http://artgalore.co.uk Art News and Artists from ArtGalore.co.uk Fri, 30 Jul 2010 04:25:46 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Californian antique enthusiast Rick Norsigian knew that he wanted when he started sifting through an old garage in Fresno in 2000.  He was in search of an old vintage barber’s chair to add to his already unique collection of petrol pumps, telephone switchboards, and aeroplanes propellers. While the chair turned out ... http://artgalore.co.uk/ansel-adams-prints-found-at-garage-sale/ Six proposals have been considered as the next artwork to grace London’s Trafalgar Square on the Fourth Plinth. Two of the prospect ideas came from the duo groups of Cuba’s Guillermo Calzadilla and the US’s Jennifer Allora and the group of Norwegian Ingar Dragset and Denmark’s Michael Elmgreen. Other artists that ... http://artgalore.co.uk/new-trafalgar-square-art-under-consideration/ Two men behind a 2007 controversial Moscow art exhibition were found guilty in a Russian court of inciting hatred. Yuri Samodurov and Andrei Yerofeyev set up the questionable exhibition entitled Forbidden Art in Moscow at the Sakharov Museum. The men were both fined for the exhibit. The show was condemned ... http://artgalore.co.uk/russian-artists-found-guilty-of-race-hate-crime/ Hever Castle and The Quilters’ Guild will be hosting their 19th Annual Patchwork & Quilting Exhibition in the castle grounds from 3rd to 5th September. Members of The Quilters’ Guild from across Kent, Surrey and Sussex will be showcasing their talent with a display ... http://artgalore.co.uk/hever-castle-patchwork-and-quilting-exhibition/ The National Gallery opened a new exhibit that will help educate visitors on how to spot the difference between fakes and real paintings.  The gallery will show the use of new technology to help prevent mistakes made in the past when dupes were purchased. Called ‘Close Examination- Fakes, Mistakes, and Discoveries,’ ... http://artgalore.co.uk/national-gallery-shows-off-fakes/ The always glorious art-nut Charles Saatchi has decided to offer his art gallery to the state by renaming the Saatchi gallery in Chelsea on King’s Road the Museum of Contemporary Art London.  To top it off, the collector is going to offer 200 pieces of his own collection to the ... http://artgalore.co.uk/charles-saatchi-donates-gallery-to-the-public/ This week analysts estimate that anywhere between £300m and £450m will be spent at London Impressionist and Modern Art sales this week making it one of the largest series of auctions to take place in Britain ever. The current largest sale took place in June of 2008 and achieved £298m when ... http://artgalore.co.uk/london-set-to-see-new-record-art-sales/ The new exhibition at Tate Britain, Rude Britannia, combines the best of art and comedy in order to create an intellectual, sensory, and instinctually experience. Co-curator of Martin Myrone, Cedar Lewis, sees the new exhibit as a source of enlightenment that defines the distinction between stand up comedies of fine art ... http://artgalore.co.uk/tate-britain-rude-britannia-stand-up/ Business tycoons from Ukraine and Russia have been some of the top art bidders around the globe for the last few years, which has helped boost the price of impressionist, contemporary, and Russian art. With new fine art pieces starting to hit new selling records after a slump caused by the ... http://artgalore.co.uk/former-communist-countries-dominating-art-market/ There may still be a few in our modern culture who believe that the camera is a devil’s invention and steals a piece of one’s soul when a picture is taken.  OK, this is highly unlikely, but the fact is that hidden cameras are everywhere these days, and personal privacy ... http://artgalore.co.uk/the-tate-and-voyeurism/