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Marlborough London is pleased to present an exhibition of prints by Francis Bacon and Lucian Freud. >> Read more

Now in his 9th decade, Alex Katz is one of the greatest living artists. Yet Katz remains in a category of his own. We spoke with Katz by telephone about influences, recent shows and the key model for his entire oeuvre, his wife and muse of 60 years, Ada. >> Read more

This Spring, Hambling will exhibit for the first time in China, at the Central Academy of Fine Arts Museum in Beijing. Ran Dian met the artist at her London home to discuss the show. >> Read more

The British artist Maggi Hambling’s first exhibition in China, “FOR BEAUTY IS NOTHING BUT THE BEGINNING OF TERROR: MAGGI HAMBLING PAINTINGS AND DRAWINGS, 1960-”, will open on March 8th, 2019 at Central Academy of Fine Arts Museum (CAFAM) in Beijing. Maggi Hambling, who is 73-year-old now, gained an international reputation in the 1980s and it […] >> Read more

Axel Vervoordt is one of the most influential interior designers of his generation but he started his career as a collector and art dealer. In recent years, Axel has returned to this with his son Boris, who leads the gallery in Antwerp and Hong Kong, as well the company’s architecture and design business. >> Read more

Marlborough Galleries, founded in London in 1946, was the first modern International gallery, opening in Rome in 1962 and in New York in 1963, followed by other cities around the world, becoming the prototype for all subsequent International galleries. Ran Dian spoke with Gilbert Lloyd, son of founder Frank Lloyd and Managing Director of Marlborough from 1972 until 1991. >> Read more

Faurschou Foundation will present the first solo exhibition in China dedicated to one of the most important painters of our time, Peter Doig. >> Read more

People crowd the raft of empty Coke cans and Pepsi bottles. Tourists, clubbers, musicians, students, sun bathers. Protestors are matched with actors, mendicants with diners, a photographer and his model with a mugger and his victim. The flag is red, the sky is grey, but unlike Delacroix’s "original", there is no ship on the horizon, blind or otherwise. >> Read more

In an age in which he feels artists have become exceedingly demo­cratic, Luc Tuymans adheres closely to the method he has honed over time—mercifully without, he says, a moment of “painter’s block.” >> Read more

One of the most influential artists of his generation, Baselitz was dismissed from art school after only two semesters for "gesellschaftspolitisch unreif" ("socio-political immaturity")... >> Read more