Lead  Chris Ofili’s first dung paintings, made when the artist visited Zimbabwe at the beginning of his career, have been tracked down by The Art Newspaper to the vault of a gallery in Bulawayo. In 1992, Ofili, then 23, went on a British Council-funded visit to the Pachipamwe International Artists’ Workshop (Pachipamwe means “where we are all together” in Shona). It was held at Cyrene Mission, an Anglican boys’ school 40km south-west of Bulawayo... READ MORE all articles  
articles Swedish photography gallery is latest to cover up explicit work Facebook's nudity ban often falls afoul of art groups Politicians have allocated €8.2m for an archaeological survey that already exists The Father of Pop has died, aged 89 As major exhibitions of his work opened in London and Barcelona in 2003, the artist explained his boredom with the London art scene, the lineage of his tables and his undying debt to Marcel Duchamp Why blow the budget on a blockbuster when a single Caravaggio or Titian will bring in the crowds? Anoxic storage can slow deterioration Nervous investors have rushed to safety in gold and the Swiss franc but art looks more volatile As research from the last crisis shows, when investor confidence evaporates, all assets start to correlate, something many art market insiders like to forget, says ArtTactic's Anders Petterson all articles video  With the crowds gone, September is a perfect time to travel to Venice to see the Biennale. In the Russian pavilion, Boris Groys is curating works by Andrei Monastyrsky and Collective Actions, the group Monastyrsky formed in 1976 which began exploring performance art in Soviet Russia. more videos
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 Willem de Kooning is a hard nut to crack, even for the most die-hard abstract expressionist enthusiasts. "There’s a pure intensity in his work. Woman I has never sat easily on the walls of the Museum of Modern Art [MoMA],” said John Elderfield, the museum’s chief curator emeritus of painting and sculpture, who has organised this exhibition, the largest and most comprehensive of the artist’s work to date.... all exhibitions jobs The initial primary focus is the Whitechapel Gallery at Windsor (W@W) project, which opens at the beginning of December and runs until the end of February (roughly). At that time, the Gallery Manager should be responsible for the following... all jobs | 
