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Fags, Birds and a Couple of Guns

18/02/2020

A Nancy Fouts retrospective will feature work spanning several decades, including some of her best loved sculptures and framed works alongside some unseen pieces....

Picasso’s Ceramics Make London Commercial Debut

17/02/2020

Reflective of Picasso's unmistakable style, the ceramics provide a unique key into one of the twentieth century’s most influential artists....

Auction in Aid of Australian Bushfire Includes Banksy and Shepard Fairey Works

14/02/2020

The Bushfire Relief Auction in Melbourne has been organised by collectors Sandra Powell and Andrew King and prices start at £200....

New African Art Gallery Opens With Oluwole Omofemi Show

12/02/2020

Signature African Art, originally established in Lagos in 1992, will use its new London space to introduce a new generation of African artists to UK and European audiences....

The Art of Banksy Comes to London

11/02/2020

The world’s largest touring exhibition of privately owned Banksy artworks opens on 23 April in South Kensington. ...

Climate Activists Bring Trojan Horse to British Museum in BP Protest

07/02/2020

Activists from the theatrical protest group BP or not BP? dressed as warriors to protest against corporate sponsorship deal with oil firm....

The Contemporary Human Condition

05/02/2020

JD Malat Gallery's group show attempts to underline the importance of international dialogue, focussing in particular on the artistic response to changing global conditions and political events....

Delhi Police Shut Down Protest Work At India Art Fair

04/02/2020

The Wall: Community Art Building Mural (2020), which was painted live at the fair, was inspired by an ongoing demonstration against the 2019 Citizenship Amendment Act....

Hong Kong Galleries Band Together Against Coronavirus Fears

31/01/2020

The Hong Kong Art Gallery Association released a statement of support for the region as well as the decision Art Basel makes regarding its Hong Kong fair....

Legendary Arts Venue The Horse Hospital Facing Closure

30/01/2020

February marks the 27th anniversary of the venue's inaugural exhibition and also its forced closure if it cannot meet, or successfully contest, a 333% rent increase....

Frank Carter’s 900 Days of Chaos

29/01/2020

Alluding to his training as a tattoo artist, Carter’s paintings present a cacophony of visual motifs produced in fluorescent and neon colours....

Opening of Oslo’s New Munch Museum Delayed

28/01/2020

Tracey Emin says she is now “working out the logistics” for the inaugural exhibition which pairs her work with that of Munch. ...

Hunter Potter Debut UK Solo Exhibition

24/01/2020

I Ain’t Half The Man I Wanted To Be revolves around the artist's personal meditation on the expectations of masculinity....

Tom French Major Retrospective & Memorial

22/01/2020

Transcend brings together two sets of work that are monochromatic, figurative combinations of photorealism and abstraction that depict a psychological landscape as well as material space. ...

CalArts Recruits Alumni to Create Works Financing Scholarships

21/01/2020

50+50: A Creative Century From Chouinard to CalArts will unfold as CalArts marks next year’s 50th anniversary of the college’s founding....

Elizabeth Eade First Major Solo Show

17/01/2020

In I know you are but what am I, HIX Award winner Eade explores her attitude towards a range of social and political issues....

K-Pop Stars BTS Collaborate on Major Artist Projects

14/01/2020

CONNECT, BTS is a series of five major public art projects across the globe involving collaborations between some of the world's most significant artists and curators....

Teiji Hayama London Solo Debut

10/01/2020

FAME introduces a new body of oil paintings that examine what it means to be famous in the age of digital celebrity....

Major Solo Exhibition for Basil Beattie RA

08/01/2020

One of the most significant and singular abstract artists to emerge in post-war Britain, Beattie brought the grandeur and scale of the New York School to London....

New Show Examines the Concept of Them

07/01/2020

Curated by James Birch, this exhibition examines the aesthetics behind the concept of Them, a long forgotten but important, largely gay, clique. ...

Mixed Media: The Christmas Song of Emily Maitlis & Fiona Banner

20/12/2019

Fresh from hauling Prince Andrew over the coals newsreader Emily Maitlis and art Fiona Banner have made a Christmas song....

Stanley Spencer’s Love Affair With the Thames Revealed in New Show

18/12/2019

Painting by the Thames: Swan Upping at Cookham brings together rarely seen paintings and drawings to reveal one of Spencer’s inspirations: the River Thames....

Phil Moffa to Launch Butcha Sound Records

15/12/2019

One of the albums, Pieces for Painting, is a noise-based head trip that was designed for artists to listen to while working in their studios....

Landmark Exhibition to Explore the Fragility of the Natural World

14/12/2019

Paradise Lost, the first UK solo exhibition by visual artist Jan Hendrix, will convey his response to the transformation of Botany Bay in Australia....

Jake Wood-Evans New Solo Exhibition

13/12/2019

Recalling Baroque masterpieces, Wood-Evans' paintings fuse the great Romantic tradition of painting with the modernist sensibility of abstract artists such as Rothko and Motherwell....

Rebecca Salter Elected President of London’s Royal Academy

11/12/2019

Salter is the first woman to take up the post in the institution’s 251-year history....

New Foundation Dedicated to French-Chinese Master Chu Teh-Chun Opens in Geneva

10/12/2019

CHU Teh-Chun, who died in 2014 aged 93, was celebrated for integrating traditional Chinese painting techniques with Western abstract art....

Hannah Starkey First Institutional Solo Exhibition

06/12/2019

As the fourth recipient of the annual £100,000 Freelands Award, the Hepworth Wakefield will present a major survey exhibition of the photographer in 2020....