As property prices in Mayfair go crazy the galleries are being painted out of Cork Street, but Mary Portas, Graham Norton and Bill Nighy have joined the fight to ensure that the galleries that make this area of London famous can survive.

A collection of over 350 of Andy Warhol’s pieces that was auctioned in New York City made more than $17 million (£10.7million). Some of the works have never before been seen in public.

Following the success of Yoko Ono’s major exhibition at the serpentine earlier this year the artist has been asked to curate the festival on it’s 20^th anniversary. 

The actor best known for his production and performances of Shakespeare’s work was knighted at Buckingham Palace on Friday for services to Drama and the Northern Ireland community.

A Henry Moore Sculpture, Draped Seated Woman, also known as Old Flo, has been valued between £5 million and £20 milllion and  is currently on loan from Tower Hamlets to Yorkshire Sculpture Park, but the current government cuts mean that the borough has chosen to sell the work.

In a world where support from the Art’s Council is harder to come by, artist organisations are increasing looking to large corporate companies for finance, but what is in it for the sponsor?

The British institution, Sir Michael Parkinson, stepped away from the limelight in November 2007 when he retired from hosting his talkshow for ITV. Five years later, this November, the broadcaster is back and he is paying tribute to the arts.

The National Gallery plays host to an exhibition devoted to photography until January 20^th 2013. The exhibition titled Seduced by Art: Photography Past and Present, pays tribute to photography as an art form.

The EBacc certificate (English Baccalaureate Certificate), set to replace some GCSEs from 2015, will focus only on core academic subjects. Where will this leave arts education?

Despite recent news that there is light at the end of the economic tunnel it seems that things are still dark for the arts world.

The Longlist for the much coveted London Evening Standard Theatre Awards has been announced. The shortlist will be announced on November 12 and the winners revealed at a ceremony presented by James Corden at the Savoy Hotel on November 25.

After the success of ‘Jerusalem’ Butterworth’s ‘River’, which has opened at the Royal Court, was much anticipated. 

Last week the events to be included in next year’s cultural celebrations in Londonderry were announced. The first edition of the programmes arrived in the city by speedboat along the river Foyle.

A space in London’s St Pancras station normally reserved for musicians, was occupied by an artist and her live model on Monday of this week and commuters were surprised and enthralled by the opportunity to see the artist at work 

The closing ceremony of the Paralympics in early September marked the end of the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games, but it also ended the Cultural Olympiad, which has been running for the past four years. There is much talk of the Olympic legacy, but a month after it has all come to a close has the Olympiad left behind a cultural legacy?

The Victoria and Albert plays host to some of film’s most iconic costumes and gives an insight into the thinking behind their creation.

The chief executive of the Welsh National Opera (WNO) has defended the decision to put on a Gordon Getty opera following a Getty family donation of £1.2m.

Despite beliefs that Adele’s theme for Skyfall, the Bond movie due for release later this month, could be the first Bond theme to take the number one spot in the UK carts, it was Dance trio Swedish House Mafia went straight in at number one with their track, Don't You Worry Child.

The 80-year-old painter, who lives in Cologne, is considered by some to be the world's greatest living painter. His painting that was sold by singer Eric Clapton is said to have bought by an anonymous bidder who and at £21m is an auction record for a work by a living artist.