Jonas Mekas Avant-Garde Filmmaker/Influencer Dies Age 96
Jonas Mekas, avant-garde filmmaker, curator and visual art influencer has died at his home in Brooklyn age 96.
22 January 2019
91ST ACADEMY AWARDS NOMINATIONS – BREAKING NEWS
91st Academy Awards: The Actor-comedian and Oscar®–nominated writer Kumail Nanjiani and actress–producer–director Tracee Ellis Ross announced the 91st Oscars® nominations today
Pierre Bonnard: First London Museum Show In 20 Years Unveiled
Tate Modern is mounting the UK’s first major Pierre Bonnard exhibition in 20 years, opening to the public on the 23 January.
18 January 2019
Banksy Port Talbot Mural Sells To Dealer For Six Figures
A Banksy mural, which appeared on the side of a garage in Port Talbot in December, has been sold to a private collector for a “six-figure sum”.
15 January 2019
Kanye West Pledges $10m Towards James Turrell’s Roden Crater Project
Last month the rap singer Kanye West visited the ethereal, glowing light installations of artist James Turrell. He was so moved by the works that Yesterday, he pledged $10 million to the Turrell Art Foundation to help fund Roden Crater Project—an extinct volcano in northern Arizona where Turrell has been embedding works for more than […]
14 January 2019
McJesus Sculpture Sparks Protest At Haifa Museum
Several hundred fundamentalist Christians have staged a protest outside the Haifa Museum of Art in Israel demanding the removal of ‘McJesus’ a sculpture of a crucified Ronald MacDonald by Finnish artist Jani Leinonen.
Is Pyotr Pavlensky Just An Attention Seeking Muppet
In the aftermath of sentencing the exiled Russian artist Petr (AKA Pyotr) Pavlensky on Thursday, I ask myself why is he doing this? Is it for art? Or should we categorise him as an attention-seeking spoilt brat? Pavlensky was on trial for setting fire to the facade of a French central bank building, a performance […]
Bill Viola And The Art Of Contemplation – Revd Jonathan Evens
In welcoming Bill Viola’s installations at St Paul’s Cathedral, Mark Oakley noted that: ‘Viola’s art slows down our perceptions in order to deepen them.’
11 January 2019
Jock McFadyen RA Announced As Coordinator Of 251st Royal Academy Summer Exhibition
The Scottish painter, Jock McFadyen RA will be the coordinator of the 251st Summer Exhibition in 2019.
9 January 2019
The Shed NY Unveils Buildings Named After Patrons Bloomberg And Tisch
The Shed has announced the opening date and building names for New Yorks newest not for profit artspace.
7 January 2019
Top Artists Join Forces To Raise Money For Refugee Crisis
Multicolour is a new exhibition and auction fundraiser to support those affected by the global refugee crisis created by Migrate Art.
6 January 2019
John Ruskin: 200th Anniversary Celebrated With Year-Long Programme
To mark the 200th anniversary of the birth of the influential writer, thinker, artist and social reformer John Ruskin (1819 -1900)
6 January 2019
Towner Art Gallery To Exhibit Living Collection At London Art Fair
The London Art Fair has partnered with Eastbourne’s Towner Art Gallery to present The Living Collection, an exhibition that celebrates the gallery’s rich heritage of collecting, exhibiting and championing contemporary art for almost a century.
Zombie Formalism: Ticking The Right Boxes Be Damned – Edward Lucie-Smith
I’ve been looking again at Georgina Adam’s recently published book, The Dark Side of the Boom (Lund Humphries). It ranges over a wide variety of contemporary art world topics and is quite largely concerned with recent art world misdeeds – that is, with the commercial rather than the official sector of art world activity, insofar as these can be fully separated from one another.
Looking Forward To Art In 2019 – Edward Lucie-Smith
Looking forward to the art year ahead of us – 2019 – there are certain things one notices immediately, in the announcements so far made by various official and semi-official institutions based here in Britain and more specifically in plans announced by galleries here in London.
Sister Wendy Beckett Art Historian And Carmelite Nun Dies Age 88
The celebrated art historian and nun Sister Wendy Beckett has died at the age of 88, it has been announced. In the 1990s she became one of the most unlikely television stars, the BBC said on their website.
Tate Purchases Women’s Rights Campaigner Sylvia Pankhurst Watercolours
Tate Britain have revealed that it will be purchasing four watercolours by the renowned artist and women’s rights campaigner Sylvia Pankhurst (1882-1960).
20 December 2018
Is Banksy Back In Bristol For Xmas? New Port Talbot Mural Unveiled
The official Banksy website has confirmed that a mural which appeared on a Port Talbot wall is the work of the elusive Street Artist. Banksy has had a busy year with work popping up around the globe, a Paris mural To Coincide With World Refugee Day and a 20m high mural in New York to highlight to […]
18 December 2018
Anglo-Saxon Pendant Voted Britain’s favourite In Art Fund’s 2018 Poll
The winner of the UK’s most popular acquisition in 2018 is an Anglo-Saxon gold pendant, found in Winfarthing, Norfolk and purchased by Norwich Castle Museum and Art Gallery.
17 December 2018
Manifesta 13 Director Hedwig Fijen Announces Team For Marseille Event
A new artistic team has been selected for Manifesta 13 which takes place in Marseille in 2020 by Director of Manifesta, Hedwig Fijen.
14 December 2018
Art Accepted For Nation Through Cultural Gifts Scheme Down By A Third
Arts Council England has published the 2017/18 Cultural Gifts Scheme and Acceptance in Lieu annual report which shows that in the last year, 42 cases
11 December 2018
Olafur Eliasson: Melting Ice Blocks Herald Impending Climate Change Catastrophe
The highly anticipated launch of Ice Watch Olafur Eliasson’s global installation project, highlighting the catastrophic consequences of climate change was unveiled at Tate Modern and at Bloomberg’s European headquarters today 11/12/18.
10 December 2018
Ai Weiwei Creates Flag To Mark 70th Anniversary Universal Human Rights Declaration
The decedent Chinese artist Ai Weiwei has created a flag to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
10 December 2018
Art Basel Miami Beach 2018 What The Galleries Said – Artlyst Report
Art Basel’s 17th edition in Miami Beach concluded with strong and consistent sales across all levels of the market.
7 December 2018
Living Coral Unveiled As Pantone Colour Of The Year 2019
PANTONE 16-1546 Living Coral has been selected as the institution’s colour of the year.
6 December 2018
Pussy Riot: Russia Ordered To Pay $55,000 For Human Rights Violations
The European Court of Human Rights has ruled against the Russian Government in the case of Punk activist band Pussy Riot, whose members include Nadya Tolokonnikova and Maria Alyokhina.
6 December 2018
Anish Kapoor Lawsuit Victory As NRA Remove Cloud Gate Footage
The Turner Prize-winning artist Sir Anish Kapoor has won his battle to remove footage of his iconic Cloud Gate sculpture in Chicago from a National Rifle Assoc. (NRA) video.
6 December 2018
Olafur Eliasson Ice Watch Installation Highlights Climate Change In London
Olafur Eliasson working in collaboration with leading geologist Minik Rosing, is exhibiting blocks of melting ice, one in front of Tate Modern and another outside Bloomberg’s London headquarters to create the significant artwork, Ice Watch. Ice Watch will serve as a visceral reminder of the impact of climate change.
4 December 2018
Charlotte Prodger Wins Turner Prize Videodrone-A-Thon 2018
This year’s Turner Prize winner 2018 has been awarded to Charlotte Prodger a Glasgow-based video artist whose work deals with identity and place. She was nominated for her solo exhibition at Bergen Kunsthall.
4 December 2018
Jerwood Charitable Foundation Announces Twelve Recipients Of £100K Fund
The Jerwood Charitable Foundation has announced the 12 recipients of awards and commissions that will form the 2019 visual arts development and exhibition programme at Jerwood Space, London and on tour nationally. The total value of grants directly awarded to artists is over £100k.