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Unicef UK to host its first-ever contemporary art auction - Unicef UK has announced that 35 artists have donated artworks to the charity’s first-ever contemporary art auction, SyriART, which will raise vital funds to help protect Syrian ch...

London event running this weekend, 28–30 November We Need Us , an artwork composed of a series of living, dynamic ‘scenes’, commissioned by the Open Data Institute (ODI) and The Space, will be projected onto the exterior of ...

London to Paris was commissioned by the Cass Sculpture Foundation in 2000. As the last piece completed before the artist’s death in 2005, this monumental sculpture holds great importance to Cass Sculpture Foundation. Over the last mo...

CEO and artistic director of Manchester International Festival, and artistic director of Park Avenue Armory Appointed to lead Culture Shed Culture Shed, the new centre for artistic and cultural innovation in New York City, announced today it h...

‘David Bowie Is’ now open until 10 p.m. on Fridays & Saturdays Owing to increasing demand for tickets, the MCA has added extended holiday hours to the ‘David Bowie Is’exhibition, starting this week. Mondays ...

24 November, 7.30p.m. . Speaker: Janine Catalano, ‘Distasteful: Subversive Food in Surrealist Art'. The edible has a long tradition in art; from religious symbolism to market scenes and the still life, depictions of food and dinin...

Following London University's declaration that it intends to appeal against a recent High Court decision in the Warburg Institute's favour, on 19 November, the Advisory Board of the Warburg Institute sent an open letter to Sir Richard Dearlove...

The Lowry, Salford Quays, UK, has announced the appointment of three specialist programming associates to its artistic leadership team. Rupert Thomson, Lucy Dusgate and Eckhard Thiemann join The Lowry’s programming team – curating the th...

The Two Roberts: Robert Colquhoun and Robert Macbryde 
 22 November 2014 − 24 May 2015
 Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art (Modern Two), A major new exhibition at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art this autumn ...

L’Utopia Della Pittura Alessandro Pizzo Renato Pengo 10 November – 10 December 2014 Moor House, 120 London Wall, City of London EC2Y 5ET ArtMoorHouse is currently showing ‘L’Utopia Dell...

The National Galleries of Scotland (NGS) will send a selection of major works from the national collection to the USA over the next year. This touring show will raise the international profile of the Galleries and draw attention to the superb quality an...

Imran Qureshi: Deutsche Bank’s ‘Artist of the Year’ Ikon, Birmingham, UK 19 November 2014–25 January 2015 A solo exhibition by Pakistani artist Imran Qureshi, Deutsche Bank’s ‘Artist of the Year&rsquo...

An exhibition showcasing Rhodian archaeology through the ages is running at the Louvre Museum in Paris until 10 February 2015, shedding light on the vibrant history of this stunning Grecian region. Rhodes was once home to the Colossus of Rhodes ...

Beauty by Design: Fashioning the Renaissance 
15 November 2014 − 3 May 2015
 Scottish National Portrait Gallery The results of a unique collaboration between fashion designers, artists, curators and art historians, established...

From 13 November, HEIST gallery is promising to take visitors on a visual journey to a dreamlike world. HEIST is London’s first fine art photography anti-gallery; bridging the divide between artists and collectors. HEIST’s new ex...

A limited access special evening viewing of ‘Rembrandt: The Late Works’, after dark when the National Gallery is closed to the public. This exhibition is most enthusiastically reviewed by Rosalind Ormiston in this month’s Cas...

Special event, Sunday, 16 November, 3.00 p.m.
 A. Alfred Taubman I Gallery
 Free and open to the public; seating is limited In conjunction with ‘ Reductive Minimalism: Women Artists in Dialogue, 1960–2014 ’ on view th...

Happy Birthday to Wilfred Cass, who is 90 years old today (11 November). Wilfred is an electrical engineer and entrepreneur by profession, and an art lover by nature. In 1990 he and his wife Jeannette combined art and entrpreneurship when they bought a ...

About Town – Video Art in Southside Thursday 13 – Sunday 16 November 2014 'About Town' is an exhibition of international video art in Birmingham’s Southside district taking place 13 – 16 November 2014. Pres...

Bridget Riley at the Art Institute of Chicago 11 November 2014 – 8 March 2015 The exhibition features the Art Institute's own Ascending and Descending Hero (1963/65), an important early black-and-white painting, alongside Co...

Oblivious – new works by Nigel Cox Gallery 8, Duke Street, London Open preview Wednesday 12 November 2014 Painter Nigel Cox minimalist style has earned him many fans, including Sir Ranulph Fiennes, who commissioned him to do th...

Mercurial Hallucination Painting by Cecilia Ferraro Mercurial Hallucination is on display 24 hours a day, seven days a week at The London Arts Board from 10 November to 10 December 2014. Ferraro has painted ever since she wa...

To the benefit and relief of art historians and other scholars worldwide, the High Court has rejected the University of London’s claims that all additions to the Warburg Institute since 1944 belong to the University, and instead agreed that they f...

Jean Bardon – Recent Works Louise Leonard – Town and Country Graphic Studio Gallery Dublin, Ireland Now on until the 29 November 2014. Graphic Studio Gallery is currently showcasing the work of artists and Graphic St...

Paul Cummins was, up until this summer, a relatively unknown artist but this year he devised and created the Blood Swept Lands and Seas of Red installation, which currently occupies much of the area immediately around the Tower of London. Paul Cummin...

New York gallerist Jill Newhouse is currently showing new work by Wendy Mark ‘Beginning With Square One’ including a site specific installation, ‘CloudSpace’by AGENCY Now on until 14 November 2014 ‘The...

India Art Fair 2015: Diversity and enhanced quality under one roof 29 January – 1 February 2015 India Art Fair has announced its 7th edition taking place from 29 January – 1 February 2015 (with a VIP Preview by invitation o...

The Jewish International Film Festival (JIFF) 2014 is screening Regarding Susan Sontag . Nancy Kates’ documentary provides a fascinating look at the towering cultural critic and writer. It acknowledges her personal life, as well as her si...

Eva Rothschild’s monumental new work, Culture and Nature , on display at the Cass Sculpture Foundation, seems to transcend the limitations of its own structure. The web of interconnected lines is, on closer inspection, eight panels of latticed, h...

#Onthedraw An illustrated journey through the Canary Islands An exhibition that captures the essence of The Canary Islands through the illustrations of seven talented European artists, each sent to portray a different destination ...

Artissima, Turin 6–9 November 2014 London’s Richard Saltoun gallery is exhibiting two very different artists at this November’s Artissima art fair in Turin, Italy : Friedl Kubelka and Hans-Peter Feldmann Fried...