Tom Christopherson, a lawyer and legal consultant to Bonhams, has been appointed chairman of the British Art Market Federation (BAMF). He replaces Martin Wilson who stepped down after just six months following the surprise announcement in December that he is joining Phillips as the auction house’s new chief executive. Anthony Browne will remain the president
A real work of art (Lego) The art of Van Gogh is being honoured in the latest Lego set based on one of his masterpieces, as the Sunflowers is turned into an amazing 3D model. This is not the first time that Lego has made a model of a famous work of art, or even
It`s strange how we need a title, with all its razzamatazz, to make people realise how much we are surrounded by ‘culture’, whatever that is. In the dictionary it is defined as ‘the arts and other manifestations of human achievement. The ideas, customs and social behaviour of a particular people or society’. To put it
The closure will take effect from February 22 and involves internal repairs, a heating upgrade, and the installation of new windows in the main hall. The gallery has been undergoing significant work, evidenced by the large scaffolding structure at its entrance, which is one of the largest free-standing scaffold roof spans in the UK. This
The Art Afoot trail opened in Fishguard and Goodwick last month. The trail of sculptures and virtual art work was commissioned by Pembrokeshire County Council with UK Government funding and was designed and delivered by Cardigan’s Small World Theatre. The artworks were designed and made by local artists after consultation with residents of the twin
The UK general election on 4 July has repeatedly been cast as a reckoning. Since the Conservative party came to power in 2010, the country has faced one crisis after another. It is what the 2023 Turner Prize winner Jesse Darling homed in on with hazard tape, broken columns of reinforced concrete and kettling-style pedestrian
British arts institutions deployed “kneejerk” and “stopgap” responses in the aftermath of the Black Lives Matter movement as they attempted to avoid criticism for the lack of diversity in their collections, according to the artist Gavin Jantjes. The South Africa-born artist, who was a key figure during the British black art movement of the 1980s,
In a new display at Tate Modern, four artists have debuted works created as part of efforts to diversify the UK’s national collections. In a 15-month residency programme, British-Nigerian interdisciplinary artist Evan Ifekoya, British Bajan transdisciplinary artist Christina Peake, British-Taiwanese artist and curator Yu-Chen Wang, and British-Singaporean artist and curator Erika Tan focused on expanding
UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and Labour leader Keir Starmer may have clashed in their first TV election debate this week but the issue of the arts was omitted from the discussion. So The Art Newspaper contacted the main political parties to find out their plans. We received responses from Labour, the Conservatives, the Liberal
Hayward Gallery Touring’s major group exhibition Acts of Creation: On Art and Motherhood will plunge into the joys and heartaches, mess, myths and mishaps of motherhood through over 100 artworks, from the feminist avant-garde to the present day. While the Madonna and Child is one of the great subjects of European art, we rarely see