17 November 2020
Chagall’s Largest Artwork Auctioned – Prix Pictet Theme Announced – Jade Montserrat Performs
News In Brief: Chagall's Largest Artwork Auctioned - Prix Pictet Theme Announced - Jade Montserrat Performs
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Imelda Marcos’ Botticelli Vanishes – Happy 100 Wayne Thiebaud – Iconic JFK Rockwell Painting Auctioned
News Brief: Imelda Marcos' Botticelli Vanishes - Happy 100 Wayne Thiebaud - Iconic JFK Rockwell Painting Auctioned
12 November 2020
Mary Wollstonecraft: A Lumpen Statue By Maggie Hambling – Sue Hubbard
It's been quite a year for statues. Normally no more than street furniture that no one bothers to look at - old white men...
12 November 2020
John Waters Gift To Baltimore Museum – Spain’s Latest Horrific Art Restoration – CINOA Begs UNESCO For Art Trade Cooperation
An Open Letter From CINOA Congratulates UNESCO for their 50-year anniversary of the 1970 Convention but pleads for better representation of the facts and...
National Gallery And Nikon Announce Online Content Partnership – Edward Lucie-Smith
The next 12 months,’ so the press release tells one, ‘will see the National Gallery work with Nikon on a broad schedule of online...
Feminist Icon Mary Wollstonecraft Gets Statue – Deutsche Börse Prize Shortlist – Stanley Spencer’s Last Self-Portrait
Feminist Icon Mary Wollstonecraft Gets Statue - Deutsche Börse Prize Shortlist - Stanley Spencer's Last Self-Portrait
9 November 2020
Kara Walker Boots Trump Out – Sotheby’s Latest Lawsuit – Eileen Agar Whitechapel Show
Kara Walker Boots Trump Out - Eileen Agar Whitechapel Show - Sotheby's Latest Lawsuit
Marina Abramović Opera – Big Issue Artist Guitar Sale – Helmut Newton At Hamiltons
Performance artist, Marina Abramović, will premiere a new film version of her iconic opera, The Seven Deaths of Maria Callas (2020), on a series...
Grayson Perry’s Dead Wood Comment – Donald Trump’s Political Obituary – Taylor Wessing All Women Shortlist
Has Grayson gone mad? Has Trump lost it? Is Taylor Wessing heading for an all-women final. All the news in brief
Jasper Johns Flag Print Valued At $1m Donated To The British Museum
A print by the American Pop artist Jasper Johns depicting an American flag has been donated to the British Museum. Jasper Johns’s Flags I...
All UK Museums, Galleries and Auction Houses Ordered To Shut Down
Information on new national restrictions from the Gov.UK website state closures from 5 November of Museums Galleries and Auction Houses
29 October 2020
Major European Museums Shut As Second Wave Of COVID Strikes
The Louvre and all other French museums are to close their doors as of 6:00 pm tonight. With spiralling infections, both President Emmanuel Macron...
Tracey Emin Reveals Bladder Cancer Surgery Ahead Of RA Show
Tracey Emin, the YBA artist, best known for her Turner Prize-nominated 'Unmade Bed' has revealed that she has been suffering from bladder cancer. Last...
Mark Godfrey Guston Now Exhibition Curator Suspended By Tate
Tate has suspended Mark Godfrey, their Senior Curator of International Art and curator of the highly anticipated ‘Philip Guston Now’ exhibition for speaking out...
26 October 2020
Stik Creates A New Diversity Commission Fund For Hackney Public Sculptures
The popular Street Artist Stik has created a new fund for Hackney that will commission artists to create public sculptures reflecting the diverse communities...
23 October 2020
Marian Goodman To Close London Gallery – Is This The Tip Of The Iceberg?
Marian Goodman is to close her London gallery. A statement released today explained, “Dramatic changes” in the art world propelled the decision.
21 October 2020
Sackler Opioid Case Settled: US Justice Department Announces Global Resolution
Opioid Manufacturer Purdue Pharma: Justice Department Announces Global Resolution of Criminal and Civil Investigations
21 October 2020
Russell Tovey To Judge Turner Prize 2021 In Coventry City Of Culture
The 2021 Turner Prize will be presented at Herbert Art Gallery and Museum in Coventry as part of the city's UK City of Culture...
17 October 2020
New Banksy Nottingham Mural Confirmed – Find Out Where
A new work by the elusive graffiti artist Banksy has been confirmed in Nottingham. The work outside a beauty salon is on the junction...
14 October 2020
Meet Simone Leigh: First African-American Woman To Represent US At Venice Biennale
Simone Leigh has sculpted her way into the history books as the first African-American woman artist to be chosen to represent the U.S
12 October 2020
Art Fund Steps In With Shared 200K Museum Of The Year Award
The Art Fund, the Uk's largest arts charity have announced the biggest prize for museums in the world with a special edition of The...
Now National Galleries Scotland Drops Anthony d’Offay Association
National Galleries Scotland (NGS) has joined Tate in suspending all contact with the influential art dealer and collector Anthony d'Offay.
9 October 2020
Artist Frank Bowling Knighted In Queen’s Birthday Honours List 2020
Congratulations to Frank Bowling now Sir Richard Sheridan Franklin Bowling Kt ,OBE, RA, the Guyana-born British artist. His paintings relate to Abstract expressionism, Color...
Duncan Grant: Bloomsbury Group Artist’s Lost Homo-Erotic Drawings Discovered
A cache of over four hundred homo-erotic drawings by the Bloomsbury artist Duncan Grant has been found decades after experts believed they had been...
6 October 2020
Philip Guston Postponed: Curator David Anfam Speaks Out – Paul Carter Robinson
On 21 September, a statement quietly appeared on the website of the National Gallery Washington. It announced the postponement, of the "Philip Guston Now"...
4 October 2020
Royal Opera Auctions Hockney Portrait To Cover COVID Debts
An iconic portrait by the British Artist David Hockney of Royal Opera House boss Sir David Webster will go under the hammer this month...
2 October 2020
Paula Rego Severs Ties With Marlborough And Joins Victoria Miro
The British/Portuguese artist Paula Rego has severed ties with her long-term gallery Marlborough and joined Victoria Miro
1 October 2020
Damien Hirst Unveils First Solo Exhibition At His Newport Street Gallery
Damien Hirst has announced his first solo exhibition at his Newport Street Gallery, London, from 7 October 2020 – 7 March 2021. Titled ‘End...
29 September 2020
Now The V&A Contemplates Mass Redundancies
The V&A (Victoria and Albert Museum) are contemplating mass redundancies a press release received on the Artlyst desk today states:
Robert Bechtle First Wave American Photorealist Painter Dies Age 88
Robert Bechtle who has died age 88 was an American painter and printmaker born in San Francisco in 1932. He lived all his life...
25 September 2020
International Philip Guston Exhibition Postponed Over Anti-KKK Imagery
The eagerly awaited retrospective exhibition of the American artist Philip Guston, set to take place at Tate Modern in February 2021 has been postponed...