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10 November 11:01:22	"Highest sale total in 3 years...7 records for artists at auction" - click the Sotheby's link for details, including the Clyfford Still canvases which caused all the excitement.   Sotheby's
10 November 10:26:22	"The sale blew every expectation away" - Tobias Meyer, Sotheby's head of contemporary art, on the "highest contemporary total since May 2008 when the art market was at its peak and just months before the financial crisis took hold." More at Reuters.   Reuters
9 September 16:10:40	David Hockney: A Bigger Picture - "In January 2012 the Royal Academy of Arts will showcase the first major exhibition of new landscape works by David Hockney RA."   Royal Academy
1 July 15:47:52	The Parallax Art Fair in central London features international abstraction and conceptual work (July 1-3) and international figurative and conceptual work (July 8-10). It is free to the public. More information on the website.   Parallax Art Fair
25 June 15:53:43	"Help us to tag the nation's paintings" - 'Your Paintings' has launched with 63,000 artworks online. The public is being asked to help out - "Your Tags will help people to search the Your Paintings website."   Your Paintings
15 June 16:17:01	'The Vorticists: Manifesto for a Modern World' is at Tate Britain until Sept 4. "Do go and see this exhibition: there are several strong and striking works of art, such as Gaudier-Brzeska’s monumental head of Pound..." More in The Telegraph.   The Telegraph
9 June 15:25:25	Bow Arts (www.bowarts.org) and its artists "fling open their doors and invite the public in to visit artists in their studios, see the work being created, and enjoy entertainment, food and drink in the courtyard" in London E3, Friday June 17 from 6pm.   Bow Arts Open Launch
6 May 12:04:23	Street art - the London Mural Preservation Society is "Working to Protect, Preserve and Celebrate Murals in London." Check out the blog.   London Mural Preservation Society
6 May 11:45:38	Banksy has unveiled a 'Tesco Value petrol bomb' poster on his website (www.banksy.co.uk) to raise money for the Tesco rioters - "After the recent Tesco riots in Bristol, Banksy has produced this fine commemorative souvenir poster..." More at The Mirror.   The Mirror
9 April 15:03:05	The 'Old Master & British Paintings' sale at Christie's on July 5 includes the George Stubbs painting of racehorse 'Gimcrack'. Described as "an absolute masterpiece", it is expected to fetch in excess of £20,000,000. More in The Telegraph.   The Telegraph
5 April 12:34:58	Farley Farm House (www.farleyfarmhouse.co.uk), the home of photographer Lee Miller and artist Roland Penrose, is open for tours on the 1st and 3rd Sunday of each month until October. The house contains a number of works by Picasso. More in The Telegraph.  The Telegraph
29 January 10:39:49	Christie's has announced sales of $5.25 billion for 2010, "up 53 percent from 2009 and surpassing the 3.1 billion in sales during the art market's prior peak in 2007, before the dreaded “R” word started to dominate economic news." More at Portfolio.   Portfolio
17 January 11:35:34	'Modern British Sculpture' runs at the Royal Academy (www.royalacademy.org.uk) from 22 January to 7 April 2011. Curated by Penelope Curtis and Keith wilson, it is the largest sculpture show at the RA for 30 years. More at The Guardian.   The Guardian
14 January 15:21:14	The new artworks to be displayed on the Trafalgar Square Fourth Plinth art are 'Powerless Structures, Fig 101', a bronze from the Scandinavian design duo Elmgreen & Dragset, and 'Cock' by Katharina Fritsch. More at Fourth Plinth.   Fourth Plinth
8 December 14:45:30	Sound artist Susan Philipsz (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_Philipsz) won the 2010 Turner Prize (www.tate.org.uk) - "Her art makes you think of your place in the world, and opens you up to your feelings." More in The Guardian.   The Guardian
30 October 11:17:17	Yorkshire artist Clive Head is drawing record crowds to the National Gallery (www.nationalgallery.org.uk) to see 'Modern Perspectives'. "Head's work seems to be kind of painting that people really love" - more in The Guardian.   The Guardian
21 October 11:36:19	'Cezanne's Card Players' exhibition at the Courtauld Gallery until Jan 16 "is the first to bring together the majority of these remarkable paintings alongside a magnificent group of closely related portraits of Provençal peasants..."   Cezanne's Card Players
20 October 16:23:56	'Fleurs Fraiches', the David Hockney (www.hockneypictures.com) exhibition at the Pierre Berge Yves Saint Laurent Foundation in Paris, consists of about 40 works on iPhones and iPads created using the Brushes app.   Yves Saint Laurent Foundation
15 October 16:11:19	'Venice: Canaletto and his Rivals' runs at the National Gallery until January 16. The exhibition is reviewed in The Guardian.   The Guardian
22 September 15:08:02	The Liverpool Biennial (www.biennial.com), aka 'Touched', which runs until Nov 28, "seemed bland to Adrian Searle – until he came across video art by a gender-blending Texan." More info at The Guardian.   The Guardian
27 August 16:05:32	Photographer David Bailey is now sculpting - "I'm not saying I'm a sculptor, I just make images. I don't take photographs, I make them" - with an exhibition at PANGOLIN (www.pangolinlondon.com) from Sept 8 to Oct 16. More in The Guardian.   The Guardian
3 August 16:19:31	Christie's (www.christies.com) is selling a private collection of 21 works by L S Lowry in London on November 11. The property of bookmaking tycoon Selwyn Demmy, they are expected to raise £5,000,000. More at BBC News.   ArtCheck
23 July 15:02:20	"Is Ben Eine the new Banksy?" - Ben Eine,aka Ben Flynn, explains that 'Eine', German for 'one', "was a nom-de-aerosol chosen because it fitted a certain space on a Tube-train door." More in The Standard.   Evening Standard
22 July 16:33:07	Former street artist Eine (www.einesigns.co.uk), aka Ben Flynn, is all over the media as a result of David Cameron giving one of his works to President Obama. He is represented by Brighton gallery artrepublic (www.artrepublic.com). More at MailOnline.   MailOnline
21 July 11:24:45	The £25,000 Threadneedle Prize exhibition opens at the Mall Galleries on September 2 with 46 works making the selection. The 2010 winner will be announced on September 15.   Threadneedle Prize
20 July 16:55:42	Living art at The Tate (www.tate.org.uk) - the Michael Clark Company (www.michaelclarkcompany.com) has taken up residency at Tate Modern for the next two months to create a new dance work which will be performed on August 28/29. More at LondonDance.   LondonDance
12 July 12:02:16	Artists whose work is not accepted for the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition (www.royalacademy.org.uk) can now upload it to The Summer Gallery (www.thesummergallery.com) where it can be showcased and sold.   The Summer Gallery
5 July 10:57:38	Artist Of The Day at Flowers Cork Street (www.flowersgalleries.com) - a programme of one-day exhibitions spread over 5 days (July 5-10) for 5 emerging or yet to be discovered artists chosen by 5 selectors. More at Spoonfed.   Spoonfed
29 June 16:43:37	'Painted Truths', first solo exhibition of Alice Neel (www.aliceneel.com) paintings in a European institution, opens at the Whitechapel Gallery (www.whitechapelgallery.org) on 8 July. More in The Standard.   Evening Standard
25 June 12:19:10	Mark Ronson brings The Creators Project (www.thecreatorsproject.com) to London on July 17 - "it aims to bring together artists, film-makers and musicians from around the world, knowns and unknowns, and bounce them off each other." More in The Standard.  Evening Standard
15 June 17:12:44	The Guggenheim (www.guggenheim.org) is lookng for artistic talent working in video. 200 shortlisted vids will be published at YouTube Play (www.youtube.com/play) and up to 20 will be presented at the Guggenheim. Enter by July 31. More in The Guardian.  The Guardian
11 June 16:08:39	'Silver Streak', the huge gorilla created out of coat-hangers by David Mach (www.davidmach.com) for the The Royal Academy (www.royalacademy.org.uk) Summer Exhibition, is available for £265,000. Check out the photo at Design-London.   Design-London
11 June 16:07:38	The blue elephant created by artist Jonathan Yeo (www.jonathanyeo.com) has been banished from Selfridges after complaints that the "sculpture is covered with Yeo's trademark pornographic collage." More in The Standard.   Evening Standard
8 June 17:20:38	'Rude Britannia', an exhibition of British Comic Art, opens at Tate Britain (www.tate.org.uk) on June 9. Will Self reviews the show that "celebrates the great British satirical impulse in art." More at The Guardian.   The Guardian
5 June 13:49:15	'Breathing Room III', the latest work from Antony Gormley (www.antonygormley.com), is on sale for £600,000 at White Cube as part of the artist's 'Test Sites' exhibition until July 26.   White Cube
3 June 14:27:40	FAB (Fringe Arts Bath) runs until June 12. The FAB Art Fair will be showing work from up-and-coming contemporary artists, including Mediha Ting (www.tingwork.com), at Saw Close, (outside the Theatre Royal, Bath) 1pm-6pm on June 6.   Fringe Arts Bath
6 May 16:11:21	The 2010 Turner Prize (www.tate.org.uk/britain/turnerprize) nominations are Dexter Dalwood, Angela de la Cruz, Susan Philipsz and The Otolith Group. The shortlist has been described as "half-baked." More at The Guardian.   The Guardian
6 May 11:15:22	Stuart Semple (www.stuartsemple.com) at Morton Metropolis until May 28. Free entry to the latest exhibition of the new Andy Warhol / Jean-Michel Basquiat / Jeff Koons.   Morton Metropolis
6 May 11:14:22	The Stuart Semple happyPhant is at Marble Arch from May 2 to June 23 for The Elephant Parade London 2010. "Hand painted miniatures of the Phant can also be picked up at Selfridges, Carnaby Street, 80 Regent Street and Greenwich Central Market."   Stuart Semple blog