Tate Britain to host major John Singer Sargent Exhibition: 22nd February - 7th July 2024:
“This is a horrible exhibition”. Jonathan Jones, art critic at the Guardian, takes no prisoners in his review of the ‘Sargent and Fashion’ Exhibition at Tate Britain ...... Read more

How the Little Black Dress Scandalised Paris in 1884:
The Fallout from Singer Sargent’s portrait of Madame X ...... Read more

Salvador Dalí masterpiece - ‘Christ of Saint John of the Cross’ to return to Spain:
The work will be at the Teatre-Museu Dalí in Figueres (Dalí’s hometown) from November 2023 until the end of April 2024. The painting was originally scheduled to arrive at the museum in Figueres (where Dalí is buried in an unmarked crypt) in November of 2020, but its arrival had to be rescheduled due to the pandemic ...... Read more

Vangelis: Oscar-Winning Composer for ‘Chariots of Fire’ dies at 79:
The Greek composer and musician whose synth-driven work brought huge drama to film soundtracks including ‘Chariots of Fire’ and ‘Blade Runner’ has died aged 79. His representatives said he died in hospital in France where he was being treated for Covid19 on 17 May 2022 ...... Read more

Jean-Paul Belmondo dies age 88:
The French actor who rose to fame as the star of Jean-Luc Godard’s New Wave film ‘Breathless’, has died aged 88 ...... Read more

The Vizier's Paintbox:
One of the treasures of the Cleveland Museum of Art is a 3,400 year old paintbox which once belonged to the Vizier Amenemope who lived during the reign of Amenhotep ll, (1427-1401 BCE Egypt). A personal possession of an important man who liked to paint when he wasn’t advising the Pharoeh ...... Read more

Hotly anticipated Andy Warhol exhibition at UNIQ Expo:
An exhibition which features Pop Art’s pioneer Andy Warhol and original works by the most important representatives of this movement will turn the UNIQ Expo into a Pop Art arena ...... Read more

Italy rejects bid to stop iconic Da Vinci loan to Louvre:
The Leonardo da Vinci retrospective that opened 24 October 2019 at the Louvre museum in Paris to mark 500 years since the death of the Renaissance master will include “Vitruvian Man” after an Italian court 16 October 2019 rejected a last-minute bid to halt the loan of the iconic drawing, citing the work was too fragile to travel. The drawing is insured for at least one billion euros, Italian media have said ...... Read more

Taking sides and telling the truth: The hidden history of the Arnautoff mural:
The San Francisco Board of Education’s decision to paint over the historic Depression-era murals at George Washington High School painted by left-wing artist Victor Arnautoff is an attack on freedom of speech and artistic expression ...... Read more

Milton Glaser is spending his 90th birthday doing what he loves most - Working:
From Brooklyn Brewery bottles to the Jean Georges menu, Milton Glaser’s logos are all over the city and he’s not even thinking of retiring ...... Read more
Milton Glaser died, 26th June 2020, on his 91st birthday ...... Read more

Italian film maker Franco Zeffirelli dies:
Thousands of people gathered in central Florence on 17th June 2019 to pay homage to Italian film-maker and opera director Franco Zeffirelli, who died at the weekend ...... Read more

Princeton sued over ‘stolen’ Byzantine-era manuscripts:
Ecumenical Patriarch Vartholomaios has filed a lawsuit against Princeton University, New Jersey, demanding the return of four Byzantine-era manuscripts allegedly stolen from a monastery in Greece’s Macedonia region during World War I ...... Read more

Italian director Bernardo Bertolucci dies:
Italian film-maker Bernardo Bertolucci, who won Oscars with "The Last Emperor" and whose erotic drama "Last Tango in Paris" enthralled and shocked the world, died on 26th November, 2018. He was 77 ...... Read More

Missing pieces of “Gypsy Girl” mosaic to be returned to Turkey:
Twelve ancient Zeugma mosaic pieces looted during illegal excavations in Turkey’s southeastern province of Gaziantep nearly 50 years ago will be returned to the country from the U.S. on 26th November 2018, Turkish Culture and Tourism Minister Mehmet Nuri Ersoy has said ...... Read more

Update: Gypsy Girl reproduction pieces to be sent to the United States:
The reproductions will be made very similar to their original state, with artists set to use stones from the area where the mosaics were removed ...... Read More

Matisse painting seized in Turkey:
A painting, believed to be by the famous 20th century French artist Henri Matisse, has been seized in Turkey’s southern province of Antalya, a prosecutor said on November 3rd, 2018 ...... Read more

The Louvre Abu Dhabi to put da Vinci’s “Salvator Mundi” on display:
The painting was sold for $450 million during a record-breaking auction at Christie’s, New York in November 2018 ...... Read more

Italian court says Getty’s prized ancient bronze should be seized:
An Italian court has ruled that a Greek bronze, known as “Statue of a Victorious Youth,” rescued from the ocean decades ago and long on display at the Getty Villa, should be returned to Italy ...... Read more

Raeburn paintings enter Scotland’s national collections:
Two paintings by one of Scotland's greatest artists, Sir Henry Raeburn, have been acquired for the national collection in lieu of more than £600,000 in inheritance tax ...... Read more