Edvard Munch’s painting The Scream sold at Sotheby’s auction in New York for $120m (£74m)

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If I told you that a painting expressing anxiety would cost you £74 million would you SCREAM? An unnamed telephone bidder phoned in, while...

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Ford Madox Brown: Pre-Raphaelite Pioneer – Ends 29 January 2012

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Manchester Art Gallery has staged the first major exhibition of Ford Madox Brown’s work since 1964. Ford Madox Brown: Pre-Raphaelite...

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Visions of Mughal India: The Collection of Howard Hodgkin at The Ashmolean Museum

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On 2 February 2012 the Ashmolean will open an exhibition of Indian paintings from the outstanding private collection of the artist Howard...

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Turner in January 2012 with a new a major new acquisition at the Scottish National Gallery

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The National Galleries of Scotland is delighted to announce a major new acquisition, Rome from Monte Mario (1820) by J.M.W. Turner...

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Tom Thomson and the Group of Seven ends soon at the Dulwich Picture Gallery

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Painting Canada: Tom Thomson and the Group of Seven is organised by the Dulwich Picture Gallery and the NGC, in collaboration with the...

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Government Art Collection at the Whitechapel Gallery: Selected by Simon Schama: Travelling Light

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The Whitechapel Gallery presents historian and broadcaster Simon Schama’s personal selection of works from the Government Art Collection....

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A place in the country: Six artists from Denmark at the Oriel Davies Gallery

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‘A place in the country’ / ‘Et sted på landet’ brings together six artists from Denmark whose work connects with...

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Gerhard Richter at Tate Modern By Polly Allen

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Yes, it’s another big retrospective at the Tate to get your teeth into, and this one will attract fans of minimalism, modernism, war art,...

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The Turner Prize Goes To BALTIC In 2011

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Tate and BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art are delighted to announce that The Turner Prize will be presented at BALTIC in 2011. In 2007...

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Cultural Revolution: State Graphics in China in the 1960s and 1970s at The Ashmolean Museum

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The Ashmolean displays recent acquisitions of Chinese graphic art from the period of the Cultural Revolution (1966–1976). Visual imagery...

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