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Eighteen early to mid-century American artists who forged distinctly modern styles are the subjects of ‘American Legends: From Calder to O’Keeffe’, which opened on 22 December at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Drawing f...

University of Falmouth student, Adam McGhee has been shortlised for this year’s Fujifilm Student Award 2013. Adam’s successful entry, chosen for its vivid colours and strong composition, was shot on Fujifilm Superia XTra 400 and depi...

The Young Photographers’ Alliance have a new group show ‘Home’: YPA Mentoring 2012, which opens at Margaret Street Gallery on the 8 January 2013. The YPA charity was created to nurture young photographic talent, helping photograp...

28 November 2012 – 10 February 2013 Looking for something to do in London over the holiday? At White Cube Bermondsey, until 10 February 2013, Antony Gormley’s current body of work ‘Model’ is on display. The largest pi...

Mathew Tom: 'Welcome to Paradise ' - closes 22nd December The title of Mathew Tom’s first solo exhibition ‘Welcome to Paradise’ seems out of place when faced with London’s current wintry rain and gales but opening ...

Over the last two years the American graphic designer Ebon Heath has collaborated with a team of ceramic experts at Villeroy & Boch in Berlin, to create an art-meets-ceramic one-of-a-kind limited edition of 100 porcelain basins, signed and numbered ...

Leading publishers offer Cassone readers Christmas discounts. Some amazing deals below! There are offers below from Lund Humphries, I.B. Tauris, Black Dog Publishing, Frances Lincoln, Merrell, Paul Holberton, Phaidon, Prestel, Sansom and Compa...

Back in May, Cassone carried a review of a show at Karsten Schubert's Gallery in London, titled ' The Space Between ' , it featured work by a number of artists represented by the gallery. The works on view were selected by Michael Bracewell...

Karolina Glusiec has been awarded first prize in the Jerwood Drawing Prize 2012 for her hand drawn animation Velocity. A clip of the winning drawing, a graphite on paper animation, can be viewed at https://vimeo.com/45310613 Karolina Glusiec w...

Join in the fun at Kensington Palace A Magical Christmas for all ages is taking place at Kensington Palace, London, the childhood home of Queen Victoria. A series of Christmas festivities from 1–24 December mark the Palace’s first Ch...

The new exhibition at the Saatchi Gallery is a showcase of the Russian contemporary art scene titled ‘Gaiety is the Most Outstanding Feature of the Soviet Union: Art from Russia’ . Judging by the artworks, Russia is a continuous whirlpool of...

26 November 2012–12 January 2013 At the Haunch of Venison Gallery, in her first UK solo exhibition, Australian artist, photographer and sculptor Patricia Piccinini (b. Sierra Leone), presents ‘Those Who Dream by Night’ (until 12 ...

'The Fabricated Object ' 29 November 2012–18 January 2013, Sumarria Lunn Gallery Linking to a forthcoming Royal Academy Schools symposium ‘To Make or Not to Make’ on 11 January 2013, with curators, artists, academi...

Art on the Underground and BFI present films from the National Archive at Canary Wharf Screen 
The final instalment of Canary Wharf Screen will see Art on the Underground collaborate with BFI to produce a season of films showcasing previously ...

Does making beer count as an art? Heineken® has decided that art sells and social media are popular so why not combine the two in a promotion for the famous beer? The brand has actually been around for 140 years – not that any amount of the st...

Before the Christmas season is upon us and it gets too cold to leave the house (!) the Association of Art Historians (AAH) would like to remind Cassone readers of the last of 2012’s Art History in the Pub events. On Monday 10 December Dr Lara Eg...

The National Fine Arts and Antiques Fair organized by Clarion Events scheduled for 16–20 January 2013 at the NEC in Birmingham has been cancelled with immediate effect. Commenting on the decision, Fair Director Tiffany Pritchard said: ...

The J. Paul Getty Museum is launching the first of many planned online collection catalogues with Ancient Carved Ambers in the J. Paul Getty Museum (Getty Publications, 2012, online publication). These catalogues aim to make the latest research, prov...

Until 12 January 2013, Erarta Galleries, London shows ten paintings by the Russian artist Gennady Zubkov (b.1940), who studied under Vladimir Sterligov (1904–73), founder of the Sterligov group, which focused on concepts of Impressionism, Cubism, ...

The Turner Prize 2012 has been awarded to Elizabeth Price, it was announced at Tate Britain last night. The £25,000 prize was presented by actor Jude Law. This year’s prize fund is £40,000 with £25,000 going to the winner and &po...

The last week of November was marked by the opening of the New English Art Club’s 2012 exhibition at the Mall Galleries, The Mall, London – almost literally a stone’s throw from Buckingham Palace. To celebrate, the Club (NEAC) hosted ...

Call to all artists! Colchester Zoo launches a unique art event to celebrate its 50th birthday. Artist submissions for the Stand Tall for Giraffes are now being accepted, until 14 December. For 12 weeks in the summer of 2013, Colchester’s st...

Chinese contemporary artist Sheng Qi, in his first solo exhibition in London, at the Hua Gallery , brings together a series of new paintings which focus on the Post-Mao period of his country’s history. In the ‘Mao Series’ of paintings...

Monday 3 – Saturday 8 December 2012 A major exhibition of paintings recording the results of Lincoln Seligman’s travels, entitled ‘An Artist at Large’ will open at La Galleria Pall Mall, London SW1Y 4UY from Monday 3 &n...