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Original Cinema Posters Worth Over £200,000 to Be Auctioned

24/02/2020

Prop Store, one of the world’s leading film and TV entertainment memorabilia companies, will hold its fifth cinema poster live auction this March....

Rome Unveils Shrine Dedicated to City’s Mythical Founder

21/02/2020

The newly found monument honouring Romulus includes a 2,600-year-old sarcophagus....

Leading Auctioneer Simon de Pury Opens New Gallery Space

19/02/2020

For its inaugural show, Newlands House Gallery will stage an exhibition of original photographs by Helmut Newton....

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....

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....

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....

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. ...

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....

Hang-Up Open New Gallery

29/11/2019

Moving from its original Dalston space to the new Hoxton location, the building has been completely stripped back, dug out and remodelled over an eight-month period. ...

New Works by Quentin Blake

26/11/2019

Shapero Rare Books present Anthology of Readers, an exhibition of new works that affectionately caricature people who love books....

Andrew Renton on Roy Oxlade

21/11/2019

Andrew Renton discusses the work of Roy Oxlade at the Alison Jacques Gallery London. ...

Banksy Withdrawn From Sotheby’s After Rival Artist Claims Ownership

19/11/2019

The Drinker, estimated at £1m, was removed from the street by Andy Link in 2004 but later 'liberated' from his East End garden....

Antony Gormley in Talks With French Government

15/11/2019

The UK sculptor is moving ahead with an ambitious installation located on the coast of Brittany, northern France. ...

Digswell Arts Supporting Creatives

14/11/2019

Digswell Arts supports emerging artists and promotes art in the community; it opens its doors to the public on November 16th. ...

Beyond Borders

13/11/2019

A group exhibition featuring 14 international artists responds to the current sociopolitical instability by celebrating diversity and focusing on what connects us....