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We're proud to present the second installment of our London based artist interview series! This interview takes place with sculptor Jeremy Willett and provides an insight into the way he works, his influences and what he intends to achieve with his work...

Part of Brandeis University in Massachusetts, the Rose Art Museum is facing an uncertain future that could result in the selling of its 8000+ work art collection...

120 Roger Hiorn's is one of the four nominated artists The four shortlisted artists were announced for one of the biggest art prizes of the year have been announced this week and are as follows: Enrico David, Roger Hiorns, Lucy Skaer and Richard Wright...

Damien Hirst has chosen an unlikely setting for his next retrospective, Kiev in Ukraine. He's picked up on the former Soviet Republic's 'newly discovered interest in contemporary art' and plans to bring over 100 sculptures and installations, plus oil paintings to the city...

120 Artists works decorate the 'East Side Gallery' Paintings that adorned the East side of the Berlin wall are to be restored in a scheme to breathe a new life into the dilapidated wall that now serves as one of Berlins main tourist attraction...

We've got a new project kicking off today! The Art-Switch video blog aims to give you an insight into the working practice of a range of London Based Artists. We kick off today with Alice White, a painter who's work features in the Art-Switch library...

The Diana Memorial, Hyde Park. But what could have filled the space instead? The Henry Moore Foundation was set up by famous British sculptor Henry Moore to promote visual art, especially sculpture across two settings, one in Leeds and another in Hetfordshire...

Robert Morris' sculptures often involve audience participation 38 years ago American artist Robert Morris' interactive installation Bodyspacemotionthings opened in the Tate Gallery's (now the Tate Britain) cavernous Duveen Sculpture gallery...

Bad artists copy. Good artists steal. Pablo Picasso Maxell advert Over the weekend I read an article about every artist's worst nightmare. A website accused an artist of stealing copyrighted designs and sent him a bill for $18,000...

A Dublin Guerilla artist provoked a police hunt after following in the steps of Banksy after a rogue hanging of two paintings in two of Dublin's major museums. The first appeared in the Royal Hibernian Academy which was followed by another painting popping up in the republicans National Gallery...

The Wallace Collection in Hertford House, London It happens so often, that revelations of one art crime lead to more press coverage of fraudulent art hapenings...

After the revelations struck yesterday from Sothebys Versace auction that the star lot is under suspicion of being stolen 30 years ago we thought it might be interesting to have a look at some other famous art thefts...

Tonights big auction of Versaces furniture and art collection ran into a spot of controversy last night as it was claimed to have been stolen 30 years ago. The painting by German artist Johann Zoffany was billed as one of the most important lots and had a guide price of £40,000 - £60,000...

The Yves Saint Laurent three day charity auction raised a total of £332 million but Christies are having problems collecting £27 million as a Chinese man is refusing to pay for two bronze sculptures he bid on out of protest...

Damien Hirst's £13.2 million sculpture In 2007 Damien Hirst created one of the most expensive works of art ever made. For the Love of God caused a huge stir in the art world as Hirst had utilised 8601 flawless diamonds to encrust a platinum cast of a human skull...

Yesterday saw the first round of the 3 day auction of Yves Saint-Laurents art collection go on sale. It has already broken the record for the biggest private sale on the first night when it made 206million Euros. The profits will fund Pierre Berges charitable foundation and AIDS research...

A sculpture depicting Damien Hirst shooting himself in the head caused controversy at the ARCO art fair in Spain last week. The sculpture, by Spanish artist Eugenio Merino is commenting in Hirsts infamous search of money through the sale of his art...

British Museum acts as a lending library The British Museum appears to have followed Art-Switchs initiative recently with its current scheme that is using the museums collection as a 'lending library'...

BBC plans to make all nationally owned art a click away The BBC has recently unveiled plans to produce an online archive of all nationally owned oil paintings. The aim: to make art owned by the public available to the public as currently only 20% is on show to the public...

Picasso's Guernica will be in London later in the year When Pablo Picassos Guernica first toured the world, it showed the world the horrors of the German bombing of the Spanish town Guernica on market day during the Spanish Civil killing 1,674 civilians...

Putin painting raises £750,000 for charity Vladimir Putin, current Prime Minister of Russia has been turning his hand to a number of extra curricular activities recently. Hes been teaching the Russian public Judo, Fishing topless and seems to have also started an exotic pet collection...

Have you got yourself some free art? Prices for art in auction houses have dropped dramatically in the past 6 months, but people are still buying art at in these settings and important works will always be in demand as people invest their cash in Art...

Experience delights from the Congo in London Artist Carsten Höller is best known for his installation Test Site which inhabited the Tate Modern's Turbine Hall from October 2006 - April 2007. The work comprised of several slides that ran from different levels of the building to the ground...

'Anmut' Image from:wetter on www.photocase.com Horses have always been a big part of Britains history, weve used them for farming, harvesting, in combat, in leisure and in parts of the country they still run wild...