Courtesy Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners The Royal Institute of British Architects awarded its Stirling Prize 2009 to Richard Rogers for his cancer care sanctuary, Maggie’s Centre. Perhaps best known for his functionalistic works featuring exposed duckwork and staircases (RogersView More >
American artist Nancy Spero died on 18 October in New York. She was 83. Active as a pioneer of feminist art from the late 1950s, her figurative art addressed the realities of inequality between the sexes and political violence. SperoView More >
Sotheby’s Contemporary Art Including Arab & Iranian Art sale on 16 October in London realized a total of £12,757,125 from 158 lots sold. The top lot was Jean-Michel Basquiat’s Fuego Flores (1983) fetching £959,650, followed by Anish Kapoor’s Untitled (1997)View More >
IqtjlX5JO-Y The Saatchi Gallery and Channel 4 have awarded the 2009 New Sensations prize to 24-year-old Oliver Beer. Established to support art students graduating in the UK and to find new talent, New Sensations 2009 also presented the works ofView More >
Christie’s post-war and contemporary day sale on 17 October in London realized a total of £3,514,725 from 111 lots sold. The top lot was Anselm Kiefer’s Baum mit Panzer (1977) fetching £169,250, followed by Martin Kippenberger’s Self-Portrait (1981) at £139,250View More >
Scheduled to take place in March 2010, over 50 public museums, commercial galleries, auction houses, and others will unite for the first time to celebrate the significance and diversity of the Sydney as a center of art. In addition toView More >
Zoo 2009, the young gallerists’ satellite to the Frieze Art Fair, opened today in London’s East End, with more than 50 commercial and non-commercial contemporary art organizations presenting work, and specially curated exhibitions by Rob Tufnell and others. Participating fromView More >
ArtReview published the 2009 edition of Power 100, the magazine’s annual selection of the artworld’s most powerful figures. Topping the list this year is co-director of London’s Serpentine Gallery, Hans Ulrich Obrist. The highest-ranking artist on the list is BruceView More >
A one-day moviemaking workshop held at the Nogeyama Zoo as a ‘pre-event’ to the International Festival for Arts and Media Yokohama 2009, which opens on 31 October. Together with video artist Goto Daiki, participants will use digital cameras to shootView More >
Frieze Art Fair kicked off on 15 October in London’s Regent Park. The seventh staging of the one of the contemporary art world’s top fairs features 165 galleries from 30 countries around the world. Exhibitors from Japan are hiromiyoshii, TakaView More >