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Largest Solo Presentation to Date of British Artist Sam Lock

Now/here showcases Lock’s affinity with ‘process art’, marking him out as a leading contemporary exponent of this methodology. ...

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No Plastic – Folking Fantastic

Returning this year with an ‘Outstanding’ A Greener Festival Award, Cambridge Folk Festival today furthers its sustainability commitment and announces the ban on single use plastics. ...

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Seeing is Believing

Looking at paintings requires an ability to place works in the historical context of the medium. Only then can we see the human significance of the work. It is no good looking inward to brain...

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Into the Night: Cabarets and Clubs in Modern Art

The first major show staged on this theme, Into the Night features both famed and little-known sites of the avant-garde from the 1880s to the 1960s....

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Nostalgia and Vibrant Imagery at 50th Rencontres d’Arles

This year, the organisers undertook the unprecedented task of identifying, ranking, and inventorying their vast archives to turn them into a major retrospective exhibition....

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Art Money July : British Landscape Painters Plateau at Sotheby’s

In the Royal Academy’s Summer Exhibition of 1808, J.M.W Turner made a rare misfire. British Landscape Painters Plateau at Sotheby’s: Trebuchet July Market Roundup...

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Kentaro Okawara Makes Debut UK Solo Exhibition

Hold Tight is a new series of paintings, sculptures and drawings that explore the theme of love through symmetry and the artist’s unique yet universal language....

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Contemporary Art. Chosen by Dogs. For Dogs and Humans

With a little help from their human companions, these canine curators have selected artworks in what is believed to be the first exhibition of its kind. ...

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Louvre to Offer Mona Lisa Virtual Reality Experience

Mona Lisa: Beyond the Glass is the Louvre's first virtual reality work, marking the 500th anniversary of the Leonardo da Vinci's death....

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Art Money June : Unearthing Unseen Art

The International Art Market in June: Unearthing Unseen Art at London’s 20th Century Week and #MeToo Controversy at Art Basel...

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The London Original Print Fair at the Royal Academy

Andrew Edmunds deals in antique political prints. In this show at the Royal Academy, the works he shows stand up well to contemporary art and its political ambitions. ...

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Two Contemporary Women Concrete Artists

Two current exhibitions on opposite sides of the globe present work from two contemporary women artists; each, in her own way, a concrete artist. At RaumX, in north London, Katrina Blanin shows...

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Contentious Polish Artist Kle Mens Brings Dark Catholic Critique to East London

In her first UK solo show, the artist summons both religious martyrs and mythological hybrids to evoke the force of female transformation, which underlies all her work. ...

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First UK Retrospective of Donald Sultan

Dark Objects: Works 1977-2019 is comprised of 17 works and features three canvasses from the American figurative painter's seminal Disaster Paintings series. ...

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Precious Nothing Pt 3: I Ching

Space-time contains value on all human levels of understanding so where do we sit with it? ...

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Lichtenstein Panel Created for Gunter Sachs Set for Auction

Composition, one of only three unique porcelain enamel works, was created to outfit the German photographer's bedroom suite in his notorious pop art apartment....

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Art Money April : Photography in Focus

A review of the international art industry in April 2019...

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V&A to Stage Largest Ever Exhibition on Photographer Tim Walker

Tim Walker: Wonderful Things is the latest in the museum’s series of projects working in collaboration with contemporary practitioners. ...

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The world’s best athletes-turned-artists

The world’s best athletes-turned-artists...

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Arts Council Collection Touring Exhibition

Touring exhibition The Printed Line opens in April and will showcase work by artists including David Hockney, Bridget Riley, Patrick Caulfield and Frank Stella....

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Art UK Launch Largest Ever UK Sculpture Cataloguing Project

The UK will become the first country in the world to create a free-to-access online photographic showcase of its publicly owned sculptures. ...

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American Realist Painter SJ Fuerst Presents Forest Fresh

SJ Fuerst’s works conjoin elements of contemporary culture with classical art forms, adding a playful twist to create a world where all is not as it seems....

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Trate Launches Emotive Brutes

Canadian figurative artist Trate's Emotive Brutes chronicles the human condition through traceable brush strokes and reimagined facial traits layered over distinctive colour patterns....

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Marroni-Ouanely Present Debut UK Solo Exhibition

Cagnara unveils the Italian-French duo’s latest work, characterised by their strict collaborative process where both artists simultaneously paint each canvas using their less dominant hand....

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Hippolyte Hentgen and the Other World

Hippolyte Hentgen at Semiose, Paris...

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A Timely Review of the Art Market: London Art Fair 2019

This year's London Art Fair focused on the various correspondences between the work of contemporary artists from Latin America and Europe....

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How Chicago! Imagists 1960s & 70s

Hayward Gallery Touring presents the first significant UK exhibition in almost 40 years of work by the group of artists who have become known as the Chicago Imagists....

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The art of stealing art

The art of stealing art Noah Charney...

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Markus Åkesson

Neo figurative art, global audience ...

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Dutch Government Under Fire Over Nazi Loot

The “smallest and most chilling distinctions are being made in order to allow museums to keep their collections intact”, say experts....

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