Arts Return To National Curriculum Ending Fourteen-Year Exile
The Cultural Policy Unit — the small but influential think tank behind much of Labour’s arts agenda — has helped push through…
4 November 2025
News
Just Stop Oil Activists Cleared Over Stonehenge Protest
This week, three members of Just Stop Oil walked free from Salisbury Crown Court after being cleared of causing a public nuisance for spraying Stonehenge with a harmless orange powder….
3 November 2025
Miami Collectors Gift Works By African And Diaspora Artists To Tate
Miami power collectors Jorge and Darlene Pérez have donated 36 works by artists from Africa and the African diaspora to Tate…
3 November 2025
British Council Considers Handing Over Art Collection To Government
The British Council, Britain’s flagship for cultural diplomacy, is in trouble. Its chief executive, Scott McDonald…
3 November 2025
Paul Gauguin: Final Self Portrait Confirmed Authentic Says Kunstmuseum Basel
The Kunstmuseum Basel has reaffirmed the authenticity of what is believed to be Paul Gauguin’s final self-portrait, Portrait de l’artiste par lui-même….
28 October 2025
Art Market News
Maurizio Cattelan: America Born Again Expected To Sell For £10m+
When Maurizio Cattelan unveiled America in 2016—a fully functioning toilet cast from more than 100 kilograms of 18-karat gold—it was… Read More
31 October 2025
The Long Sixties: Major Collection of Counterculture Ephemera To Be Sold
London – The 1960s wasn’t just a run-of-the-mill decade. It was a seismic shift in thought, music, protest, and possibilities…. Read More
28 October 2025
Art Basel Paris 2025 Final Sales Report – Artlyst
Art Basel Paris has settled into its second year at the Grand Palais with the confidence of a show that… Read More
26 October 2025
Frieze London 2025: What Sold And What The Dealers Said – Report
This year’s Frieze London and Frieze Masters drew an estimated 90,000 visitors from 108 countries, a figure that underlines London’s… Read More
20 October 2025
People
Turner Winner Jasleen Kaur To Unveil First Permanent Public Sculpture In Thamesmead
Turner Prize winner Jasleen Kaur is set to unveil her first permanent public artwork next month in Thamesmead, south-east London…. Read More
30 October 2025
Soo Catwoman: The Female Face of Punk Dies Aged 70
Soo Catwoman, a Punk style icon of the 1970s, has died at the age of 70. With her shaved skull… Read More
23 October 2025
Jean Michel Basquiat Way: NYC Honours Bowery Artist With Street Name
The block of Great Jones Street between Bowery and Lafayette in Manhattan now carries a new name: Jean-Michel Basquiat Way…. Read More
22 October 2025
Events
Wayne McGregor: Infinite Bodies
Somerset House presents Infinite Bodies, a groundbreaking exhibition dedicated to the polymath practice of internationally renowned choreographer and director Sir Wayne McGregor CBE
Wright of Derby: From the Shadows
‘Wright of Derby: From the Shadows’ is the first major exhibition dedicated to the British artist’s ‘candlelight’ paintings.
The Long Now: Saatchi Gallery At 40
Celebrating four decades of ground-breaking contemporary art,
David Hockney: Some Very, Very, Very New Paintings Not Yet Shown in Paris
Annely Juda Fine Art announces its inaugural exhibition at the gallery’s new space on Hanover Square with works by David Hockney.
Anna Archer: Painting Light
Discover the luminous paintings of Anna Ancher (1859–1935), one of Denmark’s most celebrated and pioneering artists, in her first-ever UK exhibition.
Peter Doig: House Of Music
Serpentine presents a new project by Peter Doig that explores the role of music, film, and sites of communal gathering, listening and creative exchange within his practice.
Wayne Thiebaud. American Still Life
This exhibition at The Courtauld Gallery will be the first-ever museum show of Wayne Thiebaud’s work in the UK.
Cecil Beaton’s Fashionable World
Cecil Beaton’s Fashionable World is the first exhibition dedicated solely to Beaton’s ground-breaking contributions to fashion and portrait photography.
Nigerian Modernism
Explore the artists who revolutionised modern art in Nigeria in the mid-20th century.
Gilbert & George: 21st Century Pictures
This exhibition showcases Gilbert & George’s artistic journey, highlighting new pictures created since the start of the millennium.
Howard Hodgkin: In a Public Garden
The largest institutional exhibition of original prints by Howard Hodgkin to date.
Lee Miller
A major exhibition of the trailblazing surrealist photographer Lee Miller.
Kerry James Marshall: The Histories
Internationally acclaimed artist Kerry James Marshall is one of the most important painters working right now.
Theatre Picasso
Experience Picasso’s works in a new way with an exhibition staged by contemporary artists.
Radical Harmony: Helene Kröller-Müller’s Neo-Impressionists
The world’s most significant collection of Neo-Impressionist art.
Emily Kam Kngwarray
A major exhibition celebrating the monumental art of Emily Kam Kngwarray
Reviews
The Long Now – Saatchi Gallery At Forty – P C Robinson
There’s a certain irony in calling an exhibition The Long Now when its host, Saatchi Gallery, has built its reputation on immediacy — on the jolt of the new…
5 November 2025
Standing Firm In Power And Pride: Windrush Generation Black History Month Exhibition At Westfield Stratford City – Lee Sharrock
A colourful celebration of heritage, resilience, and unity, the Windrush Generation Black History Month exhibition…
1 November 2025
Into Abstraction Meaning Connection And Hope Firstsite – Revd Jonathan Evens
Sally Shaw MBE, Director of Firstsite, says: “Into Abstraction: Modern British Art and the Landscape offers a powerful way to view 20th-century British history through art.
30 October 2025
Wayne Thiebaud: American Still Life – Courtauld Gallery – John K. Grande
Wayne Thiebaud’s first-ever solo exhibition in London at the Courtauld Gallery is a long-awaited event….
26 October 2025
Peter Doig House of Music Serpentine South – Sue Hubbard
Peter Doig is one of those painters loved by the public and the cognoscenti alike. His vivid palette and the magic realism of paintings like White Canoe 1991 have brought him to a wide and varied audience
22 October 2025
At Home In The 17th Century Rijksmuseum A Scholarly Approach – Jude Montague
The exhibition At Home in the 17th Century at the Rijksmuseum seems like a humble enterprise on one level. It may once have been considered rather a stoop for the national museum, but this exhibition on domestic interiors is curatorially ambitious on quite a few levels.
21 October 2025
Nigerian Modernism Explored Tate Modern – Revd Jonathan Evens
The Nigerian Modernism exhibition at Tate Modern is massive. With work by over 50 artists from across 50 years to be displayed, the curators faced a dilemma as to how present so much from so many.
20 October 2025
Can We Stop Killing Each Other? – Sainsbury Centre – Revd Jonathan Evens
‘Can We Stop Killing Each Other?’ is, in the words of Jago Cooper, Executive Director of The Sainsbury Centre, a “wide-ranging exploration of human value systems,
14 October 2025
Gilbert & George: The Gospel According To Men In Suits – Hayward Gallery
The Hayward Gallery opens its Autumn season with a bang: Gilbert & George: 21st Century Pictures, a panoramic and sometimes immersive survey of the duo’s output…
6 October 2025
The Daring Lee Miller From It Girl To War Photographer – Sue Hubbard
The American photographer, Lee Miller, had to break through a glass ceiling in a predominantly man’s world, continually reinventing herself from fashion model to becoming one of the very few accredited female war photographers of the Second World War
2 October 2025
Turner Prize 2025: The Good The Bland And The Ugly – Sue Hubbard
One wonders if that study was done before Bradford was nominated this year’s City of Culture and became host to the Turner Prize…
24 September 2025
Kerry James Marshall – Everyday Life As Epic History – RA – Oliver Malin
Kerry James Marshall has quietly glided into the RA on a red eye from Chicago O’Hare. Every blessed visitor who can make a pilgrimage…
24 September 2025
Theatre Picasso – Performativity of his Art – Tate Modern – Clare Finn
Tate’s new Picasso exhibition is not, we are told in the catalogue, “an exhibition that explores the relationship between Picasso and theatre”. It is a ‘gesture’ to “bring out new relationships [between his works] and audiences”.
17 September 2025
Steve McQueen: Occupied City Exposes An Unsettled Presence – Rijksmuseum
The Rijksmuseum has devoted its south façade and auditorium to Steve McQueen’s Occupied City, an audacious and urgent work…
14 September 2025
Radical Harmony The Art Of The Dot National Gallery – Sara Faith
Radical Harmony: Helene Kröller-Müller’s Neo-Impressionists at the National Gallery is an exhibition about dots in painting.
14 September 2025
Giacometti And Mona Hatoum Linked By Existentialism – Sue Hubbard
The 20th century’s greatest existential sculptor, Alberto Giacometti, is being shown with the Palestinian artist Mona Hatoum at the Barbican. It’s a risky move.
8 September 2025
Previews
David Hockney: Paintings Not Yet Shown in Paris – Annely Juda
There’s a kind of quiet mischief in the title alone — Some Very, Very, Very New Paintings Not Yet Shown in Paris.
6 November 2025
Massimiliano Pelletti: Metamorfosi The Language Of Stone – Bowman Sculpture
Massimiliano Pelletti: Metamorfosi The Language Of Stone – Bowman Sculpture
30 October 2025
Christopher Wool Returns to London With His Most Expansive Exhibition In Two Decades
Christopher Wool is back in London, marking a significant moment in his career, a convergence of everything that defines his restless practice…..
14 October 2025
Triple Trouble: Hirst, Fairey and Invader Collide At Newport Street Gallery
The Newport Street Gallery is hosting Triple Trouble, an ambitious exhibition that brings together three of contemporary art’s most provocative figures — Shepard Fairey, Damien Hirst, and Invader….
9 October 2025
Johnathan Schultz: Reforging The Language Of Resilience And Hope – Lee Sharrock
Born in South Africa and now based in Las Vegas, artist Johnathan Schultz has steadily built an international reputation for his singular fusion of fine art
5 October 2025
Jamie Reid: Defiant Punk Image-Maker – Survey Exhibition Announced
Aberdeen’s The Worm gallery opens its doors this autumn to Eternal Ecstasy, a survey of the career of Jamie Reid….
25 September 2025
David Hockney Announces New Exhibition At Serpentine Galleries
The Serpentine Galleries have announced a major presentation of new works by David Hockney, opening at Serpentine North from March 12 to August 23…
1 September 2025
Conrad Shawcross: Unveils His Largest Rope Maker’s Cycle Sculpture To Date
A decade after its conception during nocturnal talks with MONA founder David Walsh, Conrad Shawcross’s The Nervous System (Umbilical) (2025) emerges as the climactic act of his 25-year Rope Makers cycle…
6 August 2025
Frieze Sculpture 2025 Returns To Regent’s Park With In The Shadows
Frieze Sculpture returns to Regent’s Park this Autumn, opening on 17 September and running until 2 November 2025
6 August 2025
Pablo Picasso: Private Creative Realms Revealed in Dublin Exhibition
The National Gallery of Ireland throws open the doors to Picasso’s private creative realms this autumn, presenting sixty works that chart the artist’s reinvention across studios from Montmartre to Mougins…
24 July 2025
Gerhard Richter Retrospective: Fondation Louis Vuitton Showcases Nicholas Serota Curated Exhibition
From October 17, 2025, to March 2, 2026, the Fondation Louis Vuitton will host a sweeping survey of Gerhard Richter’s work—the first to fully span his six-decade career….
16 July 2025
Blitz Club Exhibition Explores 1980s New Romantic London – Design Museum
The Design Museum is set to transport visitors back to the birthplace of 1980s subculture with Blitz: The Club That Shaped the 80s…
21 May 2025
Features
Untouchable Nature And The Ecosystem Of Culture – John K. Grande
Over the years, many artists have crossed my path, and I have crossed theirs. I have nothing but respect for the ways they commit to a life in the arts….
5 November 2025
The Art Diary November 2025 – Revd Jonathan Evens
November’s art diary begins with exhibitions by artists (including Lakwena Maciver, Hannah Rose Thomas, Tuli Mekondjo, and Paul B. Kincaid)
4 November 2025
Paris Art Basel Week 2025 Highlights From Three Art Professionals – Nico Kos Earle
Nico Kos Earle spoke to three art professionals about what they saw, what they loved and what they wanted to buy in Paris, during Art Basel Week.
3 November 2025
Nicole Schoeni Discusses Being A creative Instigator And Gallerist – Oliver Malin
In advance of Schoeni projects’ debut at Asian Art in London @ Sotheby’s with Lloyd Choi Gallery, I sat down with Nicole Schoeni to discuss her work as a creative instigator and gallerist….
31 October 2025
Artful Autumn: Nico Kos Earle Visits A Harvest Of Events
Nico Kos Earle gives an artful roundup in London during the Autumn season.
28 October 2025
Twelve Out Of London Art Exhibitions Autumn Winter 2025
Artlyst has selected twelve art exhibitions that will take place outside of London in Autumn / Winter 2025,
20 October 2025
Frieze Focus London 2025: Selection By Oliver Malin
Frieze has ironically brought cold weather this year, which we’ve managed to avoid gallantly during this autumnal period, with some of us even wearing shorts up until last week…
20 October 2025
Ectoplasmic – A Spiritual Post Frieze London 2025 – Sophie Parkin
Sophie Parkin is pulled into the magical world of seances, spirits and automatic drawing in anticipation of the witching season, Halloween…
19 October 2025
Vincent Van Gogh: The Postman His Family And A Quiet Revolution – Mariella Guzzoni
A more interesting man than many people, wrote Vincent to his brother Theo in late July 1888, from Arles, underlining the word ‘postman’….
12 October 2025
Rebecca Brodskis Strikes A Chord San Luis Potosí Mexico – Nico Kos Earle
Rebecca Brodskis’ paintings at Centro de las Artes San Luis Potosí in Mexico City visibly struck a chord on the opening night reports Nico Kos Earle
5 October 2025
Frieze Week London 2025: Artlyst’s Essential Pull-Out Guide
From 15–19 October, Regent’s Park becomes the gravitational centre of the art world as Frieze London and Frieze Masters…
4 October 2025
Liking Lugano An Art Travelogue – Paul Carey Kent
Lugano, beautifully set alongside a mountain-ringed lake, has been part of Switzerland since 1513. However, the town is close to the Italian border…
4 October 2025
Budapest Expanded Media Art Biennale Grapples With The Digital Zeitgeist – Susan Schulman
We Are Not Alone, part of Budapest’s Expanded Media Art Biennale, boldly explores new traditions and languages shaped by our time.
2 October 2025
New York Art Exhibition Insights Autumn 2025 – Ilka Scobie
New York Art Round-Up Autumn 2025: The magnificent and newly renovated Frick Collection debuted Flora Yukhnovich’s site-specific mural…
28 September 2025
Mark Rothko’s Seagram Murals: The Dark Tale Behind Thirty Paintings
In 1958, Mark Rothko was invited to paint a cycle of murals for the Four Seasons restaurant inside the Seagram Building, then the epicentre of New York’s chic modernism….
23 September 2025
Jo van Gogh-Bonger: Isaac Israëls And The Big Pot – Mariella Guzzoni
It’s 1895. Jo is a young widow, burdened by an immense task, but her friendship with the painter Isaac Israëls makes her feel alive again. She confides it in her diary….
17 September 2025
London Art Fair Guide Autumn 2025
Artlyst has compiled a comprehensive guide to the London Art Fair season to help you navigate this hectic time of year in the art fair calendar.
2 September 2025
London Art Exhibitions Not To Miss Opening Autumn 2025
Autumn exhibitions at the major museums and galleries in London will feature an array of blockbuster shows
1 September 2025
Linder: A Kind of Glamour And Danger – Interview Anna Goodman
Linder—first weaponised scissors and glue in the mid-1970s, hacking through women’s magazines and softcore pornography to create photomontages…
16 June 2025
Twelve Out of London Art Exhibitions 2025
Artlyst has selected twelve art exhibitions that will take place out of London and around the UK during 2025.
14 January 2025
London Art Exhibitions 2025 An Artlyst Month by Month Guide
*UPDATED*
2025 promises to see another full and varied programme of art exhibitions in London. Artlyst has put together this month-by-month guide.
5 January 2025
Fair Comment 2025: International Art Fairs Guide – Recommended By Artlyst
Contemporary Art has an energy that pulses and a creativity that collides with culture to ignite something extraordinary. Nowhere is this fusion more electrifying than in the world’s premier art fairs….
3 January 2025
Alt Power 100 Artlyst 2024/2025 Art Of Our Time
Welcome to the Alt Power 100 Artlyst 2024/2025. The Alt Power 100 Artlyst celebrates the visionaries transforming the artistic landscape…
31 December 2024
Paul Carey -Kent: Artist Interview Of The Month Index – Artlyst
Welcome to this new series of monthly artist interviews by critic Paul Carey-Kent. Paul has written for Art Monthly and Frieze Magazine
26 October 2021
Significant Works: A New Series Of Contemporary Art Essays By Sue Hubbard
In this new series, Sue Hubbard explores single works by leading contemporary artists.
1 September 2020
Great Artworks Explained A New Video Series By James Payne
This is a new series by Artist/historian James Payne demystifying great works of art. We will be adding to this page as the content is produced.
1 June 2020
Books For Sale
My Life Through Art Volume One By Alice Lenkiewicz – Book Review
It isn’t easy to separate Alice Lenkiewicz from the act of making — she’s been doing it all her life, and My Life Through Art….
6 November 2025
A Portrait of the Menopause – Catrin Osborne Confronts The Unseen – Book Review
There are a few words in the English language that carry as much quiet discomfort as menopause. It’s the point… Read More
23 October 2025
Nigerian Modernism – A Radical Reframing of African Art History – Book Review
In a cultural field long defined by Western narratives, Nigerian Modernism arrives as a necessary act of reclamation. Published to accompany a landmark exhibition…
14 October 2025
Wayne Thiebaud: Painting The American Everyday – Artlyst Book Review
Published to coincide with Wayne Thiebaud, American Still Life at The Courtauld Gallery, this catalogue offers a long-overdue introduction to… Read More
9 October 2025