment. Standard Life have announced that they are putting part of their extensive property portfolio […]
M.F. Husain, one of the highest profile 20th century Indian, contemporary painters has died, age 95. Husain was living in a self-imposed exile in Dubai since 2006. This was the result of death threats for depicting the Gods and cultural icons nude. Husain began his career as a film poster artist and came to prominence […]
With less than a week to go, until the doors open on what is arguably the worlds most important art fair, here is the lowdown of what you can expect, in some of the most interesting sectors of the fair. Art Film Program The Art Film program at Art 42 Basel again features a varied […]
The Parasol unit foundation for contemporary art launched Walk the Line, a dynamic new site-specific sculptural artwork by the American artist Kate Gilmore on Exchange Square, City Of London on 6 June. Inaugurating a new strand of events, entitled Parasol Public, this public art project promises to be one of the most thrilling summer events […]
Claudio Bravo the well respected Hyper-Realist painter noted for his handling of drapery was born in 1936 in Valparaiso Chile and studied art in the studio of Miguel Venegas Cienfuentes in Santiago. In 1954. His first important exhibition was at the “Salón 13” in Santiago at the age of 17. In 1955, he danced professionally […]
The Royal Academy Summer Exhibition opens to the public today, following a week of previews, parties and press mosh-pits. A spectacular array of painting, sculpture, photography and architectural design is on offer in the largest and oldest open submission exhibition in the world. The exhibition does a good job of encapsulating the national psyche in […]
Mike Nelson the Artist chosen to represent Britain at this years Venice Biennale is noted for his innovative installation work. He is the first British artist to exhibit in this catagory of fine art and a seasoned contributor to these type of international shows, having contributed to Sydney (2002), Istanbul (2003) and São Paulo (2004). […]
Phillips de Pury & Company in London is holding a selling exhibition of photographs by Linda McCartney titled “Life in Photographs” 7 – 16 June 2011. The exhibition is a selection of highlights from over 200,000 archived photographs which will showcase the work of this exceptionally talented photographer. McCartney captured spontaneous and moving moments of […]
Sarah Morris an American artist who lives part of the year in Britain, exhibits with the White Cube gallery in London and is represented in the Tate Modern’s collection has been accused of plagiarism. The multimillion-pound claim was formed in a group action by six international Origami artists . They have stated that Morris has […]
Ai Weiwei the detained Chinese artist and activist has been made an honourary fellow of Britain’s Royal Academy of Art. The Danish painter Per Kirkeby was also given the accolade. In 2009, the gallery hosted a retrospective of the work of Kirkeby, one of Scandinavia’s most prominent contemporary artists, but it is Ai who is […]
On the strength of the successful launch in March 2011, in New York, Moving Image have announced the Moving Image: An Art Fair of Contemporary Video Art, in London, to run concurrently with the Frieze Art Fair, in October 2011. Moving Image has been conceived to offer a viewing experience with the excitement and vitality […]
The Gala- Salvador Dalí Foundation is organising a conference, on the 19 June – 21 June. The Seminar will present and debate experiences of several international experts in the field of certification of artworks and ways to fight fraud.These sessions afford an exceptional opportunity to share and discuss the experiences of leading international specialists in […]
Summer Exhibition 2011: 7 June – 15 August 2011 The Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 2011 opened today to the press and tonight will see the launch of its annual fundraising Gala. With less than four days to go until the event opens it’s doors to the public, here is a snapshot of what you can […]
Francis Davis Millet American Painter Lost his Life On The Titanic
London braces itself for the exhibition of the moment. James Cauty has created a Chapmanesque world of miniature riot tableaux all conveniently fitting inside jam jars. The artist has literally bottled the moment that News vendor Ian Tomlinson, was murdered by police and a splinter group surrounds Charles and Camilla’s limo on its way to […]
Polemically Small is a monumental show for BritWeek 2011, organised in association with The Future Can Wait and Edward Lucie-Smith. The group show of over 100 works on paper from London and elsewhere in the UK based based on the idea that small, today, is often much better than big, this exhibition will be a […]
First Generation Surrealist Painter Dead Leonora Carrington 6 April 1917 – 25 May 2011 was a British-born Mexican artist, painter, sculptor, writer, alchemist, visionary, and the darling of the 1930s Surrealism movement. Carrington was born during George V’s reign, to Harold Carrington, a textile tycoon, and Mairi Moorhead. They were social climbers and, much to […]