12 June 2018 • Staff
I did however spend an unsurprising amount of time in Mayfair as S2 opened the third and final component of Signals Reimagined, Levy Gorvy was irresistible in presenting two of my favourite artists in dialogue and Artangel took over Cork Street’s construction site for an incredible fund raising auction.
31 May 2018 • Irene Machetti
Sotheby’s and the Italian winery Ornellaia joined again this year for the tenth edition of the Vendemmia d’Artista. The famous winery from Bolgheri called upon William Kentridge to design the labels for this anniversary. The benefit auction raised €140,000 that will be donated to the Victoria & Albert museum.
16 May 2018 • Paul Carey-Kent
Unsurprisingly, the leading auction houses are all selling photographic work to coincide with Photo London (18-21 May). By way of a warm-up, I looked at them as exhibits rather than as potential purchases. Do they make for a good visit?
1 May 2018 • Mark Westall
Two solo booths at the city’s Frieze Art Fair will be dedicated to the British artist’s work
A solo show of 17 new paintings is on view at Pace Gallery‘s 25th Street location plus
A Hockney painting is expected to shatter his auction record will be on view at Sotheby’s Upper East Side headquarters on May 4.
13 December 2017 • Mark Westall
Discover the journeys of award-winning charity Outside In and the artists it supports in a ground-breaking exhibition at London Sotheby’s in January 2018.
11 December 2017 • Mark Westall
Opened this November in Gallery Two of S|2 is a great exhibition of Cuban artist Ernesto Briel’s works from the sixties and seventies.
8 November 2015 • Mark Westall
When Warhol met Steve Jobs:
“And then he gave me a lesson on drawing with it. It only comes in black and white now, but they’ll make it soon in color…I felt so old and out of it with this young whiz guy right there who helped invent it.”
6 November 2015 • daniel barnes
The perennial question that dare not speak its name on pain of heresy is this: what, precisely, is it about Basquiat that inspires such adoration and extravagance?
8 September 2015 • Mark Westall
Sotheby’s and Artsy have just announced their collaboration on an online-only auction..
3 July 2015 • Mark Westall
Discover Brown’s London Art Weekend’s programme of talks, art tours, recommended walks and the Artists menu at HIX Mayfair from today
12 June 2015 • daniel barnes
A collection of Lucian Freud’s letters is to go on sale at Sotheby’s on 2nd July
18 May 2015 • Tabish Khan
This week’s top 7 contains witches, Victorian opulence, tomatoes, plasticine, drawing, kitsch and Russian battles.
16 April 2015 • Staff
In Hudson’s labyrinthine world you find Bosch, Breugel and Rembrandt alongside Nigel Farage, Tommy Hilfiger, Hello Kitty and Instagram. Like Hogarth before him, Hudson satirises and celebrates the absurdities of modern life, bringing together the traditions of the great painters with the visual language of the digital age.
31 March 2015 • Mark Westall
Sotheby’s Exclusive Art and Collectibles will be Available to eBay’s 155 Million Active Buyers In Real Time Anywhere Around the Globe from tomorrow.
22 March 2015 • Staff
works by artists including Jean-Michel Basquiat, Nick Cave, Rashid Johnson, Glenn Ligon, Wangechi Mutu, David Hammons, Kara Walker, and Kehinde Wiley, among others will be on view.
9 January 2015 • Mark Westall
The ‘1 in 11’ campaign will raise funds through individual donations and a major art auction at Sotheby’s in London on Thursday 12th February, featuring donated works by renowned artists including Takashi Murakami, Damien Hirst, Jeff Koons, Richard Serra and Shirin Neshat.
6 January 2015 • Paul Carey-Kent
Armin Boehm: ‘Gravity’, 2015 – oil and fabrics on wood: 110 x 70 cm Assessment of a curation has two… Read More
1 January 2015 • daniel barnes
In order to combat this, contemporary art has developed jargon that purports to explain every nuance of the artworld, but it often only deepens the mystery.
6 November 2014 • daniel barnes
Sotheby’s has been sued over the misattribution of a painting which experts now say is a genuine Caravaggio
24 October 2014 • daniel barnes
In November 2011, Jerry Saltz announced on his Facebook page that he would pay anyone $155 to make him a fake Richter, Ryman, Flavin, Fontana, Duchamp, Hirst, Guyton, or Agnes Martin.
20 October 2014 • Mark Westall
31 donated art works for Parasol unit’s 10th Anniversary realised a total of £2,092,250 at Sotheby’s this weekend.
27 September 2014 • Mark Westall
During the month of October you have the chance to view Vincent van Gogh’s Still Life, Vase with Daisies and… Read More
1 July 2014 • Staff
The jewel in the crown was Francis Bacon’s Three Studies for Portrait of George Dyer..
30 June 2014 • Tabish Khan
Tabish Khan brings you five art exhibitions in London that you should visit during the week. Each one comes with a concise review to help you decide whether it’s for you.
