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Sculpture Victorious at Tate Britain

December 8, 2014

With an upcoming show devoted to the innovative and compelling sculpture of the Victorian period, Tate Britain's Sculpture Victorious illustrates how the art form featured in all aspects of Victorian politics, ...

Glass explores the earliest history and newest collection of diamond masters De Beers

Jessica Quillin

December 5, 2014

Archive, Design, Feature, Glass Celebrates, Jewellery and Watches

All that glitters – Glass explores the earliest history and newest collection of diamond masters De Beers Could any stone typify the magic of nature quite like a diamond? These rare gems were formed from pre...

Louis Vuitton kicks off Playing with Shapes by Pierre Paulin at Art Basel Miami Beach

Louise Lui

December 4, 2014

Avant Art, News

Louis Vuitton kicked off Art Basel Miami Beach festivities with a dinner to celebrate Playing With Shapes, an exhibition by furniture designer Pierre Paulin spearheaded by the French luxury house. The Design Mi...

Have a very Harrods Christmas

Livia Feltham

December 3, 2014

Avant Art, Culture, Design, Fashion, Feature, Jewellery and Watches, News, Shopping Guide

Harrods see your festive window and raise you a land of make believe. This Christmas Knightsbridge’s knock-it-out-of-the-park department store have taken window shopping in the capital to new extremes and so mu...

Hong Kong Art Gallery Week 2014

Louise Lui

December 3, 2014

Avant Art, News

While many may complain that Hong Kong’s art and culture scene is lacking, the growth of galleries and institutions—from the much-anticipated M+ Museum to the increasing prevalence of international blue chip an...

Contemporary Istanbul proves popular with record art sales

Stephanie Clair

December 1, 2014

Avant Art, News

Opened for its ninth edition last week, Contemporary Istanbul – Turkey’s biggest international art fair – exhibited a vast array of artistic wares from over 100 galleries across the globe. This year, visitor nu...

Phillip King at Tate Britain

Louise Lui

November 27, 2014

Avant Art, News

Celebrating Phillip King’s significant contribution to late 20th century sculpture, Tate Britain will display six of the sculptor’s works from the 1960s in the Duveen Galleries. Exposed to the new forms of ...

A meeting of minds

Livia Feltham

November 27, 2014

Avant Art, Culture, Dining, Feature

France’s oldest Cognac house and one of the country’s most celebrated conceptual artists have joined forces to collaborate on Martell Premier Voyage a partnership between Martell Cognac and Bernar Venet who h...

Gagosian Hong Kong presents Jeff Koons’ first major solo exhibition in Asia

Louise Lui

November 26, 2014

Avant Art, News

Gagosian Hong Kong is presenting Hulk Elvis, Jeff Koons’ first major solo exhibition in Asia. Koons is known for his diverse array of sources, ranging from comic book characters and children’s art to figures fr...

In the Land of the Dead, Stepping on the Tail of a Rainbow

Emily Rae Pellerin

November 25, 2014

Avant Art, Culture, News

New York’s 24th Street Gagosian Gallery presents Takashi Murakami’s In the Land of the Dead, Stepping on the Tail of a Rainbow. We know and love Murakami for not only his fine art but also his extension into co...

Fringe! Queer Art & Film Fest: Queer Sci-fi II

Arjun Sajip

November 24, 2014

Art, Avant Art, Culture, Don't Miss: Film, Feature, News

The mysterious pink-robed men This assortment of films is a very mixed bag. We kick off with a prelude that features as its main aural hook an unprecedentedly catchy gospel version of Incy Wincy Spider. As w...

Egon Schiele: Portraits at NYC’s The Neue Galerie

Emily Rae Pellerin

November 24, 2014

Avant Art, Culture, News

One of the most distinguished pieces of The Neue Galerie’s collection is Gustav Klimt’s Adele Bloch-Bauer I, an innocuously looming portrait of the wife of one of Klimt’s greatest benefactors, sitting pleasant ...

From the beautiful to the sublime – Glass talks to British artist and filmmaker Isaac Julien

Glass Archive

November 21, 2014

Archive, Avant Art, Culture, Don't Miss: Film, Feature, Glass Talents, News

From the beautiful to the sublime – Glass talks to British artist and filmmaker Isaac Julien Since his early career in the mid 1980s, British artist and filmmaker Isaac Julien has developed a visually compel...

The Catlin Guide 2015, at the London Art Fair

Xenia Founta

November 19, 2014

Avant Art, News

This January, the sixth edition of the Catlin Guide 2015 will launch at the London Art Fair to feature a selection of works of the most promising UK arts graduates. Exhibiting collections of these emerging arti...

Five decades of East London

Justin van Vliet

November 19, 2014

Avant Art, Culture, Feature

When the name David Bailey is mentioned it usually is connected with high fashion and when the biggest names need to be photographed in a truly iconic way. In these three volumes, Bailey’s East End, he intr...

Discover The Road to Elysium via Heist Gallery

Livia Feltham

November 18, 2014

Avant Art, Culture

London’s enigmatic new gallery, Heist has kept up the pace since their recent launch with their latest exhibition, The Road to Elysium. A bold new group show that has collated the unique utopian visions of a se...

Meanwhile Back In the Wick – new show opens

Caroline Simpson

November 12, 2014

Avant Art, News

Prompt Gallery presents its debut show Meanwhile Back In The Wick in what was Hackney Wick’s first exhibition space, Queens Yard, featuring the work of three Wick-based artists, Aida, John Atherton and OKO. Po...

Nam June Paik at Tate Modern

Xenia Founta

November 12, 2014

Avant Art, Culture, News

This autumn Tate Modern showcases Nam June Paik, an exhibition with works from all the phases of the Korean artist’s career featuring key artworks to draw on the complexity of his ideas. ...

A triumph of the spirit

Justin van Vliet

November 12, 2014

Avant Art, Feature

Singer and photographer Bryan Adams’ new book Wounded is not an easy book to read. It isn’t meant to be easy. It is a beautiful book with beautiful people, but filled with the raw ugliness of the legacy of ...

Stuart Semple: Anxiety Generation at Mayfair’s Delahunty

Louise Lui

November 10, 2014

Avant Art, News

British artist Stuart Semple will exhibit Anxiety Generation at the Delahunty, a new gallery in Mayfair, London. Following a period of immersive and installation work made primarily with mixed media, Semple ret...

Air, land and sea

Lilian Pizzichini

November 10, 2014

Avant Art, Culture, Europe, Feature

Imagine a tour of Antwerp that ignores Belgium’s finest Gothic cathedral, the diamond district and Rubens. Imagine a tour that focuses only on contemporary, cutting-edge art. At the same time, keep in mind that...