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27 August 4:05:32 PM	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 4:19:31 PM	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 3:02:20 PM	"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 4:33:07 PM	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 AM	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 4:55:42 PM	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 PM	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 AM	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 4:43:37 PM	'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 PM	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 5:12:44 PM	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 4:08:39 PM	'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 4:07:38 PM	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 5:20:38 PM	'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 1:49:15 PM	'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 2:27:40 PM	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 4:11:21 PM	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 AM	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 AM	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
5 May 4:21:16 PM	Elephant Parade London 2010 - "more than 250 elephants, painted by artists including Jonathan Yeo, Marc Quinn and Jack Vettriano" can be seen in central London. More on the Elephant Family (www.elephantfamily.org) event + photos in The Guardian.   The Guardian
6 April 11:58:36 AM	Art collector / dealer Charles Saatchi (www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk) is apparently still answering any questions sent by email to q4saatchi@hotmail.co.uk - "I will answer anything that anyone cares to ask me." Examples can be found at MailOnline.   MailOnline
19 March 4:38:19 PM	'Quilts: 1700 - 2010' at the Victoria & Albert (www.vam.ac.uk) opens March 20 until July 4. It has work by Grayson Perry and Tracey Emin and is already one of the V&A's most successful exhibitions with advance ticket sales of 8,000. More in The Guardian.  The Guardian
15 March 4:01:33 PM	The Sex Auction at Phillips de Pury & Company in London on March 19 "will advance the conversation on contemporary art, sexuality and the interplay between them in presenting works that challenge our concepts of desirability, gender..."   Phillips de Pury
10 March 11:12:30 AM	The Affordable Art Fair Spring Collection 2010 takes place March 11-14 in Battersea Park. Up to 120 galleries will be there.   AAF Spring
16 September 11:43:14 AM	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 AM	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 AM	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 5:18:16 AM	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 AM	"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 AM	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 AM	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 AM	"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 5:01:18 AM	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 AM	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 AM	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 AM	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 7:13:28 AM	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 AM	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 6:49:16 AM	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