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When: Wednesday 29 January 2014, 5 p.m. Who: Public Astronomer, Dr Marek Kukula from the Royal Observatory Greenwich Where: Bargehouse, Oxo Tower Wharf, Southbank, London SE1 9PH (Republic of the Moon) Southbank Sky Arts Award winner Katie ...

The W. K. Kellogg Foundation has joined those fighting to save the collections of the Detroit Institute of Arts from a forced sale to fund the city's pension obligations. A Statement from a Foundation working group , which includes the Commun...

Choreographer and Bucksbaum Award Winner Sarah Michelson debuts her latest work at the Whitney Choreographer and Bucksbaum Award winner Sarah Michelson reclaims the Whitney’s fourth-floor Emily Fisher Landau Galleries this winter to premie...

Diarmuid Kelley – Recent Work 24 January–28 February 2014 Modern British and Contemporary art gallery, Offer Waterman, is hosting a major solo exhibition of new works by Diarmuid Kelley. From an early age, Kelley has stoo...

‘Making Painting: Helen Frankenthaler and J.M.W. Turner’ (25 January to 11 May 2014) , launches Turner Contemporary’s 2014 programme. Showcasing the work of the celebrated American A bstract Expressionist painter, Helen Frankenthaler...

The Sunflowers 25 January – 27 April 2014 | Room 46 | Admission free Two versions of Vincent van Gogh’s iconic Sunflowers are being reunited in London for the first time in 65 years in 2014 – giving visitors to the N...

A new rotation of ‘American Legends: From Calder to O’Keeffe’ Deemed ‘one of its best [permanent-collection displays] in years’ by The New York Times , ‘American Legends: From Calder to O’Keeffe’ ...

Iwona Blazwick , OBE, Director of the Whitechapel Gallery announced Corin Sworn as thewinner of the 2013–15 Max Mara Art Prize for Women at a ceremony at the Italian Embassy on 23 January 2014. It is the fifth time the biennial prize has been a...

The National Portrait Gallery has completed a major online catalogue of the personal and professional correspondence of the 19th-century British artist George Frederic Watts (1817–1904), enabling, for the first time, world-wide access to the sto...

Grand Central Market, Los Angeles, CA 90013 Wednesday, 29 January, 7p.m. To celebrate the release of his newest body of essays Pirates and Farmers , the art critic David Hickey will present a talk and book signing at Grand Central Mar...

Tate and Hyundai Motor have announced a major new long-term partnership. Confirmed until 2025, this 11-year partnership is the longest initial commitment from a corporate sponsor in Tate’s history. Hyundai’s support will allow Tate Modern to...

The Postcard is a Public Work of Art 23 January to 1 March 2014 An exhibition of postcards by 60 artists based in Britain. Curated and catalogued by Jeremy Cooper. The purpose of an artist's a postcard is to express an idea, aest...

Work in progress shows are an opportunity for students to exhibit at an interim stage in their practice and gain feedback on their individual and group projects. 22–26 January: School of Communication – Animation; Information Exper...

British artist Bridget Riley, one of the UK's most important living artists, had sought judicial help in a copyright claim regarding a work of the German artist Tobias Rehberger. created for the Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Riley consi...

The Siemens Poster Vote winner is announced The results are in and the public have decided that the best London Underground poster of all time is Brightest London is best reached by Underground, which was designed by Horace Taylor in 1924. ...

It seems that a deal has been struck to safeguard the holdings of the Detroit Institute of Arts (DIA). In brief, the City of Detroit has pension obligations to thousands of workers which it does not have the funds to meet. The local government wanted to...

London publisher Lund Humphries will be celebrating 75 years of art-book publishing with author events at the UK’s largest art fair for modern British and contemporary art – London Art Fair, 2014. Tuesday 14 January, Preview Day, 4&nd...

The statement below has been released via BerlinRosen Public Affairs. A Statement to the People of Detroit Monday, January 13, 2014 A foundation working group, which includes the Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan, William ...

A book that celebrates the great corporate art collections and programmes of the world will be launched at Bonhams HQ, 101 New Bond Street, on Monday 13 January 2014, followed by a two-week exhibition of selected works from leading collections, continu...

Until 26 January there is still time to see the first major retrospective in Ireland of the work of Surrealist painter Leonora Carrington, in the Garden Galleries (formerly the New Galleries) at the Irish Museum of Modern Art. ‘The Celtic Surreali...

This could almost be a group show. There are many media and styles – lacquered wooden geometrical floor sculptures, gelatin silver print photographs of HiFi equipment and an ear, X-rays, found objects, concrete blocks with radio antennas, plaster ...

Stanley Spencer RA (1891–1959) was an idiosyncratic, highly individual painter. His works have a somewhat childlike quality – the rounded forms of bodies and faces – (he belonged to a group who styled themselves the ‘Neo-Primiti...

Poet Dylan Thomas was born in 1914. Veronica Davies reports on a worthy tribute by Sir Peter Blake as Wales remembers a favourite son As Wales celebrates the 2014 centenary of the birth of the poet Dylan Thomas, an exhibition at the National Mus...

Bargehouse, Oxo Tower Wharf, South Bank, London SE1 9PH, UK 10 January – 2 February 2014 Agnes Meyer-Brandis |Katie Paterson | Liliane Lijn | Leonid Tishkov | WE COLONISED THE MOON | Moon Vehicle It's nearly four decad...

Somewhere between A and B Paintings by Bruno Deroulede Life is also what happens while we’re busy going from A to B. Bruno Deroulede paints people in their daily lives, caught between a memory and a promise, and sometimes strugglin...

'Beyond Love', Robert Indiana's show at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, closes this Sunday so there is no time to lose if you want to see this well-received exhibition. See our November news item on this show. The Museum is s...