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13 January 14:53:05	The London Art Fair has opened at the Business Design Centre in Islington. It has works costing up to £500,000 and runs until Jan 17.   London Art Fair
8 December 12:32:56	"A chance to see your work on the London Underground." Just recode Karsten Schmidt's digital identity for the V&A because some will appear on LU screens. "Each work used in this way will appear fully credited with the name of its artist."   Recode Decode
8 December 11:22:23	'Decode: Digital Design Sensations' at the V&A until April 11 "showcases the latest developments in digital and interactive design", including Mehmet Akten's Body Paint Installation, a screen which allows visitors to use virtual paint.   Decode: Digital Design Sensations
8 December 10:59:54	Turner Prize upset! Richard Wright - " a quieter, subtler artist, but one who is capable of producing works of incandescent, ethereal beauty" - has triumphed over favourite Roger Hiorns. More at The Telegraph.   Daily Telegraph
6 December 15:02:59	The Art Bin (www.art-bin.co.uk) is a Michael Landy installation at SLG (www.southlondongallery.org) early in 2010. He wiil be placing some of his works in a giant plastic bin which will then be buried as landfill. More at TimesOnline.   TimesOnline
4 December 11:19:22	Queen's Elm Artists - "creating an artistic renaissance in chelsea" - are holding a fund-raiser exhibition for homeless charity Shelter at The Queen's Elm (241 Fulham Road, London SW3) until Dec 12. 50+ artists, including Mediha Ting, on display.   Queen's Elm Artists
26 November 16:27:36	'Nothing Matters' (Nov 25-Jan 30), a new show of Damien Hirst work at White Cube (www.whitecube.com), is "..another set of derivative paintings...it’s time for Damien Hirst to give it a rest." More from Rachel Campbell-Johnston at TimesOnline.   TimesOnline
23 November 16:07:54	'School of Saatchi', a new TV talent search described as 'X Factor for Artists', begins on BBC2 Nov 24. Charles Saatchi does not actually appear in any of the 4 episodes - his role is that of an 'eminence grise'. More at the BBC.   BBC
22 November 16:18:45	"Charles Saatchi's new generation of artists" - 'Newspeak: British Art Now' opens at The Saatchi Gallery in June 2010. The new Saatchi artists are assessed by The Sunday Times. More at TimesOnline.   TimesOnline
13 November 12:12:51	New gallery Nottingham Contemporary (www.nottinghamcontemporary.org) opens with 'David Hockney 1960-68: A Marriage of Styles' - "it includes the artist's best, bravest and most inventive work." More at The Guardian.   The Guardian
13 November 09:50:21	RCA Secret is "an annual exhibition and sale of original postcard-sized art...This year’s exhibition of 2,000+ pieces includes work by the renowned artists Gerhard Richter, Bill Viola, Julian Opie and Grayson Perry." View online from 11am Nov 13.   RCA Secret
16 October 11:36:33	'No Love Lost, Blue Paintings' - 25 new paintings by Damien Hirst at The Wallace Collection (www.wallacecollection.org) have met with universal disapproval from the critics. More on the "technically challenged, multi-millionaire" at The Telegraph.   Daily Telegraph
10 October 10:39:11	Channel 4 and the Saatchi Gallery have announced the 4 finalists and 20 shortlisted artists for this year's 4 New Sensations (www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/4newsensations) competition. More in The Standard.   Evening Standard
6 October 06:24:27	Turner Prize 2009 - work by the shortlisted artists will be shown in an exhibition at Tate Britain from Oct 7.   Turner Prize
6 October 06:23:50	"Ashes to ashes … dust, skulls and cow brains on the Turner Prize shortlist" - more on the shortlisted artists in The Standard.   Evening Standard
25 September 10:57:49	Artist/activist Gustav Metzger will be creating a participative installation called 'Mass Media: Yesterday and Today' at the Serpentine Gallery (www.serpentinegallery.org) from Sept 29 until Nov 8. More in The Standard.   Evening Standard
23 September 11:25:16	Frieze Art Fair (www.frieze.com) 2009 takes place Oct 15-18. A section called 'Frame' will host 29 galleries, each of which "will present a single up-and-coming artist." More at The Standard.   Evening Standard
16 September 11:43:14	Takashi Murakami, the king of Japanese pop art, is only 47, "but he is already turning fatalistic." His work will be in 'Pop Life: Art In A Material World' at Tate Modern from Oct 1. More at TimesOnline.   TimesOnline
14 September 11:08:07	The exhibition of works by Hannah Rickards - she won the MaxMara Art Prize for Women - at Whitechapel Gallery runs until Sept 23.   Whitechapel Gallery
12 September 11:39:22	A 50ft futuristic coach and horses in purple by French artist Xavier Veilhan (www.veilhan.net) is on show in the courtyard at Versailles. More, including a photo, at the Telegraph.   Daily Telegraph
7 September 05:18:16	Paris gallery Emmanuel Perrotin is showing Takashi Murakami works from Sept 15 to Oct 17. Check out the exhibits on the website.   Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin
6 September 11:06:20	"Ever since Andy Warhol, the worlds of art and finance have been inseparable" - The Observer checks in with Damien Hirst, Jeff Koons, Takashi Murakami, Tracey Emin and Gavin Turk "to find out how the market drives their creative process."   The Observer
4 September 11:37:01	Cartrain has been arrested for "borrowing" a packet of pencils which have a "nominal value of £500,000" from the Damien Hirst 'Pharmacy' installation. The teen graffiti artist can be found on Twitter (http://twitter.com/Cartrain). More in The Standard.  Evening Standard
3 September 11:42:13	Chinese artist Zhang Huan is at White Cube (www.whitecube.com) until Oct 3. Brian Sewell says that "his genius is better represented by a fascinating new book than by the two live pigs in his new show." More in The Standard.   Evening Standard
3 September 10:19:49	"Bubblegun" - artist Ben Turnbull is putting replica firearms into a bubble-gum dispenser and placing the installation near London schools to explore children's responses to violence. The Met Police are taking an interest. More in The Standard.   Evening Standard
2 September 05:01:18	The Australian art market seems to be holding up. The collection of property developer Austcorp included a bust, "Human Human (Bust 5)" by Chinese artist Ah Xian, which sold for a record $A150,000, almost double the estimate. More in The Telegraph.  Daily Telegraph
27 August 11:41:40	Brian Sewell on some of The Threadneedle Prize competitors - "...despairing at the sheer dreadfulness of too many of the submissions, despairing at the near total absence of any merit in idea or execution." More in The Standard.   Evening Standard
27 August 11:36:02	The seven works shortlisted for The Threadneedle Prize can be viewed at the Mall Galleries, Sept 2-19. "The artist who receives the largest share of public votes, cast during the exhibition, wins this valuable Prize."   Mall Galleries
27 August 10:30:01	The sevens works shortlisted for the £25,000 Threadneedle Prize - "the most valuable art prize awarded by the public in the UK" – can be viewed online. Check out the website.   Threadneedle Prize
25 August 07:13:28	London landlords are making "slack space" (empty buildings) available to arts and creative projects on cheap rents or sometimes for free. Check out Watch This Space (www.watchthisspacearts.blogspot.com). More info at the Evening Standard.   Evening Standard
22 August 11:36:22	The Paul Normansell (www.paulnormansell.com) show at Wanted Gallery (www.agallery.co.uk) is a sell-out. It closes on Aug 23. More info on Paul in the Evening Standard.   Evening Standard
19 August 06:49:16	A touring exhibition starting Sept 25 will show recent works by Bridget Riley (www.bridgetriley.com) as well as some of her "seminal 60s pieces." Tour details in The Guardian.   The Guardian
14 August 11:29:49	A short-list of 59 has been punlished for the 'Artists Taking The Lead' project. "Twelve extraordinary commissions will be created by artists across the nation, as part of the London 2012 Cultural Olympiad."   Artists Taking The Lead
14 August 05:54:32	Invader, D*Face, Miss Van, JR, Mustafa Hulusi, Heine - the new kids on the block who are jostling "to take Banksy's crown" in the street art scene. More in The Independent.   The Independent
10 August 06:15:01	First Floor Projects, the pop-up art gallery of James Tregaskes and Hannah Magor, is closed for the summer but will re-open in autumn. The first show sold about 75% of the drawings by Lucy Barlow (www.lucybarlow.net) with prices from £150 to £1,200.  First Floor Projects
4 August 05:16:21	The Andy Warhol portrait of Michael Jackson will be on view at the British Music Experience in the O2 for 3 days only - Aug 6/7/8. Never before displayed in Europe, it will be auctioned in New York later in the month.   British Music Experience
28 July 11:23:11	'The White Show' will explore "the symbolism and meaning of the colour white" with selected works from the Arts Council Collection. Free at the PM Gallery in Ealing from Aug 19 to September 27.   The White Show
25 July 06:24:44	"Two golden boys of the international jet set have descended on N1....Move over Jay Jopling and Larry Gagosian, Vito Schnabel and Alex Dellal have arrived." More on the new boys and 24 Hoxton Square (www.20hoxtonsquare.com) in the Evening Standard.   Evening Standard
21 July 15:36:23	Sale of a Lifetime - now 33, Jasper Joffe (www.jasperjoffe.com) wishes to start completely anew in life & art and will be selling off everything he has ever made / owned in 33 lots, each for sale for £3,333 at the Idea Generation Gallery Jul 29 - Aug 2.   Idea Generation Gallery