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3/6/2011

PICCADILLY COMMUNITY CENTRE EXHIBITION.

A highly detailed installation by Swiss artists Christoph Buchel has transformed the Hauser and Wirth Gallery in London's West End into a pop-up community centre. This strange fictional centre includes a bar, charity shop and money-lendng booth, which is ironic in a building which was a Lutyens-designed bank in a former life. Real life activities forming part of this art installation include hula-hooping, fencing and dancing.

Hauser and Wirth Gallery, London W1
Until 30 July 2011.

22/5/2011

BRIT POP AT THE ELEVEN GALLERY.

Petes Blake's take on sex symbols, Natasha Law's semi-nudes and intimate portraits by Jonathan Yeo. Find all of these at the latest exhibition at London's Eleven Gallery. The Brit Pop exhibition is also displaying art works by Ben Turnbull, Rob and Nick Carter and Daisy de Villeneuve.

Eleven Gallery, London SW1
Until 11 July 2011.

18/5/2011

TRACEY EMIN: LOVE IS WHAT YOU WANT.

The Tracey Emin exhibition "Love Is What You Want" opened at the Hayward Gallery in London's Southbank Centre today. This major exhibition covers every period of the career of one of Britain’s most well-known contemporary artists. It features painting, drawing, photography, textiles, video and sculpture. Emin's works vary from tough, romantic, desperate, angry, funny and full of longing.

Early works are shown alongside recent large-scale installations and a new series of outdoor sculptures created especially for the Hayward Gallery.

Hayward Gallery,
18 May - 29 August 2011.

6/5/2011

TURNER PRIZE SHORTLIST ANNOUNCED.

With a shortlist comprising painting, sculpture, film and installation, this year's Turner Prize certainly spans the breadth of art being produced in Britain today. The prize exhibition is being held at Baltic in Gateshead and includes work by artists from as far afield as Ilfracombe and Glasgow.

Look out for Glasgow-based Karla Black's 3-d abstract paintings and George Shaw's incredibly detailed enamel paintings of a Coventry housing estate.

5/5/2011

GIANT TRACEY EMIN TAPESTRY.

You'll have to be quick if you want to see a giant tapestry of Tracey Emin's "Black Cat" painting. It will be on show at the Craft Council's Collect 2011 exhibition at the Saatchi Gallery in Chelsea until Monday 9th May.

It was commissioned from the West Dean Tapestry Studio and will be returned to the artist's East London studio after the exhibition closes.

19/4/2011

HOCKNEY SALE AT BONHAMS.

An auction on 20th April at Bonhams in London is devoted to works by David Hockney. The sale includes pen and ink drawings, signed lithographs, some unusual ceramics and originals; it also features photographs of the artist himself from the 1960s by Cecil Beaton.

The star lot is a Picasso-inspired image of Hockney's friend and muse, the designer Celia Birtwell. The signed lithograph is expected to fetch £80,000.

1/4/2011

THE COURTAULD COLLECTION AT SOMERSET HOUSE.

The Courtauld Gallery's permanent exhibition at Somerset House is best-known for its Impressionist and Post-Impressionist paintings such as Van Gogh's "Self-Portrait With Banadaged Ear". But it is also home to Baroque, Gothic and Medieval paintings as well as drawings and prints by Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, Canaletto and Picasso.

Don't miss out on this national treasure, which is one of the finest small art museums in the world

Somerset House, London WC2

29/3/2011

ALICE CHANNER: BODY CONSCIOUS.

Alice Channer’s second solo show at The Approach focuses on sculpture, materials, space and the human body. The human body itself is never represented but is everywhere that the work is not. The works consider the way in which the artist's tools are affected technology such as in the size limitations imposed by digital printers.

As with all Channer’s works the sense of place around the works and the way your own body navigates them is as important as the space the works occupy.

The Approach, London E1
18 March until 24 April 2011.

28/3/2011

WATTEAU: THE DRAWINGS.

The first UK retrospective of the French artist Jean-Antoine Watteau’s drawings is currently showing at the Royal Academy of Arts in London. The exhibition contains over 80 exquisite chalk sketches on paper, that show the full range of Watteau’s subject matter.

The artist kept his drawings in bound volumes as a reference and source of inspiration when composing his paintings. He was well known for his mastery at combining red, black and white chalk and rarley used pen and ink for his drawings.

Royal Academy, London W1
12 March until 5 June 2011.

22/3/2011

MIRO: THE LADDER OF ESCAPE.

Featuring more than 150 works, Tate Modern in London is holding the UK's first retrospective of the work of the Surrealist artist Joan Miro in nearly 50 years. Renowned for filling his paintings with luxuriant colour, Miró worked in a rich variety of styles.

This is a rare opportunity to enjoy the paintings, drawings, sculptures and prints in which the artist used symbols that reflect his personal vision, sense of freedom, and energy. The exhibition includes many of the famous works that fans know and love.

Tate Modern
14 April until 11 September 2011.

28/2/2011

MARCUS COATES' "THE TRIP".

As part of the Serpentine Gallery's Skills Exchange project where artists work with old people in order to develop ideas, the artist Marcus Coates visited the rainforest of Ecuador. His intention was to experience a journey that an elderly patient of a hospice could not experience himself and then relive it for him.

"The Trip" is a film and sound installation that records the discussions between Coates and Alex, the elderly patient, before and after the trip. The film deliberately does not include footage of Ecuador to allow the viewer to imagine the scenes based on the artist's descriptions.

At the Serpentine Gallery
until 2 May 2011.

21/2/2011

DO NOT ABANDON ME.

An exhibition is currently showing of the collaboration between the late French-American artist and scupltor Louise Bourgeois and Tracey Emin. Bourgeois died in 2010 at the age of 98 but it was only in 1981 at the age of 70 that she received her first retrospective show (at MOMA in New York). Before that she was a peripheral figure in the art world even though she was a friend of both Mark Rothko and Jackson Pollock.

She was best known for using autobiographical imagery in her sculptures to relive her childhood trauma of discovering that her governess was also her father’s mistress. So the collaboration with Emin, who constantly explores her own emotional and psychological events in her work, is a natural one. Bourgeois approved all the joint artworks before her death.

Hauser & Wirth, London W1
until 12 March 2011.

17/2/2011

NUDE AT THE BRITISH ART SHOW.

Turner Prize nominee Roger Hiorns has a work on display at the British Art Show, which he describes as a "collaboration of choreography and objects". The work involves three art school students who will take turns to perch nude at one end of a metal bench while flames burn at the other end.

16/2/2011

£44 MILLION OF CONTEMPORARY ART SOLD AT AUCTION.

The current economic climate does not seem to be affecting the contemporary art market. Works worth more than £44 million sold today at Sotheby's in London.

Star lots included Warhol's Nine Multicoloured Marilyns, Gerhard Richter's Abstraktes Bild and hand-painted porcelain sunflower seeds by Ai Weiwei. Also included in the sale were works by Anthony Gormley and David Hockney.

13/2/2011

WATERCOLOUR AT TATE BRITAIN.

This ambitious exhibition spans 800 years and aims to dispel any misconceptions that watercolours are an inferior artistic genre. Because watercolours are less expensive and quicker drying than oils they enabled artists right across the globe to capture scenes as and when they saw them. A fascinating exhibition that includes works from artists on Captain Cook's voyages, eye-witness scenes from European battlefields and paintings ranging from Turner and Blake through to David Austen and Tracey Emin.

Tate Britain, London SW1
16 Feb to 21 Aug 2011.

10/2/2011

MODERN BRITISH SCULPTURE.

Big name British sculptors will have works on show at the latest Royal Academy exhibition. The show explores the last 30 years of sculpture in the UK with works by Dame Barbara Hepworth, Richard Long, Julian Opie, Eric Gill, Sir Anthony Caro and Damien Hirst. A fascinating exhibition but sadly lacking in artworks by the two Royal Academicians Anthony Gormley and Mark Quinn.

Royal Academy, London W1
until 7 Apr 2011.

24/1/2011

RODCHENKO AND HIS CIRCLE.

Photographs from Alexander Rodchenko's archives from the 1920s and 1930s obviously represent the influence of Soviet Russian propaganda. But many of the hundreds of prints in this astonishing exhibition by Rodchenko and his circle explore light and shade in Moscow's street life. The later works, during the Stalin era, show female shipyard workers, criminals constructing the White Sea Canal and mass parades in Moscow.

Art Sensus Gallery
until 19 Mar 2011.

21/1/2011

ANOTHER PICASSO GOES UNDER THE HAMMER.

Next month Sothebys in London will auction the 1932 portrait "La Lecture" by Picasso of his mistress Marie-Therese Walter. Painted in bright yellow, green and red oils at the height of Picasso's "lovestruck" period, it is expected to fetch £12 - £18 million. Marie-Therese was one of a series of lovers and muses who inspired Picasso throughout his career.

17/1/2011

GABRIEL OROZCO AT TATE MODERN

Mexican artist Orozco is renowned for his endless experimentation with found objects, which he subtly alters, to reveal new ways of looking at something familiar. His playful and inventive sculptures, often made of everyday items, are created wherever he is inspired.

Tate Modern
19 Jan - 25 Apr 2011.

3/12/2010

THOMAS LAWRENCE - A GREAT BRITISH PAINTER?

The National Portrait Gallery's latest show challenges us to consider whether the Regency artist Thomas Lawrence deserves to be considered one of the great British painters alongside Reynolds, Gainsborough, Turner and Constable.

Renowned for his flamboyant portraits of the great and good of 19th century Britain, his most impressive portraits have been gathered together for this exhibition. There is also the opportunity to view some of his more initmate works.

National Portrait Gallery
Until 23 Jan 2011.

29/11/2010

BRITISH ART SHOW 7.

Through paintings, sculpture, installations, video, film, performance, and all points in between, British Art Show 7 explores the ways in which contemporary British art conjures up histories.

It is widely recognized as one of the most ambitious and influential exhibitions of contemporary British art and includes work by 39 artists from the past five years, The British Art Show comes to Nottingham first and will be shown at three venues around the city centre. Throughout 2011 the show then moves to London, Glasgow and Plymouth.

BAS7
Nottingham 23 October - 9 Jan 2011.

18/11/2010

JAMES TURRELL.

An exhibition of new installations, light works, sculptures and prints by James Turrell is being held at Gagosian's London Gallery. Turrell uses light as a medium of perception in simple works. He uses light to create form and structure where none actually exists. His works explore extremes of perception from complete sensory deprivation to intense optical effects.

Although the artist also paints and sculpts, he continues to use light as his primary subject and material.

Gagosian Gallery,
London, WC1, until 10 Dec 2010.

01/11/2010

NO NEW THING UNDER THE SUN.

An exhibition of artworks that spans 500 years is now showing at the Royal Academy of Arts. Works by artists as diverse as Tracey Emin and John Constable explore themes of life and death.

Royal Academy of Arts,
London, W1, until 9 Jan 2011.

30/10/2010

SURREAL FRIENDS.

An exhibition of the work of three female artists on the fringes of the male-dominated Surrealist movement. Leonora Carrington, Remedios Varo and Kati Horna fled Nazi Europe in 1943 for a new life in Mexico where their new environment brought new inspiration to their work.

Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, Norwich until 12 Dec 2010.

28/10/2010

VENICE: CANALETTO AND HIS RIVALS.

This exhibition of Venetian views presents about 60 major loans from public and private collections across Europe and North America. Major works by Canaletto are hung alongside those of rivals such as Bernardo Bellotto and Francesco Guardi to highlight different approaches to similar views of the city.

Also shown are less well-known artists who painted poorer quality works mainly as British Grand Tour souvenirs.

National Gallery
London, WC2.
13 October 2010 - 16 January 2011.

26/10/2010

NEWSPEAK: BRITISH ART NOW PART 2.

The second installment of the Saatchi Gallery's exhibition of emergent British contemporary art opens tomorrow. It is intended to provide an insight into the art being made in the UK today and celebrate a new generation of artists, artforms and images.

The artworks range from sculpture and painting, to installation and photography. Artists employ traditional and contemporary techniques and materials to articulate their visions of the world around them. Exciting mergers of east with west, celebrity with classicism, fantasy with formality indicates strength in the future of contemporary art in Britain.

Saatchi Gallery
Duke of York's HQ, King's Road
London, SW3 4SQ.
27 October 2010 - 16 January 2011.

07/10/2010

JERRY HALL'S ART COLLECTION FETCHES NEARLY £2.5M AT AUCTION.

A collection of artwork owned by supermodel Jerry Hall fetched £2,489,775 million at auction at Sotheby's in London this week-end. The 14 works were estimated to sell for £1.5M and included pieces by artists such as Andy Warhol, Damien Hirst and Ed Ruscha.

But the star piece was Lucian Freud's "Eight Months Gone", a tiny oil on canvas of a naked Jerry while eight months' pregnant with her fourth child with Mick Jagger. It was painted after Freud met her at a dinner party and asked if he could paint her. It sold for nearly twice its estimate of £300,000 to £400,000.

07/10/2010

GAUGUIN: MAKER OF MYTH.

A chance to see a major exhibition of Gauguin's work for the first time in nearly 50 years in Britain. The familiarity of many of the works as reproductions cannot prepare you for the impact and vibrancy of the real thing. Nearly 200 paintings, drawings, prints and sculptures cover the changing course of his work throughout his life; from lone painter in a Parisian garret to Martinique and Brittany. Then on to the erotic works painted in Tahiti to his final period as an invalid in the Marquesas, where he died at the age of 54.

Tate Modern
until 16 January 2011.

05/10/2010

BECKERHARRISON: WHAT A DIFFERENCE A DAY MAKES.

Photographer Carolin Becker and painter Simon Harrison originally travelled to Jaipur to capture daily Indian street-life and the role of Hinduism. But shortly after their arrival in 2008 more than 60 people were killed by nine simultaneous bombings. This tradegy transformed their subsequent work.

All but one of the powerful photographs are over-painted by Harrison. He uses his skills as a graffiti artist to spray-paint and also uses acrylics and gouache.

At "The Outsiders", Soho, W1D 4DG.
Tel: 0203 214 0055/66 for details.

05/10/2010

PAVILION OF ART & DESIGN.

A spectacular show at the heart of Frieze Week showcasing the very best of design, modern painting, decorative arts, jewellery, photography and tribal art.

In the beautiful setting of Berkeley Square in London you will be able to enjoy a range of artworks in different mediums and different periods from the late 1800's to the present day.

04/10/2010

MAKE YOUR MARK EXHIBITION.

THE autumn season at Barn Galleries, Aston, near Henley opened last week with the Daler Rowney Make Your Mark Exhibition. Paintings by the 16 prizewinners were on display. This was an international event with more than 1,800 entries and winners from Holland, Germany, Turkey, Finland, Poland, France, Bulgaria, Singapore and the USA as well as the UK.

Visit Barn Galleries for more details.

17/09/2010

SALVATOR ROSA - BANDITS, WILDERNESS AND MAGIC.

In the first major exhibition of his work in the UK since the 1970's, there is an opportunity this autumn to see the work of the Italian painter Salvator Rosa. Rosa was one of the most flamboyant and independent painters of the 17th century.

His early works are dominated by windswept landscapes but his more mature works featured dark figures of brooding intensity, which are characterised by his amazingly free technique. Rosa invented new types of painting for the period: allegorical pictures, romantic and enigmatic portraits, macabre and horrific subjects and philosophical subjects.

Dulwich Picture Gallery, SE21 7AD.
15 September - 28 November 2010.

17/09/2010

HENRY MOORE SCULPTURE GOES HOME.

A Henry Moore sculpture affectionately known as "Old Flo" is to be returned to the Stifford estate in London's East End. The estate had been the home of the work "Draped Seated Woman" for 40 years until 1997 when it was lent to the Yorkshire Sculpture Park.

The return of the sculpture follows a campaign led by Tower Hamlets councillor Tim Archer.

01/09/2010

OLYMPIC ART.

Rare posters from 100 years of the Olympics are to be displayed together in London for the first time. The exhibition includes Andy Warhol's 1984 design for the Sarajevo Winter Olympics and David Hockney's Los Angeles poster of the same year.

Most of the collection comes from the V&A archives and includes a 1948 design for the London Olympics showing a discus thrower in front of Big Ben.

Europa Gallery, Sutton Central Library.
1 September - 31 October 2010.

27/08/2010

6TH LIVERPOOL BIENNIAL.

For ten weeks every two years the city of Liverpool is transformed into the most amazing living gallery of new art, showcasing the best contemporary artists from around the world.

Liverpool Biennial 2010 will continue its emphasis on commissioning the most ambitious and challenging new work. It offers the largest concentration of contemporary art anywhere in the UK.

Various Venues - Liverpool Biennial.
18 September - 28 November 2010.

25/08/2010

SKIN.

The 'Skin' exhibition invites you to consider the changing importance of skin, from anatomical thought in the 16th century through to contemporary artistic exploration. The exhibition covers four themes - Objects, Marks, Impressions and Afterlives. It begins by looking at the skin as a frontier between the inside and the outside of the body. Then moves to look at the skin as a living document: with tattoos, scars and wrinkles. Finally, the skin is considered as a sensory organ of touch and as a delicate threshold between life and death.

Note the exhibition contains human remains and graphic images.

Wellcome Collection, London NW1.
Until 26 September 2010.

23/08/2010

TREASURES FROM BUDAPEST.

The exhibition features over 200 works including paintings, drawings and sculpture from the early Renaissance to the twentieth century. Selected works by artists including Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael, Goya, Monet, Gauguin and Picasso will be on display. Many of these have not previously been shown in the UK.

Royal Academy of Arts.
25 September-12 December 2010.

20/08/2010

TRAFALGAR SQUARE'S FOURTH PLINTH.

Six new sculptures have been shortlisted to replace Nelson's Ship in a Bottle by Yonki Shonibare, which is currently on display on Trafalgar Square's Fourth Plinth. This is the latest commission in a series that started in 2005 and has included works by Mark Quinn and Antony Gormley.

The choice of works is led by the Fourth Plinth Commissioning Group. This choice is in part informed by the comments that the Public submit. The current shortlist can be viewed at the Fourth Plinth Website, where you can also give your comments on the works and influence the biggest contemporary art commission in central London.

19/08/2010

RACHEL WHITEREAD: DRAWINGS.

Rachel Whiteread is renowned for her evocative large-scale sculptures, but drawing has always remained one of her core activities. This exhibition offers a rare opportunity to experience the Turner Prize winner's intricate works on paper, most of which have never been shown before in a public gallery.

At Tate Britain.
8 September 2010 - 16 January 2011.

17/08/2010

EADWEARD MUYBRIDGE.

British-born Eadweard Muybridge is one of the most influential photographers of all time. He pushed the limits of the camera's possibilities, creating world-famous images of animals and humans in motion. Just as impressive are his vast panoramas of American landscapes, such as the Yosemite valley.

This exhibition brings together the full range of his art for the first time, and explores the ways in which Muybridge created and honed his remarkable images.

At Tate Britain.
8 September 2010 - 16 January 2011.

15/08/2010

IMPRESSIONIST GARDENS.

Impressionist Gardens is a major exhibition of over 90 works including loans from collections around the world. It is the first exhibition ever to be devoted to this subject. Famous Impressionists are well represented, with fine examples by Monet, Pissarro, Renoir, Manet and Sisley.

The exhibition also examines the continued significance of the Impressionist garden to the generation of artists working immediately after the Impressionists, such as Cézanne and Bonnard.

At the National Galleries of Scotland.
31st July to 17th October 2010.

13/08/2010

CAMILLE SILVY: PHOTOGRAPHER OF MODERN LIFE.

Camille Silvy was a pioneer of early photography and one of the greatest French photographers of the nineteenth century. This exhibition includes over 100 remarkable images focusing on a ten-year creative burst from 1857-67 working in Algiers, rural France, Paris and London. It shows how Silvy pioneered theatre, fashion and street photography.

Silvy photographed royalty, aristocrats and celebrities. And also country gentry, their wives, children and servants.

At the National Portrait Gallery.
15 July - 24 October 2010.

11/08/2010

IS BEN EINE THE NEW BANKSY?

Ben Eine recently hit the spotlight as the street artist whose £2,500 painting "Twenty-First Century City" has given to Barack Obama by David Cameron as a gift. The work now hangs in the White House. But unlike many street artists Ben's work is not political. He prefers positive, uplifting messages.

You can catch Ben Eine at work, along with street artists Zevs and D*Face, decorating the streets of Shoreditch on Monday 20th September 2010.

09/08/2010

ACTS OF MERCY.

A series of paintings by Frederick Cayley Robinson, which explore the positive force of the human spirit are going on show at the National Gallery in the first exhibition of his work for more than 30 years.

The series was commissioned by the former Middlesex Hospital where they hung for decades. They were rescued by the Wellcome Trust when the hospital was closed in 2006.

At the National Gallery.
Until 17 October 2010.

07/08/2010

PICASSO: THE MEDITERRANEAN YEARS.

With a focus on Picasso's most intimate works, this exhibition is an important contrast to Tate Liverpool's exhibition "Picasso: Peace and Freedom." Between these two exhibitions, visitors will have a rare opportunity to explore the public and private faces of this multi-dimensional artist.

Many of the paintings on show have been loaned to the gallery from the private collection of the Picasso family.

Gagosian Gallery, London WC1.
Until 28 August 2010.

05/08/2010

FIRST SHOW OF ARTWORKS CREATED ON IPAD.

Tate Britain has announced its first iPad art installation. An entire room will be devoted to an app allowing visitors to create their own drawings. These will be printed and displayed on the walls.

The iPad has now become a valid tool for many artists, such as David Hockney, who has created a series or artworks on his own iPad.

03/08/2010

BETWEEN THOUGHT AND ACTION.

An exhibition of 170 drawings from some of the most prominent names in contemporary art, including Tracey Emin, Rachel Whiteread, Lucian Freud and Damien Hirst.

The drawings range from doodles and sketches to finished works. And the quality of them varies enormously. But the intimacy of the drawings brings the viewer close to the heart of the artists' inspiration.

White Cube Gallery, London N1.
Until 28 August 2010.

01/08/2010

ANOTHER WORLD: DALÍ, MAGRITTE, MIRÓ AND THE SURREALISTS.

The Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art has one of the world's finest collections of Surrealist art. To celebrate its 50th anniversary, the gallery is displaying its collection in it's entirety for the first time.

Highlights include Picasso's 1937 potrait of Lee Miller and Magritte's Le Temps Menaçant.

Dean Gallery, Edinburgh
until 9 January 2011.

21/07/2010

SARGENT AND THE SEA.

Before he became such a well-known society portrait painter, John Singer Sargent was fascinated by the coast. Early in his career he produced seascapes and coastal scenes during summer journeys from Paris to Brittany, Normandy and Capri.

Now, for the first time in Britain, this exhibition presents more than 80 paintings, drawings and watercolours that reveal a less familiar side of the artist.

Royal Academy, London
until 26 September 2010.

10/07/2010

HOWARD HODGKIN: TIME AND PLACE.

A major new exhibition of paintings by Howard Hodgkin explores the acclaimed British artist's use of abstraction as an expression of subjective experience. Spanning ten years of the artist's career, the exhibition includes paintings not previously seen by a general public. These include a body of new work developed from his "Home, Home on the Range" series of 2008. Together, they will highlight the physical as well as emotional charge of Hodgkin's art through his use of scale, sensitivity to light and his ability to create depth and atmosphere using colour and brushstroke.

Modern Art Oxford.
Until 5 Sept 2010.

05/07/2010

PRINT POWER.

An exhibition of engravings, lithographs and woodcut prints which make use of religious motifs and iconography to draw attention to issues in modern society.

The exhibition includes prints by artists such as Picasso, Kollwitz and Nolde.

The Barber Institute of Fine Arts, Birmingham. Until 1 August 2010.

03/07/2010

EVERYDAY PEOPLE - SPENCER TUNICK.

To celebrate its 10th birthday, The Lowry, in Manchester, has commissioned a new installation of naked bodies by American artist Spencer Tunick. This is Tunick's first multi-site installation and also the first time he has responded to the work of another artist for the entirety of a project - the work of LS Lowry.

The artist worked with 1,000 people in secret locations across Salford and Manchester to create a compelling series of photographs and documentary film.

12 June - 26 Sept at The Lowry, Manchester.

01/07/2010

WARHOL SILKSCREEN SELLS FOR £6.7 MILLION.

A portrait of Elizabeth Taylor by Andy Warhol has been sold at auction for £6.7 million. The 1963 work called "Silver Liz" was an early development of Warhol's now well-known silkscreen printing process.

The prestigious sale of contemporary art at Christie's in London sold works totalling over £45 million.

29/06/2010

FIGHTER JETS TRANSFORMED INTO WORKS OF ART.

Artist Fiona Banner has always been fascinated by fighter planes. And now she has turned two de-commissioned jets into huge sculptures. The new work can be viewed in Tate Britain's neo-classical central galleries. The 14m long Harrier jet, with a wing-span of 7.6m, is suspended from the ceiling of the South Duveens Gallery.

Banner, a former Turner Prize nominee, said of the work "I see it as addressing our ambivalence in how we look at war. We loathe it but we are oddly drawn to these machines".

"Harrier and Jaguar" at Tate Britain
until 3 January 2011.

28/06/2010

SOUTH LONDON GALLERY RE-OPENS WITH A NEW EXTENSION.

The South London Gallery on Peckham Road SE5 was built in 1891. But it has spent most of its life hidden away behind the Camberwell College of Arts. A new extension has addressed this problem with a new entrance through the house next door. This has given the contemporary art gallery a new shop, education centre and café.

The first exhibition in the transformed space is called "Nothing Is Forever" and includes beautiful wall paintings that will be painted over at the end of the exhibition to become a layer of the buildings historical fabric.

"Nothing Is Forever" at the South London Gallery
until 5 September 2010.

26/06/2010

£45M MAKEOVER FOR TATE BRITAIN.

Permission has been granted for a siginficant refurbishment of Tate Britain so that more of it's collection can be shown. The first phase of the revamp is due to be completed by 2013. The plan is to bring coherence to the assorted additions and alterations that have been made to the original gallery designed in the 19th century.

The improvements include new galleries, a new café and a dramatic concrete and glass spiral staircase. They will ensure that the internationally renowned Tate continues to be a global success. And make it an even better experience for visitors.

25/06/2010

WOLFGANG TILLMANS AT THE SERPENTINE GALLERY.

Wolfgang Tillmans was one of the youngest artists to have won the Turner Prize (in 2000). He was also the first to win it for photography. Since then his work has continued to develop and spans anything from a stack of egg cartons to a soaring Concorde.

In his first big exhibition in London since 2003, the Serpentine Gallery presents a particluar focus on his non-figurative works. Large, colour-saturated abstracts investigating the materials of photography.

A free exhibition at the Serpentine Gallery
until 10 September 2010.

23/06/2010

RECORD AUCTION PRICES FOR MODERN ART.

There has been an astonishing recovery in the art market over the past 12 months. Record prices have been achieved at all the major auction houses and this summer a series of auctions are expected to be the most lucrative London has experienced. In a shaky world economy, art purchases are seen as reassuring to the very wealthy.

Some of the works available include a Manet self-portrait, one of Monet's waterlily paintings and a Blue Period Picasso.

22/06/2010

PRINTS OF THE LONDON EYE.

In celebration of the 10th anniversary of the London Eye, 10 celebrities have created one-off illustrations of the wheel. Prints of the works by Kate Moss, Sadie Frost and Henry Holland, amongst others, will be sold at the Eye. The proceeds will support the Evelina Children's Hospital.

21/06/2010

WELSH ARTIST OF THE YEAR 2010.

An impressive array of styles are on show in this free exhibition. With works by more than 100 artists including Neale Howells, Andre Stitt and Christine Jones.

At St. David's Hall, Cardiff
until 6 August 2010.

20/06/2010

A STORY OF DECEPTION.

Tate Modern presents an exhibition of the work of the Belgian artist Francis Alÿs, now based in Mexico. The show includes works in all media by this prolific and eclectic artist. Installations that you can walk on, images to take away and films of some of his conceptual projects. Like pushing a block of ice through the hot streets of Mexico City or moving an entire sand dune in Peru.

At Tate Modern
until 5 September 2010.

19/06/2010

THE COURTAULD COLLECTS.

Celebrate one of the treasures of the London art world. See paintings by Turner Constable, Degas and Reynolds.

Somerset House, London WC2
until 19 September 2010.

18/06/2010

THE SURREAL HOUSE.

Salvador Dali, Marchel Duchamp and René Magritte are amongst the artists contributing to this exhibition. The Surreal House is an experience of haunted rooms, delirious forms, and cinematic dreamscapes. A place of foreboding, wonder and desire - sometimes playful and at others deeply disquieting.

More contemporary artists contributing to the exhibition include Rebecca Horn and Edward Kienholz.

At the Barbican Art Gallery from 10 June until 12 September 2010.

17/06/2010

RUDE BRITANNIA: BRITISH COMIC ART.

An exhibition of some of the country's best-known cartoonists and comedy writers. An exploration of British comic art from the 1600s to the present day, the show includes paintings, sculptures, film and photography, as well as graphic art and comic books. Expect saucy postcards and laugh out loud slapstick fun at this celebration of our rich history of cartooning and visual jokes.

Works by a range of artists such as Aubrey Beardsley, Sarah Lucas, and Grayson Perry. Also Gerald Scarfe, Steve Bell, and the cartoonists from Viz.

At Tate Britain from 9 June until 5 September 2010.

16/06/2010

SOUTH BANK'S FESTIVAL BRAZIL.

As part of the South Bank's Festival Brazil there is a new exhibition at the Hayward Gallery by Brazilian artist Ernesto Neto who is renowned for his sensuous sculptures. The exhibition includes a "metaphorical rainforest" to bring the spirit of Rio de Janeiro to the capital and also a heated outdoor swimming pool large enough for 16 swimmers on the gallery's terrace.

Visitors can book a free 20 minute slot in the pool and literally immerse themselves in the exhibition.

19 June - 5 September 2010
See The Hayward Gallery for times and venue details.

10/06/2010

25TH ANNIVERSARY OF BUCKS OPEN STUDIOS.

Bucks Open Studios is the largest visual arts event in Buckinghamshire. In the last two weeks of June every year over 400 artists and makers, in over 150 different venues across the county, open their studios and run exhibitions and events for the public to visit.

It's a great opportunity to go behind the scenes, talk to artists first-hand, and see work in progress. Some venues also offer demonstrations or workshops. Others feature group exhibitions, showcasing a wide range of arts and crafts.

12 - 27 June 2010
See Bucks Open Studios for times and venue details.

28/05/2010

LUCIAN FREUD IN PARIS.

Paris is hosting its first major show of the work of Britain's most expensive living painter at the Centre Pompidou. However, Lucian Freud is not well-known on France because his work has rarely been exhibited there.

Is there perhaps a sense of regret now in France that they have previously paid so little attention to Freud, whose work is so highly sought after in Britain and the US? Freud is a prolific painter of the naked human body in all its ordinariness. His work is intriguing and disconcerting; attractive and repellant at the same time. Yet all of his works have been acquired by museums and collections worldwide and it is surprising that the sole painting in a public collection in France is a small 1946 portrait unrepresentative of the artist.

Lucian Freud: l'Atelier is at the Centre Pompidou until July 19 2010.

27/05/2010

AUCTION RECORD FOR AMERICAN ARTIST JASPER JOHNS.

At Christie's in New York, 31 works from the collection of American author Michael Crichton (of Jurassic Park fame) were auctioned for over £60 million. The most lucrative post-war collection ever auctioned included works by Picasso, David Hockney and Jeff Koons.

But it was Jasper Johns's iconic 1966 work Flag, a collage of the US flag, which achieved the highest price of £19 million. It smashed the auction record for the American artist, who recently turned 80.

Crichton, who died in 2008, had bought the painting from his friend Johns in 1974 for £200,000.

26/05/2010

CONTEMPORARY ART IN SOUTH AFRICA.

At the beginning of this century there was only one commercial gallery in South Africa that represented a large number of South African artists. But, since then, many more have opened to support African artists, not only in Africa, but on the global stage.

Robin Rhode has had two major solo shows in London at the Hayward Gallery and White Cube. William Kentridge has had a major retrospective at MOMA in New York and Nicholas Hlobo exhibited at Tate Modern last year.

African art is coming to the fore now internationally and, with the World Cup approaching, it is a good time to sample South African visual culture. Arts on Main, a new exhibition space in Johannesburg currently has a group show featuring big-name South African talent such as Rhode, Kentridge and Candice Breitz, who also exhibited at White Cube earlier this year.

The show will be running during the World Cup.

25/05/2010

A STRANGER'S WINDOW, NOTTINGHAM CASTLE MUSEUM AND GALLERY.

As part of the Contemporary Art Society's centenary celebrations A Stranger's Window brings together many of the works that the Contemporary Art Society has given to Nottingham Castle and looks at some of the stories behind these acquisitions.

Local artist-led gallery MOOT was asked to respond to the museum's vast and diverse collection with wonderful results. The 13 artists worked with a number of different spaces within Nottingham Castle Museum & Gallery to give visitors a taste of the discoveries they have made as they researched the collection.

Until 13th June 2010.
Nottingham Castle Museum and Gallery
Friar Lane
Nottingham NG1 6EL.

24/05/2010

NELSON'S SHIP ON TRAFALGAR SQUARE PLINTH.

Nelson's Ship in a Bottle has been unveiled today as the new occupant of the Fourth Plinth in Trafalgar Square, where it will be in place for 18 months.

The version of HMS Victory is 2.35m high inside a specially-made glass bottle, and is a scale replica of the original HMS Victory. It has textile sails with African and batik prints to reflect the multicultural and diverse capital.

It will commemorate the Battle of Trafalgar and the 50th anniversary of independence in Nigeria, where the artist Yinka Shonibare grew up.

21/05/2010

RARE FOCUS ON PHOTOGRAPHY AT TATE MODERN.

Tate Modern's major summer exhibition this year is a rare focus on photography. It is an intriguing and sometimes shocking show of more than 250 images.

It's aim is to investigate the role of photography in voyeurism and in surveillance.

From May 28 until October 3.

20/05/2010

ART HEIST OF THE CENTURY.

Masterpieces worth over £400 million have been stolen during a daring dawn raid on Paris's Museum of Modern Art.

The paintings stolen were Picasso's Pigeon With Green Peas, Matisse's Pastoral, George Braque's Landscape With Olive Tree, Amedeo Modigliani's Woman With A Fan and Fernand Léger's Still Life With A Chandelier.

The Museum of Modern Art, which is dedicated to 20th Century art, is supposed to be one of the most secure in the world.

17/05/2010

£9.2m MASTERPIECE SAVED FOR THE NATION.

A world class painting by Baroque master Domenichino is to stay in Britain thanks to a secret private colector who stepped in to stop its export. The picture of St. John The Evangelist was sold to an overseas buyer for £9.2 million in December.

It has now been saved for the nation by the anonymous benefactor and will be lent to the National Gallery.

15/05/2010

DIVERGENCE IN TURNER PRIZE SHORTLIST.

This year's shortlist of four artists, all in their forties, suggest that the judges of the Turner Prize have very different tastes.

Dexter Dalwood paints imagined scenes from the homes of celebrities. The painter and sculptor Angela de la Cruz creates abstract paintings and then crumples them or destroys them.

The sound installation artist Susan Phillipsz records her own capella singing to be played under bridges or in harbours. And conceptual artists The Otolith Group examine global issues through film-making and writing.

The winner will be announced on December 6.

14/05/2010

FINAL ELEPHANT IN PLACE AT SOMERSET HOUSE.

The final elephant in Mark Shand's Elephant Parade was put in place today at Somerset House. It is decorated by artist Peter Beard and is one of over 200 sculptures located across London to raise awareness and aid for Asian elephants. The life-size scupltures are intended to give people the sensation of walking with elephants.

13/05/2010

"TESCO SINGER" SHORTLISTED FOR TURNER PRIZE.

A sound installation artist who made her name singing through the PA system at Tesco has been shortlisted for this year's £25,000 Turner Prize. Susan Phillipsz was shortlisted for a work in which a recording of her singing a Scottish lament was played under three river bridges in Glasgow.

Her work was described by one of the judges as "about loss, longing and the power of memory".

Tate Britain will show works by all the shortlisted artists from October 4.

12/05/2010

NEW BRITISH ART EXHIBITION AT THE SAATCHI GALLERY.

Newspeak: British Art Now will be the largest exhibition on new British Art since the record-breaking Sensation show more than a decade ago. It will showcase more than 60 artists living and working in the UK.

The exhibition will feature Turner Prize nominee Goshka Macuga, Eugenie Scrase from the "School of Saatchi" TV series and rising stars such as Pablo Bronstein and Barry Reigate.

From June 2 until October 17.

11/05/2010

VICTOR AMBRUS: PICTURES OF THE PAST.

Visit the National Trust property Sutton Hoo anytime until 31 October 2010 to view an installation of drawings by the Time Team artist, Victor Ambrus. The people and atmosphere of the past are brought to life by these stunning artworks.

Sutton Hoo, Woodbridge, Suffolk IP12 3DJ.
Tel: 01394 389700.

10/05/2010

MARC QUINN AT WHITE CUBE.

Marc Quinn is known for creating a self-portrait formed from his own blood and the vast marble statue on Trafalgar Square's fourth plinth depicting a pregnant sufferer of a congenital disorder.

Quinn has long been interested in showing unusual human bodies in marble and bronze to prompt us to reconsider human beauty. The sculptures in his latest exhibition are immaculately made with some extremely fine details.

At White Cube until June 26.

09/05/2010

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO TATE MODERN.

Tate Modern will be ten years old this year and will be celebrating with a festival of art. The Turbine Hall will host 70 installations by international art organisations.

And if you are a self-taught, unexhibited artist, take your work to the Museum of Everything where you might just get into the show!

14 to 16 May

08/05/2010

MARC QUINN'S ELLIE IN BOND STREET.

Marc Quinn's life-size elephant sculpture can be viewed outside Sotheby's in New Bond Street. It is one of 250 elephant sculptures that have been placed across London to raise awareness about endangered Asian elephants.

The elephants have been painted by a range of artists and celebrities and will be auctioned off at Sotheby's on June 23rd.

07/05/2010

PICASSO'S WIFE WORTH LESS THAN MISTRESS?

A day after a painting of Picasso's mistress sold for a world record £70 million at Christie's in New York, a painting of his wife sold for £6 million at Sotheby's. "Woman With a Big Hat, Bust" was one of five Picassos to sell at the same auction and it's price is thought to be a more realistic picture of the current global art market.

06/05/2010

AUCTION WORLD RECORD FOR PICASSO'S £70 MILLION NUDE.

A Picasso painting of one of his mistresses has sold for over £70 million at Christie's in New York to an undisclosed bidder. The painting, "Nude, Green Leaves and Bust" is a large-scale depiction of the artist's mistress Marie-Therese Walther. Picasso painted the picture over the course of a single day in March 1932. He is one of the few artists in history who could create a masterpiece in a day.

The power of the imagery and the fluency with which Picasso composed the painting testify to his potency at the time. He was celebrated by artists across Europe but was the scourge of the conservative art establishment.

05/05/2010

LIFE OF RILEY.

Bridget Riley's Op Art has been intriguing audiences for half a century. But now she has agreed to exhibit life drawings from her student days. She hopes they will encourage young artists to take seriously the art of drawing from real life.

Fifteen works from the early to mid-fifties will be on show at the National Portrait Gallery from May 15 until December 5.

04/05/2010

QUIET GIANT OF AMERICAN ART.

Agnes Martin (1912-2004) had an interest in Taoism and Buddhism from early on in her career, and the calm of her surfaces and colours can be described as meditative. Her paintings may lack the drama of Rothko but her use of horizontal bands of varying thickness and gentle colours produce subtle optical effects.

There is a chance to see some of her abstract expressionist works at the Timothy Taylor Gallery, London W1, until 21st May.

02/05/2010

CONQUEST OF THE USELESS, AT THE WHITECHAPEL GALLERY.

Rachel Harrison's new exhibition has a very apt title. Much of the content of her sprawling tableaux is apparently useless - she frequently uses detritus she has found or collected. Everything from food packaging and drink cans, to piles of plastic straws, a rubber chicken and images from newspapers and magazines.

In jumbling all of these elements together and setting them with the abstract sculptures she makes herself Harrison has found a distinctive visual language.

28th April - 20th June.

01/05/2010

TRIANO DE LAMO TERRY AT GALLERY 27.

While working on the reception of the Groucho Club, artist Triano De Lamo Terry persuaded members such as Charles Dance and Bill Nighy to sit for her. She also painted Groucho regulars such as Stephen Fry, Anna Friel and Steven Berkoff.

The resulting portraits are in her first show, Soho Lights, at Gallery 27, Cork Street.

30/04/2010

DANISH MASTER OF LIGHT.

For the first time outside Denmark, there is a chance to see the paintings of Christen Købke (1810-1848). Emphasising his exquisite originality and experimental outlook, the exhibition focuses on the most innovative aspects of his work - including outdoor sketching, his fascination with painterly immediacy, and treatment of light and atmosphere.

The exhibition features around 40 of Købke's most celebrated works, spanning a variety of genres. Works include landscapes, portraits of many of his family and closest friends, and depictions of Danish national monuments using his charming and unusual sense of perspective.

Until 13 June 2010 at the National Gallery, London.
4 July - 3 October 2010 National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh.

29/04/2010

ARTISTIC TURN-OFF IS OFFERED TO NATION.

One of the most debated works in contemporary art has been offered to the nation. Martin Creed would like his work "The Lights Going On and Off" to go to the Tate and National Galleries of Scotland for display around the country. But there is no physical work to bequeath, just a set of instructions for its creation. It won the Turner Prize in 2001 and is valued at £110,000.

28/04/2010

TURNER PRIZE ARTIST HAS A TUNEFUL PLAN FOR FESTIVAL HALL VISITORS.

Artist Martin Creed, who won the Turner Prize for a work in which lights went on and off in an empty room, is to create a new work in the Royal Festival Hall's glass lift.

For the work, visitors' journeys will be accompanied by scales in four-part harmony, which rise and fall in pitch to echo the progression of the lift.

1st - 9th May at the Southbank Centre.

26/04/2010

THE ART OF NEVER GIVING UP.

The Animal Art Fair at Fulham Palace recently drew 3,000 visitors. Around £500,000 worth of art was sold and a sizeable chunk of cash donated to charity.

This success is all the more remarkable because it's organiser Jamie Polk was paralysed from the chest down in a near-fatal accident 10 years ago.

24/04/2010

RICHARD DEACON AT THE NEW ART CENTRE, SALISBURY.

Ceramic artist Richard Deacon has always had an interest in cardboard as a versatile and freely available material. His latest work uses various forms of cardboard such as hollow tubes and crushed boxes both as structures to cover and as moulds to coat from the inside.

Visit his latest exhibition at the New Art Centre, a venue that has always been involved with many different methods of, and approaches to, making art.

24th April - 25th July (free entry).
New Art Centre, Salisbury SP5 1BG.

21/04/2010

READING CONTEMPORARY ART FAIR THIS WEEKEND.

Visitors can expect to see an inspirational range of artwork at this fair. It is a unique opportunity for new and experienced collectors to view and buy direct from artists and selected galleries. The atmosphere is informal, friendly and relaxed with something for everyone.

24th - 25th April 10am - 5pm.
Rivermead Leisure Complex, Reading RG1 8EQ.

19/04/2010

ANGELICO TO LEONARDO: ITALIAN RENAISSANCE DRAWINGS.

The pencil breathes life into line in this exquisite show of 100 drawings by artists of the Italian high Renaissance at the British Museum.

Until 25th July 2010.

18/04/2010

THREADNEEDLE PRIZE - REGISTRATION NOW OPEN.

The Threadneedle Prize showcases the best new figurative and representational art in Britain today. Its purpose is to encourage artists with real vision to submit fresh, intriguing work for the competition. With over £40,000 to be won, it constitutes one of the largest art prizes in the UK.

Artists of all nationalities aged 18 or over, living or working in the UK, are encouraged to submit up to three new works. The prizewinner will be announced on the evening of 15 September 2010.

17/04/2010

PAUL NASH: THE ELEMENTS at DULWICH PICTURE GALLERY, SE21.

Paul Nash (1889 - 1946) is revered as a war artist - but a spring scene, purchased by the Queen Mother, proves he was also a masterful painter of the English landscape.

Nash painted beautiful landscapes of the Downs, strange flooded rooms, and classic images of two World Wars. The exhibition includes paintings, watercolours and photographs from the whole of his career, showing how he selected elementary objects, to put them in relationships of conflict or harmony, and found pathways, nests and thresholds between them and within them.

10 February - 9 May 2010.

16/04/2010

PICASSO: PEACE AND FREEDOM, TATE LIVERPOOL.

Picasso's Guernica, that great canvas whose apocalyptic vision condemned the atrocities of Franco's dictatorship, revealed another side of the artist. As well as a ground-breaking modernist, Picasso was a man of deep political conviction and a committed activist.

These are the aspects of the artist that the show at Tate Liverpool will explore in detail in an exhibition that brings together more than 150 artworks.

May 21 to August 30 at Tate Liverpool.

15/04/2010

GLASNOST - HAUNCH OF VENISON, LONDON W1.

Haunch of Venison presents the first comprehensive survey of Soviet non-conformist art from the 1980s and early 1990s ever to be mounted in London from 16 April - 26 June 2010.

With around one hundred artworks, the paintings, sculpture and photographs featured in this historically important exhibition respond to the introduction of the economic and political reforms known as Glasnost and Perestroika.

14/04/2010

BILL FONTANA - RIVER SOUNDING.

Artist Bill Fontana has created an acoustic journey through the little known subterranean spaces of Somerset House with an impressive sound installation.

Over several months, Fontana has collected hundreds of hours of audio and video from above and below the surface of the Thames to reveal the hidden stories and sound-worlds of the river in a brand new public artwork.

Images and sounds installed in spaces usually closed to the public reinstate the shared history of Somerset House and the Thames.

Bill Fontana, one of the world's leading sound artists, has installed public artworks at iconic locations in many of the world's great cities, including London's Millennium Bridge and Big Ben, San Francisco's Golden Gate and Paris's Arc de Triomphe.

15 April - 31 May 2010

12/04/2010

£5,000 HIRST TIP FOR CAB-DRIVER.

A sketch that Damien Hirst gave to a taxi driver as a tip has been valued at up to £5,000.

The artist handed a crude pencil drawing on lined paper to the cabbie on a trip from Chelsea to Mayfair 18 months ago. It shows a shark, a skull and a butterfly and is dedicated to the taxi driver's son.

10/04/2010

STRANGE ATTRACTOR AT SEVENTEEN, LONDON E2.

You'll find plenty of skill and entertaining juxtapositions in the work of artist Abigail Reynolds at the Seventeen Gallery until 29th May 2010.

Reynolds plays with architectural images from old guide books and transforms them into objects of delicate wonder. Her art either blends styles and eras in harmonious unity or finds harsh contrasts between them.

09/04/2010

TATE MODERN SHORT OF EXTENSION CASH.

Tate Modern is facing a crisis in its bid to fund a landmark extension.

The gallery has raised only £6 million on top of £70 million of taxpayers' money for the £215 million project. It intends to build the extension in time for the 2012 Olympics.

07/04/2010

WHITE LIGHT TO DAZZLE LONDON UNDERGROUND.

Californian artist Pae White will be creating Europe’s biggest neon installation at Gloucester Road tube station. The work, due to open at the end of the summer, will be in situ for three years and has been commissioned by Art on the Underground.

White hopes to bring a dose of sunshine to gloomy London commuters with the 260 feet long installation of more than 2,000 neon tubes. She describes the project as a giant SAD [Seasonal Affective Disorder] light and aims to spread a five-second glow of optimism through a tube carriage.

31/03/2010

IS IT ART?

Ex-England cricket captain Michael Vaughan's latest bat and ball painting is of a Chevrolet car. Vaughan created it by driving paint-covered cricket balls against a stencil on a blank canvas more than 5,000 times.

The 16ft x 5ft canvas is expected to fetch about £25,000 at auction.

31/03/2010

TOP 3 MOST-VISITED EXHIBITIONS IN 2009.

The Art Newspaper's 15th annual survey of attendance figures confirms that Saatchi and Banksy battled it out for the top spots.

The Saatchi Gallery exhibitions 'The Revolution Continues: New Art from China' and 'Unveiled: New Art from the Middle East' secured first and third positions in the UK.

But Banksy drew almost 4,000 people a day to see his interventions, or "remix", of Bristol's City Museum and Art Gallery to give him second place.

29/03/2010

VISIT US AT READING CONTEMPORARY ART FAIR 24TH - 25TH APRIL 2010.

Style Cube will exhibit Original and Limited Edition Artworks at
Reading Contemporary Art Fair. Rivermead Leisure Complex RG1 8EQ

A chance to browse and buy new original work and
exclusive Limited Editions.

Make a date in your diary: 24th - 25th April 10am - 5pm.

24/03/2010

FUNDRAISING AUCTION BY THE ICA.

A dozen British artists including Anthony Gormley, Jake and Dinos Chapman, Tracey Emin and Peter Blake have personalised vases as a fundraising venture for the ICA.

The finished artworks will be auctioned tonight to help the ICA survive its current financial difficulties.

23/03/2010

FREDERIC, LORD LEIGHTON'S PAINTINGS ON SHOW FROM 3RD APRIL 2010.

Following a recent refurbishment, the Holland Park home of infuential British artist Frederic, Lord Leighton (1830-1896) will re-open on 3rd April 2010. Over twenty of the artist's paintings will be exhibited.

The paintings will be re-hung in their original locations for the first time in more than a century. The works are on loan from venues including the National Gallery and the National Portrait Gallery.

05/02/2010

CONFIDENCE RETURNS TO AUTUMN 2007 LEVEL.

After reaching a low point in November 2008, the ArtTactic Confidence Indicator for the US and European contemporary art markets has strengthened significantly. For the first time since May 2008, the current confidence level have broken through the 50-level. With a reading of 58, the Indicator is currently standing 4% higher than the reading in November 2007.

- Both primary and auction market confidence now suggest a further uplift in the market from current levels.

- The US and European market is likely to rebound quicker than anticipated a year ago. Many believe it has already rebounded or is likely to do so within a year.

(Source: arttactic.com)

28/01/2010

MODERN ART REALLY IS RUBBISH...

Hundred of paintings by both well-known and unknown artists will be dumped in a 5m high perspex structure over the next six weeks.

Paintings viewed as failures by the artists themselves will be donated to Michael Landy's "Art Bin". This shocking artwork which will see numerous paintings and sculptures stripped of that elusive, magical transformation that turns them into art.

South London Gallery until 14th March 2010

06/01/2010

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