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EXPERIMENTS IN LIGHT

BILLY APPLE® AND LIGHT ART IN THE MID 60s May 23, 2022 ALEX BACON, CHRISTINA BARTON AND MARY APPLE IN CONVERSATION TUESDAY 24 MAY, 6:30PM Alex Bacon is an art historian based... Read more

TEFAF NEW YORK

Stand 367 May 6, 2022 6 - 10 May 2022 The Mayor Gallery is pleased to participate in this years TEFAF New York Spring edition.... Read more

NOT A DAY WITHOUT LINE

MUSEUM RITTER, GERMANY April 4, 2022 Ends 24 April 2022 A first draft, a small sketch, a jotted-down thought: the line is regarded as the origin... Read more

A March Salon

BorzoGallery invites The Mayor Gallery March 11, 2022 BorzoGallery and The Mayor Gallery have the pleasure to announce our joint gallery exhibition at Keizersgracht 321, Amsterdam to celebrate... Read more

JOHN GOLDING

The British Museum, New Acquisitions February 25, 2022 The Mayor Gallery is a pleased to announce that three works by John Golding from our recent show Only Human... Read more

Watch: Toby Mott in conversation with Peter York

Structural Hierarchy in British Culture January 20, 2022 THURSDAY 13 JAN, 6.30PM WATCH CONVERSATION IN FULL Toby Mott is an artist, collector, designer, publisher and organiser of Cultural... Read more

WINTER WEST END GALLERY HOP!

10 DECEMBER 2021 November 30, 2021 Join us for a special late opening of the gallery on Friday 10 Decemeber until 8pm. A celebratory event featuring... Read more

VERA MOLNAR

LE MUSÉE DES BEAUX-ARTS, RENNES November 24, 2021 9 OCT 2021 - 2 JAN 2022 The Musée des Beaux-Arts in Rennes is holding a major monographic exhibition dedicated... Read more

JOHN GOLDING: PATH TO THE ABSOLUTE

A FILM BY BRUNO WOLLHEIM November 15, 2021 We are delighted to share a documentary on John Golding by Coluga Pictures which presents a life and art in... Read more

Kurt Seligmann

The Met, New York November 1, 2021 The Mayor Gallery is a proud lender to The Met Museum in New York for Surrealism Beyond Borders. The exhibition... Read more

Frieze Masters

Jan Henderikse : Facing New Reality September 29, 2021 13 – 17 October 2021 The Mayor Gallery is excited to announce it's participation in Frieze Masters 2021. In collaboration... Read more

Art Basel Unlimited

Braco Dimitrijević : Sailing to Post History September 2, 2021 24 – 26 September 2021 The Mayor Gallery presents in collaboration with M77, Milan, Sailing to Post History, a site-specific... Read more

Art Basel

24 – 26 September 2021 September 1, 2021 The Mayor Gallery is pleased to be participating in Art Basel 2021. Featuring artists: Billy Apple® / Wifredo Arcay /... Read more

Billy Apple®

1935 - 2021 September 1, 2021 It is a great sadness to report the passing of our friend, the great Conceptual and Pop artist Billy Apple®.... Read more

TEFAF Online

9 – 13 September 2021 August 31, 2021 The Mayor Gallery will be featured in TEFAF Online. CLICK HERE FOR MORE Read more

Mayfair Art Weekend

25th - 27th June 20221 June 15, 2021 The Mayor Gallery is excited to announce our participation in Mayfair Art Weekend 2021. From 25th - 27th June, you... Read more

François Morellet

'La dation François Morellet', Centre Pompidou June 9, 2021 9 June - 23 August 2021 Centre Pompidou presents eighteen works by French artist François Morellet (b. 1926 - d.... Read more

Billy Apple®

Good Apple, Bad Apple June 7, 2021 Pop & Conceptual artist Billy Apple® features in a new article published by Apples & People an online initiative that... Read more

Eileen Agar, 'Angel of Anarchy'

Whitechapel Gallery, London May 19, 2021 19 May - 29 August 2021 The Mayor Gallery proudly loans to the Whitechapel Gallery for this definitive retrospective of... Read more

Verena Loewensberg, Vera Molnar

'Women in Abstraction', Centre Pompidou May 19, 2021 19 May - 23 August 2021 Verena Loewensberg and Vera Molnar feature in Women in Abstraction at the Centre Pompidou,... Read more

WESTEND GALLERY HOP!

April 21, 2021 Join us on Friday 23 April for the post-lockdown West End Gallery Hop! hosted be Mayfair Art Weekend. Participating galleries... Read more

MAYFAIR ART WEEKEND

Sculpture Trail September 30, 2020 1 - 31 October 2020 Participating in Mayfair Sculpture Trail this year, The Mayor Gallery is pleased to present three... Read more

STORIES FROM THE MAYOR GALLERY 1990

July 30, 2020 F. E. McWilliam In the middle of the 17th century, the then Lord Holland planted an avenue of mulberry trees... Read more

STORIES FROM THE MAYOR GALLERY 1989

July 23, 2020 Warhol / Basquiat The first time that these Warhol/Basquiat collaborations were shown in 1985 was at Tony Shafrazi’s gallery with... Read more

STORIES FROM THE MAYOR GALLERY 1988

July 16, 2020 Mayor Rowan Gallery In 1962, Alex Gregory-Hood founded the Rowan Gallery, in Belgravia, soon after leaving the army after 25... Read more

STORIES FROM THE MAYOR GALLERY 1987

July 9, 2020 Andy Warhol When British Vogue called me at home on the Sunday afternoon of February 22nd to ask me to... Read more

STORIES FROM THE MAYOR GALLERY 1986

July 2, 2020 Robert Fraser 1937-1986 I only really met Robert when he returned from India at the end of 1979. We became... Read more

STORIES FROM THE MAYOR GALLERY 1985

June 25, 2020 A Tribute to Leo Castelli This exhibition marked the completion of the gallery's renovations in which the squash court was... Read more

STORIES FROM THE MAYOR GALLERY 1984

June 18, 2020 Sir Roland Penrose Roland died on St. George’s Day (23 April) exactly 77 years after his late wife’s -... Read more

STORIES FROM THE MAYOR GALLERY 1983

June 11, 2020 Robert Scull I was just 21 when I first met Bob at Parke Bernet (where I was working) in... Read more

STORIES FROM THE MAYOR GALLERY 1982

June 4, 2020 Ferens Art Gallery The director, John Bradshaw, had worked for my father so we had a particularly good relationship with... Read more

STORIES FROM THE MAYOR GALLERY 1981

May 28, 2020 Middlesbrough Art Gallery This was our third loan exhibition from regional museums. Geoff Watson, who was in charge of the... Read more

STORIES FROM THE MAYOR GALLERY 1980

May 22, 2020 Douglas Hall and The Scottish Gallery of Modern Art Douglas was the founding director of the museum until his... Read more

STORIES FROM THE MAYOR GALLERY 1979

May 14, 2020 Andrew Murray and the Regional Museums I first met Andrew Murray in Paris in 1967 when he was working at... Read more

STORIES FROM THE MAYOR GALLERY 1978

May 7, 2020 Lee Miller and Man Ray The year started with the second exhibition that I had done with Timothy Baum. It... Read more

STORIES FROM THE MAYOR GALLERY 1977

April 30, 2020 Barnett Newman In early January, I had arranged to meet Gerry Elliott in Basle in order to view Barnett Newman's... Read more

FRIEZE VIEWING ROOM NEW YORK

8 - 15 MAY, 2020 April 23, 2020 The Mayor Gallery is pleased to announce the gallery’s participation in Frieze Viewing Room launching 8 - 15 May with... Read more

STORIES FROM THE MAYOR GALLERY 1976

April 23, 2020 Joseph Cornell At the beginning of 1976, the whole Art world was still in a very slow recovery after the... Read more

STORIES FROM THE MAYOR GALLERY 1975

April 16, 2020 James Rosenquist Jim Rosenquist hadn’t been shown at all in London so I felt that it was high time to... Read more

STORIES FROM THE MAYOR GALLERY 1974

April 9, 2020 AGNES MARTIN The first time I met Agnes Martin was at her exhibition in 1973 at the Philadelphia Institute of... Read more

STORIES FROM THE MAYOR GALLERY 1973

April 2, 2020 Image: Advert for Parke-Bernet which ran in ArtForum, October 1971 featuring James Mayor and Sarah Lee Picasso. Click here for... Read more

TEFAF MAASTRICHT

STAND 451 January 16, 2020 The Mayor Gallery returns to Maastricht for TEFAF 2020, 7 - 15 March. Featuring artists: Billy Apple / Wifredo Arcay... Read more

CARLOS CAIROLI

BREAKFAST AT THE GALLERY October 1, 2019 Saturday, 5 October 2019 9 am – 12 pm Read more

FRIEZE MASTERS

VERENA LOEWENSBERG: CONCRETE AND BEYOND September 30, 2019 The Mayor Gallery will be participating in this year's Frieze Masters with a solo exhibition of Carel Visser. Save the... Read more

BILLY APPLE

Centre of the Extended Continental Shelf of New Zealand, 2012 Installed April 2019 July 29, 2019 Billy Apple has at last been able to install a large art work on a ridge in the Tararua Mountain... Read more

ANTONY DONALDSON

MAIRIE DU 13E, PARIS July 4, 2019 The Mayor Gallery is pleased to announce the solo exhibition of Antony Donaldson at the Mairie du 13eme arr. in... Read more

FAIR FOR SAATCHI

26 – 30 JUNE 2019 June 24, 2019 STAND 2 Join The Mayor Gallery for a presentation of Optical and Kinetic art from the 60s and 70s. Read more

ART BASEL

13 - 16 JUNE 2019 June 7, 2019 The Mayor Gallery returns to Switzerland for Art Basel this June located in Hall 2.0, stand A6. Featuring artists: BILLY... Read more

TEFAF NEW YORK

COLOMBO / MORELLET / VON GRAEVENITZ May 1, 2019 The Mayor Gallery is pleased to be participating for the very first time in this years TEFAF New York Spring.... Read more

FRIEZE NEW YORK

AD DEKKERS April 30, 2019 The Mayor Gallery is participating in this year's Frieze New York with a solo presentation of the artist Ad Dekkers... Read more

IMRE BAK

INTERVIEW WITH STUDIO INTERNATIONAL March 6, 2019 ‘In today’s language, we need to achieve some kind of balance between the local and the global’ The neo-avant-gardist recalls... Read more

ATTILA KOVÁCS

Kolumba, Cologne December 19, 2018 In celebration of Attila Kovács' 80th birthday Kolumba Art museum of the Archdiocese of Cologne will be holding a solo... Read more

BILLY APPLE® FINISSAGE EVENT

RGB, In conversation with Misal Adnan Yıldı October 30, 2018 Billy Apple®: The Artist Has to Live like Everybody Else 1961 – 2018 Finissage event R G B in conversation... Read more

BILLY APPLE® IN CONVERSATION WITH HANS ULRICH OBRIST (VIDEO)

October 23, 2018 In accompaniment to Billy Apple's solo exhibition The Artist Has to Live Like Everybody Else 1961-2018 Hans Ulrich Obrist talks... Read more

BILLY APPLE®

INTERVIEW WITH STUDIO INTERNATIONAL October 17, 2018 Billy Apple is not just an artist - he's a trademarked brand. He talks about exchanging his art for a... Read more

FRIEZE MASTERS

CAREL VISSER: ALUMINIUM RELIEFS 1965-68 October 2, 2018 The Mayor Gallery will be participating in this year's Frieze Masters with a solo exhibition of Carel Visser. Save the... Read more

BRITISH ART FAIR

ALFRED WALLIS (1855-1942) FROM THE COLLECTION OF THE LATE RAY HUGHES September 21, 2018 The Mayor Gallery will be participating in this year's British Art Fair featuring a presentaion of works by Alfred Wallis... Read more

CARLOS CRUZ-DÍEZ

New public sculpture opening in Paris June 22, 2018 The Cruz-Diez Art Foundation have announced that a new Cruz-Diez’s artwork will be displayed just outside of Centre Pompidou-Metz, as... Read more

VERA MOLNÁR

CENTRE POMPIDU, PARIS June 19, 2018 As part of a new exhibition that looks back at the history of the digital code and the way artists... Read more

ART BASEL

14 - 17 JUNE 2018 June 11, 2018 The Mayor Gallery returns to Switzerland for Art Basel this June located in Hall 2.0, stand A4 Exhibiting artists: Billy... Read more

VERA MOLNÁR

INTERVIEW WITH STUDIO INTERNATIONAL June 7, 2018 ‘I have no regrets. My life is squares, triangles, lines’ The pioneer of computer-assisted art recounts her love affair with... Read more

FRIEZE NEW YORK

FRANÇOIS MORELLET May 3, 2018 The Mayor Gallery will be participating in this year's Frieze New York with a solo presentation by the artist Francois... Read more

MIGUEL CHEVALIER

INTERVIEW WITH STUDIO INTERNATIONAL April 16, 2018 ‘I feel that I live in what’s happening today’ Ahead of two simultaneous solo shows in London, pioneering computer artist... Read more

MIGUEL CHEVALIER

THE GRAND PALAIS, PARIS April 6, 2018 This exhibition will be an opportunity to experience works of art produced with the help of sophisticated robotics. As part... Read more

TEFAF MAASTRICHT

STAND 451 March 9, 2018 The Mayor Gallery returns to Maastricht for TEFAF 2018 this March. Exhibiting Artists: MARINA APOLLONIO / BILLY APPLE / WIFREDO... Read more

GERHARD VON GRAEVENITZ

MUSEUM HAUS KONSTRUCTIV, ZURICH February 6, 2018 The Museum Haus Konstruktiv honors the German artist Gerhard von Graevenitz with a retrospective. Since the early 1960s, his work... Read more

MIGUEL CHEVALIER

LUMIERE LONDON 2018 January 16, 2018 Discover Miguel Chevalier ’s latest work, Origin of the World Bubble 2018, suspended high above Oxford Circus , which becomes... Read more

FRANÇOIS MORELLET

DIA:BEACON & DIA:CHELSEA November 8, 2017 Dia Art Foundation presents the first ever retrospective exhibition of works in America by the French Avant-garde artist. Exhibition dates:... Read more

FRIEZE MASTERS

De Stijl reSTRUCTUREd September 25, 2017 The Mayor Gallery will be participating in this year's Frieze Masters with a group exhibition entitled De Stijl reSTRUCTUREd. The... Read more

STANO FILKO

Austin/Desmond, London September 18, 2017 Stano Filko works are currently being exhibited at Austin/Desmond Gallery in London alongside our Filko show at the Mayor Gallery.... Read more

TADAAKI KUWAYAMA

INTERVIEW BY STUDIO INTERNATIONAL June 29, 2017 ‘Here is only the art itself’ The Japanese-born artist recounts his refusal to dictate how spectators should view his work,... Read more

TADAAKI KUWAYAMA

NEW WORK, NEW YORK June 22, 2017 New work by Kuwayama is to be shown inside of 50 West, a new 64-story residential tower in New York's... Read more

JAMES MAYOR FEATURETTE IS REPOSTED IN ARTNET NEWS (VIDEO)

June 9, 2017 Click the link below and scroll down to watch a movie in which James Mayor of The Mayor Gallery explains... Read more

MIGUEL CHEVALIER

INSTALLATION AT THE FORUM DES HALLES, PARIS May 25, 2017 The Forum des Halles in Paris presents Miguel Chevalier‘s latest perennial artwork ‘Pixels wave light 2017’. CLICK HERE FOR MORE Read more

ART BASEL

15 - 18 JUNE 2017 May 23, 2017 The Mayor Gallery returns to Switzerland for Art Basel this June. EXHIBITING ARTISTS: MARINA APOLLONIO / BILLY APPLE / WIFREDO... Read more

PETER DREHER

INTERVIEW BY STUDIO INTERNATIONAL May 10, 2017 Peter Dreher: ‘In my pictures I underline the act of seeing’ The German artist recounts the trauma of childhood under... Read more

FRIEZE NEW YORK

Robert Mallary : The New Mexico Reliefs 1957 - 1958 April 7, 2017 The Mayor Gallery will be participating in this year's Frieze New York with a solo presentation by the artist Robert... Read more

FINAL WEEK - KLAUS STAUDT

Leopold Hoesch Museum, DÜREN March 13, 2017 FINAL WEEK The Leopold Hoesch Museum along with the Hurbertus Schoeller Stiftung presents a solo exhibion by Klaus Staudt. KLAUS... Read more

JAMES MAYOR ON WHY YOU SHOULD ALWAYS FOLLOW YOUR HEART (VIDEO)

ARTNET NEWS FEATURETTE March 9, 2017 Video featurette by Art Net News shows James Mayor recalling his decades in the business and talking about how despite... Read more