Munch Paintings To Exhibit At Tate Modern
With the sale of The Scream in New York earlier this year, the Norwegian painter Edvard Munch has received an immense amount of press in the UK. On Thursday, Tate Modern in London opens a major exhibition – Edvard Munch: The Modern Eye – featuring over sixty carefully-selected paintings and fifty photographs, alongside his lesser-known filmic work. These reveal Munch’s interest in current affairs and how his...
40th Olympia Fine Art And Antiques Fair
The 40th Olympia International Fine Art & Antiques Fair started on the morning of June 7th with queues that went along the side of the impressive exhibition hall up to the Hammersmith Road. The fair, which is London’s most established fair, featured more than 200 exhibitors and saw 6,768 visitors through the doors on the first day. The final visitor numbers were 32,272. A 32-piece toilet service, which sold in the region of...
Victoria Pomery awarded OBE
It was announced this morning that Victoria Pomery, Director of Turner Contemporary has been awarded an OBE for services to the arts. The award recognises her outstanding contribution over the past 10 years to Turner Contemporary and the wider arts in East Kent. Since 2002, Victoria has overseen the extraordinary development of Turner Contemporary culminating in the gallery’s opening in April last year. In the early years Victoria...