1 December 2021
Array Collective Scoops The Turner Prize 2021 Held In Coventry
Array Collective, has won the Turner Prize 2021. It was announced this evening at a ceremony at Coventry Cathedra
News
30 November 2021
AA Bronson and General Idea Film Launches World AIDS Day In Piccadilly Circus – Derek Jarman’s Modern Nature A New Exhibition
VideoVirus is a powerful new film by AA Bronson and General Idea. Reimagining their historic Imagevirus for a global audience
25 November 2021
NFT Mania: NFT Selected As Collins Dictionary Word Of The Year
Who would have guessed a year ago that NFTs would take the world by storm, creating one of the most overhyped phenomena the art...
Art Wars Founder Ben Moore In NFT Scandal – Flipper: Inigo Philbrick Pleads Guilty To Art Fraud – LACMA’s Christine Y. Kim Appointed Tate Britton Family Curator-at-Large
Art Wars founder and curator Ben Moore has been warned by lawyers representing several artists, including Anish Kapoor and David Bailey, to expect litigation
20 November 2021
Appropriated NFT Ethereum Blockchain Art Leaked Online
Australian artist, Geoffrey Huntley, has launched a website that allows users to torrent an entire blockchain's worth of NFTs.
18 November 2021
Parthenon Marbles Will Not Affect UK Greece Partnership – Frida Kahlo Self Portrait Sells For Record-Breaking $34.9m – Mariam Zulfiqar Appointed Director Of Artangel
Parthenon Marbles Will Not Affect UK Greece Partnership - Frida Kahlo Self Portrait Sells For Record-Breaking $34.9m - Mariam Zulfiqar Appointed Director Of Artangel
Etel Adnan Lebanese Born Female Abstractionist Dies Age 96 – John Singer Sargent Painting At Risk Of Leaving UK – Anish Kapoor To Exhibit At Gallerie dell’Accademia In Venice
Artist Etel Adnan Dies - John Singer Sargent Painting At Risk - Anish Kapoor To Exhibit At Gallerie dell'Accademia In Venice
Gulf Leonardo da Vinci Salvator Mundi Attribution Downgrade – Actor Christopher Walken Rubs Out Genuine Banksy – Tate Curator Achim Borchardt-Hume Dies Age 55
The Prado, Spain's leading Museum, has downgraded the Salvator Mundi, a controversial painting attributed to Leonardo da Vinci.
The Courtauld Gallery Reborn After Lavish Three Year Refurbishment
The Courtauld Gallery, Somerset House opened their doors today to the press for a sneak preview after a three-year refurbishment and modernisation scheme.
8 November 2021
Harry And Linda Macklowe Headline Sotheby’s Most Caustic Divorce Sale
Harry Macklowe, a billionaire property developer from New York and his ex wife Linda are auctioning their collection.
Roman Statues Discovered By Archaeologists Working On HS2
Archaeologists in Buckinghamshire working on the HS2 project have uncovered a set of rare Roman statues whilst excavating a Norman Church in Stoke Mandeville.
2 November 2021
Simone Leigh Quits Hauser & Wirth – Bacon Owl Pope Hits The Auction Block – Art Basel Website Cyber Attack
Simone Leigh Quits Hauser & Wirth - Bacon Owl Pope Hits Auction Block - Art Basel Website Cyber Attack
Rubens’ Samson and Delilah Masterpiece Is A Fake – Autumn Budget Arts To Receive £850m – Glasgow COP26 Indestructible Language Art Installation
Rubens Samson and Delilah Is A Fake - Autumn Budget Arts Allocated £850m - Glasgow COP26 Indestructible Language Art Installation
23 October 2021
Andy Warhol Electric Chair Owned By Alice Cooper Unsold At Auction
The American rock legend Alice Cooper has auctioned a painting by Andy Warhol, 'Little Electric Chair' Red (1964).
Anicka Yi Unveils A Robotic Ecosystem At Tate’s Turbine Hall – Studio Voltaire Reopens – documenta fifteen Announces Participating Artists
Anicka Yi Unveils A Robotic Ecosystem At Tate's Turbine Hall - Studio Voltaire Reopens - documenta fifteen Announces Participating Artists
12 September 2021
Francis Bacon Forgery Ring Italian Police Make Arrests
Italian police have seized 500 drawings and collages reputed to be by the Irish born artist Francis Bacon.
Banal Public Statues – We Deserve Better – Edward Lucie-Smith
The new over-life size statue group of Princess Diana, just unveiled at Kensington Palace, to celebrate what would have been her sixtieth birthday, shows...
21 May 2021
The Trouble With The Turner Prize – Edward Lucie-Smith
The Turner Prize continues to be in trouble. The competition has an aim: to single out the best new artists living and working in...
26 February 2021
What’s The Fuss About Non-Fungible Tokens? – Edward Lucie-Smith
Suddenly my web feed is full of information about Non-Fungible Tokens - the latest form of digital art. Here, for example, are images of...
What's On(line)
19 Nov '21-09 Jan '22
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Modern Drawings: The Karshan Gift
The Courtauld Gallery
The opening display in the new temporary exhibition galleries will showcase the gift of 24 important modern and post-war drawings presented by
20 Nov '21-08 May '22
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Fabergé in London: Romance to Revolution
Victoria and Albert Museum
This exhibition will explore master goldsmith, Carl Fabergé – whose internationally recognised firm symbolised Russian craftsmanship, luxury and
20 Nov '21-27 Feb '22
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Dürer’s Journeys: Travels of a Renaissance Artist
National Gallery
Through paintings, drawings, prints, and letters, this exhibition follows Dürer’s travels across Europe, bringing to life the artist himself, and
25 Nov '21-03 Jul '22
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Lubaina Himid
Tate Modern
This large-scale exhibition will debut recent work and include selected highlights from Lubaina Himid’s influential
01 Dec '21-03 Apr '22
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Life Between Islands: Caribbean-British Art 1950s-Now
Tate Britain
The exhibition features over 40 artists, including Aubrey Williams, Donald Locke, Horace Ové, Sonia Boyce, Claudette Johnson, Peter
30 Sep '21-30 Jan '22
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Hokusai: The Great Picture Book of Everything
British Museum
Over 100 newly rediscovered drawings by Japanese artist, Katsushika Hokusai (1760–1849) will go on public display for the very first time at the
06 Oct '21-02 Jan '22
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Pablo Bronstein: Hell in its Heyday
Sir John Soane's Museum
n a new body of work created especially for Sir John Soane’s Museum, contemporary artist Pablo Bronstein presents his unique, seductive and deeply
22 Sep '21-30 Jan '22
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Frans Hals: The Male Portrait
Wallace Collection
This exhibition will bring together a careful selection of the artist’s best male portraits from Europe and North
30 Sep '21-09 Jan '22
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Noguchi
Barbican Art Gallery
An exhibition celebrating Japanese American sculptor Isamu Noguchi (1904-1988), one of the most experimental and pioneering artists of the 20th
09 Sep '21-12 Dec '21
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Mixing It Up: Painting Today
Hayward Gallery
Mixing It Up brings together 31 contemporary painters who exploit the unique characteristics of their medium to create fresh, compelling works of
15 Sep '21-18 Apr '22
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Helen Frankenthaler: Radical Beauty
Dulwich Picture Gallery
The first major UK exhibition of woodcuts by leading Abstract Expressionist, Helen
22 Sep '21-02 Jan '22
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Summer Exhibition 2021
Royal Academy of Arts
The Summer Exhibition is the world’s largest open-submission art show. It brings together art in all mediums, from prints, paintings, film and
Reviews
2 December 2021
Chris Gollon: Gimme Some Wine – IAP Fine Art – Mary Rose Beaumont
Gollon’s work should be seen in the context of North European Painting. He is heir to the tradition which produced painters such as Breughel...
30 November 2021
Lubaina Himid: So Many Competing Ideas Tate Modern – Sue Hubbard
She’s the oldest artist to have won the Turner Prize (she is now 67). Born in Zanzibar, Lubaina Himid returned
29 November 2021
Paula Rego: An Intimate Look – Victoria Miro
The artwork of Paula Rego, whose career spans an impressive half-century, has been largely informed by her childhood in Portugal, the tension of her...
20 November 2021
Damien Hirst A Mass Floral Tribute – Fondation Cartier Paris – Lee Sharrock
It came as a surprise to learn that ‘Cerisiers en Fleurs’ (‘Cherry Blossoms’) is Damien Hirst’s museum exhibition in France
16 November 2021
Pablo Bronstein: A This-World Vision Of Hell – Revd Jonathan Evens
The work and practice of Pablo Bronstein addresses two common misconceptions. The first concerns art and is to do with the perception that the...
9 November 2021
Laura Knight Documenting A Long Forgotten Britain – Sara Faith
Through its latest exhibition, Laura Knight MK Gallery hopes that a new generation will discover the work of this artist
26 October 2021
Women in Abstraction / Alice Neel People Come First – Guggenheim Bilbao – Paul Carter Robinson
Two exceptional touring exhibitions have converged at the Guggenheim Bilbao, one from the Centre Pompidou titled 'Women in Abstraction'. The other is a retrospective...
23 October 2021
Lucy McKenzie Master Of Trompe-l’œil Tate Liverpool – Alice Lenkiewicz
It's a challenging and wonderful exhibition by a woman artist, Lucy McKenzie, Glasgow born, Brussels - based
23 October 2021
George Condo Lockdown Works Hauser & Wirth – Revd Jonathan Evens
There is an explosion of paint at Hauser & Wirth in the latest exhibition by George Condo. The energies of emergence and encounter surge...
19 October 2021
Theaster Gates Clay As A Profound Metaphor – Revd Jonathan Evens
In the beginning, there was Clay. Clay was without form. Thus begins Theaster Gates' 'A Clay Sermon',
10 October 2021
Mark Rothko: Mesmerising And Intimate Works On Paper – Revd Jonathan Evens
Among Mark Rothko’s artistic philosophies, he held that painting was a deeply psychological and spiritual experience
5 October 2021
Duncan Grant An Enigmatic Bohemian Rhapsody – Marina Vaizey
The artist Duncan Grant (1885-1978) was a charismatic, much-loved central figure in the Bloomsbury Group, a collection of friends, including the writer Virginia Woolf,...
Turner Prize 2021: A Collective Experience – Sue Hubbard
In a year dominated by the pandemic, it was decided not to award the Turner Prize to an individual but to a collective.
1 October 2021
The Last Temptation of Christo – L’Arc de Triomphe: Wrapped – James Payne
James Payne has been to Paris to see Christo's wrapping of L'Arc de Triomphe. Napoléon's monument to himself has been turned into a memento mori...
28 September 2021
Emily Speed: Body Architecture Tate Liverpool – Alice Lenkiewicz
Emily Speed's new exhibition at Tate Liverpool is based upon the human body and related very much so to architecture.
26 July 2021
Lucian Freud: Real Lives In Focus Tate Liverpool – Alice Lenkiewicz
Lucian Freud - Real Lives is the first exhibition of his work in the North West for thirty years. Widely regarded as a master...
Previews
28 November 2021
Suzanne Moxhay and Jenny Klein Staging Time – Tension Fine Art
Suzanne Moxhay and Jenny Klein have taken the stage at Tension Fine Art gallery with a series of works that share a progenitor: the photograph.
24 November 2021
Chris Levine Unveils First Autumn Winter Exhibition At Houghton Hall
British artist Chris Levine is showing a new body of site specific-works created for the inaugural Autumn Winter exhibition at Houghton Hall, Norfolk.
19 November 2021
Great Art Cities Explained New Art And Travel Video Series Launched
Following the wildly successful YouTube art history series Great Art Explained in 15 Minutes, founded last year by art writer and curator James Payne, a...
18 November 2021
Artist Support Pledge Gets Physical At Hastings Contemporary
Artist Support Pledge (ASP) moves from our screens into a real-life gallery. From 25 November, the first-ever exhibition crowdsourced from Instagram opens at Hastings...
17 November 2021
Life Between Islands Presents Four Generations Of Caribbean-British Art
Life Between Islands is a landmark exhibition exploring the extraordinary breadth of Caribbean-British art over four generations.
10 November 2021
Kehinde Wiley Explores Climate Change And Migration At London’s National Gallery
The National Gallery London will feature an exhibition of the American Artist Kehinde Wiley (b. 1977, Los Angeles).
4 November 2021
London Albrecht Dürer Exhibition Explores Travels Of A Renaissance Artist
The first major UK exhibition of the German Renaissance artist Albrecht Dürer for nearly twenty years is set to open at London's National Gallery.
27 October 2021
Tate Modern To Mount Lubaina Himid’s Largest Solo Exhibition
Lubaina Himid has created powerful and poetic work for over four decades. It has made her an increasingly influential figure in contemporary art
Cristina Iglesias Unveils Sea Cave (Entrance) Installation At Malta’s MICAS Art Weekend
Malta's MICAS International Art Weekend 2021 has witnessed the unveiling of a stunning new sculpture by the artist Cristina Iglesias.
13 October 2021
Francis Bacon: RA Show Explores His Fascination With Animals
The Royal Academy of Arts is presenting Francis Bacon: Man and Beast, the first exhibition to chart the development of the artist’s work through...
12 October 2021
Louise Bourgeois Hayward Exhibition To Focus On Late Fabric Works
The Hayward Gallery will present the first major retrospective of Louise Bourgeois to focus exclusively on the works that she made with fabrics and...
30 September 2021
Leon Kossoff: A Life in Painting Major New Touring Retrospective Opens
Leon Kossoff: A Life in Painting is a major new touring retrospective of paintings by the seminal British artist (1926 – 2019).
23 September 2021
Frans Hals Blockbuster Opens At Wallace Collection
Opening this week at The Wallace Collection, Frans Hals: The Male Portrait is the first-ever show to focus solely on Hals’s portraits of men...
26 July 2021
Anish Kapoor: A Painter Working As A Sculptor – Modern Art Oxford
Modern Art Oxford has announced a new exhibition of paintings by the internationally celebrated artist Anish Kapoor
1 July 2021
Vincent van Gogh Self-Portraits Exhibition Announced By Courtauld Gallery
An exhibition devoted to Vincent van Gogh’s self-portraits across his entire career will take place at The Courtauld Gallery.
10 June 2021
Photorealist Richard Estes To Exhibit At Damien Hirst’s Newport Street Gallery
A full scale exhibition of the Photorealist painter Richard Estes born 1932 covering the last 35 years of his career will be presented at...
18 February 2021
Sir Frank Bowling Exhibition Announced For Bristol’s Arnolfini
Bristol's Arnolfini has announced a major exhibition with the pioneering abstract painter Sir Frank Bowling, OBE RA. This will be part of their 60th...
Features
2 December 2021
Harmony Hammond: Women In Abstraction Guggenheim Bilbao – Artlyst Interview
Artist/activist Harmony Hammond was born in Chicago in 1944 and is associated with the feminist art movement in New York during the 1970s.
24 November 2021
Art Basel Miami Beach 2021 Pull Out Fair Guide – Artlyst
The last Art Basel Miami Beach to take place was in 2019. It was an optimistic time for the international art world
23 November 2021
Magnus Plessen: Artist Interview of the Month December 2021 – Paul Carey-Kent
The German painter Magnus Plessen tends to paint in thematic groups: in 2016, he showed his ‘1914-1918’ series in London
22 November 2021
New York Exhibitions November 2021 From Jasper Johns To Alex Katz – Ilka Scobie
Ilka Scobie trawls through the best art exhibitions New York currently has to offer.
20 November 2021
Cristina Iglesias: Hondalea Donostia San Sebastián A Sensory Adventure – Veronica Simpson
Iglesias (b1956) launched her most ambitious – and many say her best – artwork to date in her home town of Donostia-San Sebastián in...
18 November 2021
Fabergé Lavish Opulent Magnificent And Kitsch – V&A Exhibition
Whenever you hear the name Fabergé, you think of opulent, lavish, jewelled, decorated and, let's face it kitsch, Russian Imperial eggs. Fabergé in London:...
1 November 2021
Richard Wilson 20:50 Significant Works First Created 1987 – Sue Hubbard
Richard Wilson 20:50: Nearly one-hundred-and-five years after Marcel Duchamp’s porcelain urinal was daubed with the pseudonym ‘R..Mutt.'
26 October 2021
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
10 October 2021
Mr Brainwash Loves London But Is It Mutual? – Conversation With Oliver Malin
Mr Brainwash (Thierry Guetta) a cross between a Beaver and John Belushi in conversation with Oliver Malin ahead of his London show.
3 October 2021
Sidney Nolan’s Africa Interview With Andrew Turley And Revd Jonathan Evens
Nolan's Africa will be the first book on Sidney Nolan written with access to the newly opened Sidney Nolan archives
30 August 2021
London Art Exhibitions Autumn/Winter 2021 – Month By Month Guide
Artlyst has put together a month by month selection to guide you through the best of the shows on offer Autumn 2021.
22 August 2021
Chuck Close: A Calligraphy Of Squares Remembered – Clare Henry
When I first went to visit Chuck Close in his studio in 2004, I was in awe of him. But he was easy to...
5 August 2021
Yorkshire Sculpture Park Where Time Slows Down – James Payne
Yorkshire Sculpture Park is open again for business, and it is so good to revisit it. The great news is many of its temporary...
Hello Cunty: Sotheby’s Appropriates The Colony Room – Darren Coffield
The event was a travesty of everything the Colony stood for, organised by people who thought they could recreate a special place.
20th Century Women Artists Challenging Conventions In Britain – Revd Jonathan Evens
The twentieth century was a time of great change for women. Those born, raised and educated in the 19th century, then forming relationships and...
10 April 2021
Venice Curator Luca Berta Explains Latest Biennale Private Venue Restrictions – Interview
In light of the changes introduced by Venice town council, it is becoming increasingly difficult for private exhibition spaces
2 January 2021
London Art Exhibitions 2021 A Month By Month Guide
UPDATED Well, the exhibitions schedule for 2020 didn't quite go as planned. But here is an idea of what exhibitions to expect in 2021.
Revolutionary Art Movement Or Just A Catch Up – Edward Lucie- Smith
Looking at official galleries here in Britain (all temporarily closed as of this publication) - more especially at those situated in London - it...
1 June 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...
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