Art
news

UK Friends of National Museum of Women in the Arts Readers of Cassone will know about the work of the National Museum of Women in the Arts , based in Washington, DC. The Museum has a UK friends organization, which is holding a fund-raising pa...

IWM Contemporary: Jane and Louise Wilson Undead Sun Showing now until 11 January 2015 Free admission Turner Prize nominated artists Jane and Louise Wilson are showing a significant new video installation at IWM London...

Important works by artists Barbara Hepworth , Peter Lanyon and Patrick Heron are seen alongside those of their international contemporaries and influences in a new exhibition developed by Tate St Ives in collaboration with mima, Middlesbrough, UK. ...

The Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts at Harvard University is launching a new programme of exhibitions and public activity under the leadership of James Voorhies , the recently appointed John R. and Barbara Robinson Family Director. This new progr...

Politician Chris Huhne, a young female-to-male transsexual, Northern Ireland Loyalist marchers, and X-Factor and Celebrity Big Brother contestant Rylan Clark are among the subjects of a new display by Grayson Perry, to open at the National Portrait ...

In a ‘ world first’, an art gallery in central London will be giving away every single one of its exhibits to passers-by (free!) this Friday as part of the #FreeArtFriday phenomenon. The initiative, almost an antithesis to Frieze Week, will...

West Country Meanderings Richard Pikesley, RWS, NEAC 18 October–5 November 2014 President of the New English Art Club, Richard Pikesley is holding his third one-man show of oils and watercolours, ‘West Country Meander...

If you want an excuse to visit glorious Chatsworth House, home of the Duke and Duchess of Devonshire, what could be better than ‘Beyond Limits’, Sotheby’s annual selling exhibition of outdoor sculpture, which is on now until 26 October...

Royal Society of Marine Artists
 Annual Exhibition 2014 15 to 26 October, 10a.m. to 5p.m. Britain is an island nation with a proud maritime heritage. The coastline of Britain and its principal islands measures some 19,400 miles, presen...

Sir John Soane’s Museum is showing ‘Face to Face: British Portraits from the Clifford Chance Art Collection’ (10 October 2014– 24 January 2015), an exploration of the development of portraiture by British printmakers from the mid...

October 26 marks 250 years since the death of William Hogarth, arguably one of the UK’s greatest painters and printmakers. As an admirer of Hogarth’s life and work, Sir John Soane bought two of the artist’s great Modern Morality seri...

The official launch of GalleriesNow.net, a new guide to the world’s top commercial art galleries, took place on 30 September. The portal is the creation of Patrick and Tristram Fetherstonhaugh, brothers and co-founders. The basis for their idea w...

The Wedgwood Collection – one of the most important industrial archives in the world and a unique record of over 250 years of British art and history – has been saved from dispersal thanks to the generosity of thousands of individuals, sever...

Amie Siegel in conversation with Kathleen Forde Friday, October 17, 5.30 p.m. 
UMMA’s Helmut Stern Auditorium
 Free and open to the public University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) will be hosting multimedia artist Amie...

The Fry Gallery – which Cassone readers may remember from Jenny Kingsley's artice on ' the pearl of Essex' last June – has been awarded £199,000 from the Collecting Cultures programme of the Heritage Lottery Fund. ...

Through the summer, anyone lucky enough to be in London was able to visit ' Henri Matisse: The Cut Outs' at Tate Modern. Cassone published a review of this wonderful show in May. Readers on the other side of the Atlantic now have their chan...

‘With this ring I thee wed, this gold and silver I thee give: with my body I thee worship: and with all my worldly goods I thee endow...’. A wedding day tradition that was first formalized over 450 years ago is the giving of gold and s...

Jeremy Deller: English Magic 11 October 2014 and runs until 11 January 2015 This autumn Turner Contemporary presents the full spectrum and final UK showcase of contemporary British artist Jeremy Deller’s ‘English Magic&rsqu...

The Other Art Fair 16–19 October 2014 Old Truman Brewery, London E1 The artist-led Other Art Fair presents its seventh edition this October, overlapping Frieze, which is at Regent's Park 15–18 October. Returning to...

Jeannie Labno visited the British Museum to report on the latest blockbuster. 'Ming: Fifty Years that Changed China'. This exhibition explores a pivotal period in Chinese history (1400–50), during the rule of the early Ming dynasty...

Regular Cassone readers will be aware that Sir Peter Blake has painted a number of works celebrating the work of Dylan Thomas, which were displayed in Cardiff earlier this year . Royal Mint coinage designer Lee R. Jones has also found the poet’...

mima (the Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art) has unveiled its brand new jewellery gallery to the public. In a joint project with Teesside University, a storage space within mima has been converted into a new gallery devoted to displaying mima’...

'Our moment, for better or worse, could not be more perfectly realized than it is by "Jeff Koons: A Retrospective", the final exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art’s Madison Avenue location, which surveys four decades wit...

Until 11 January 2015 the exhibition SOROLLA Y ESTADOS UNIDOS is on at the FUNDACIÓN MAPFRE gallery in Paseo de Recoletos. This exhibition is the first to include 150 paintings by Joaquín Sorolla (1863–1923); it follows the fascinati...

Rose Hilton: Giving Life to Painting Saturday 4 October 5.30p.m. – 8p.m. Studio 3 Gallery Jarman Building, University of Kent Canterbury CT2 7UG This show will continue until 19 December Monday – Friday, 9a.m....

Tullie House is presenting rare opportunity to see one of the most romantic and extravagant wedding dresses in its collections. Muriel Cavaghan wore the dress for her marriage to David Kerr Duff at Charlotte Street Congregational Church, Carlisle, on 7 ...

Menthe Wells’ new European exhibition of 50 art works, both painting and sculpture, will be opening this week in Lublin in Poland , now becoming an emerging centre of art for Europe. In this new centre of international art, the University Marii C...