30 May 2018
Tate Britain Reunites Two Burne-Jones Masterpieces For Retrospective Exhibition
Two celebrated series of Pre-Raphaelite paintings will be brought together in their entirety for Tate Britain’s Burne-Jones retrospective this autumn.
30 May 2018
London Open Triennial 2018 Announces Exhibiting Artists At Whitechapel
The London Open 2018 is again upon us bringing critical work by some of the most dynamic contemporary artists in the capital today. The latest edition of this triennial summer exhibition offers a free, lively space to discover new work
29 May 2018
Collishaw, Rego and Wylie Shortlisted For 2018 Southbank Award
The South Bank Sky Arts Award (originally The South Bank Show Award) has announced the three shortlisted visual artists for the 2018 award.
Andy Warhol’s Interview Magazine Ceases Trading After 50 Years
Interview magazine has ceased publishing with immediate effect and closed their New York office. The 50-year old stalwart of NY chic was founded by Andy Warhol has suffered months of turmoil, with lawsuits filed by former employees of the magazine.
Prison Charity Koestler Trust Curates Exhibition Touring London churches
The Koestler Trust, the UK’s best-known prison arts charity, has curated an exhibition which has been touring central London churches.
19 May 2018
Understated Hats For Princess Eugenie And Beatrice By Fulham Designer
Princess Eugenie And Beatrice Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson daughters opted for understated hats after the whimsical fascinators by renowned London milliner Philip Treacy for Prince William and Kate’s wedding in April 2011.
19 May 2018
Christie’s Record $1.79 Billion Spring Auction Season
Christie’s Spring auction series in New York achieved a grand total of $1.79 billion across two weeks of sales, marking another crowning achievement in the company’s more than 250-year history.
Royal Academy Renewed: Integrating Culture With Daily Life – Edward Lucie-Smith
The Royal Academy’s radical extension of its premises including some splendid new exhibition spaces and an imposing new lecture-theatre excites me, but also generates some doubts and mixed feelings.
16 May 2018
Christie’s Impressionist and Modern Art Evening Sale Totals $415,852,500
Another successful Christies Impressionist and Modern Art Evening Sale has topped expectations with record prices for Constantin Brancusi (1876-1957) and Kazimir Malevich (1878-1935).
15 May 2018
Picasso Self Portrait Belonging To Casino-Boss Steve Wynn Damaged by Christie’s
A Picasso self-portrait belonging to the Las Vegas casino-boss Steve Wynn has been seriously damaged ahead of a Christie’s sale.
15 May 2018
Modigliani Nu Couché Tops Sotheby’s Highest Ever Record Price At $157m
Amedeo Modigliani Nu Couché has become the most valuable work ever sold at Sotheby’s—selling for $157 million in the 14 May Impressionist & Modern Evening Sale.
15 May 2018
Griffin Gallery To Close As Elephant Magazine Expands Media Empire
The Griffin Gallery in West London which has been a stalwart of inspiring exhibitions and programmes is to close its doors on 24 May.
11 May 2018
Stik To Erect Gender Neutral Sculpture In Hoxton Square
Stik, is an instantly recognisable and much loved London based Street Artist. His style is known for depicting brightly coloured figures which appear on murals from London to New York to Japan.
Drink-Up Pay-Up F-Off: Tales from the Colony – London’s Lost Bohemia
Darren Coffield’s new book “Tales from the Colony: the Lost Bohemia of Bacon, Belcher and Board” is an authorised history of London’s most notorious arts club.
9 May 2018
Rockefeller Sale Misses Billion Dollar Mark Despite Monet And Matisse Records
It wasn’t the billion dollar sale that Christie’s optimistically predicted but it was an evening of fierce bidding and record prices for both Matisse and the stalwart of Impressionism Monet.
8 May 2018
Britain’s Leading Artists Protest Against The Decline Of Art In Schools
Over 100 artists, including Tracey Emin, Jeremy Deller, Antony Gormley, Lubaina Himid, Anish Kapoor, Grayson Perry, Sam Taylor Johnson, Mark Wallinger and Rachel Whiteread, have written to The Guardian to protest against the decline of art in schools.
Mai 68: Posters from the Revolution Marking 50 Years – Lazinc
On the fiftieth anniversary of the student protests that kicked off the Mai 68 Paris riots, London gallery Lazinc will present over fifty posters created and employed during the protests.
7 May 2018
Kanal Centre Pompidou Brussels Launches In Former Art Deco Citroën Garage
The French Minister of Culture Françoise Nyssen inaugurated a temporary exhibition launching the Kanal-Centre Pompidou, Brussels’ museum of contemporary art.
Dame Joan Collins To Be Sculpted Live by Royal Artist Frances Segelman
The iconic actor Dame Joan Collins will be sculpted live by royal sculptor Frances Segelman (Lady Petchey) at the London Film Museum, in support of Penny Brohn UK.
Justin Bieber And Joe Termini’s Blatant Appropriation Of Cash Only Brand
As a graduate from The Slade School of Art in 1983, My first Dialogue with the art world came out of my graduate show. It was ‘An appropriation of and graffiti on the art historical timeline’.
3 May 2018
Linda McCartney Photographs Gifted To V&A By Husband Paul
The V&A has announced a major gift of 63 photographs by Linda McCartney, generously gifted by Paul McCartney and his family.
Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2018 Artists Announced
New Contemporaries has announced this year’s selected artists with support from Bloomberg Philanthropies.
The Art Of Smug Turner Prize 2018 – Edward Lucie-Smith
This year’s list of finalists for the Turner Prize has just been announced. While the names on the shortlist are virtuously unfamiliar, the general artistic direction is not.
26 April 2018
Yves Klein 90th Birthday Exhibition Announced for Blenheim Palace
The largest exhibition ever mounted of the French artist Yves Klein has been announced for Blenheim Palace. It will coincide with what would have been the artist’s ninetieth birthday.
24 April 2018
Modigliani Nude Predicted To Break Artist’s $170m Auction Record
Sotheby’s has unveiled plans to auction Amedeo Modigliani’s largest painted work, Nu couché (sur le côté gauche).
Nahmad Family Setback Over £25m Modigliani Painting In Nazi Restitution Case
David Nahmad has incurred another setback in his legal battle to keep a disputed Amedeo Modigliani painting titled ‘Seated Man with a Cane’ (1918).
16 April 2018
Slowing Growth: Hiscox Online Art Market Report Reveal £3B Sales
Based on the current growth trajectory, the Hiscox Online Art Trade Report, published today, reveals that the value of the online art market could reach $8.37 billion by 2023.
16 April 2018
Helen Cammock Wins Whitechapel’s Max Mara Art Prize for Women
Helen Cammock has won the 2018 Max Mara Art Prize for Women in collaboration with Whitechapel Gallery.
Warhol and Sedgwick: Hotel Chelsea Room Door Sells For $52,500
A door from the infamous Hotel Chelsea belonging to the room resident ‘Superstar’ actress Edie Sedgwick and artist Andy Warhol shared in 1965, while filming Chelsea Girls, has sold for $52,500.
12 April 2018
Anne Vierstraete Art Brussels Director In Conversation With Paul Carter Robinson
Anne Vierstraete, the Managing Director of Art Brussels in conversation with Paul Carter Robinson ahead of the opening of the fair next week.
10 April 2018
Tracey Emin Unveils Pro-Europe Neon Art At St Pancras International
Royal Academician Tracey Emin unveiled a monumental pro-Europe neon work this morning, attended by RA Director Tim Marlow and many other art officials. The installation titled,