7 February 2018
20/21 British Art Fair Sold And Rebranded At Saatchi Gallery
The 20/21 British Art Fair, is to be rebranded as The British Art Fair and move to the Saatchi Gallery, as part of a major investment...
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7 February 2018
Rachel Whiteread Sculpture Chosen For UCL Student Centre
Rachel Whiteread the Turner Prize winning sculptor is returning to the university where she learned her craft to create an artwork that will be...
6 February 2018
Rare Julia Margaret Cameron Photo Album At Risk Of Leaving UK
A temporary export bar has been placed on an important Album, by Julia Margaret Cameron, one of the key pioneering photographers of the 19th...
5 February 2018
Diaspora Pavilion Venice Moves To Wolverhampton For Restaging
Wolverhampton Art Gallery’s first contemporary art exhibition of 2018 is a reconfiguration of the Diaspora Pavilion, which took place in Venice during the 57th...
3 February 2018
Facebook Courbet Censorship Lawsuit Has Its Day In Paris Court
A French teacher who accused Facebook of censorship when they deleted his account for posting an image of a Gustave Courbet painting from 1866,...
3 February 2018
Bayeux Tapestry A Battle For East Sussex – Lesley Samms
Following a recent meeting with Theresa May, Emmanuel Macron, President of France has announced his intention to loan the Bayeux Tapestry to the UK.
2 February 2018
Manchester Art Gallery Removes Popular Waterhouse Painting To Prompt #MeToo Dialogue
The temporary removal by the Manchester Art Gallery of a popular painting, Hylas and the Nymphs by JW Waterhouse is part of a project...
2 February 2018
Christie’s Staggering £5.1b $6.6b Global Results 2017 – Crunch This
Christie’s has released their year ending December 2017 global figures and it is another record year for the auction corporation.
1 February 2018
Serpentine Launches Inaugural Beijing Pavilion Collaboration With JIAKUN Architects
The Serpentine Galleries (London) and WF CENTRAL (Beijing) have announced a major international collaboration: a new architecture Pavilion, designed by JIAKUN Architects
1 February 2018
JMW Turner Masterpiece: Temporary Export Bar Provides Time To Find UK Buyer
Michael Ellis the Arts Minister has placed a temporary export bar on Ehrenbreitstein, a painting by JMW Turner, to provide an opportunity to keep...
31 January 2018
Mona Hatoum Presented With Prestigious Annual Art Icon Award 2018
Mona Hatoum (b. 1952) was presented with the prestigious annual Art Icon award at the Whitechapel Gallery on Monday 29 January.
29 January 2018
Chuck Close And Thomas Roma Exhibitions Cancelled Over Sex Controversy
The National Gallery of Art in Washington has announced that it has postponed two upcoming solo exhibitions following allegations of sexual misconduct against the exhibiting artists, Chuck...
29 January 2018
Rebel Women: Suffragette Centenary Celebrated At National Portrait Gallery
The National Portrait Gallery will exhibit a portrait slashed with a butcher’s cleaver by a suffragette for the first time in over twenty years.
Hull Banksy Mural ‘Should Be Cleaned Off Says Tory Councillor
A new stencilled mural by the street artist Banksy has appeared on a Hull bridge. It was first spotted by passers-by on Thursday. The...
26 January 2018
Turner Prize Winner Martin Boyce Unveils New Commission At Tate Britain
Martin Boyce the Turner Prize-winning artist has been commissioned to create a new installation outside Tate Britain.
25 January 2018
Christo Given Go-ahead To Create Mastaba Sculpture In Serpentine
The conceptual artist Christo has been given the go-ahead to create a massive ‘Mastaba’ sculpture situated in Hyde Park.
24 January 2018
Grayson Perry RA Appointed Coordinator Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 2018
Grayson Perry RA will be the co-ordinator of the Royal Academy annual Summer Exhibition in June 2018.
African American Painter Jack Whitten Dies Age 78
The African American painter Jack Whitten has died age 78.
20 January 2018
Jeremy Deller Helps Relaunch 1940s School Prints Programme At Hepworth Wakefield
Turner Prize winner Jeremy Deller is helping to relaunch the pioneering school prints project which brought contemporary art to children who would not otherwise...
19 January 2018
Anish Kapoor Donates $1m Genesis Prize Foundation Award To Refugee Charities
Anish Kapoor has announced that he will donate his $1m Genesis Prize Foundation (GPF) award to five prominent NGOs engaged in alleviating the global refugee crisis.
Ed Moses Pioneer West Coast Abstract Painter Dies Age 91
ED MOSES the pioneering West Coast artist has died age 91.
18 January 2018
Dennis Oppenheim Sculpture Destroyed By South Korean Authorities
A sculpture by the late US artist Dennis Oppenheim has been destroyed in South Korea by the Haeundae District Office, local authorities.
18 January 2018
Bayeux Tapestry To Go On Display At British Museum
Sources have told Artlyst today that the Bayeux Tapestry will go on display at British Museum after the French Government agreed it could leave...
15 January 2018
Michael Rakowitz Fourth Plinth Commission First Photo Unveiled
Here is the first view of Michael Rakowitz’s new commission, The Invisible Enemy, Should Not Exist which will be unveiled on the Fourth Plinth...
15 January 2018
Tate Exchange Announce 200 CSM Art Students To Join Associates Programme
Artist studios at Tate Modern, created by 200 students from Central Saint Martins, UAL, will open the second year of the Tate Exchange Associates...
14 January 2018
Top Photographers Testino and Weber Suspended From Vogue Over Sexual Harassment
Two of the world's highest paid fashion photographers Mario Testino and Bruce Weber have been suspended from working for Conde Nast
14 January 2018
Art Dealer Anthony d’Offay Faces Inappropriate Behaviour Allegations
The art dealer Anthony d’Offay, who gave his £200m art collection to the nation and created Artist Rooms a touring exhibition which has had...
14 January 2018
Picasso Portrait Painted The Same Year As Guernica To Be Auctioned
Pablo Picasso’s Femme au béret et à la robe quadrillée (Marie-Thérèse Walter), goes under the hammer at Sotheby’s after an international tour of exhibition...
14 January 2018
Queen Appoints Fitzwilliam Chief Tim Knox Director Of Royal Collection
Tim Knox has been appointed Director of the Royal Collection by Her Majesty The Queen.
9 January 2018
Nan Goldin: Epidemic Opioid Addiction Demands Sackler Family Accountability
Nan Goldin has woven a practice revolving around human crisis whether it be the 1980s AIDS epidemic or domestic abuse. Her own experiences offer...
8 January 2018
Matt Hancock Appointed Culture Secretary In May’s Latest Reshuffle
Matt Hancock has been named the new culture secretary replacing Karen Bradley in the cabinet reshuffle which took place Today, Monday, 8th January, following...