Sparks (sort of) flew last night at the opening of the newly revamped Photographers’ Gallery in London last night, when arts heavyweight Liz Forgan followed the ever ebullient Ed Vaizey, the arts minister, as guest speaker at the swanky launch bash….

Commuters on their daily slog on the London Underground can savour yet another intriguing work of art on the Tube courtesy of artist Bob and Roberta Smith and creative film director Tim Newton. Who is Community? – a short film and series of…

If you believe the statistics, as many art indexes and investment funds seem to, China is overtaking the US to become the world’s highest spending art and antiques market. But is this true?

The figures, after a closer look at the reality of the…

China is the world’s largest art market—even if the figures are disputed (see above). The numbers vary according to whose research you read, but the French site Artprice claims that in 2011, China represented 41.4% of the fine art auction market….

With the success of the Art HK fair, galleries from all over the world have been looking seriously at Hong Kong as a place to do business. Despite the high rents, dozens of dealers have started looking for spaces, partly encouraged by InvestHK, the…

A criminal network is believed to have targeted more than 30 auction houses across the UK, using fake credit cards to steal works of art. While initial reports claimed that the suspects only approached regional auction houses, it is now clear that…

Head of Programme: Curating Contemporary Art

Salary: c £60k depending on experience (pro-rated for part-time).

Location: South Kensington Campus

The Royal College of Art, the only entirely postgraduate institution…

Robert Crumb, often known simply as R. Crumb, began to draw at the age of two. By the age of ten, Crumb, born in Philadelphia in 1943, was an avid fan of comic strips, and by 16, he was sketching the adventures of the family cat, Fred, who…

Archaeologists are up in arms over the Ministry of Defence’s (MoD’s) decision to transfer the management of an 18th-century British warship to a newly formed charitable body, the Maritime Heritage Foundation, which has entered into an agreement with…

A major French patron says that he hopes to transform the French public’s perception of contemporary art by opening a new gallery in a former 17th-century convent in Brittany this summer. “Outside of Paris, contemporary art spaces cater for the…

A touch of Hollywood glamour and stardust is sprinkled all over Lismore Castle in County Waterford in Ireland this month with the launch of The Heir and Astaire (until 10 June), a show by US artist TJ Wilcox devoted to vaudeville star Adele Astaire,…

Director, Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art

Location: Porto, Portugal

The Board of the Serralves Foundation is seeking to appoint a new Director to the Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art in Porto, an important Museum of…

Only months before its scheduled opening, a fire broke out at the Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art’s new building in Oslo, designed by Renzo Piano.

Monday afternoon, a fire went up on the top floor, but firefighters had it under control by…

The chess masters Viswanathan Anand and Boris Gelfand kicked off their World Chess Championship battle in Moscow on Friday in unusual surroundings: the State Tretyakov Gallery. The match, which runs through the end of May, is the highest-level chess…

A touch of Hollywood glamour and stardust is sprinkled all over Lismore Castle in County Waterford in Ireland this month with the launch of The Heir and Astaire (until 10 June), a show by US artist TJ Wilcox devoted to vaudeville star Adele Astaire,…

At 114.5 metres high, the ArcelorMittal Orbit is the UK’s tallest sculpture. Unveiled on 11 May, it stands in the London Olympic Park offering unparalleled views to visitors. ArcelorMittal is handing the sculpture over to the London Legacy…

The ArcelorMittal Orbit tower is “definitely an artwork”, according to London’s newly re-elected mayor Boris Johnson. While descending its vertigo-inducing spiral staircase, Johnson pointed out that the idea for the asymmetrical tower came from a…

An ambitious collaboration to document the achievements of the now defunct Polaroid Corporation is being made possible thanks to an initial grant from the Land Fund. The Foundation for the Exhibition of Photography (FEP) and the scientific college…

International dealers have joined forces to lobby against potential US legislation that could have a “significant and negative impact on the art market in New York”. The Art Dealers Association of America (ADAA), the Society of London Art Dealers…

A decade-long campaign led by Turkish archaeologist Ahmet Yaras to prevent the Turkish government from flooding the ancient Roman spa town of Allianoi is one of 28 initiatives to receive a European Union Prize for Cultural Heritage/Europa Nostra…

Artists who “appropriate” the work of others are increasingly coming into conflict as a slew of recent cases involving artists including Shepard Fairey, Ryan McGinley and Thierry Guetta (“Mr Brainwash”) demonstrates. Now, in the Court of Appeals for…

The Wide Open School at the Hayward Gallery in London this summer (11 June-11 July) sounds like an educational venture with a difference. “Anything but a traditional art school, it will be a wide-ranging forum where artists choose a subject they are…

One of the largest awards in the art world, worth $100,000, has extended its application deadline until 20 May.
The Future Generation Art Prize, sponsored by the Victor Pinchuk Foundation, is open to any artist aged 35 or younger of any nationality…

The Scottish curator Anne Barlow has announced the 19 participating artists for the fifth Bucharest Biennale. “Tactics for the Here and Now” is due to take place from 25 May to 22 July and include the Croatian artist David Maljkovic, the…

Mikhail Shvydkoi, the Kremlin’s international cultural envoy and Tara Sonenshine, the US’s new Under Secretary of State for Public Affairs, have discussed the cultural stalemate between Russia and the US over sacred Jewish books. Russian state…

The first edition of the Frieze art fair in New York opened to invited guests on Thursday with an energetic private view. Frieze didn’t have to prove itself as a brand—the London event is well known and respected on the international fair circuit….

Munch’s The Scream, 1895 (right), which sold for $119.9m at Sotheby’s New York on Wednesday, has a surprising and hitherto undisclosed provenance. The masterpiece had been resting in the vaults of the National Gallery of Art in Washington,…

“I’ve lived in New York for ten years and I’ve never been to Randall’s Island before,” said Joel Wachs, the president of the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, on Thursday’s VIP preview day. “The tent is fantastic; I’m going to see every…

Munch’s The Scream, 1895 (right), which sold for $119.9m at Sotheby’s New York on Wednesday, has a surprising and hitherto undisclosed provenance. The masterpiece had been resting in the vaults of the National Gallery of Art in Washington,…

Nada, it turns out, is artspeak for exciting. The New Art Dealers Alliance, Nada for short, is currently putting on a 70-gallery fair at the former Dia Center for the Arts building (until Monday)—recently home to the Independent fair. The latest in…

Move over Gordon Ramsay, a star chef was born at Frieze New York at the VIP opening, when the actor Mark Ruffalo could be found serving piping hot pork links on the stand of his doppelgänger, the dealer Gavin Brown (B18). “We’re cooking sausages and…

Matthew Day Jackson is on top of his game with work on show this week at Hauser & Wirth at Frieze (B6) and the Whitney Museum, but now the artist is seeking his thrills in an altogether more perilous way. “I’m going to be drag racing for the next…