Trump Baby Blimp Acquired By Museum of London – Public Monument Removal Just Got Harder – Nicholas Serota Reappointed ACE Chair
Dasha Zhukova Buys Back Garage Magazine – Cornelius Gurlitt Hoard Remains Untraceable – Met Museum Launches Free Augmented Reality Tour
The Ben Uri Gallery in London has just come up with a new operation model, better suited to the needs of relatively small outfits, such as itself. Or should I say that those who run it have been savvy enough to recognise that the contemporary art world has been massively changed.
Louvre’s 72% Visitor Drop – Wildenstein Family Back In Court – Richard Serra’s Qatar Sculpture Defaced
In 1967, Richard Long a young Bristol artist made a line in the grass of a field by walking backwards and forwards and called it A LINE MADE BY WALKING.
I first met the well known American kinetic sculptor George Rickey in 1982. In celebration of his 75th birthday. The Scottish Sculpture Trust led by Barbara Grigor, organised his first-ever major British exhibition in Glasgow, his childhood home. Over 50 works were installed in the city centre along both sides of the River Clyde – […]
In Memoriam Art Industry Deaths. Here is a roundup to honour the artists, curators and designers that passed away in 2020.
30 December 2020
Christopher Le Brun, (born 1951) artist and former president of the Royal Academy (PRA) has been Knighted in the New Year’s Honours List. Other visual related honours include: YBA Artist Michael Landy, OBE, Grenada-born artist Denzil Forrester MBE,
The multidisciplinary artist, David Medalla b.1942 in the Philippines, has died age 78.
28 December 2020
American Punk Rock legend Patti Smith and Golden Lion, Venice Biennale winner, German artist Anne Imhof will ring in 2021 online.
The appearance of a new Banksy graffito in Bristol more or less confirms his position as the genuine top dog in the current British art scene. His only possible rival is Hockney, now living in comfortable exile in France. Bacon and Freud are dead – in any case one of them was as much Irish […]
A new mural by the elusive graffiti artist Banksy has appeared on a house in Bristol. It depicts an elderly woman coughing her false teeth out
Pantone 2021 Colours Of The Year – Rijksmuseum Slavery Exhibition – ICA Set To Re-Boot
8 December 2020
John Lennon’s Death 40 Years On – What Sold At Art Basel Miami Beach – Jeffrey Epstein’s $139m Christie’s and Sotheby’s Sales
7 December 2020
Artlyst Fast News: Monolith Found On The Isle of Wight Mirrors US Finds
Tate Cuts Staff – James Murdoch Buys Art Basel – Manifesta’s Catalonian Beach Party
1 December 2020
Not long after Jenny Saville had left art school in Glasgow. As yet she was unwritten about and unknown. I was taken aback by its power and wrote a short review for Time Out.
1 December 2020
Eddy Peake In Piccadilly – Freelands Award Announced – Johns / Rauschenberg Collaboration Discovered
1 December 2020
The Museum of Modern Art in New York has rehung ‘a full third of its collection….the Art of the Internet Age Takes Center Stage
Fatos Üstek Quits Directorship of Liverpool Biennial – Society of Antiquaries Priced Out Of Mayfair – Xora’s Sleeping Protest Aimed At JK Rowling
Museums, galleries and historic houses across the UK are facing a crisis due to the impact of Covid-19, with six in ten (60%) surveyed worried about their survival.
Mada Masr invited the art collective Forensic Architecture to examine open-source information, including videos, photographs, and documents to provide a timeline and a precise 3D model to help investigate the events of the Beirut Port Explosions
Marc Glimcher, President and CEO of Pace Gallery, has announced plans to expand in London taking over the empty Blain Southern space located at 4 Hanover Square.
17 November 2020
Frieze Art Fairs seem to be having a rethink as a result of closures due to COVID. First off, the 2020 New York and London fairs were cancelled and put online
17 November 2020
News In Brief: Chagall’s Largest Artwork Auctioned – Prix Pictet Theme Announced – Jade Montserrat Performs
News Brief: Imelda Marcos’ Botticelli Vanishes – Happy 100 Wayne Thiebaud – Iconic JFK Rockwell Painting Auctioned
12 November 2020
An Open Letter From CINOA Congratulates UNESCO for their 50-year anniversary of the 1970 Convention but pleads for better representation of the facts and better cooperation for the art trade
The next 12 months,’ so the press release tells one, ‘will see the National Gallery work with Nikon on a broad schedule of online content all aimed at letting people take inspiration from one of the greatest art collections in the world