An art auction has taken place of impressionist and modern works and raised a record total of £152.5 million!
The sold piece which raised the most was one sold was one of Picasso’s Portrait of Angel Fernandez de Soto, at a staggering £34,761,250.
This piece came from the collection of Lord Lloyd-Webber and due to a dispute [...]
Rosita McKenzie, fifty six, from the city is to have her pictures of people from Edinburgh showcased in the Central Library on George IV Bridge as part of the Edinburgh Art Festival.
Rosita has been completely blind from the age of twelve, she homes in on “people’s personalities” to capture the right shot. The exhibition begins [...]
The exhibition at Birmingham’s Museum and Art Gallery entitled
“The Heard and Not seen show”
is intended to break down cultural barriers. Visitors to the art exhibition will be asked to pose for photos wearing headscarves. It is supposed to encourage people to bring their own perspective to this culturally powerful piece of clothing. The exhibition [...]
Artwork depicting giant extinct birds, on a rock in Northern Australia might be one of the oldest paintings to date. Scientists have advised the artwork, which understandably is smudged after thousands of years outside in the wilderness could be nearly 40,000 years old.
The rock art work was discovered in the Amhem Land Region, roughly two [...]
A painting by LS Lowry of the Waterloo Docks in Liverpool, which has rarely been seen, is now on display at the Walker Art Gallery. The artist, famous for his matchstick people produced the art work on a visit to the city in 1962.
LS Lowry was from Salford in Manchester travelled across Britain drawing [...]
A piece of street art by famous guerilla artist Banksy has been mistakenly painted over by a council-ordered anti-graffiti team in Melbourne Australia.
Tourists and local residents have been left annoyed by the removal of the priceless street art – a stencil of a parachuting rat – the last remaining piece of Banksy art in the [...]
It’s like something out of The Da Vinci Code. Only this story is not a best selling novel, but a real life tale.
It involved an undercover policeman who alerted colleagues to a stolen Da Vinci painting using code and sparked a raid to recover it.
The policeman was posing as John Craig when he [...]
Are you prepared to get naked all in the name of art? Well, if the answer is yes, then Spencer Tunick needs you.
The artist is looking for 1000 people from Greater Manchester to take their clothes off and pose. And this isn’t the first time Tunick has done this. In fact, he has travelled [...]
A project involving artists and Olympic hopefuls from Essex has been unveiled at Colchester United’s football ground.
The exhibition, called Journey to the Podium consists of paintings, animations, photography, film and sound.
The art reflects the personalities of the athletes and their own journeys to the podium. It will be displayed at the stadium until November, [...]
A brightly coloured painting with people wandering about outside a mill in Paris is not perhaps what you would imagine from a Van Gogh painting.
But according to experts at Amsterdam’s Van Gogh Museum the painting of a windmill has now been identified as the work of Van Gogh. According to them, the painting was completed [...]
