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Concerns over the credit crunch affecting the art market!

A video insight into the fears that the art market has over the credit crunch. Although record prices in the art auctions are still happening the art world is becoming more and more concerned over the possibility that the art market will follow similer price decreases to those of global stockmarkets...

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A male who takes his picture everyday for 6 whole years!

This is a quite increadible 2 minute video where a male has taken his photograph everyday for 6 years. You see the natural development of the human face age, skin tones change and features grow...

Banksy Morons

Banksy's Morons sell at Sotheby's

A video about one of Banksy's latest auctions. Banksy's Morons sell at auction, the irony behind the auction is that Morons makes fun of the art world and the auction process...

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Modern Art Museum invasion!

A person dressed up as an orange alien visits a modern art museum and performs a piece of motion modern art. Ironically the person in the orange alien outfit gets escorted out of the museum. Some might dispute that the person in the orange alien outfit looks like a more convincing piece of art than most of the art in the museum...

MOMA - Museum of Modern Art NY

Can't make it to MOMA? We take you on a tour round MOMA!

Can't make it to New York to view the exhibitions at MOMA (Museum of Modern Art)? Well why not take a tour with us via video...

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Modern Art selling for record prices at auction!

A Reuters report on a recent Christies auction where artworks from Monet and other impressionist painters have fetched record auction prices despite the current ecconomic climate...

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The Russian modern art scene, a closer look!

An 11 minute clip which presents a good insight into the Russian modern art scene and how Russian culture has influenced a new style of modern art. The Russian style of modern art is becoming global due to a demand for Russian modern art from outside of Russia...

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Joshua Allen Harris - Inflatable bag animals

An american artist, 'Joshua Allen Harris' has developed a new style of street art which uses fastened together bin bags to form animal shapes. The animals are then taped...

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20|21 International Art Fair - Jean-Patrice Oulmont, AR Penck, Gay Hutson, Gitl Braun

The third 20|21 International Art Fair takes place at the Royal College of Art from 19 - 22 February 2009. It will be opened by Griff Rhys Jones at 12 noon on the 19th... 9th February 2009

Stephen Verona Exhibition at Tria Gallery

a unique exhibition of the art of Stephen Verona; including his paintings, life sized cut outs and unique photographs, including those selected from the... 2nd February 2009

Tony Heywood – Beauty spot at FAS London

Horticulture's answer to Damien Hirst? Beauty Spot, Tony Heywood's latest horticultural-based art installation, suggests that our experience of nature is becoming distant as is it increasingly mediated through television, film and magazines... 28th January 2009

Earliest Opera in English - Erismena acquired by the Bodleian Library

The Bodleian Library has been able to save for the nation Erismena, the earliest surviving score of an opera in the English language. The acquisition has been made possible thanks to the generous... 21st January 2009

Laura Kikauka at Spacex

Spacex is pleased to present the first solo exhibition in the UK of Canadian artist Laura Kikauka. Kikauka has been exhibiting installation work, electro-mechanical sculpture, and performing since the early 1980s... 21st January 2009

Invisible cities - Katie Pratt and Roger Kelly

Invisible Cities is an exhibition curated by artists Katie Pratt and Roger Kelly. The works in the exhibition are by a mixture of nine established artists who... 9th January 2009

Peter Blake - The Venice Suite at Paul Stolper

Venice provides inspiration for a series of twenty brand new prints by the father of British Pop Art Peter Blake... 9th January 2009

Attitudes of Magnitude, paintings and linocuts by Carri Skoczek

Brooklyn, New York, Ch'i Contemporary Fine Art is proud to present  Attitudes of Magnitude, Carri Skoczek's second solo show at Ch'i... 9th January 2009

Kennington Kids arrives at City Hall - Dulwich Picture Gallery

Rough and raw, but it is, above all, brilliantly artistic. Any London commercial gallery would be foolish to turn down a chance of showing such talent... 9th January 2009

Keith Coventry: Copper and Silk at Paul Stolper Gallery

Paul Stolper presents Copper and Silk by Keith Coventry, one of the Young British Artists who exhibited at the Royal Academy's definitive Sensation exhibition... 7th January 2009

Dirty Little Pictures exhibition: John Stoddart

The second exhibition, separated by a staircase, which opens on the same night two hours later, is a revealing collection of photographic portraits taken of porn stars and the... 7th January 2009

HRH The Duchess of Cornwall becomes Patron of The Fan Museum

The Trustees of The Fan Museum Trust, Greenwich, are privileged to announce that Her Royal Highness The Duchess of Cornwall has graciously accepted to be Patron of... 7th January 2009

Jerwood Sculpture Prize 2008 Shortlist - Thomas Cox-Bisham, James Capper, Susan Forsyth, Alex Frost

The Jerwood Charitable Foundation is delighted to announce the short list for the Jerwood Sculpture Prize 2008... 27th November 2008

Eaton Terrace Gallery - Janina Tafelska - Gill - Hester van Weingarten - John Gill

Eaton Terrace Gallery launches its Winter Exhibition featuring 3 expatriate artists from France. The exhibition will run until 24th December. The main contributors are... 27th November 2008

Coskun Verbier - Pop Art and the Alps - Warhol. Wesselmann . Indiana . Wesselmann . Ramos . Hirst

Coskun Verbier confirms its position as one of Europe's leading Pop Art dealers with an exhibition 20TH CENTURY POP – a group of works by Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Robert Indiana, Tom Wesselmann, Damien Hirst, and Mel Ramos in their gallery in the Swiss Alps... 27th November 2008

Melissa Scott-Miller winner of the Lynn Painter-Stainers Prize

Melissa Scott-Miller was announced by Ken Howard RA as the winner of this year's Lynn Painter-Stainers Prize. The winning painting (pictured) is a detailed view of the urban landscape from an Islington park... 20th November 2008

Saving the earliest Opera in English for the nation - Bodleian library

Oxford, 19 November 2008 – The Bodleian Library is appealing to the public to help raise £85,000 until 6 January 2009 to save for the nation Erismena,the earliest surviving score of an opera in the English language... 20th November 2008

Largest ever Scottish art auction - McTear's Auction Galleries

Scotland's largest ever public exhibition & auction of Contemporary Scottish paintings is being staged at McTear's Auction Galleries in Glasgow 13th -22nd November. The Scottish ContemporaryArt Sale – 2008 is a brand new event with a stunning collection of work by many of Scotland's most popular professional artists. With nearly 450 individual paintings, it's the biggest known event dedicated exclusively to the work Scottish professional painters... 20th November 2008

Daiwa foundation art prize

The Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation is delighted to announce a new and innovative art prize introducing British artists to Japan... 10th November 2008

Keith Coventry - Twenty year retrospective - Copper and Silk

Keith Coventry's association with the YBA movement of the 1990s is more to do with generation rather than approach to practice... 10th November 2008

Garry Fabian Miller - Time Passage

Since 1985 Fabian Miller has worked exclusively within the darkroom, producing camera-less images, each a unique product of an event, for which there is no negative. His images are created by a long process of exposing light directly onto photographic paper through organic materials and substances such... 5th November 2008

Michael Andrews' famous Soho Colony Room Mural sold

A complete mural from the famous Soho drinking den the Colony Room by Michael Andrews sold for £38,400 at Lyon & Turnbull's Modern and Contemporary Art and Design sale in London on September 27th 2008... 22nd October 2008

Sun K Kwak's latest exhibition, 'Times Composed'

Brooklyn, New York, Ch'i Contemporary Fine Art presents Times Composed, Sun K. Kwak's signature medium of expression masking tape drawings, are meditative studies of the surrounding environment, a dialog between the spiritual and natural forces that we struggle to reconcile culture-wide. On the surface, the installations are beautiful melodic drawings containing rhythms and momentum resembling improvisational works of art... 22nd October 2008

Realisations by Joseph Walsh at The American Irish Historical Society

Following an invitation by the American Irish Historical Society (AIHS), Irish Designer & Artist Joseph Walsh will present his first major solo exhibition of Design Art & Functional Objects in New York in October of this year... 22nd October 2008

Garry Fabian Miller Exhibition at James Hyman Gallery

James Hyman Gallery has announced that they are holding the largest and most comprehensive exhibition of photographs by Garry Fabian Miller ever staged in London... 13th October 2008

ArtSway Open 08: Call for Entries, Artists needed

This December sees the return of ArtSway's highly popular annual Open exhibition. ArtSway Open 07 saw more than 300 artists from across the UK and Europe... 29th September 2008

ING Discerning Eye Exhibition - A Decade of Decadence

Artworks for the tenth annual ING Discerning Eye exhibition have been selected for the November exhibition, which is sponsored by ING Wholesale Banking... 29th September 2008

Figuring Landscapes - ArtSway

Landscape is a vital theme through which artists have tackled issues of representation, nation and identity in both Australia and the UK. Figuring Landscapes... 29th September 2008

Artist Sun Liang – A Painter's Journey, James Hyman Gallery

James Hyman Gallery, London, in association with Contrasts Gallery (Hong Kong, Shanghai) presents the UK's first major exhibition of paintings by Sun Liang... 17th September 2008

Artist Jeffar Khaldi exhibition at John Martin Gallery

In October the John Martin Gallery will be holding the first European exhibition of the Palestinian painter Jeffar Khaldi... 17th September 2008

Francis Bacon - Mutilated Pope up for sale

Nearly 30 years ago, a porter called Ron Thomas worked at the Marlborough Gallery, London, and for Francis Bacon. He and Bacon became good friends, and Ron often did odd jobs for him around his house. During this time Ron was given a mutilated canvas by Bacon... 15th September 2008

Fan museum Collection from Castle Friedenstein, Gotha – Sleeping Beauties

Like the Sleeping Beauty, a unique collection of fans collected by Duke Augustus of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg in the early 19th century has long lain dormant at Schloss Friedenstein in Gotha, East Germany. Now the collection has come out of wraps and has now been shown in several locations in Germany... 15th September 2008

Ambra Paterno Castello - A Journey to the South East exhibition

Ambra Paterno' Castello exhibits a selection of 29 images from her photographic expedition to Madagascar and Mozambique. The exhibition entitled " Africa Within: A Journey to the South East" opens... 15th September 2008

Ambra Paterno Castello - A Journey to the South East exhibition

Ambra Paterno' Castello exhibits a selection of 29 images from her photographic expedition to Madagascar and Mozambique. The exhibition entitled " Africa Within: A Journey to the South East" opens... 15th September 2008

Floren Gallery in Poole host figurative based work

Floren Gallery in Poole will this month play host to a brand new exhibition of fantastic figurative-based work, running from Tuesday 23rd... 8th September 2008

ArtSway Associate Programme funded by the Leverhulme Trust

ArtSway is pleased to announce the launch of the ArtSway Associate Programme, funded by the Leverhulme Trust... 8th September 2008

Francis Bacon at James Hyman Gallery

To coincide with Tate Britain's major Francis Bacon retrospective, James Hyman Gallery presents an exhibition of Francis Bacon and some of the most powerful figurative artists... 4th September 2008

Jerwood Drawing Prize 2008

The Jerwood Charitable Foundation and The Centre for Drawing, University of the Arts London have today released the short list of 54 artists for the Jerwood Drawing Prize 2008... 4th September 2008

ING Discerning Eye

Each year the ING Discerning Eye Exhibition contains an imaginative and broad selection of both contemporary and traditional artists. Setting established names alongside new talent and connecting new artists... 1st September 2008
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