Winsor & Newton Presents ‘Artmail”: A Global Celebration of Watercolour Postcards

This autumn, Darnley Fine Art is set to launch Visions of the Orient, a comprehensive and thought-provoking exhibition dedicated to the 19th-century Orientalist art movement. Running from 7 September to 3 October 2026 at the gallery’s historic Cecil Court location in London, the showcase brings together a rich cross-section of works representing English, French, Belgian, […]

What Is It Like? – A Groundbreaking Exhibition at arebyte Gallery Dates: February 27 – May 4, 2025Press Preview: Thursday, February 27, 4:30 – 5:30 pmOpening Evening: Thursday, February 27, 6:30 – 9 pmLocation: arebyte Gallery, Java House, 7 Botanic Square, London City Island, E14 0LG Curated by Helen Starr, What Is It Like? is […]

The exhibition runs from 12 October 2024 – 26 January 2025 at Potteries Museum & Art GalleryBethesda Street, Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent ST1 3DW. The Potteries Museum & Art Gallery, Stoke-on Trent, is thrilled to present Maurice Wade – A Painter from No.57, an extraordinary survey of work by North Staffordshire artist Maurice Wade, bringing together for […]

The solo exhibition of Daria Blum, the winner of the first Claridge’s Royal Academy Schools Art Prize has been announced by Claridge’s ArtSpace.The exhibition titled Daria Blum: Drip Drip Point Warp Spin Buckle Rot is set to open 24 September 2024 in the heart of Mayfair. Multidisciplinary artist Blum graduated from the Royal Academy Schools […]

The University of Europe for Applied Sciences (UE) has announced the unveiling of a major new public artwork by British artist LUAP (Paul Robinson) as part of a landmark collaboration. A four-metre tall, walk-in installation fabricated using recycled plastics, The Pink Bear Pavilion is LUAP’s largest sculpture to date and pays homage to the London-based […]

“To watch the sun sink behind a flower clad hill. To wander on in a huge forest without thought of return. To stand upon the shore and gaze after a boat that disappears behind distant islands. To contemplate the flight of wild geese seen and lost among the clouds…”  [The Japanese concept of Yūgen, as […]

Ministry of Nomads Art Foundation (MON) presents Maria Kreyn’s solo exhibition CHRONOS. Curated by Maria Vega, it runs from Monday 15 April to Saturday 22 June 2024, at St George’s Anglican Church, Venice with an opening reception on Tuesday 16 April. Ten monumental new oil paintings by the American artist are installed in this historic […]

The Art Studio in Newcastle-under-Lyme is pleased to present a solo exhibition of celebrated Stoke-on-Trent artist Arthur Berry. This exquisitely curated survey of work comprises twenty large scale paintings, spanning The Potteries’ artist’s later years from the 1970s until his death in 1994, and features portraits, figurative works, urban landscapes and still lifes. Arthur Berry […]

Nonclassical, a music promoter, record label and events producer, are commissioning four composers from diverse backgrounds currently taking part in the Nonclassical Artist in Residence (AiR) scheme to write for orchestra. The four highly talented composers chosen are Beatrice Ferreira, Harry Górski-Brown, Kendra Chiagoro-Noel (NWAKKE), and Nneka Cummins. They were selected from an open call […]

Ben Brown Fine Arts presents Epistrophies and Heads, an exhibition of recent paintings by British artist Tony Bevan, at their London gallery. Running until 13th of January 2024, this will be Bevan’s twelfth exhibition with the gallery marking the second part of their comprehensive exhibition, following the earlier works from this series on view at […]

Phosphene, an exciting exhibition of new works by New York-based Cuban artist José Parlá will take place at Ben Brown Fine Arts’ flagship London gallery from 11 October to 17 November 2023 coinciding with Frieze London.  This will be the artist’s second solo exhibition in the Mayfair space, following his highly acclaimed Echo of Impressions show in 2018. Phosphene forms the […]

Ad Lib Gallery is presenting The Lost Warhols, an exclusive exhibition of works portraying the iconic artist Andy Warhol. The exhibition will run between the 18th May until 18th June 2023. The exhibition is curated by American photographer and street artist Karen Bystedt. It features new interpretations of her archival photographs of Warhol, by a […]

Ben Brown Fine Arts will present Cosmic Drill, their third solo exhibition of Los Angeles-based artist Awol Erizku. The exhibition, which runs from 27 January – 6 April 2023, follows his highly acclaimed shows with Ben Brown Fine Arts, 慢慢燃燒 Slow Burn (Hong Kong, 2018) and Make America Great Again (London, 2017). This exhibition will […]

“Tiny Traces: African & Asian Children at London’s Foundling Hospital” will open at the Foundling Museum tomorrow 30 September 2022, running to 19 February 2023. Discover a richer history of London life in the eighteenth century, through newly uncovered stories of African and Asian children in the care of the Foundling Hospital.“Tiny Traces: African & […]

On the 25th August, Red Eight Gallery, the first contemporary art gallery in the Square Mile, London, opened their doors for the first time. Their first Exhibition is a globally acclaimed showcase, featuring original and authenticated screen prints by the most controversial, interesting and talked-about artist in modern history. Banksy is an England-based street artist, […]

For the first time in 25 years Johnny Depp will direct a movie Modigliani. A quarter of a century ago he directed both himself and Marlon Brando in 1997’s The Brave. This movie is based on Modigliani: A play in three acts by Dennis McIntyre published in 1980. This news was first reported by The Hollywood […]

Tuesday 1 March, 10:30am – 12pm The Dance of Art, the Dance of Life Dance is the original form of artistic expression. It has only one instrument—the body—but it creates movement, lines, forms, and rhythm. It connects us to the earth, the sky, the cosmos, Nature. By calling on the ritual of dance to generate […]

22 November 2021 – 28 January 2022 Ben Brown Fine Arts is honoured to announce Libraries, Museums and A Theatre, an exhibition of selected works by legendary German artist Candida Höfer. Candida Höfer (b. 1944) is a German artist based in Cologne, Germany. Höfer is a member of the Düsseldorf School (Kunstakademie Düsseldorf) and a […]

James Campbell presents: The Accidental Show 15 Sept 2021, a free weekly children’s zoom-based chat show featuring authors, illustrators, crafts and the news Online every Saturday morning from 10am 2nd October – 4 th December 2021. A weekly children’s light entertainment chat show, The Accidental Show brings culture, creativity, news, and silliness to children across […]

Grove Square Galleries is delighted to announce a forthcoming solo show by photographic artist Jim Naughten, the latest name to join the gallery’s growing roster of contemporary talents. Entitled Eremozoic, the exhibition – the gallery’s first in the photographic medium will present a new series by Naughten, whose vibrant digital works confront our modern-day disconnection […]

Crean & Company announces its forthcoming solo viewing room of works by American painter Alexander Nolan. The Accommodations of Desire which runs from 12 August – 24 September 2021 on www.creanandcompany.com presents a new body of 31 works by the New York-based artist, whose paintings conjure a colourful world of fantastical realism, often inspired by […]

British artist LUAP unveils new multidisciplinary installation in the heart of London’s Mayfair. In ‘Nature & Nurture – The Pink Bear’ he brings together some of his work’s enduring themes, such as mental health, the climate and isolation, bringing them to the street for all to see. “Life is beautiful but fragile and fast – […]

Launched July 1st on Selfridges.com, the online store presents a selection of work from across their artist roster. TAP Galleries at Selfridges will include pieces by artists including Maxim (The Prodigy), Gavin Mitchell, Kristjana Williams & Jayson Lilley, at prices from £50. In addition to the permanent offering, TAP Galleries will be introducing monthly drops […]

Philip Colbert launches Lobsteropolis City and the Lobster Land Museum in Decentraland, curated by Simon de Pury This June 30th, British contemporary artist Philip Colbert reveals LOBSTEROPOLIS CITY, his first fully digital exhibition, opening within the ‘metaverse’ of Decentraland – seeing the artist’s lobster universe evolve into its latest iteration. This marks the most ambitious […]

The solo exhibition at Almine Rech London of American artist Larry Poons, on view until 31 July, 2021. For over half a century, Larry Poons has been identified as heir to the heroic era of American painting, following in the footsteps of such greats as Pollock, de Kooning, and Rothko. In 1969, aged 32, Poons […]

Almine Rech London presents Water Drops, the first posthumous exhibition of Korean artist Kim Tschang-Yeul (1929-2021), which opened on March 4, 2021. Spanning the career of Kim Tschang-Yeul’s work, the exhibition was conceived to celebrate the full scope of his artistic legacy. Described as “Glistening, plump and precious”, the hyper-realistic water drops, are synonymous with […]

Following the success of their online workshop programme launched during the first lockdown, theatre company, Squint, led by theatre director and Artistic Director of Squint Andrew Whyment, will run a further series of writing and devising workshops to equip and empower participants with tools and practice that can be applied to their own projects. The […]

VIRUS CLASSICS comprises of twenty-one spoof volumes, each mimicking the size and style of the paperbacks of The Penguin English Library designed by Coralie Bickford-Smith. They take some of our most treasured literary classics and give them a topical spin. Title plate and logo debossed, the artworks feel both hearteningly familiar and laden with satire. […]

Members of the public from Britain and around the world are invited to contribute online at www.shemza.digital. Stuart Faromarz Batchelor is a London-based painter and computer artist who combines traditional media with custom software to create still, moving and installation work to explore visual phenomena and the relationship between maths, nature and our perception of […]

Classic portraits by some of the world’s greatest photographers Thursday 3 December 2020 – 28 February 2021 Iconic Images Gallery, 13A Park Walk, Chelsea, London SW10 0AJ To celebrate the end of lockdown, Iconic Images Gallery is excited to announce the launch of its new exhibition “BLOW-UP”. Come stand face to face with some of […]

Customised Fender guitars up for auction to support the vital work of The Big Issue in time of crisis. The Big Issue is an award-winning weekly entertainment and current affairs magazine, which offers a new hope for homeless and vulnerably housed people across the UK. When sellers are able to sell, they buy magazines for […]

Launching a gallery is a bold move during a pandemic. Grove Square Galleries a new gallery in London (New Cavendish Street) are doing just this. As part of their mission to champion a diverse group of up-and-coming artists with exceptional talent, they open on 8th October with an inaugural show of work by emerging painter Christopher Kieling. […]

The West London venue will reopen from 17 September 2020 with a programme spanning theatre, comedy and opera. Opera highlights will include a double bill featuring Camilla Kerslake and Blue Electric, directed by Academy Award-winning Director Hugh Hudson.Olivier nominee Gerard Logan will play Oscar Wilde in Gareth Armstrong’s play about the writer. Artists showing work-in-progress include character […]

Commissioned by Chats Palace and Shoreditch Town Hall as part of Hackney Carnival, Still, Here is a fascinating new walking tour from Access All Areas Black Cab Company. It explores the unique experience of lockdown from the point of view of its autistic and learning disabled artists. Black Cab Company is a collective of autistic and learning […]

At a time when most of us haven’t left our homes not to mention travelled to other countries, two new shows are presented by Cosmic Shambles showing what it is like to leave the planet. ROYAL ALBERT HOME: BOOK SHAMBLES, with special guest Captain Samantha Cristoforetti, airs online on Friday,21st August at www.royalalberthall.com/tickets/events/2020/royal-albert-home-book-shambles/ The hit […]

On September 2, 2020, Dutch collective DRIFT and Avant Arte, the world’s largest online community of art lovers, will launch a new edition entitled ANOTHER FUTURE. Combining real dandelions and LED lights, the artworks tell the story of two distinct worlds – nature and technology – harmonising and becoming one. Founded in 2007 by Dutch […]

The ING Discerning Eye is calling for entries for a brand-new edition in 2020. The exhibition’s new format gives artists the opportunity to showcase their work in a unique virtual gallery and win a range of prizes, including the ING Purchase Prize worth £5,000, as well as specific medium and regional awards. As a result […]

In collaboration with the New York City AIDS Memorial, URGE AND URGE AND URGE is a campaign to raise awareness of the ongoing fight against AIDS. It is launched by Jenny Holzer and Avant Arte. On July 29, 2020, American artist Jenny Holzer and Avant Arte, the world’s largest online community of art lovers, launch […]

‘Every Day is a Miracle’ is the tagline of Art Below’s first gallery exhibition since January and the Covid Lockdown which saw every gallery and theatre close in the UK and across the world. Opening Friday 17 July at Ad Lib Gallery, it runs until the 26th of July following months of isolation and global […]

A new public art project, Breath is Invisible, launches today, Tuesday 7 July 2020 in Notting Hill with an installation of works by Khadija Saye, the young Gambian-British artist who tragically lost her life in the Grenfell Tower fire in 2017, aged just 24. Saye’s is the first of three site-specific exhibitions that comprise the […]

The applications are now open for the inaugural Soho House Art Prize: a new global contemporary art prize to discover, recognise and support artistic talent. Created by Soho House and supported by Bombay Sapphire, the prize winner will receive the funds to realise and present a major solo showcase at Soho Beach House Miami during […]

London-based Russian pop artist, Olga Lomaka, is famous for her giant ice-cream cone sculptures, elongated fibreglass Pink Panthers and wooden panels of Buddhas embossed with Coca-Cola and Facebook logos. Lomaka’s work has been described as everything from bonkers to magical, humorous to existential. Her sculptural series Pink Magic, featuring that lanky, enigmatic panther, was picked out by […]

Fresh from their collaboration with Norwich & Norfolk Festival this month, Radio Local is set to get hyper-local in London, broadcasting from the Barbican and Golden Lane estates. This comes after the recent announcement that live artists Hunt & Darton’s Radio Local project was transformed from a real-life performance event which toured last year, into a new […]

Set sail on an ocean of science, music, comedy and the wonder with an all-star cast without leaving your home on Sunday the 17th of May with Robin Ince, Dr Helen Czerski and Steve Backshall at 7pm. Today, the Cosmic Shambles Network and the Royal Albert Hall will take you on a celebratory online voyage of discovery […]

Kovet.Art – a new artist incubator platform –  launched Wednesday 13 May 2020. Its inaugural exhibition, Delineating Dreams, is due to open in June at www.kovet.art.  Kovet.Art looks towards a future artworld ecosystem, while aiming to uncover and accelerate the world’s best artistic talent and include as many as possible in their journey of discovery. Combining […]

The Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize is now launching a milestone edition. 2020 will be the 3rd year of support for the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize by the Trinity Buoy Wharf Trust and the 25th consecutive annual exhibition since 1994. To mark this special year, the call for entries is going international, and is […]

Today sees the launch of the Sequested Prize, a new self-portrait group award. Launched during the time of COVID-19, it is designed to create a platform of recognition and support to those working to establish or continue their artistic practice. Co-founded by artist W. K. Lyhne and art curator / advisor Fru Tholstrup, this open […]

Derwent Art Prize: The shortlist has been announced. In response to increasing concerns around the impact of COVID-19 (Coronavirus) and in order to protect the health and wellbeing of artists, visitors, staff and the wider community, we have made the decision to postpone both the Derwent Art Prize exhibitions in London and in Paris. We will however be launching […]

Wells Art Contemporary: Wells Art Contemporary remains committed to providing the unique opportunity of showing in Wells Cathedral to all artists. To give them more time to enter, the submission date is extended until 1 August 2020. The 2020 exhibition will be selected by artists Phil Allen, Neville Gabie and Lisa Wright. With the full support of the Dean, we will […]

‘Stay culturally connected’ while in quarantine is the message from Unit London who are launching lots of great initiatives to get the world excited by culture and art in quarantine. As the global population hunkers down for an indefinite period of intense wall-staring, Unit London would love to know what’s on that wall, what artwork(s) […]

Philip Ridley has responded to the current lockdown situation, with a series of online monologues in association with Tramp and the cast of his play The Beast of Blue Yonder which was due to premiere at Southwark Playhouse this month. The first monologue, Gator stars Rachel Bright (who plays Poppy Meadow in the BBC soap […]

Over the last few weeks, because of the COVID19 global pandemic, we saw all the theatres in the Westend close down. We saw Broadway in New York close it’s doors. The Vault Festival in London was cut short. Several independent theatres were also forced to close down productions. Theatre lovers across the Globe are now […]

Over the last week, we have seen major museums, art fairs and galleries around the world close their doors to prevent the spread of Coronavirus. We are beginning to see fantastic initiatives by these museums, art fairs and galleries, in utilising the internet to keep culture moving and audiences connected.  And on Friday night, British […]

Live entertainment to stream online from some of the top names in comedy, science, music and more. The Coronavirus pandemic has resulted in live performance being suspended for the fore-seeable future. The West End in London and Broadway in New York along with several other plays and performances around the world have been closed down. […]

An all-female line-up of four leading contemporary choreographers explore movement in the context of gender and sensuality over three evenings. This festival of Korean Dance returns to The Place with a programme that comprises of four women choreographers at the cutting edge of Korean dance culture. It runs from the 29 May to 5 June […]

A picture is worth a thousand words. Earth Photo is an international competition developed by Forestry England and the Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers). It rewards photographs celebrating the natural world, its beauty, and its ever-growing fragility. The main objective of Earth Photo is to reveal the story behind the pictures: […]

The world’s largest touring exhibition of Banksy artworks opening 23rd April 2020 in South Kensington. A touring exhibition featuring works by painter, graffiti  artist and social activist, Banksy is set to open in London. The Art of Banksy is an acclaimed showcase featuring 80 original and authenticated works associated with, arguably, the most intriguing and talked-about artist […]

A pioneering celebration of drawing returned to Trinity Buoy Wharf in London running from 18 January – 1 February 2020. This current exhibition, the annual Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize celebrates this revival of drawing in London’s historic Docklands. “Drawing has seen something of a renaissance in the last twenty years in the UK”, wrote […]

Our planetary home is struggling. The ice caps have rapidly melted, the water level has risen. Farming of animals and mining oil has spoiled its atmosphere and its soil. We have set the Earth on fire and suffocated it with plastic pollutants. Presented by Art-Recyclism, Mars and Beyond is an immersive art show. It will […]

The London Group, the UK’s longest-running and most prestigious artists’ co-operative, announced its 84th open exhibition’s prize winners. Prizes totalling over £9,000 have been awarded to 11 artists following a successful 2019 show. Formed in 1913 by thirty-two artists from the Camden Town Group and English Vorticists, including Jacob Epstein, Wyndham Lewis and Walter Sickert, […]

Locals in Bournemouth were outraged when ‘Pot Shop’, appeared opposite St. Michael’s Primary School in The Triangle, in a disused Post Office building. Locals misconstrued a latest art installation by British Artist Stuart Semple when they saw the sign mistaking it for a cannabis cafe. Earlier this week the doors opened to British Artist Stuart […]

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This Christmas Brookfield Properties partners with Amsterdam’s pioneering Light Art Collectio in IlluminoCity to present a stunning display of five light installations at London Wall Place and Principal Place in London. It runs from 9th December to 17th January. This extraordinary ‘light’ exhibition is part of a movement to illuminate the city in the cold […]

Ackerman Studios presents ‘Sacred Sceneries’ by Ewan David Eason at After Nyne Gallery. It runs from 21 November – 10 December 2019. In his work, London based artist, Eason produces contemporary maps of major cities, gilded in gold and silver leaf to arresting effect. His iconic topographical surfaces in shimmering precious metals create a powerful and yet abstract […]

We are just weeks away from the opening of the Oasis photography exhibition at the London H club. 25 years since the release of Oasis’ first album DEFINITELY, MAYBE. MASTERPLAN25 marks this occasion with this photography exhibition with Michael Spencer Jones ; Iconic & Unseen Photographs of OASIS. Spencer Jones travelled with Oasis during many […]

Set sail on an ocean of science, music, comedy and wonder with all-star cast; Robin Ince, Dr Helen Czerski and Steve Backshall. After the hugely successful 2018’s Space Shambles, the Cosmic Shambles Network announced their return to The Royal Albert Hall in on May 17th 2020. Sea Shambles is a brand new sea themed spectacular show, […]

Digital agency Waste developed the project with their newly created in-house design and animation studio, This Thing of Ours, to craft an action-packed, black and white, frame by frame animation. Waste releases epic, frame-by-frame animation for the Brawl Stars community Players were called upon to colour in a single frame for the chance to be […]

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Media – Japanese sumi ink on rice paper, mineral pigments, copper and gold leaves on 600gr cold pressed cotton paper.

The Sixteen Trust, a new arts and education charity, will stage a large fundraising exhibition of former Turner Prize nominees and winners in the Sunshine Café, Margate, near Turner Contemporary, running 13 September – 18 October 2019. This follows a fundraising exhibition at 10 Hanover in London, running 2 – 8 September 2019. The Sixteen […]

MASTERPLAN25 marks 25 years since the release of OASIS’ debut album DEFINITELY, MAYBE. The exhibition will include never before seen imagery of this iconic band. Masterplan 25: The Oasis Photographs runs from Friday 22nd November 2019 – Sunday 12th January 2020. It is free of charge, non-ticketed event.  It is 25 years since the release of Oasis’ debut album, Definitely Maybe; the […]

With homage to Jeff Koon’s 1988 Pink Panther, visual artist Olga Lomaka lit up the iconic Innova development in Croydon during Monday night’s White Party, with a striking, monumental projection film – visible from streets all around the building.  In a colourful montage peppered humorously with the Pink Panther, the artist nodded to some other stars of […]

Winners were announced for A Day in Your Life competition, which was part of Kensington and Chelsea Art Weekend. The winners were announced at a special prize-giving at Saatchi Gallery during the launch of Kensington + Chelsea Art Weekend. The competition was introduced as part of the Kensington + Chelsea Art Weekend to encourage and nurture the photographic […]

Saturday 29th June, 6.30 – 10.30pm   Kensington and Chelsea art weekend opens with a party of an algorithm-generated DJ set. Algorave is the live coding movement that makes next-level electronic music. This trend sees live-coding and algorithms create glitchy beats and psychedelic visuals as technology take centre stage at the Museum of Brands, 111-117 Ladbroke […]

P21 Gallery, 21- 27 Chalton Street, London, NW1 1JD www.sinkwithouttrace.com Sink Without Trace presents works by seventeen artists on the subject of migrant deaths at sea. The exhibition includes artists from both refugee, migrant and non-migrant backgrounds; from Denmark, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Israel, Italy, Kurdistan, Slovakia, South Africa, Syria and the UK. Through drawing, painting, photography, […]

This year’s National College of Art and Design (NCAD) fashion graduates reference the past while looking to the future through diverse cultural and familial backgrounds, articulated through both traditional craft techniques and new design processes. The Fashion Design degree annual fashion show took place on Monday the 27th of May. The event was supported by The […]

Nicola Anthony, a British artist based in Singapore, has been named a top 30 finalist for the 2019 Sovereign Asian Art Prize, the 15th edition of Asia’s most prestigious prize for contemporary artists whose work has been shown in museums. This is not the first time artist Nicola Anthony has made it on to this […]

How often do you look at a label on food and see where it came from and really scrutinise the journey it took to be on a shelf in a supermarket? Would you still buy it if you knew it had been caught by slaves? I confess until I watched Ghost Fleet, I never gave […]

The National Library of Ireland (NLI) Seamus Heaney: Listen Now Again’ exhibition, at the Bank of Ireland Cultural and Heritage Centre on College Green, celebrates the life and works of one of Ireland’s greatest writers. It has now been shortlisted for an award in the prestigious Museums + Heritage Awards. A panel of judges drawn […]

‘Perpetua’ by artist James Earley and the creative arts studio Algorithm, is a new 3D animated mural installation. It was launched on the 6th of March. In partnership with National Irish Visual Arts Library (NIVAL) at the National College of Art and Design (NCAD)  This ground-breaking installation of new public artwork was unveiled at 7.30pm on Haymarket Square, Smithfield, Dublin 7 and will […]

To mark Valentine’s Day, letters between WB Yeats and lifelong friend Olivia Shakespear have gone on display at the National Library of Ireland. The selection of newly acquired letters between WB Yeats and his first lover and close friend, the English writer Olivia Shakespear (1863-1938), were put on display on the 14th of February, at […]

Hosted by the Heritage Council, the National Heritage Week Awards highlighted Ireland’s ‘heritage heroes’, and showcased the most engaging and innovative National Heritage Week events. Close to 700 nominations were received across five categories in 2018. The Awards ceremony marks close of European Year of Cultural Heritage. National Heritage Week is part of European Heritage […]

26 Leake Street Gallery at Waterloo’s Graffiti Tunnels is transformed into an interactive audiovisual space taking you on an immersive journey through the remarkable life of the former South African president Nelson Mandela. The global tour of this exhibition makes its debut in London. It opens to the public today the 8th of February and […]

 In collaboration with the Royal House of Mandela and the Mvezo Development Trust, Nelson Mandela: The Official Exhibition opens at 26 Leake Street on Friday, February 8th and runs until Sunday 2nd June 2019. This major global museum exhibition, celebrating his life and legacy, will feature many previously unseen artifacts marking the centenary of Mandela’s birth to […]

A major conference ‘Bauhaus Effects‘, will take place in Dublin marking the centenary of the founding of the Bauhaus. The Bauhaus is recognised as the twentieth century’s most influential school of art and design. The Conference will mark the 100-year anniversary of the influential Bauhaus school Developed in collaboration between the National College of Art and Design Dublin (NCAD), University […]

Diane Abbott hosted a performance from Gabriel Gbadamosi’s urgent new play, STOP AND SEARCH, in the House of Commons.  At a time when the Home Secretary Sajid Javid is preparing to give police new ‘stop and search’ powers in an attempt to curb knife crime, and also when police chiefs are seeking to scrap the […]

The National Gallery of Ireland invites visitors to escape the Irish Winter to Canaletto’s Venice in a new exhibition. ‘Canaletto and the Art of Venice’ captures the colour, drama and vibrancy of the ‘floating city’ of Venice while capturing a high point in the Republic’s history. Curated by Anne Hodge, the exhibition which opened Wednesday 5th of December […]

The Turner Prize winner was announced last night at Tate Britain. This year’s finalists covered a range of themes; immigration, racism and queer identity.  44-year-old Glasgow-based artist Charlotte Prodger was named the winner of the £25,000 prize by the novelist Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie at the ceremony at Tate Britain London. Her film Bridgit is a coming out story that […]

‘Markievicz: Portraits & Propaganda’ aims to broaden understanding of a familiar yet mysterious figure in a new exhibition, that opens Saturday 27th October 2018 at the National Gallery of Ireland. In the year of the woman, the National Art Gallery of Ireland pays tribute to Constance Markievicz, an Artist, an aristocrat, prisoner and parliamentarian, suffragette and soldier. These […]

Nelson Mandela, was a lawyer, a revolutionary, a political prisoner, a world leader, an elder statesman and the first black president of South Africa. For the past 50 years and 5 years since his death, he is still viewed as an icon – a symbol of the struggle against oppression to so many people across […]

For one day only it will be at East London’s Old Spitalfields Market, coinciding with Frieze Art Fair. It’s a free event. Cultural Traffic a roving, global, anti-elitist multi-discipline arts and book fair comes to London for one day only. Founded in 2016 by the London-based editor, designer and collector Toby Mott, it has grown from its […]

Global cybersecurity company, Kaspersky Lab, an ardent supporter of the arts and motorsport, presents its own unique take on the art car concept, made famous in the 1970s. Kaspersky Lab and the UK’s most prolific street artist, D*Face (real name Dean Stockton), has unveiled the first-ever Formula E art car, in East London. The result is […]

Dublin’s newest museum, 14 Henrietta Street was officially opened by Lord Mayor of Dublin, Nial Ring and Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, Josepha Madigan TD  on Friday, 14th September 2018  Set in a Georgian townhouse in the north inner city, 14 Henrietta Street tells the story of the building’s shifting fortunes, from the splendour of its Georgian origins in the 1740s, to a […]

Anyone that is an artist grows weary at the escalating cost of art materials. Some manufacturers allegedly can charge upwards of £100 for inferior products. One man has a mission to challenge this. This man is Stuart Semple. Artists all around the world will be in for a shock AND a treat later this month […]

The aim of the blogs is to provide a platform for must-read content from some of the world’s leading science writers. This comes at a time that the Guardian closes down their science blog after eight years. Many of their science writers will be joining the Network from the recently closed “very popular” blog site. The Cosmic […]

Blood Brothers announces its 2018 Autumn tour, opening on Tuesday 4 September at the Churchill Theatre, Bromley. This iconic ‘international smash hit musical’ produced by Bill Kenwright, has toured theatres all over the UK throughout 2018, performing to sell-out playhouses to standing ovations. Considered ‘One of the best musicals ever written’ (Sunday Times) and ‘unmissable and unbeatable’ […]

The National Library of Ireland has announced receipt of the archive of award-winning Irish screenwriter, director and producer, Neil Jordan. Born in Sligo in 1950, Neil Jordan has achieved international critical acclaim for his writing and directing; his films include Michael Collins(1996), The Butcher Boy (1997), and Breakfast on Pluto (2005). In 1992, he won an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay […]

Best-selling recording artist, X-Factor winner and West End star Matt Cardle will officially join the cast of Strictly Ballroom The Musical from tonight, Wednesday 8 August. Strictly Ballroom the musical which is based on Baz Luhrmann’s 1992 Australian romantic comedy film, is transformed into a spectacular and joyous West End musical. It tells the story of Scott Hastings – […]

The Casting has now been confirmed for the UK Premiere of Sharr White’s psychological thriller, The Other Place. The play will run from 19 September to 20 October 2018 at the Park Theatre, Finsbury Park, London and Theatre by the Lake in Keswick, Cumbria from 1st to 10th Nov 2018. Directed by Claire van Kampen, The Other Place […]

Eastern Star by Guy Slater tells the story of the tortuous relationship between two men, during the Myanmar uprising of 1988, raising the question “Who writes history – the activist or the journalist? Ahead of the 30th anniversary of the 1988 student uprising against the military dictatorship in Burma (now Myanmar) on 8th August, Guy Slater in […]