Black Grape by Dick Evans at Newspeak 2, Saatchi Gallery The British Art Show isn’t just any old art exhibition; it’s an event of seismic significance for the visual arts in this country. Well, that’s what the organisers hope, anyway. Staged at five-year intervals, it is supposed to present an overview of how art has [...]
Domenichino, Saint John the Evangelist, late 1620s. On loan from a private collection, © Private collection 2010. One of the greatest works by the Italian Baroque master Domenichino (1581–1641) is to remain in Britain and is now on public display in Room 32 of the National Gallery, having been acquired by an anonymous private collector. [...]
The “five-to-10 good years” phenomenon, first articulated by former Tate director Alan Bowness, suggests that virtually all artists do their best work in a relatively short period, whether it was the 10 years Delacroix had between 1824 and 1834, Courbet’s six (1849 -1855) or Munch’s three (1892-95). After a major artist makes his breakthrough, he [...]
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 [...]
A new trend in the art business is flourishing at a moment when the economy is tight and sales are slow at galleries around town. What’s the idea? Add a bar. It’s not entirely new to mix art and alcohol. In nightspots where artists hang out, such as Seattle’s Two Bells tavern and the Virginia [...]
With works by Chinese contemporary artists fetching millions of dollars at auction and the number of Asian collectors multiplying, it was only a matter of time before a major Manhattan art gallery announced plans to put down roots in Beijing. The first to do so is PaceWildenstein, which this summer will open Pace Beijing, a [...]
Curators at the Detroit Institute of Arts used research to find out how long visitors spend at each exhibit. Gathering data about visitors has never been as important, or as sophisticated, to museums as it is now. “A zillion other things are competing for our leisure time,” said Ford Bell, president and chief executive of [...]