Wednesday, 18th March 2009
6:00pm
Everyone’s first question at this year’s European Fine Art Fair at Maastricht, which opened last week, was ‘How do they do the flowers?’ The broad corridor through which visitors enter the fair was lined from floor to ceiling with individual rose heads, like a Damien Hirst spot painting, each back-lit in soft pink or white. The effect was ravishingly pretty. The second question was ‘what mood are the dealers in?’ Poor news from the recent Palm Beach art fair had been followed by even worse news from Dubai’s. If Maastricht, the world’s pre-eminent non-specialist art fair, had disappointing results everyone...
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Thursday, 12th March 2009
3:32pm
According to the Guardian, a Cobbe portrait unveiled yesterday in London is unlikely to be of William Shakespeare, as has previously been suggested. Professor Stanley Wells, who is heading up the claim that this portrait is of Shakespeare, may have a weak body of evidence to support his claim.
The painting was discovered when its owner attended a ‘Searching for Shakespeare’ competition that was curated by Tarnya Cooper two years ago at the National Portrait Gallery. At the exhibition, the owner saw a portrait of Shakespeare known as the Janssen portrait, which he believed was a copy of his painting.
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Thursday, 26th February 2009
5:11pm
Not everything is doom and gloom in the art world at the moment. A shock sale at Christie's, Paris, has given hope to many who feared the extent to which the global art market would be tainted by the current international economic downturn.
A leather armchair, designed by the Irish artist Eileen Gray, has fetched a staggering 22 million euro at Christie's as part of the three day sale of the collection of the late Yves Saint Laurent and his partner. The chair, which is 24 inches high, has broken the world record for a piece of 20th century...
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Friday, 13th February 2009
1:55pm
My kingdom for a horse
Former Turner Prize winner Mark Wallinger has been announced as the winner of the £2m public art comission to mark the building of Ebbsfleet International station in Kent, dubbed the 'Angel of the South'. Wallinger's sculpture of a giant white horse (the model is pictured above) is due to be completed and installed by 2012 and is expected to be 50 metres high. Wallinger was among a shortlist of three artists, including Richard Deacon and Daniel Buren.
Moscow off
The sixth annual Moscow World Fine Art Fair, originally scheduled to open on...
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Friday, 30th January 2009
5:49pm
Saatchi Search
The Saatchi Gallery and the BBC have announced that they will be forming a new partnership to help spot new talent in the arts, across Britain. They have created a new show called ‘Saatchi’s Best of British’ which will feature six young artists, who will attend an art school for three months and be tutored by some of the UK’s finest contemporary artists. The students will then go on to exhibit their work at the upcoming exhibition of British art from the Saatchi Gallery Collection at Russia’s Hermitage Museum St Petersburg. By 2010, the exhibition will be...
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A recent exhibition in Nottingham showcases contemporary artists' exploration of the Communist-era space race.
As part of a metal salvage drive for munitions in World War II, many of the UK’s parks and squares lost their iron railings. With the National Gallery now victim to a constant stream of commercial events in its environs, isn’t it time we got them back?
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