Bob & Roberta Smith

Visitors to the Kentish seaside town of Folkestone this autumn won’t fail to notice the assertion that the town itself “is an art school,” thanks to a socially aware, colourful and bold project by artist Bob and Roberta Smith.

Artlyst has selected some of the highlights of this year’s Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition which this year has opened its arms to international artists and those working in a variety of media including video, performance art, textiles, found objects alongside more traditional arts of painting, sculpture, photography, drawing and printmaking.

Last week, 18 lots estimated to sell for as much as £200,000 were withdrawn from a contemporary art sale in London.

Following on the success of the first public sale of works from the Artist Pension Trust® (APT) Collection at Sotheby’s New York earlier this month, further artworks from the collection will be offered at Sotheby’s London Contemporary Curated sale on April 12, 2017. These include a strong selection of works by beloved British artists like Ryan Gander, Liam Gillick, and Bob & Roberta Smith, as well as other international artists, at a wide range of price points, with low estimates from $1,200 (1,000 GBP) to high estimates of up to $35,000 (30,000 GBP).

Bob and Roberta Smith commission among 20 announced for UK event.

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The project was organised by design studio Kit Grover which specialises in creating products and merchandise for artists and in the cultural space.

The two artists met at Reading University when Parker was a postgrad and Smith was an undergraduate.

700 artists and creatives from across the world have been asked to design a unique seven inch vinyl sleeve — the list includes Anish Kapoor, Bob and Roberta Smith, Gavin Turk and Paul Smith.

Whether as an artist, collector, dealer, or curator, we all can probably recollect, with relish or regret, our first introduction to the art world. For Stefan von Bartha, however, his first memories of the art world are intertwined with his first memories of growing up. The son of Swiss art dealers Margareta and Miklos von Bartha, who founded their gallery in 1970 and operated it out of the family home, Stefan literally grew up in an art gallery. Starting out his career as a vintage design dealer at the age of 18, Stefan von Bartha now holds the directorship of von Bartha, where he has put new emphasis on contemporary art and staged memorable exhibitions. In the following exchange, we ask Stefan von Bartha about his personal collection of contemporary art, and what it was like growing up in the art world.

Yorkshire Sculpture Park (YSP) is presenting a new exhibition by artist, agitator and former parliamentary candidate, Bob and Roberta Smith,this autumn.

I love the Vauxhall Art Car Boot Fair! Where else can you go to mix with internationally recognised artists like Sir Peter Blake, Gavin Turk, Polly Morgan, Tracey Emin, Bob and Roberta Smith, Darren Coffield, Ben Eine and Matt Collishaw and buy their original artwork for a fraction of the price that galleries charge.

Exhibition walk-through of Admir Jahic and Comenius Roethlisberger’s solo show Neues at Galerie Idea Fixa in Basel.

London’s Somerset House is the new venue for the annual Secret 7” charity event which launches its 2015 edition on April 10.

The Royal College of Art’s “RCA Secret” exhibition and sale of original postcard-sized artworks by new and internationally acclaimed artists is one...

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The thousands of customers and visitors to the Olympics squeezing through the corridors and commuter trains of the Central Line are to be baffled,

The Art Party is putting the finishing touches on its first conference to be held at Scarborough at the end of the month.

Today, the Hayward Gallery is opening its "Wide Open School" — not an art school per se but a "school run by artists." The month-long project involves

Britain, the United States and the European Union, as well as leading figures in the art world, have joined the growing international outcry

The Contemporary Art Society has unveiled further lots that are to be auctioned at their Annual Fundraising Gala on 11 March 2014. These include an editioned work from 2013 Turner Prize winner Laure Prouvost, created especially for the gala, as well as a photographic work from 2012 Turner Prize winner Elizabeth Price.

The thousands of customers and visitors to the Olympics squeezing through the corridors and commuter trains of the Central Line are to be baffled,

The Art Party is putting the finishing touches on its first conference to be held at Scarborough at the end of the month.

Today, the Hayward Gallery is opening its "Wide Open School" — not an art school per se but a "school run by artists." The month-long project involves

Britain, the United States and the European Union, as well as leading figures in the art world, have joined the growing international outcry

A host of British artists, including Bridget Riley, Tracey Emin, Martin Creed, Rachel Whiteread, and Bob and Roberta Smith, have designed posters

One of the best-kept secrets on the art world calendar is the biannual fundraiser at the Drawing Room, a gallery in a Victorian warehouse on a side street in London's Bethnal Green.

Bob and Roberta Smith - one man but with two names - is a painter and sculptor from London.

Bob and Roberta Smith is plotting to “turn Kilkenny into an art school,” he told BLOUIN ARTINFO UK.