Royal Academy Elects Three Dynamic New Academicians
Three new Royal Academicians have been elected to round off the year. Shirazeh Houshiary, Brian Griffiths and Clare Woods
14 July 2022
Three new Royal Academicians have been elected to round off the year. Shirazeh Houshiary, Brian Griffiths and Clare Woods
14 July 2022
Paris+ par Art Basel, which has all but replaced the French art fair FIAC in the Grand Palais, has announced the lineup for the 2022 fair.
12 July 2022
Kim Jones, the creative director of Dior, has created a new collection of menswear inspired by the Bloomsbury Group painter Duncan Grant 1885 – 1978.
4 July 2022
As a student, Boris Johnson lambasted UK officials for not allowing the repatriation of the Parthenon Marbles.
2 July 2022
The painter Margaret Keane, creator of melancholy portraits of big-eyed children, popular in the late 1950s-1960s, has died aged 94.
30 June 2022
The sale proceeds of Jeff Koons’ iconic Balloon Monkey (Magenta) (2006-13), which sold for £10,136,500 / $12,437,486 / €11,738,067 at Christie’s last night…
29 June 2022
One of the great innovators of postwar American art, Sam Gilliam, has died aged 88.
27 June 2022
Eight men have been convicted of stealing A Banksy artwork depicting a weeping woman that was taken from the Bataclan concert hall in Paris.
23 June 2022
A group of people representing the Windrush generation joined HRH Duke and Duchess of Cambridge at London Waterloo Station (22 June 2022) to witness the unveiling of the first National Windrush Monument.
23 June 2022
The British artist Gavin Turk has created a new public artwork Inspired by surrealist artistic methodologies and the ‘myth’ of the artist.
22 June 2022
The Turner Prize has announced that it will be presented at Towner Eastbourne in 2023, as the centrepiece of the gallery’s centenary celebrations.
15 June 2022
Dame Paula Rego, one of the finest UK based figurative painters of her generation, has died suddenly in London aged 87.
8 June 2022
The Queen’s Jubilee Birthday Honours list 2022 has given the nod to several people involved in the Visual Arts, including a knighthood for the filmmaker Isaac Julien, The installation artist Cornelia Parker OBE and the Illustrator Sir Quentin Blake joining the elite Companions of Honour.
1 June 2022
The Royal College of Art, the world’s leading university of art and design, unveiled its new campus in Battersea
23 May 2022
The Whitechapel Gallery has announced that curator and writer, Gilane Tawadros, has been appointed their new Director.
16 May 2022
A Man Ray photograph ‘Le Violon d’Ingres’ has set a new record price for a photograph, selling for $12.4 million
15 May 2022
Ten years after the Gurlitt Hoard (“Schwabing Art Trove”) hit the headlines worldwide, two important watercolours by Otto Dix will go under the hammer at Ketterer Kunst
13 May 2022
Donald Baechler, who died in April, was one of the most promising artists of the 1980s.
10 May 2022
Andy Warhol’s Shot Sage Blue Marilyn made double history last night as the most expensive pCostly Costly painting ever sold by a US artist and the most costly 20th-century work of art to sell at auction
10 May 2022
The Italian Conceptual artist Maurizio Cattelan is being sued in Paris over intellectual property infringement.
5 May 2022
After two years of indecision from museum directors both in the US and UK, The Philip Guston exhibition will finally… Read More
26 April 2022
The Nitsch Foundation, has announced the sad news of Hermann Nitsch’s death at age 83 on April 18, 2022. Nitsch… Read More
24 April 2022
The 59th Venice Biennale’s top prize, the Golden Lion, has been awarded to Great Britain’s Sonia Boyce OBE RA for Best National… Read More
24 April 2022
French Culture Ministry authorities have seized Pyotr Konchalovsky’s “Self-Portrait”, a painting owned by the Russian oligarch Petr Aven, a director… Read More
13 April 2022
In the early morning hours, I walked beside a tranquil River Mersey towards Tate Liverpool’s press launch, where there was… Read More
12 April 2022
The Royal College of Art (RCA), London, has been ranked the number 1 university for art & design internationally for… Read More
6 April 2022
A Landscape painting depicting an arch bridge thought to be the work of one of Rembrandt’s students, Govert Flinck, has… Read More
4 April 2022
The UK Government has placed an export bar on ‘Ferme Normande, Été’ (Hattenville) 1882 by Paul Cézanne to allow time… Read More
4 April 2022
UNESCO, the international body that assesses damages to cultural sites during crisis, has reported that 53 sites of international importance… Read More
3 April 2022
The Delfina Foundation has announced the death of its founder, Delfina Entrecanales CBE, at the age of 94. Over the… Read More
3 April 2022
The Turner Prize-Winning sculptor Anish Kapoor has called for a boycott of Phillips Auctioneers. In a statement published in the… Read More
31 March 2022
The Art dealer Ivor Braka is being sued by artists’ resale rights groups for not paying royalties to living artists… Read More
24 March 2022