Iwona Blazwick OBE to step down as Director of Whitechapel Gallery
5 January 2022 • Mark Westall
Iwona Blazwick has announced that after twenty years at the helm she will be stepping down in April 2022. Blazwick… Read More
Tag: Art News
Art News is where you can find all the cool art stuff: exhibitions, and events we have found globally. Interviews and thought pieces all chosen by FAD magazine.
Largest & most detailed photograph of any artwork unveiled by the Rijksmuseum.
3 January 2022 • Mark Westall
The Operation Night Watch research team of the Rijksmuseum, the national museum of the Netherlands, has succeeded in creating an… Read More
Southbank Centre’s Winter Festival lights up the holidays.
23 December 2021 • Mark Westall
The Southbank Centre’s Winter Festival features nine weeks of festive events, exhibitions and dazzling performances. Visitors of all ages can… Read More
Felix LA Art Fair 2022 Announces Exhibitor List
23 December 2021 • Mark Westall
Felix LA, the contemporary art fair modeled after the intimate hotel fair format popularized in the 1990s, has announced the… Read More
Refik Anadol’s AI data sculpture MACHINE HALLUCINATIONS: NATURE DREAMS! achieves $1.2+ million on OpenSea.
22 December 2021 • Mark Westall
MACHINE HALLUCINATIONS: NATURE DREAMS! a unique 1/1 piece by @refikanadol on @opensea has achieved the price of 300.6942 ETH! $1,210,841.42
New NFT Band “Allies” – Featuring Bored Ape Yacht Club, CyrptoPunks, & Cool Cats – To Release Their Debut Song “WAGMI” With Animated Music Video at a Metaverse Event
22 December 2021 • Mark Westall
Following up on the news that the world’s largest record label UNIVERSAL music has launched KINGSHIP made up of four… Read More
CXIP Mints Daniel Arsham’s New NFTs in Groundbreaking Collaboration with Nifty Gateway
22 December 2021 • Mark Westall
Artist Daniel Arsham uses trailblazing NFT minting platform CXIP to mint his new NFT collection to be listed on Nifty Gateway, a premier NFT marketplace on… Read More
KÖNIG GALERIE now represent BERNAR VENET
20 December 2021 • Mark Westall
Koenig Gallerie now represent Bernar Venet. Born in 1941 in the south of France, Venet’s attraction to art became evident… Read More
The New Museum to present the first full retrospective of Faith Ringgold in New York.
19 December 2021 • Mark Westall
The New Museum will present the first full retrospective in New York of the art of Faith Ringgold (b. 1930,… Read More
TACO! to move into a new, purpose-built creative hub in the heart of Thamesmead
16 December 2021 • Mark Westall
In Summer 2022, TACO! will move into a purpose-designed space in the newly-developed Cygnet Square, adjacent to Southmere Lake. Led and run since 2018 by artists and producers Mat Jenner, Natasha Bird and Flo Lines, TACO! aims to foster a dialogue between artists, audiences, community and place.
Leading artists collaborate with communities in the London Borough of Barking & Dagenham to produce new exhibition at Serpentine & Barking Town Hall
16 December 2021 • Mark Westall
Serpentine and the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham are partnering to present Radio Ballads, an exhibition showcasing a ground-breaking project that has embedded artists within core social care services and community settings across the borough.
Art Fund Museum of the Year 2022 now open for application.
16 December 2021 • Mark Westall
Art Fund Museum of the Year, the world’s largest museum prize, is a celebration of the UK’s museums and galleries. It is announced today that the UK’s 2,500 museums, galleries and heritage sites have from 5 January 2022 until 8 February 2022 to apply for Art Fund Museum of the Year 2022.
LUX: New Wave of Contemporary Art extended due to unprecedented demand
16 December 2021 • Mark Westall
LUX the major exhibition of contemporary media art featuring the artists: a’strict, Refik Anadol, Je Baak, Cecilia Bengolea, Cao Yuxi, Es Devlin, iart studio, Julian Knxx, Carsten Nicolai, Random International, Hito Steyerl, Universal Everything has been extended due to unprecedented demand.
American artist Sally Mann has won the Prix Pictet the global award for photography & sustainability
16 December 2021 • Mark Westall
American artist Sally Mann is the winner of the 9th cycle of the Prix Pictet, the global award in photography and sustainability. Sally Mann will receive a cash prize of 100,000 Swiss Francs (£82,000, USD109,000).
Atelier JI & Remi Rough collaborative etching series ‘Style Writer Extraordinaire’ now available.
15 December 2021 • Mark Westall
Style Writer Extraordinaire is the first collaborative project between Atelier JI and fine artist Remi Rough. The etching is the… Read More
UTA fine arts now represents Harmonia Rosales
15 December 2021 • Mark Westall
UTA Fine Arts has announced its representation of artist Harmonia Rosales. Rosales joins UTA Fine Arts’ growing list of represented… Read More
Get boohooMAN’s first-ever NFT collection for FREE!
15 December 2021 • Mark Westall
boohooMAN is launching its first-ever collection of non-fungible tokens (NFTs), making it the first brand of its kind to launch a digital collection and you… Read More
Gemma Rolls-Bentley joins Avant Arte as Chief Curator.
15 December 2021 • Mark Westall
Today it was announced that Gemma Rolls-Bentley has joined Avant Arte as Chief Curator. In the newly-created role, Rolls-Bentley will run Avant… Read More
Brendan Murphy’s monumental spaceman installation comes to London
15 December 2021 • Mark Westall
The ARX has unveiled a monumental installation entitled Dreams Matter by artist, Brendan Murphy. Commissioned by The ARX, the 19-foot… Read More
Art for Christmas?
15 December 2021 • Paul Carey-Kent
A seasonal tradition has developed of showing works small and affordable enough that they could plausibly make gifts. Flowers Gallery have the longest-running current exhibition with such a premise: this is the 39th year of ‘Small is Beautiful’
Lio Mehiel & Holly Silius explore gender-queerness & transmasculinity through sculpture in new charitable & collaborative series Phantom Feels
14 December 2021 • Mark Westall
Multidisciplinary artist Holly Silius presents a new series of stone body sculptures ‘Phantom Feel’, inspired by writer and actor Lio… Read More
Van Gogh & Edvard Munch to lead Courtauld Gallery’s 2022 exhibition programme
13 December 2021 • Mark Westall
The first-ever exhibition of Van Gogh’s self-portraits over his career and a major collection of paintings by Edvard Munch, shown in the UK for the first time, will be the highlights of the newly reopened Courtauld Gallery’s 2022 exhibition programme.
Frieze reveals details of Frieze Los Angeles including new venue next to The Beverly Hilton hotel.
10 December 2021 • Mark Westall
Frieze has revealed first details of the 2022 edition of Frieze Los Angeles, which will take place February 17th-20th at… Read More
New Contemporaries returns to South London Gallery with 75 new and exciting artists
9 December 2021 • Mark Westall
New Contemporaries returns to South London Gallery in December for the fourth consecutive year with 75 emerging and early career artists from UK art schools and alternative peer-to-peer learning programmes.
