David Hockney retrospective becomes Tate Britain’s most popular show Hockney’s recent retrospective attracted 478,082 visitors, making it the most visited exhibition ever held at the gallery including its time as the Tate Gallery prior to becoming Tate Britain in 2000.
Controversial Italian court ruling ousts five top museum directors Judges cite lack of transparency in recruitment process and ineligibility of foreign applicants. The decision, which relates to two appeals by Italian candidates for the posts, declares the appointments void.
Glasgow gallery left empty for ‘cancelled’ show Dutch artist Marlie Mul has asked for there to be no show at Glasgow’s GoMA, with the space instead being given over to community events. Visitors are greeted by billboards advertising the cancellation of the exhibition.
US billionaire Thomas Kaplan plans to send collection of Dutch Old Masters to Russia The metals investor, who owns a large number of Rembrandts, plans to send his collection of Dutch Old Masters to Russia as part of its world tour, with rumored venues including the State Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg and the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts in Moscow.
Liverpool celebrates Sgt Pepper 50th anniversary with 13 artist commissions Among the pieces unveiled on Thursday, 1 June are a 12-metre-high mural by the US artist Judy Chicago, and public billboards declaring ‘Brien Epstein died for you’ by Jeremy Deller.
Mario Testino to auction art collection to raise money for Lima gallery Four hundred works by artists such as Wolfgang Tillmans, Gilbert and George, Sterling Ruby and Nan Goldin, which the Peruvian-born fashion photographer has collected for three decades, are to be sold to raise money for Museo Mate, the art gallery he set up in his native Lima.
Case of Venetian masterpiece looted by Nazis closed 80 years on A stolen Michele Marieschi painting bought in good faith by a British man 60 years ago is expected to fetch between £500,000 and £700,000 at Sotheby’s on 5 July.
After protests from Native American community, Walker Art Center will remove public sculpture Los Angeles-based artist Sam Durant’s outdoor installation Scaffold references the US Army’s mass execution of 38 Dakota men in Minnesota in 1862. The news broke less than a week before the Walker Art Center was scheduled to open its newly renovated sculpture garden, which was to feature the work.
LGBTQ refugee group steals Documenta 14 artwork An Athens-based network of LGBTQ refugees has seized a sculpture featuring in the Documenta 14 festival in protest at what they say is the exhibition’s exploitation of refugees. Under the counter-title of ‘#rockumenta14’, members released on online video statement claiming that the stone will not be returned.
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David Hockney, Portrait Of An Artist (Pool With Two Figures), 1972, acrylic on canvas, 84″x120″, © David Hockney. Photo: Art Gallery Of New South Wales/Jenni Carter
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