After the demise of the Grosvenor House Art Fair, an event which had been running for a long time, Masterpiece London is scheduled to enter the art and antique market with an immense event to be presented on the parade ground of Chelsea Barracks during the month of June.

The show is being presented by a partnership involving antiques dealer Mallett and Bond Street art and has gotten the participation of retailers such as jeweller Asprey and sports car maker McLaren.

The items available will be displayed through out 150 stands and will include classic cars, wine and jewellery, with famous brands showing alongside boutique dealers.

Event promoter and chief executive of Mallett Giles Hutchinson Smith claimed that London had the best art and antiques dealers of all the cities in the world and also suggested that the art fair will prove to be great move for London just as much as it will be for the industry. Many art and antique dealers were dismayed when Grosvenor House decided to put a stop to its art fair after 75 years of activity, thus removing a important selling opportunity for the many dealers in and around London.

According to Mr Hutchinson Smith, the British capital is in dire need of a reinvented art fair and he promised that the new event, Masterpiece London, would provide a venue which will attract the best of the best to trade art.

He added that the deck has been reshuffled and that several antiques and art buyers and sellers have evolved and this sort of thing creates opportunities.

The artwork, a chalk, pen and ink drawing of the profile of a German woman — now known as La Bella Principessa — was bought in 2007 by the Canadian art dealer Peter Silverman, who practices his trade in Europe, for an anonymous Swiss art enthusiast.

The drawing would be the first in more than 100 years to be attributed the Renaissance master.

Peter Paul Biro, an official with Art Access and Research based in the Canadian city of Montreal, said the fingerprint was discovered in the upper right hand corner of the image and matches another fingerprint attributed to Leonardo from his St. Jerome painting in the Vatican.

He added that the fingerprint on the painting of St. Jerome is particularly important because the Vatican artwork was created during a period when da Vinci was believed to be working completely alone, without any assistant.

Martin Kemp, an emeritus professor of art history at Oxford University, said after examining the drawing and the forensic evidence gathered by the Canadian art organization that it was as if all the disassembled pieces of a well-made piece of furniture were falling perfectly back into place.

One of the key works featured at the exhibit is a giant cannon shooting red wax at the19th century building. During the three months of the show, an excess of 30 tonnes of blood-red wax will be used as ammunition for the walls and a corner of the Royal Academy of Arts.

Named “Shooting into the Corner”, it surprises show goers who jump when it fires automatically every 20 minutes, depositing an ever growing layer on the white walls of the museum.

In a neighbouring room, an immense yellow fibreglass depression in the wall (called”Yellow”) overpowers the senses.

Adrian Locke, one of the curators of the event, explained that in an exhibit filled with physical challenges, the artillery piece had proven to present the largest problems, as the cannon sometimes accidently shoot stray splashes of red wax onto the 160-year-old ceiling.

Locke said that this was a real challenge, since they had never done this before. He added that the museum has taken some steps which will ensure the protection of the building’s fabric, but at the same time he is hoping the wax will come off the ceiling easily.

Another note worthy piece is a block of raspberry-coloured wax snakes presented in the archways of the gallery. Despite being static, the artwork appears to be moving.

Visitors to the retrospective are greeted outside by a tall series of 76 shiny balls reflecting the Palladian structure of the courtyard where it is showcased.

Kapoor claimed that even if he can already enjoy the honour which comes with a retrospective, something usually reserved for artists who have passed on, he feels that he has still lots of work to create.

The 55-year-old artist was the winner of the prestigious Turner art prize in 1991.

The Anish Kapoor exhibition opens on Saturday and runs until December 11 at the Royal Academy of Arts.

The works of art will be displayed during an exclusive showing at the StolenSpace Gallery in East London between October 22nd and November 1st and will coincide with the band’s sold out British concert tour.

The exhibition will open one day prior to Green Day’s two sold-out concerts at London’s O2 Arena.

Speaking about the art exhibition, front man Billie Joe Armstrong said that the band was very excited to be taking part in this incredible show. He claimed that is was interesting to see artwork inspired by their own creative endeavour.

He added that Green Day feels there’s a powerful link between their music and that type of creative expression.

Each of the participating artists, which includes French stencil artist C215 and painter Ron English and were all sent the lyrics of a song from ’21st Century Breakdown’ and asked to create a piece of art inspired by that track.

Green Day UK and Ireland tour include tour dates in Glasgow, Belfast, Dublin, London, Sheffield, Birmingham and Manchester.

Chairman of the Tate Lord Browne is “highly confident” that the ambitious Herzog and de Meuron design which will increase the space of the museum by 60% will be completed by its target date, which is July 2012. This announcement comes even if Tate is still missing two thirds of the funds necessary to complete the project.

Despite the dusty financial woes currently plaguing the institution, Tate has revealed its lineup of star exhibitions for the coming year.

Tate Modern is scheduled to present the first important Gauguin exhibition in London in 50 years. The show will feature over 100 works by the famous French painter, from Tahiti oils to ceramics, illustrated letters and sketchbooks. The exhibition is scheduled for next fall.

As for Tate Liverpool, its gallery is set to stage a large Picasso show in May. The exhibition will focus on the painter’s role as a peace activist during the post-war period. It will feature 150 paintings and drawings done between 1944 and 1973, including trials of the “peace dove” motif that Picasso used for many posters and which became an icon of hope in the cold war.

In January, Tate Britain will assemble work stemming from the mid-career of Chris Ofili, whose paintings decorated with elephant dung in Sensation, the 1997 exhibition of Young British Artists, brought him to fame. The exhibition will also feature his Upper Room, a masterful series of 13 paintings.

The sculpture had generated repulsion and admiration alike when it had been first shown.

The bloody head had created a huge stir when Saatchi’s wife, Nigella Lawson, had accidentally turned off the fridge house the work, provoking the piece to begin melting.

Thankfully, Quinn has created three more copies of the head since, the most recent of which has been purchased by the National Portrait Gallery.

The other three “Self” are in New York, Dallas and Korea, either in private hands or public galleries.

Quinn, claiming the piece was inspired by self portraits of Flemish great Rembrandt, has always avoided to answer whether the first copy had to be remade following the melting accident, but did confirm it was now in its original state with Steve Cohen, the New York hedge fund billionaire who is the owner of the prized piece.

This most recent ‘Self’ portrays Quinn appearing a little older but also wiser since1991’s first copy.

This ‘Self’ had been purchased for £300,000 by the NPG, with the help of Henry Moore Foundation and The Art Fund, and it will be showcased in the  permanent collection of the gallery, in a specially designed case where the temperature is set at a constant minus 18 degrees to prevent melting.

Bristol city council has decided to let the public vote on the subject of murals on buildings, walls and fences before these are scrubbed clean or painted over. If citizens like it, the artwork will be kept in its public place.

As part of the city’s formal street-art policy “to seek to define and support the display of public art”, the council is saying “where people tell us that murals or artworks make a positive contribution to the local environment, and where the property owner has raised no objection” the work will remain.

Photographs of the street art will be posted on the website of the city and the public will asked to make a choice.

The policy concerning street art was started after a Banksy painting appeared on a council-owned property in 2005, igniting debate over whether it should stay.

At the time, the council had set up an online survey, which resulted in 93% positive answers. The artwork stood.

“We have said informally that if it is street art that people like we will keep it but we want to formalise it now into a policy,” said councillor Gary Hopkins.

“People want us to keep up the war against the taggers so we have had to work out a way to differentiate between the taggers and the artists”.

• Three days of free art, film, dance and music organised at the Royal Opera House’s Deloitte Ignite 09 programme, scheduled between 4 and 6 of September –included is a screening of Odile and Odette. Visit the website to claim two free tickets.

• Put your dancing shoes and go on to The Lowry in Manchester, where free dance lessons is on offering. Until the end of September.

• Fresh seasonal produce is on offer for sampling at the Belgrave Hall Good Food Fair in Leicester. September 19-20 September.

• The Covent Garden Real Food Market is open until 24 September – browse the stalls and feel free to sample whatever takes your fancy.

• Pack the family for a day trip to a national park – many parks have organised free guided walks and wildlife spotting tours.

• Children and adults will love the crazy and charitable Great British Duck Race close Hampton Court Palace on 6 September. winning rubber duckie gets £10,000!

• Come to the Birmingham’s Soho House for an afternoon of historic dance and costumes, tea is served on the lawn and live classical music performances are on offer on 31 August.

• Tall ships and pirates will be on the water at the Cardiff Harbour Festival, August 29 to 31 August, where there will also be children’s activities, live music and craft stalls.

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Feel constricted by modern life? You may not be alone… Or rather you’re never alone. At least that’s the chilling proposition of an exhibit named Space Invader at London’s Aicon Gallery, a group show contemplating the flipside of our obsession with all things technology in this voracious and globalised age.

Dan Holdsworth’s photographic images reveal the footprint of progress on the most isolated spots: a series of communication towers fill a snowy void in one, an expressway viaduct creeps into pristine hills in another.

Aerial photographs of Vibha Galhotra where mannequin-security guards are out in camouflage blending seamlessly into the mess of buildings, suggesting insidious surveillance.

Sanatan Saha’s paintings are covered with tropical plants, men and imaginary beasts, while Alan Michael’s drawings feature a mess of human flesh – post-coital, giving birth or even defecating. An image of hell.

The other show is at the former penitentiary in Norwich Castle. This show is about surveillance, imprisonment and punishment. The exhibition’s title, Marc Quinn’s sculpture, No Visible Means of Escape, is fabricated from a cast of the artist’s body, which appears to be undone by a useless attempt at fleeing his own skin.

Louise Bourgeois also feels this modern day: her eye-like orbs gawk back from an overcrowded cage in Cell (Eyes and Mirrors).

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Peter Blake, Edinburgh Printmakers, 23 Union Street, until August 29
British pop art pioneer, famous for his Beatles Sgt Pepper album cover, is still very much involved in the art world. These 20 prints get their inspiration from his visit to the Venice Biennale.

The Creative World of Alan Davie, Dovecot, 10 Infirmary Street, until September 26
A textile studio formerly a swimming pool, it has been filled with the artist’s various works using a multitude of media.

Nashashibi/Skaer, Doggerfisher, 11 Gayfield Square, until September 26
Lucy Skaer and Rosalind Nashashibi prsent a new 16mm film, exploring 20th-century British artist Paul Nash.

John McCracken, Inverleith House, Royal Botanic Gardens, until October 11
One of America’s top artists, John McCracken brings his sculptural forms and paintings for a UK show.

The Discovery of Spain, National Gallery Complex, The Mound, until October 11
The Royal Scottish Academy building features masterpieces from Goya to Picasso.

The Enlightenments, Dean Gallery, 72 Belford Road, until September 27
Leading contemporary artists Nathan Coley, Tacita Dean and Greg Creek explore the 18th century Scottish Enlightenment.

Eva Hesse Studiowork, The Fruitmarket Gallery, 45 Market Street, until October 25
The work of Eva Hesse. A major post-war sculptor, Hesse experimented with wax, latex, wire-mesh and cheesecloth.

Bob and Roberta Smith, This Artist is Deeply Dangerous, The Grey Gallery, Hawke & Hunter, 12 Picardy Place, until September 5 A take of a Louise Bourgeois exhibition resulting in extracts painted onto an 11-metre canvas.

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