20 March 2020
Fourth Plinth Commission Postponed Because Of You Know What
The unveiling of the Fourth Plinth commission, a giant soft-serve dollop of whipped cream topped with a cherry, a fly and a drone by...
20 March 2020
The unveiling of the Fourth Plinth commission, a giant soft-serve dollop of whipped cream topped with a cherry, a fly and a drone by...
18 March 2020
Frieze has announced the cancellation of the ninth edition of the Frieze New York art fair. It falls in line with health and safety...
First, the Louvre in Paris closed. Then the galleries in London started to shut their doors, one by one, like the “lamps going out...
The Tate has just released a press statement informing that it will be closing up shop until May due to COVID19 virus. The Serpentine...
16 March 2020
The National Gallery has unprecedentedly cancelled their highly anticipated Artemisia Gentileschi exhibition, scheduled to open on 4th April. The ICA, Wellcome Collection, South London...
15 March 2020
If you think UK galleries are safe while everyone is panicking from the COVID19 virus think again. Three valuable paintings have been stolen from...
15 March 2020
Arts Council England has released a statement outlining support for the arts during the COVID 19 crisis. In a statement released today (Sunday 15...
15 March 2020
The South London Gallery, a popular, public, cultural oasis has decided to close until further notice. This is the first, with many to follow...
14 March 2020
Gagosian, the largest chain of commercial galleries in the world, has shuttered until further notice. The following message was released this morning.
13 March 2020
Tate Modern has announced that Anicka Yi will create the next annual Hyundai Commission, an annual event at the gallery. Her new site-specific work...
The Metropolitan Museum in New York has announced, it is to Close Temporarily Starting today, March 13. It will close all three locations—The Met Fifth...
The Max Mara prize 2020 has been awarded to Emma Talbot. The award supports UK-based female artists who have not previously had a major...
7 March 2020
Francis Bacon's late large-format Triptych Inspired by the Greek tragedy Oresteia of Aeschylus, will go under the hammer at Sotheby's. This will be the...
The 2020 Venice Architecture Biennale has been postponed due to the outbreak of the Coronavirus and will now be held from Saturday, August 29th...
The Art Dubai organisers have postponed the 2020 fair indefinitely. This is the second major to be canceled this Winter along side Art Basel...
Frank Uwe Laysiepen, AKA Ulay, Conceptual artist and long-term creative partner of Marina Abramović, has died age 76. Born in Germany and based in...
Penny Macbeth has been appointed as the new director of the Glasgow School of Art. Following a tumultuous week of uncertainty, as reported by...
Administrators from the London-based firm ReSolve, have been called in to sort out the financial mess at Blain|Southern, one of London's top art galleries....
Today's terrible news, a local Glasgow council is closing Mackintosh's iconic Scotland Street School Museum. I despair. Soon there will be nothing Mackintosh left...
The Russian dissident Performance artist Pyotr Pavlensky, 35, is to face invasion of privacy charges after leaking a graphic sex tape of Parisian mayoral...
There have been few iconic institutions more beloved that Charles Rennie Mackintosh's Glasgow School of Art.
A new artwork that appeared on the side of a house in Bristol yesterday has been confirmed as the work of the elusive street...
12 February 2020
After a tumultuous six months, Blain|Southern has decided to call it a day.
12 February 2020
Sonia Boyce OBE RA has been announced as the artist to represent the UK at the 59th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di...
11 February 2020
David Hockney's iconic work, The Splash, has been sold for £23.1m at Sotheby's in London. The name of the buyer has not been disclosed....
10 February 2020
Elizabeth Price will be presented by Artangel in a 19th-century assembly room on Borough Road in London from 4 September – 25 October...
6 February 2020
Art Basel has just announced the cancellation of the upcoming fair in Hong Kong due to the outbreak and spread of the new coronavirus....
The German Historical Museum in Berlin has acquired a significant painting by George Grosz executed at the time he was living in exile in...
The Art Fund is trying to raise £3.5m by 31 March 2020 to purchase Prospect Cottage the much-loved beachside home and garden of the...
19 January 2020
A stolen multi-million-pound painting discovered hidden in a false wall has been confirmed as an authentic Gustav Klimt original, Italian authorities have confirmed. The...