Arts news

• Barrie Gavin obituary

  29-11-2024 17:54
  Prolific director whose TV films on music and the arts constitute an astonishing record of British cultural history over more than six decadesThe prolific film-maker Barrie Gavin, who has died aged 89, played a key role in the representation of music and the arts on British and European television from the start of his career in the 1960s, and was still working on ideas for new projects in the days before he died. Cataloguing his works over more than six decades, he was boyishly proud of the fac
  
  Read more

• A Renaissance pooch, pop art hammers and sublime northern landscapes – the week in art

  29-11-2024 13:11
  Parmigianino puts an alternative slant on Christmas, Jim Dine displays his tools, and Gabrielle Goliath takes a global view of male violence– all in your weekly dispatchParmigianino: The Vision of Saint Jerome
  The brilliant, audacious artist who inspired John Ashbery’s poem Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror stars in a Christmas exhibition with an alternative slant.• National Gallery, London, from 5 December until 9 March Continue reading...
  
  Read more

• Crypto entrepreneur eats banana art he bought for $6.2m

  29-11-2024 11:55
  
  Conceptual work created by Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan was sold at auction in New York last weekThe cryptocurrency entrepreneur Justin Sun has fulfilled a promise he made after spending $6.2m (£4.88m) on an artwork featuring a banana duct-taped to a wall – by eating the fruit.At one of Hong Kong’s priciest hotels,Sun, 34, chomped down on the banana in front of dozens of journalists and influencers after giving a speech hailing the work as “iconic” and drew para
  
  Read more

• Remembering Teddy

  29-11-2024 08:31 via artsjournal.com
  
  Teddy died last Sunday after a short, swift illness, probably cancer. He was eleven years old.
  My seminal Teddy memory:
  
  Read more

• Advertisement

Follow @ArtsUK1 on Twitter!