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Dec 15

Tracey Emin appointed RA’s Professor of Drawing

“Drawing is the foundation for everything she does and I think it’s the thing for which she is most recognised internationally as well’ - Nicholas Serota

Dec 10

“Art is difficult, it’s not entertainment. There are only a few people who can say something about art – it’s very restricted” - Anselm Kiefer

Dec 8

You’re only young twice, a gentle reimagining of the traditional nude as it comes under the knife. Jonathan Yeo at Lazerides Gallery

Robert Newton’s Art Basel Photo Diary, a set on Flickr.
Founder and CEO of S[Edition] Robert Newton has caught on camera just a few of his Art Basel Miami highlights for FAD

Dec 3

Robert Newton’s Art Basel Photo Diary, a set on Flickr.

Founder and CEO of S[Edition] Robert Newton has caught on camera just a few of his Art Basel Miami highlights for FAD

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Nov 30

Explore The House of the Nobleman until December 10th

A beautiful house set back from Regent’s Park, showcasing an exceptional collection of art which explores ideas of the sacred in art, design and contemporary thought, exhibiting rare and previously unseen works from the most prestigious international collections alongside today’s most notable artists and designers. Francis Bacon, Salvador Dali, Zaha Hadid, Damien Hirst, Claude Monet and Yves Klein are just a few amongst the many represented.

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Nov 30

Halcyon Gallery opens its new gallery on New Bond Street with a display from Dale Chihuly, showcasing his epic glassworks which constantly “push the boundaries of the medium as far as they can go in terms of scale and new techniques”

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Nov 30

‘Sex, Drugs and Profanity’ in Miami: Robert Fontaine Gallery host an exploration of the varying modalities of social norms and, simultaneously, taboos with which contemporary artists consistently wrestle with.

SCOPE Pavilion
Wynwood Arts District

#ISITART, a set on Flickr.The Shortlisted entries for the FAD / Other Art Fair / Polaroid competition that asked IS IT ART?
These are the photographic entries received that offered a clever, playful or out-and-out artistically magnificent visual answer to the question.

Nov 29

#ISITART, a set on Flickr.

The Shortlisted entries for the FAD / Other Art Fair / Polaroid competition that asked IS IT ART?

These are the photographic entries received that offered a clever, playful or out-and-out artistically magnificent visual answer to the question.

Nov 29

Art in a box at Collete Paris Including work from co-founder of KLF, James Cauty, with A Riot in a Jam Jar , composed of miniature characters on a 1/87 scale and the young French Gatz using figurines for “Box Stories” full of humor and poetry

Nov 27

Emma Kemp’s photographs, paintings and writings are beautiful in their bewitching ghostly echoes and immediately evocative of literary and visual references hanging just beyond the specific…

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Nov 27

As this post goes live, the last day of the inaugural year of The Other Art Fair comes to a close.

What a first year it has been.

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Nov 27

Become a Citizen of NOWHEREISLAND as Alex Hartley constructs dystopian habitats in The World is Still Big at Victoria Miro Gallery

The World is Still Big at Victoria Miro the culmination of Alex Hartley’s on-going investigations into dystopian architecture, secular habitation and the construction of sanctuary, returning to earlier enquiries into community, belonging and isolation, all as core tenets of a drive to discover refuge from the world.

Visit Victoria Miro to learn the story of Hartley’s discovery of a new island and its declaration and transformation into the new nation: Nowhereisland.