Gavin Turk Has His Fairytale Wedding In Bexley
Gavin Turk, the 44 year old artist and his long time girlfriend Deborah Curtis were married yesterday as part of… Read More
29 April 2012
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David Weiss Swiss Conceptual Artist Dies Aged 66
David Weiss, one half of the Swiss conceptual art duo Fischli + Weiss, passed away on 27 April 2012, after battling cancer since September. Weiss was 66 at the time of his death.
28 April 2012
Ai Weiwei Miniature Installation Unveiled in London
Ai Weiwei is back in London. This time on a much smaller scale than his last pieces presented at the… Read More
28 April 2012
Zhukova & Koolhaas Pilot Russian Art Revival With New Garage Gallery
Dasha Zhukova – famous for being the daughter of a Russian oil magnate, a stunningly beautiful celebutante, and for… Read More
27 April 2012
Brighton Promises Biggest Ever Visual Art Festival
With significant funding from Arts Council England, HOUSE 2012 promises to be the most ambitious visual arts festival in Brighton… Read More
27 April 2012
Cy Twombly Last Paintings To Be Revealed By Gagosian
In tribute to the late great Cy Twombly, Gagosian Gallery is to present his last paintings and one hundred… Read More
27 April 2012
Visual Art Rivals Music For Supremacy In London 2012 Festival Programme
Thomas Keane takes a look at the visual art highlights announced today for the London 2012 Festival – the summer… Read More
26 April 2012
Feminist Artist Penelope Slinger New London Exhibition
Riflemaker mount first public exhibition of her work in forty years. The art and the life of Penelope Slinger (b.1947… Read More
26 April 2012
Terry O’Neill Infamous New Exhibition From Beatles To Bardot
The renowned British photographer Terry O’Neill is launching a new exhibition of his iconic images coupled with new, previously unseen… Read More
26 April 2012
Glasgow International Festival Round Up Twelve Of The Best
Paul Carey-Kent Visits the Glasgow International Festival and gives us twelve of the best exhibitions and installations. Glasgow International Festival… Read More
26 April 2012
Antony Gormley Field Installation Given National Trust Tudor Home
Antony Gormley’s installation ‘Field’ – consisting of 40,000 crudely made miniature clay figures – has found a new home at… Read More
26 April 2012
BRITISH MODERN REMADE STYLE DESIGN GLAMOUR AND HORROR
British Modern Remade is an exhibition of painting, sculpture, collage and film from the Arts Council Collection, taking place within… Read More
26 April 2012
Super Rich Viktor Vekselberg Sues Christies For Fake Painting
Russian oilman and art collector Viktor Vekselberg is demanding a £1.7 million refund from auction house Christies. Vekselberg – worth… Read More
26 April 2012
Louis le Brocquy Painter Of Bacon And Bono Dies aged 95
One of Ireland’s best know artists, Louis le Brocquy, has died in Dublin at age of 95. His work, mostly portraiture dealt with the figure
26 April 2012
Google Fosters Cutting Edge Photographers With New Drive
Today Google launched ‘Google Drive’. A slightly new way for individuals to save their files and access them using a… Read More
25 April 2012
Can Frieze New York Reshape The US Art Market
This May, Frieze Art Fair – perhaps the bells-and-whistles event of the London Art calendar – is set to make… Read More
25 April 2012
Jenny Saville Solo Show Comes To Oxford
First public exhibition for the greatest figurative painter since Lucian Freud Modern Art Oxford is presenting the first solo exhibition… Read More
25 April 2012
Exhibition For The Artist That Banksy Ripped Off
French street artist Blek Le Rat is arguably the inventor of stencilled graffiti as we know it, inspiring a plethora… Read More
25 April 2012
Anti-Capitalist Occupy Posters Enshrined In Museum of London
The Museum of London is compiling select items Occupy London demonstrations. These include anti-capitalist placards, and even masks worn by… Read More
25 April 2012
Should Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt Resign Over BSkyB
After Revelations of his cosy relationship with the Murdochs he won’t last long Newly released polls show an all time… Read More
25 April 2012
Coca-Cola Search For Missing Norman Rockwell Artworks
Coca-Cola is taking it upon itself to bring about the recovery of three iconic Norman Rockwell paintings. And its first… Read More
25 April 2012
Garage Center for Contemporary Culture Defines A New Moscow
Over the past four years the Garage Centre for Contemporary Culture has almost singlehandedly put Moscow on the international art… Read More
24 April 2012
Fisk University To Sell Major Art Collection To Survive
Fisk University has finally got permission to sell its Stieglitz collection which trustees believe is a necessary action for the… Read More
24 April 2012
FBI Arrest Boston Art Heist Mobster For Illegal Weapons
The Connecticut mobster recently in the news for his suspected links to the world’s most famous art heist has… Read More
24 April 2012
Fourth Plinth Ship In A Bottle Moves To Maritime Museum
Yinka Shonibare’s Nelson’s Ship in a Bottle that bedecked Trafalgar Square’s Fourth Plinth May 2010 and January 2012, has now… Read More
24 April 2012
Christian Louboutin Red Sole Retrospective Comes To London
Design Museum presents the art of an iconic French shoe designer The Design Museum is exhibiting a comprehensive retrospective exploring… Read More
23 April 2012
Tate Modern Opens New Live Gallery In July
As part of the London 2012 Festival and the culmination of the Cultural Olympiad, Tate Modern continues to push the… Read More
23 April 2012
Corrupt Chinese Courts Cheat Ai Weiwei In Legal Battle Against Beijing
Ai Weiwei is in the midst of attempting to strike back at Beijing tax authorities who have arbitrarily imposed… Read More
23 April 2012
Hirshhorn Museum Mounts Ai Weiwei Retrospective
Washington will see comprehensive exhibition of the dissident Chinese Artist for Autumn An exhibition with the title “Ai Weiwei :… Read More
23 April 2012
Thomas Kinkade Girlfriend Must Be Silenced, Says Ex Wife
The death of Thomas Kinkade – America’s mass-producing, best-selling painter – has been surrounded by intrigue. From initial reports of… Read More
23 April 2012
Tate Called To Justify Squandering Taxpayers Money On Damien Hirst Exhibition
One of Britain’s most prominent curators, Julian Spalding, has written to Tate Director Sir Nicholas Serota demanding him to justify… Read More
23 April 2012
Da Vinci Anatomical Drawings On Display At Palace
The Queen Opens Da Vinci Diamond Jubilee Exhibition In May The Queen’s Gallery, Buckingham Palace is staging the first display… Read More
23 April 2012