Before and after pictures of a Banksy artwork in Stoke Newington, London. Council officials have painted over a Banksy graffito sketch from which a reworked version was derived as the cover artwork for the 2003 single Crazy Beat by the band Blur. The artwork – a cartoon of the royal family waving from a balcony [...]

The Queen’s Elm in London, once a renowned pub, has been turned by a group of artists into a temporary gallery. Three months ago Simon Tarrant, a 44-year-old painter here who has never had gallery representation and has had only two solo shows in his 15-year career, decided to try something different. He approached the [...]

Salvador Dali, “Le Jungle Humaine” (1977) An anonymous donor has given several works by Spanish artist Salvador Dali to the Salvation Army in Houston, ABC news reported. The Spanish artist’s works were exhibited at a Salvation Army thrift store along with $1 items of used clothing and other goods donated by people. The Dali works [...]

“Marcel, Marcel, I love you like Hell, Marcel.” So ran a mash note written to Marcel Duchamp in 1923 by the Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven, one of the scores of women, and many men, for whom Duchamp was a personal fixation, erotic, aesthetic or otherwise. For many contemporary art lovers he is a fixation still, [...]

Jacob Epstein, Torso in Metal from the ‘The Rock Drill’, 1913-14. Bronze, 70.5 x 58.4 x 44.5 cm. Tate, London. This October the Royal Academy of Arts will present an exhibition of works celebrating the radical change that transformed British sculpture at the beginning of the twentieth century. Over a period of 10 years (1905-1915), [...]

Artist Maurice Agis’s inflatable artwork Dreamspace. Two women died when it broke free from moorings at Chester-le-Street, County Durham, in July 2006. The creator of an inflatable artwork that blew away, killing two women, won an appeal today against the £10,000 fine imposed on him for breaching health and safety regulations. Artist Maurice Agis, 77, [...]

With their first public artwork in Manhattan, which went up at the northwest corner of Houston Street and the Bowery on July 17, the Brazilian brothers Otavio and Gustavo Pandolfo, who call themselves Os Gêmeos, bring graffiti art to its Rococo phase. Which is to say that their fantastic, epic mural, on a concrete wall [...]