This painting by Dmitry Vrubel and Viktoria Timofeyeva on display in the Marat Guelman gallery, Moscow, in 2007 depicts ALEXANDER LITVINENKO on his deathbed in London in 2006, suffering from ra...
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GALAXY QUEST (1999) is a terrific send up of STAR TREK conventions. It stars the late and much lamented ALAN RICKMAN WITH TIM ALLEN AND SIGOURNEY WEAVER. Aliens have been watching terrestrial T...
David Gilmour's latest record RATTLE THAT LOCK has won Art Vinyl's annual prize for the year's best album artwork, selected from 50 entrants (CLICK ).
Here's another of those so-called "performance artists": MILO MOIRE. She stripped naked outside COLOGNE CATHEDRAL to protest against the assaults against women on New Year's Eve. She holds a po...
I must admit I'm still hooked on DEATH IN PARADISE, despite the loss of Ben Miller and sara Martins. It's so different from the BBC's usual dross. The new series begins this evening on BBC ONE ...
Christie’s in London will present its annual sale of ski posters on 21 January 2016. This is the only auction dedicated to ski posters worldwide. Prices start at £700. Shown is a SKI POSTER ...
This huge gold-painted statue of MAO ZEDONG - some 37 metres high - has been erected in Henan province by a group of Chinese capitalists at a cost of 3 million yuan ($460,000). It took 9 months...
On 19 January the Mall Galleries opens FBA FUTURES 2016, a dip into the outstanding art graduates of 2015 selected from across the UK by members of the Federation of British Artists (FBA). Chri...
Having watched mind-boggling sci-fi hokum SHERLOCK: THE ABOMINABLE BRIDE on BBC ONE yesterday, starring Benedict Cumberbatch whisked back to 1895, all I can say is bring back BASIL RATHBONE AS ...
How's this for an ego trip? So-called "conceptual artist" ON KAWARA has installed this tripe in Trafalgar Square. Two performers in a glass booth read for seven days and seven nights Karawa's t...
HAPPY NEW YEAR FROM LONDON ART NEWS.
THE BBC SEEMS TO HAVE BEEN SUBJECTED TO A DENIAL OF SERVICE ATTACK. NOT THE BEST WAY TO END THE OLD YEAR. WHATEVER NEXT?
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From 13 - 17 January creative producers Artichoke will present London’s first LUMIERE LIGHT FESTIVAL, showing the work of more than 20 pioneering international artists all commissioned to tra...
from BBC's soap CASUALTY to international stardom in Disney's STAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKENS in one mighty bound! And boy, can she run! British actress DAISY RIDLEY is already reading the script ...
BBC TWO is rerunning THIS WILD LIFE over Christmas, perfect family viewing for the festive season. Wildlife expert Saba Douglas-Hamilton, together with her husband Frank and their three young c...
Here's the most intriguing graphic I'v seen all week. It shows ANTI-PEE PAINT (right) causing urine to splash back on the offender. It's being trialed on walls in Shoreditch and Dalston by Hack...
Historic England has belatedly twigged that publc "art" is "diappearing before the public's eyes". A growing number of sculptures, architectural friezes and murals made between WWII and the mid...
Here's a happy bunny. JENNY LUND is Curator of Fine Art at the Royal Pavilion & Museums, Brighton & Hove. The Art Fund had awarded her £80,000 to build a nationally significant and inspiring n...
Yesterday I watched a fascinating hour-and-a-half documentary on the art of RAY HARRYHAUSEN: SPECIAL EFFECTS TITAN. It follows his stop-motion techniques from earliest days to his retirement, w...
Here's an artist I haven't come across before: FRANZ VON LENBACH (1836 - 1904). He was born in Schrobenhausen in Bavaria and was destined to become a mason. Shown is his YOUNG SHEPHERD (1860) w...
Art-on-cars buffs might like to know that JANIS JOPLIN'S 1964 PORSCHE 356 C 1600 SC CABRIOLET fetched a record-breaking price of $1.76 million, including buyer's premium, at Sotheby's Driven by...
If you're into Lego, here's the exhibition for you: BRICK 2015 at the ExCel in London (CLICK ). Shown is an exhibitor with his model of the TITANIC made from Lego. The exhibition runs from 11 -...
Did you watch art historian Andrew Graham-Dixon's SECRETS OF THE MONA LISA, screened yesterday evening on BBC TWO? If you're in the UK, you can catch the programme on BBC iPlayer: CLICK . If no...
Today the Victoria and Albert Museum in London opened its new EUROPE 1600-1815 suite of seven galleries, displaying the V&A's unrivalled collection of 17th- and 18th century European art and de...