Jiab Prachakul Wins 2020 BP Portrait Award
A self-taught artist, Jiab Prachakul has won the prestigious first prize in the BP Portrait Award 2020
A self-taught artist, Jiab Prachakul has won the prestigious first prize in the BP Portrait Award 2020
The Turner Prize-winning British artist Damien Hirst has collaborated with Snapchat on a new augmented reality experience that allows users to create their own...
The National Gallery played an inspiring role during wartime including VE Day. It was one of the few places in London where you could...
Germano Celant (1940-2020) the Italian art historian, critic and curator who coined the term " Arte Povera " (poor art) in 1967 has died...
The British Museum today launches a major revamp of its online collection database, allowing over 4 million objects to be seen by people anywhere...
28 April 2020
The Brooklyn-based Art Collective MSCHF has purchased a £25k Damien Hirst spot print and cut out the dots.
The 2020 Serpentine Pavilion designed by the Johannesburg-based practice Counterspace will not be built this year because of the COVID19 crisis.
Sue Davies, who founded The Photographers' Gallery in London's Covent Garden in 1971 has died age 87.
23 April 2020
The three artists to be shortlisted for the annual BP Portrait Award 2020 have been announced. The exhibition will open virtually on Tuesday 5 May while...
20 April 2020
The highly anticipated Philadelphia Museum of Art solo exhibition by the Irish/American artist Sean Scully has been postponed. The announcement was made today 20/04/2020.
The Turner Prize-winning British artist Damien Hirst has created a new rainbow work to show support for the National Health Service (NHS) in the...
The Health Secretary Matt Hancock has briefed the nation on COVID19 in front of a painting by YBA artist Damien Hirst. The painting chosen...
A brand new installation by Banksy has appeared on his Instagram account. Aptly christened, 'Rats, My Wife Hates It When I Work From Home'.
16 April 2020
The Danish Icelandic artist Olafur Eliasson has announced a new Earth Day project in association with the Serpentine Galleries.
13 April 2020
Who would have thought early February when Art Basel Hong Kong was cancelled that the coronavirus crisis was going to spread like lighting to...
An emergency appeal has been launched by the Charleston Trust, the keepers of the Bloomsbury Group's country retreat Charleston. The Trust is looking to...
10 April 2020
The Paul Hamlyn Foundation has created a £20m emergency fund and will this year split its £1m visual artists and composers’ awards amongst EVERY eligible entrant.
The Liverpool Biennial is the latest casualty in the 2020 cultural calendar. The highly regarded international event has been postponed due to the COVID-19...
8 April 2020
London's National Gallery is cleverly telling the Easter story through paintings in their collection. The story of the events leading up to and following...
The 252nd Summer Exhibition, at the Royal Academy which was due to open in June, has been rescheduled for autumn 2020 due to the...
2 April 2020
Sotheby's has announced significant redundancies, staff hiatuses, and pay cuts as a result of the Coronavirus.
1 April 2020
For the first time in over 70 years, the five festivals that transform Edinburgh into the world’s leading cultural destination every August are not...
The appeal to save artist and filmmaker Derek Jarman's Prospect Cottage for the nation has successfully reached its £3.5-million target in just ten weeks,...
31 March 2020
Police have launched a criminal investigation and are reviewing security footage after a painting by Vincent van Gogh was stolen during the early hours...
29 March 2020
The coronavirus has been responsible for a major crisis in the art world. Museums and galleries have slammed their doors shut. Increasingly the only...
26 March 2020
Well well, we all knew this was coming. TEFAF Maastricht is currently under fire for infecting the upper echelons of the art world with...
25 March 2020
Manifesta 13, the European Nomadic Biennial which originated in the early 1990s in response to the political, economic, and social change following the end...
25 March 2020
The Genesis Foundation today announced Rebecca Salter, President of the Royal Academy of Arts, as the winner of the 2020 Genesis Prize.
24 March 2020
The London-born dealer PAUL KASMIN (1960–2020) has died in New York after a protracted illness. The gallery released the following statement.
Marina Abramović made a statement to the people of Italy in association with Palazzo Strozzi as part of project IN TOUCH. The international artist...
Cass Art has shut all of their stores leaving artists to scramble for supplies. All professionals and students looking to stock up on materials...
As the contemporary art world goes dark, and as galleries - official spaces and commercial ones - slam shut their doors, one inevitably starts...