The Tate and the National Galleries of Scotland are about to see their collections bolstered. London art dealer Anthony D'Offay announced that he would be giving a collection of 725 works of modern art to the galleries at their original ticket price. Estimated at a value of £125 million, D'Offay is asking for the £28 million he originally paid for the pieces. His reason? He's doing it for the kids. The collection will be......

The line-up for Patti Smith's Meltdown gets even stronger with the latest announcement of new events and artists and an interesting bunch of additions they are, too. You know how much we like free stuff here at Londonist, so we're particularly happy to see that on Saturday 18 June, the RFH Ballroom and other spaces are host to The Word & Patti, a free day of readings and music, with opportunities to debate, write......

Can a great artist be a great curator? That's the question they seem to be asking over at the Alison Jacques Gallery, where David Hockney is about ready to unveil his exhibition of Robert Mapplethorpe photographs. Hockney and Mapplethorpe go way back to the early 70s, when they bumped into each other at the infamous Chelsea Hotel (Mapplethorpe was living there with Patti Smith at the time, so we can assume he was a......