OPINION - The London Question: is London now financially impossible for artists and creatives? Let’s be more like Oslo, where they actually make the city liveable for artists Evening Standard · Oct 10, 2024
My Home with Idris Khan and Annie Morris: 'As artists, we love colour' Modern art mixed with cosy fabrics works a treat in the artist couple’s Islington home Evening Standard · Oct 10, 2024
How to buy art: the accessible new market Thanks to a growing pool of art advisers, digital intelligence and collector groups, buyers are better equipped than ever Wallpaper · Oct 10, 2024
Lauren Halsey at Serpentine South review: brings an exultant, brightly-hued Funk Garden to west London The artist’s work pays homage to her neighbourhood of South Central Evening Standard · Oct 10, 2024
AP PHOTOS: Artisans in India’s Assam state make colorful mud idols of Hindu gods for Durga Puja Kanchan Paul is deep in concentration as he paints the right eye on a clay idol of the Hindu goddess Durga. He stands on a plastic stool and leans in toward the 8-foot-tall figure. It is delicate work, requiring him to remain eye-to-eye with the goddess for long periods of… The Independent UK · Oct 10, 2024
Lucian Freud 'Masterpiece' Fetches GBP13.9 Million At London Sale A nude by Lucian Freud that took 16 months to paint sold for GBP13.9 million ($18.2 million) at a London auction on Wednesday, the first time the work, hailed as a "masterpiece," has come to market. International Business Times · Oct 10, 2024
Nazi-looted Monet artwork returned to family generations later A Nazi-looted Claude Monet pastel has been returned to descendants of the man who owned it when it was seized in Austria decades ago The Independent UK · Oct 9, 2024
This Mayfair pop-up is selling the hottest underground art and fashion this Frieze week The Sarabande Foundation has set up shop in Mayfair. Joe Bromley pays a visit (and recommends you do too) Evening Standard · Oct 9, 2024
Protesters paste image of Palestinian mother and child over Picasso painting PROTESTERS have pasted a photograph of a Palestinian mother and child over a Picasso painting at the National Gallery in London, as they called for… The National (Scotland) · Oct 9, 2024
Peer demands ban on sale of ancestral remains after auction lists shrunken heads and skulls Exclusive: ‘If we legislate to prevent the sale of dead coral we should legislate to prevent the sale of dead Africans and indigenous peoples,’ Lord Paul Boateng said The Independent UK · Oct 9, 2024
Building with forgotten Banksy on outside wall hits the market in £750,000 auction ‘You buy a Banksy, and you get an investment property thrown in,’ the auctioneer said The Independent UK · Oct 9, 2024
London Frieze 2024: Our picks of what to see from London's rising stars to inflatable penguins The renowned London art fair is back once more: from Rose Wylie to Jeremy Deller, here’s our pick of what’s on Evening Standard · Oct 9, 2024
Gaza protesters target Picasso painting and spill paint on floor at National Gallery Pair arrested after pasting image from Gaza onto Pablo Picasso’s 1901 painting Motherhood at National Gallery Evening Standard · Oct 9, 2024
Elmgreen & Dragset explore contemporary masculinity in Paris We visit Elmgreen & Dragset at their Berlin studio ahead of new exhibition ‘L’Addition’ at Paris’ Musée d’Orsay, a subversive take on the classical form Wallpaper · Oct 9, 2024
The Guardian - UK · Oct 9, 2024 ‘What can I say? We saw the future’: artist Robert Longo on AI, Keanu and his vast mirrorball of death Since directing Johnny Mnemonic and a making a sculpture from 40,000 bullets, the New Yorker has returned to the stunning photorealistic drawings that made him famous. He takes us round his latest show
Wallpaper · Oct 9, 2024 Frieze London 2024: all the fashion moments to look out for The best fashion happenings to add to your Frieze London 2024 schedule, from Dunhill’s curation of talks at Frieze Masters to a collaboration between Loewe and Studio Voltaire to celebrate 30 years of the gallery
The Guardian - UK · Oct 9, 2024 Nicola L review – feminist fun for the furry-curious Pop and avant garde sensibilities join forces in this playful show, full of giant limbs, wearable furniture and bare bottoms
Marie Claire · Oct 9, 2024 Frieze Art Fair marks the full arrival of Culture Season in London, when the city is buzzing with new openings and events. We’ve rounded up the ones to visit now and in the coming months We've rounded up the events and exhibitions you need to visit
Wallpaper · Oct 9, 2024 One to Watch: Abid Javed, the designer inspired by molecular biology The microscopic world is translated into a sculptured design language by Londonese ceramicist and artist Abid Javed
The Guardian - UK · Oct 9, 2024 All the Rage by Josh Cohen review – seeing red The psychoanalyst examines how rage has become the defining colour of our social and political lives, in this strangely unsettled and unsettling work
The Guardian - UK · Oct 9, 2024 What is gender apartheid – and can anything be done to stop it? Activists hope a change in international law could help to address the intensifying erosion of women and girls’ rights in Afghanistan
Wallpaper · Oct 9, 2024 Meet Oluwole Omofemi and Bayo Akande, the founders creating a new art community Oluwole Omofemi and Bayo Akande, are behind Piece Unique, an artist agency that guides and future-proofs emerging artists’ careers
The Independent UK · Oct 9, 2024 Francis Bacon – Human Presence review: the outrage king of British art at his terrifying best, and worst Blockbuster show at the National Portrait Gallery overcomes Bacon’s late career lows to prove that his brutally frank portraiture can still take the breath away
Evening Standard · Oct 8, 2024 Francis Bacon at the NPG review: a gut punch of a show that's oddly uplifting despite all the darkness Each canvas is full of feeling, soaked in volatile emotion
Wallpaper · Oct 8, 2024 First look: AlMusalla Prize 2024 crowns its inaugural winner and zooms into weaving traditions New architectural competition AlMusalla Prize 2024 announces its winner, a collective including East Architecture Studio. The award and commission by the Diriyah Biennale Foundation are part of the upcoming Islamic Arts Biennale