16 March 2021
Art Basel UBS Reports 22% Drop In The Art Market 2021
Art Basel and UBS have presented The Art Market, an annual global art market analysis. It found global sales of art and antiques reached...
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Klaus Littmann Exposes London Design Biennial’s Forestation Appropriation
Klaus Littmann has expressed his concern about the similarity of a new project by the British stage designer Es Devlin for the London Design...
15 March 2021
Damien Hirst Releases 10k NFT Drawings With HENI – Only 4% Of Auction Sales Are Women Artists – Former Fulham Town Hall To Host Art Exhibitions
Damien Hirst Releases NFT - Only 4% Of Auction Sales Are Women Artists - Former Fulham Town Hall Hosts Art Exhibitions
12 March 2021
Heather Phillipson’s Tate Britain Commission – Early Yayoi Kusama Works Auctioned – Luma Arles Creative Campus To Open In June
Heather Phillipson's Tate Britain Commission - Early Yayoi Kusama Works Auctioned - Luma Arles Creative Campus To Open In June
11 March 2021
Christie’s £50m NFT Milestone – Senior Curator Mark Godfrey Quits Tate – Cindy Sherman Moves To Hauser & Wirth
Christie's £50m NFT Milestone - Senior Curator Mark Godfrey Quits Tate - Cindy Sherman Moves To Hauser & Wirth
Antony Gormley’s Angel Of The North – Listing Application Rejected
The Twentieth Century Society is 'dismayed' following an application to list Antony Gormley's Angel of the North was turned down by Historic England.
Meet The Latest Shortlist For Trafalgar Square’s Fourth Plinth Commissions
Sadiq Khan, The Mayor of London, has announced the six artists who have been shortlisted for Trafalgar Square’s future Fourth Plinth commissions: They are:...
Duggie Fields British Artist And Fashion Icon Dies Age 75
Duggie Fields, who died yesterday, was one of the new figurative painters that defined Britain in the 1970s and 80s. His work was internationally...
Banksy Paints Escaping Oscar Wilde Mural For LGBTQ+ History Month
Banksy has confirmed that he was behind an artwork that appeared on a wall at HM Reading Prison earlier in the week.
Kathryn Maple Wins Prestigious John Moores Painting Prize
Kathryn Maple has won the prestigious John Moores Painting Prize 2020 with her vibrant work, The Common. The Walker Art Gallery announced the recipients today.
Chancellor Rishi Sunak Announces £408m Injection For Arts Sector
After suffering the worst financial crisis in 300 years Rishi Sunak, the UK's Chancellor has promised to give the arts sector over £400m to...
Sir Alan Bowness Former Tate Director Dies – Amateur Painting Realises £8.3m At Christie’s – National Gallery And Hugh Lane New Partnership
Sir Alan Bowness Former Tate Director Dies - Amature Painting Realises £8.3m At Christie's - National Gallery And Hugh Lane New Partnership
26 February 2021
What’s The Fuss About Non-Fungible Tokens? – Edward Lucie-Smith
Suddenly my web feed is full of information about Non-Fungible Tokens - the latest form of digital art. Here, for example, are images of...
Jeff Koons Loses Copyright Infringement Appeal – Rare Van Gogh Montmartre Painting Auctioned – Louvre’s Renovation Of Cy Twombly Gallery an Affront
Jeff Koons Loses Copyright Infringement Appeal - Rare Van Gogh Montmartre Painting Auctioned - Louvre's Renovation Of Cy Twombly Gallery an Affront
UK Museums Set To Open From 17 May – Munch’s Cryptic Graffiti On The Scream – Courtauld Gallery Major Gift
UK Museums Set To Open From 17 May - Scrawled Cryptic Graffiti Discovered On The Scream - Courtauld Gallery Major Gift
17 February 2021
Banksy Hula Hoop Girl Removed And Sold From Nottingham Wall
The Banksy mural known as 'Hula-hoop Girl' that appeared on a residential street in Nottingham last October has been hacked from the wall.
What The Art World Will Look Like Post Plague – Edward Lucie-Smith
What’s up for art here in London, once the pandemic is finally over? Will we all be able to go back to the state...
National Gallery’s 200th Birthday Revamp – Derelict IKEA To Become Coventry Arts Centre – New Laws To Protect Historic UK Statues
National Gallery 200th Birthday Revamp - Derelict IKEA To Become Coventry Arts Centre - New Laws To Protect Historic UK Statues
11 February 2021
Damien Hirst Gagosian Gallery Takeover – John Moores Painting Prize Shortlist
Damien Hirst Gagosian Gallery Takeover - John Moores Painting Prize Shortlist Announced The first prize winner will be announced on 4 March.
Camille Pissarro Saga Continues – Shai Baitel First Artistic Director Of MAM Shanghai – Louvre Abu Dhabi Explores Abstraction and Calligraphy
The Modern Art Museum MAM Shanghai has announced Shai Baitel as its inaugural Artistic Director. The newly opened state of the art museum located...
DESERT X 2021 Postponed – National Gallery’s Top 20 Online Paintings – Studio Voltaire Set Autumn Reopen Date
DESERT X 2021 Postponed - National Gallery's Top 20 Online Paintings - Studio Voltaire Set Autumn Reopen Date
3 February 2021
Guerrilla Girls Call For MoMa Chairman Leon Black To Resign – Goldsmiths Move Towards Industrial Action – Angelina Jolie Auctions £3m Winston Churchill Painting
Leon Black,MoMa, Goldsmiths ,Industrial action ,Angelina Jolie To Sell £3m Sir Winston Churchill Painting
Richard L. Feigen High Profile Art Dealer Dead From COVID Age 90
Richard L. Feigen (August 8, 1930-January 29, 2021) one of the world-leaders in Old Master painting as well as German Expressionism to Francis Bacon,...
28 January 2021
Sotheby’s Botticelli Portrait Sells For Record $92m – Star Rembrandt Painting Withdrawn
The sale of Young Man Holding A Roundel 1470-80) by Sandro Botticelli, which went under the hammer today at Sotheby's has made in excess of...
28 January 2021
Signed Decourt Painting Discovered – TEFAF Maastricht 2021 Dates – Largest UK Art Exhibition Announced
Signed Decourt Painting Discovered - TEFAF Maastricht 2021 Dates - Largest UK Art Exhibition Announced
Pussy Riot Protests Putin’s Palace – Swiss Authorities Drop Dmitry Rybolovlev Case – Giuseppe Penone Donates 200 More Works
Pussy Riot Protests Putin's Palace - Swiss Authorities Drop Dmitry Rybolovlev Case - Giuseppe Penone Donates 200 More Works
Edward Colston Four Opt For Jury Trial – Explore V&A’s Raphael Cartoons – Edmund de Waal Gifts Library Of Exile To Mosul
The four people charged with criminal damage for pulling down a bronze statue of slave trader Edward Colston and dumping it in Bristol harbour...
21 January 2021
Trump Pardons Gambling Gallerist Helly Nahmad – Art Basel Postpones Flagship Fair Again – Stolen Salvator Mundi Recovered
Less than 24 hours before leaving office Donald Trump granted pardons to dozens of convicted criminals including the gallerist Helly Nahmad.
Trump Baby Blimp Acquired By Museum of London – Public Monument Removal Just Got Harder – Nicholas Serota Reappointed ACE Chair
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
Dasha Zhukova Buys Back Garage Magazine - Cornelius Gurlitt Hoard Remains Untraceable - Met Museum Launches Free Augmented Reality Tour
Ben Uri Gallery Goes Digital To Survive – Edward Lucie-Smith
The Ben Uri Gallery in London has just come up with a new operation model, better suited to the needs of relatively small outfits,...