Keith Vaughan - An Exhibition of Gouaches, Drawings & Prints
One of the most remarkable exhibitions in the recent history of the gallery was the Keith Vaughan retrospective that we mounted in 2007. Admittedly we put together an exceptional collection of the artist’s work but nothing prepared us for the reaction to the show and the acclaim it received. All 1,000 catalogues sold out in ...
First International Biennale of Contemporary Art in Ukraine 2012
KEY DATES: 17th May – 30th July VENUE: Mystetskyi Arsenal 10 Lavrska Street, Kyiv, Ukraine, 01010 The Inaugural International Biennale of Contemporary Art in the Ukraine, ‘ARSENALE’ (named after the art complex in which it will be shown,) will open in Kyiv on 17th May 2012, at the National Culture and Art Museum Complex ‘Mystetskyi ...
Dave Pearce ‘Through the Garden Gate’ Cadogan Contemporary
In a quieter corner of Padstow, Modern British Art is alive and well and challenging the senses. It is not often that a contemporary artist stops you in your tracks, roots you to the spot and draws you into their work with just the briefest of viewings. In a turbulent world, David Pearce’s work comes ...
Envie d’Art Gallery: New Exhibition today!
All-new exhibition from Kensington’s Envie d’Art Gallery, featuring: Renaud Delorme, Joseph and Maayke Schuitema: This exhibition kicks off this evening (14th Sep) and runs until 15th Oct. Opening hours are: Wednesday to Saturday from 11am to 7am Envie d’Art 16 Victoria Grove Kensington London W8 5RW Website: www.enviedart.com Email : geraldine@enviedart.com London Tel : ...
‘Mindscapes’ Exhibition by Sri McKinnon
‘Mindscapes‘ is Sri McKinnon’s third solo London exhibition, showcasing a selection of prints inspired by an eclectic range of influences, woven together in a fresh, organic and feminine style. Thursday 15th September 2011. The event kicks off from 6.30pm and goes on until 1.00am. Music comes courtesy of First Word Records DJs. www.firstwordrecords.com The exhibition ...
Gemma Compton’s solo show ‘Natural Beauty’
Gemma Compton is an artist / fashion designer based in Bristol, UK. As a self confessed ‘perfectionist’ her highly detailed work with it’s strong style has crossed from garments to gallery walls. Being brought up in a small town in the sleepy Cotswold’s sparked a life long love for nature, particularly ornithology and the British ...
Marilyn Monroe dress sells for $4.6 million
The famous white dress worn by Marilyn Monroe in the 1955 movie “The Seven Year Itch” has been sold at auction for $4.6 million. The pleated ivory dress, which flutters under the iconic star as she stands on a subway grate in the film, had been expected to fetch between one and two million dollars ...
Vorticists: Manifesto for a Modern World
Harder, faster, fiercer, louder: Jacob Epstein’s The Rock Drill confronts you at the door, muscles flexed, thighs splayed, pumping away with his tool. A shocking creature, with his visor head and radiator ribs, he rides a real industrial drill. Half-man, half-anthropod, and precursor to a thousand Hollywood androids, Epstein’s figure rises up with a violent ...
Warhol ‘Self Portrait’ sells for $38.4 million
In the overflowing Rockefeller Center salesroom, a rapt audience watched as Brett Gorvy, one of the heads of Christie’s postwar and contemporary art department, and Philippe Ségalot, a private dealer, engaged in a tense and often amusing bidding war over a 1963-64 Warhol self-portrait. Both had tenacious clients who took obvious pleasure bidding in unconventional ...