Jeremy Deller

The Artist Pension Trust, a mutual assurance fund that provides long-term financial security for artists, withdrew eighteen lots from an upcoming auction at Sotheby’s London after several artists decided that the sale “was not in their best interests,” Colin Gleadell of The Telegraph reports.

Last week, 18 lots estimated to sell for as much as £200,000 were withdrawn from a contemporary art sale in London.

Describing his choice to present Skulptur Projekte Münster every ten years, the project’s cofounder and artistic director Kasper König says, “Ten years are perfect: Westphalian and laid back, campfire instead of beacon.”

2017 marks Bluecoat’s tercentenary, making it the oldest building in Liverpool city centre and the UK’s first arts centre: quite an achievement.

Paintings by GF Watts have influenced figures as diverse as EM Forster and Barack Obama.

The fifth edition of the once-a-decade Münster Sculpture Projects, taking place in the north German town of Münster from June 10 to October 1, has released its participating artists list.

In response to the Trump administration’s ongoing display of toxic masculinity at work, the Brooklyn Museum’s Elizabeth Sackler Center for Feminist Art has taken the unusual but vital step of incorporating a project about male identity into their “Year of Yes” thematic takeover of the museum.

London has its Fourth Plinth, where contemporary artists have graced — and sometimes goaded — viewers in Trafalgar Square with sculptural work on a bare pedestal originally intended for an equestrian statue of William IV. Now New York will have its own plinth, a highly visible permanent stage for ambitious new international sculpture commissions, perched above 30th Street and 10th Avenue on one of the final sections of the High Line.

10 Exhibitions Opening This Week

What the most spectacular shows of 2016 haven’t done is hide from the truth: art is a flimsy refuge, and it cannot shelter us from the fragility and instability in our changing world. The events of 2016 may have altered the course of our future, but looking back over the stand-out exhibitions at the world’s top galleries and institutions this year, they all share one thing: defiance.

Open Eye Gallery is delighted to launch its 40 th birthday year with a brand new exhibition exploring the influence of the North of England on fashion and visual culture.

Some nice news out of Kings County, New York, to conclude one of the worst weeks on record: the Brooklyn Museum announced that it will waive its standard $16 suggested donation and offer free admission this weekend, “as people search for a sense of national unity,” it said in a statement, clearly alluding to Tuesday’s very divisive election.

The Paul Hamlyn Foundation has announced the eight recipients of the twenty-second edition of its Awards for Artists, which was established to support visual artists and composers based in the UK.

Limited edition posters from artists including Jeremy Deller and David Shrigley, will be given away at London Tube stations next week.

Incerteza Viva (“Live Uncertainty”) takes uncertainty as a structuring device in order to reflect on our current conditions of economic crisis, political instability, the rise of conservative forces, and ecological and migratory emergencies.

Selected for their mastery of color, design and materials, the artisans will be among 90 of America’s most gifted artists selling work in time for holiday giving.

90 handpicked exhibitors celebrate American artistry in time for holiday shopping.

Biennial art exhibitions were founded in the 1890s at almost the same time as the Olympics, and they serve a similar purpose: to bring attention to the cities that host them and the nations that participate in them.

I arrived at ‘The Infinite Mix’, a Hayward offsite exhibition, organized in collaboration with The Vinyl Factory while the gallery’s Southbank home is being refurbished, some time after the other critics had been and gone.

A new book by Stephen Fowler, out this week, will teach you everything you need to know to get into one of the most enduring craft trends: rubber stamping.

Matthew Higgs’s collection of records numbers about 7,500, about 5,000 of which are neatly organized in his Chelsea apartment.

Even id it’s been thought in relationship to the exhibition “Vernacular Alchemists”, presented at Passerelle Contemporary art center in 2014, “Naturally Obscure” is not its logical poursuit.

Ten artists have been chosen to display artworks on sites across the London Tube network, as part of Art on the Underground’s latest campaign stating London is united and open to the world following the EU referendum.

David Shrigley unveiled a new poster for the campaign supporting London's diversity.

Melbourne has had so many pop-ups that the thought of another may be cause for a collective eye roll. But this one is different. The House of Volta

Over 1,500 men dressed as World War I soldiers in faded green-gray uniforms and metal-tipped boots marched through the U.K. last week in a powerful memorial performance to commemorate the Battle of the Somme.

From 16 September to 8 November 2015, Monnaie de Paris presents Take Me (I'm Yours), a collective and interactive exhibition which brings together the work of forty-four international artists under the curatorship of Christian Boltanski, Hans Ulrich Obrist and Chiara Parisi.

Writing for Artnet in January, Ben Davis’s “Do You Have to Be Rich to Make It as an Artist?” raised an important question about the relationship between privilege and access to a life in the arts.

2016 is already shaping up to be a veeery interesting year for Iggy Pop.

Showcase of work by contenders for annual contemporary art prize is in Scotland for first time.