Newsletter15 - ArtLyst

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NEWSLETTER No#15

30th January, 2012

Dear London Art Followers

If this January is to be taken as a quality indicator for the rest of 2012, then oh what a year we have to look forward to for art in the capital!

Top of this month's art chart, of course, was one of the most hotly anticipated exhibitions of the year - David Hockney's Bigger Picture at the Royal Academy, presenting us with his sumptuous paint-still-wet vistas, re-imagining the Yorkshire Wolds with all the colour of Hollywood. Coming in at second place, was surely the London Art Fair, which (excitingly, given that we were media partners this year), reported record attendance and bustling trade, so that, in the words of one gallery owner, 'it felt like pre-recessionary times'!

And, just as ArtLyst has so far been on hand to capture all the latest art goings on, you can rest assured that nothing will change over the next 11 months. As media partners of the exclusively-online VIP art fair (3-8 February), the excitingly energetic Kinetica Art Fair (9-12 February), and the wonderfully delicate Watercolour + Works on Paper Fair (2-5 February), we will keep you fully-up-to-date with all the latest art info, private views, and champagne spillages.

Best Regards

Paul Carter Robinson

ArtLyst Editor

Recommended Exhibitions/Events

Coming Up

David Shrigley: Brain Activity @ Hayward Gallery - Opens 8 February

VIP Art Fair - 3-8 February

Yayoi Kusama @ Tate Modern - Opens 9 February

Joan Mitchell: The Last Paintings @ Hauser & Wirth - Opens 3 February

Lucian Freud Portraits @ National Portrait Gallery - Opens 9 February

Lynda Benglis @ Thomas Dane Gallery - Opens 10 February

Picasso and Modern British Art @ Tate Britain - Opens 15 February

Current

David Hockney: A Bigger Picture @ ICA

Gary Hume: The Indifferent Owl @ White Cube

Damien Hirst: The Complete Spot Paintings @ Gagosian

Migrations @ Tate Britain

Turner and the Elements @ Turner Contemporary

Emerging

Song Dong: Waste Not @ Barbican Art Gallery - Opens 15 February

Danny Rolph: Kissing Balloons in the Jungle @ Poppy Sebire - Opens 17 February

The Dan Cox Library for the Unfinished Concept of Thingly Time @ Cubitt Gallery

Hugh Mendes - Obituaries @ Charlie Smith London

Note: Remember to send us your press releases and post your exhibitions early in order to give them time to index on the search engines.

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