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.
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.
9 December 2021 • Mark Westall
The “Ross Ulbricht Genesis Collection” NFT auction raised an astounding 1446 ETH, or > $6.27M USD at the current exchange… Read More
9 December 2021 • Mark Westall
Outset Contemporary Art Fund has announced the recipients of six grants being awarded by the Outset Partners programme. In Cycle III (2021), a total of £275,000 is being awarded across a range of agenda-setting museums, galleries, and public institutions – both within the UK and internationally – to support challenging new art projects with a demonstrable transformative aspect for the creative ecosystem.
8 December 2021 • Mark Westall
Christie’s X OpenSea, the auction house’s first on-chain sale hosted on OpenSea.io, closed December 7th, achieving a total of 843 ETH (US$3.6 million) The… Read More
8 December 2021 • Mark Westall
A previously hidden sketch has been discovered during examinations of Rembrandt’s The Night Watch. This allows us to look over the… Read More
6 December 2021 • Mark Westall
Founded by Jennifer Wong and Peter Hamilton, the Seattle NFT Museum (SNFTM) will open its doors on January 14th with exhibitions of… Read More
6 December 2021 • Mark Westall
Having steered New Contemporaries consistently for 25 years, Sacha Craddock is stepping down as Chair of its Board. A prolific… Read More
6 December 2021 • Mark Westall
Yung Ma has been appointed Curator, Hayward Gallery at the Southbank Centre to work on the gallery’s dynamic programme that… Read More
4 December 2021 • Tabish Khan
Tabish Khan the @LondonArtCritic picks his exhibitions to see before the end of the year – all closing soon. Each one comes… Read More
2 December 2021 • Mark Westall
Drue Kataoka, leading Japanese American artist-technologist-activist and CEO of global art studio Drue Kataoka Art Studios, announced a new charitable non-fungible… Read More
2 December 2021 • Mark Westall
Iconic eyewear brand Ray-Ban announced the world’s first magazine cover shot using smart glasses. British photographer Rankin captured the November… Read More
2 December 2021 • Mark Westall
The Turner Prize 2021 has been awarded to Array Collective. The £25,000 prize was presented by Pauline Black, the lead… Read More
1 December 2021 • Mark Westall
Thursday December 2, starting at 4pm EST for a 24 hour period. Pussy Riot’s Nadya Tolokonnikova’s very personal artwork is dropping with Friends With Benefits (FWB) at Miami Art Basel, crafted using the freedom papers she received upon her release from prison in 2013. The piece is a follow up to her previous 1 of 1 Virgin, Mary Please Become A Feminist, which was created using her prison sentencing documents and sold for 40 ETH on SuperRare in September. Pussy Riot is the first female artist to mint on the new FWB Gallery platform.
1 December 2021 • Mark Westall
Olafur Eliasson, the Danish-Icelandic artist, has created the original artwork Solar Iris of Mouton for the label of Château Mouton Rothschild 2019. … Read More
30 November 2021 • Mark Westall
SuperRare, the curated marketplace for NFT artwork and SuperWorld, a virtual world in augmented reality (AR) have launched RAREWORLD: An NFT… Read More
30 November 2021 • Mark Westall
Brian Blomerth first fused his irreverent underground comix style with heavily-researched history in his 2019 Technicolor retelling of the discovery… Read More
30 November 2021 • Mark Westall
One of the most original and innovative figures of his generation, Rammellzee (New York, 1960—2010) was a polyhedric graffiti writer,… Read More
30 November 2021 • Mark Westall
Damien Hirst has airdropped 10,000 NFTs to buyers of his “The Currency” collection. The giveaway is from the new NFT collection… Read More
29 November 2021 • Mark Westall
Christie’s announces WAVEFORM, an NFT by musical artist 3LAU, will highlight Christie’s X OpenSea, a collaborative sale launching December 1st. The sale, curated by… Read More
29 November 2021 • Mark Westall
The Courtauld is launching a series of late-night events ‘After Hours’ will broach contemporary issues in society through participatory activities… Read More
29 November 2021 • Mark Westall
On December 2nd, the Ross Ulbricht Genesis Collection NFT will be auctioned starting at Art Basel Miami through the SuperRare platform. Curated… Read More
29 November 2021 • Mark Westall
Berlin’s Nagel Draxler gallery, is converting one of its venues into a space dedicated to crypto- and blockchain-related art.Kenny Schachter will be the first to have an exhibition in the new gallery, opening 14th January
29 November 2021 • Mark Westall
USUAL BUSINESS, a contemporary gallery on Camden Road, London, opens this week. The project, founded and curated by Miles Tuddenham,… Read More
26 November 2021 • Mark Westall
Pilar Corrias has announced worldwide representation of Oslo-based artist Ragna Bley. Working across painting, sculpture, text and performance, the colours… Read More
