15 November 2018
Cerith Wyn Evans Wins The Second Hepworth Prize For Sculpture
Cerith Wyn Evans has won The Hepworth Prize For Sculpture now in its second edition. This year’s shortlisted artists were Michael Dean, Mona Hatoum,...
News
15 November 2018
Street Artist Ron English Buys Banksy Slave Labour Mural To Whitewash
The US Street Artist Ron English has purchased Banksy's Poundland wall mural 'Slave Labour' for £561,000, with the plan to whitewash over the artwork....
Michel Comte Multimedia Arctic Installation Commissioned By Wavelength Foundation
Responding to an international call to the global arts and culture community, acclaimed artist and photographer Michel Comte will be the first high-profile artist...
13 November 2018
Rijksmuseum Marks 350th Anniversary of Rembrandt’s Death With New Exhibition
Rijksmuseum marks the 350th anniversary of Rembrandt’s death in 2019 with ‘Year of Rembrandt’. The year-long celebration opens with All the Rembrandts (15 February...
Jeff Koons Loses Second French Plagiarism Case
The American artist Jeff Koons has been found guilty of copying an idea from an advertisement used by the French clothing chain Naf Naf.
8 November 2018
Chris Dercon To Head Up Grand Palais and Musée du Luxembourg
The former Director of Tate Modern, Chris Dercon has been appointed President of the French government cultural body, Réunion des musées nationaux-Grand Palais (Rmn-GP)....
7 November 2018
Deutsche Börse Photography Prize 2019 Announce Shortlist
The Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation has announced the four artists shortlisted for this major prize and the nominees are: Laia Abril, Susan Meiselas, Arwed Messmer...
6 November 2018
Sally Tallant Moves To Queens Museum NY As New Executive Director
The Board of Queens Museum in New York has announced the appointment of Sally Tallant as its new Executive Director. She will take up...
5 November 2018
Spectacular Jean Nouvel Designed National Museum Qatar To Open In March
Qatar Museums have announced the opening dates for the National Museum of Qatar (NMoQ), housed within a spectacular new building designed by architect Jean...
1 November 2018
£1m Peterloo Massacre Memorial By Jeremy Deller – Design Unveiled
Jeremy Deller the Turner Prize-winning artist has unveiled the design for his 38ft (11.5m) memorial to mark the 200th anniversary of the Peterloo Massacre.
30 October 2018
Alt Power 100 Artlyst 2018 – Celebrating Artists And Art Professionals
The Alt Power 100 Artlyst 2018, now in its 8th edition is a celebration of artists and art professionals who have made a difference...
30 October 2018
Ben Uri Gallery Sells Off Collection To Fund Global Immigrant Artist Expansion
The Ben Uri Gallery and Museum, known internationally for its extensive collection of Jewish immigrant art is to sell off part of its permanent...
26 October 2018
Jeff Koons Ashmolean Exhibition Announced For Spring 2019
Jeff Koons (b. 1955) will have a major exhibition to be held at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, in spring 2019.
25 October 2018
Diebenkorn Ocean Park Masterpiece From Mary Tyler Moore Collection Auctioned At Christie’s
Christie’s NY will be offering a large Richard Diebenkorn, Ocean Park series painting from 1985 on November 15.
23 September 2018
Turner Prize 2018 – This Year’s Exhibition In Photos
The balmy Summer has been gobbled up by a new cooler season which promises to excite and challenge our sensibilities.
What's On
02 Oct '18-09 Dec '18
Recommended
Strange Days: Memories of the Future
The Store X
Kahlil Joseph, John Akomfrah, and Pipilotti Rist lead a new exhibition Strange Days: Memories of the Future – an immersive,
24 Oct '18-24 Feb '19
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Edward Burne-Jones
Tate Britain
This exhibition – his first solo show at Tate since 1933 – charts Burne-Jones’s rise from an outsider with little formal art training to
29 Sep '18-26 Jan '19
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Chris Burden: Measured
Gagosian (Britannia Street)
From his action-based works of the 1970s to the jaw-dropping technical feats of his later sculptures, Chris Burden (1946–2015) consistently
10 Oct '18-27 Jan '19
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Modern Couples Art, Intimacy and the Avant-garde
Barbican Art Gallery
Explore modern art and modern love; Modern Couples reveals how relationships can become a playground for
04 Nov '18-03 Feb '19
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Klimt / Schiele: Drawings from the Albertina Museum, Vienna
Royal Academy of Arts
See rare and fragile drawings by Gustav Klimt and Egon Schiele, offering intimate insights into their artistic relationship and differing creative
26 Sep '18-06 Jan '19
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Space Shifters
Hayward Gallery
Space Shifters brings together artwork by over 20 international artists on the theme of space disruption and
11 Oct '18-27 Jan '19
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Anni Albers
Tate Modern
A long overdue recognition of Anni Albers’s pivotal contribution to modern art and design, this is the first major exhibition of her work in the
03 Oct '18-17 Nov '18
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Sean Scully: Uninsideout
Blain Southern
A solo exhibition of works by Sean Scully to coincide with Scully’s recently announced exhibition Inside Out at Yorkshire Sculpture
03 Oct '18-21 Dec '18
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Yayoi Kusama
Victoria Miro (Wharf Road)
A major exhibition of new works by Yayoi Kusama will take place across the Wharf Road galleries and waterside
27 Sep '18-13 Jan '19
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Elmgreen & Dragset: This Is How We Bite Our Tongue
Whitechapel Gallery
This exhibition juxtaposes a survey of Elmgreen & Dragset’s emotional figurative sculptures with an extraordinary new large-scale
Reviews
15 November 2018
Perdita Sinclair An Impressive Visual Interpretation Of Micro-science – Jude Cowan Montague
Angiosperms (roughly flowering plants) produce an incredible variety of seeds that are dispersed in creative, innovative ways, sometimes involving tricksy relationships with particular animals.
14 November 2018
Alex Katz And Richard Smith Two Current London Exhibitions – Edward Lucie-Smith
Despite its title, Coca-Cola Girls, Alex Katz’s new show at Timothy Taylor doesn’t really belong in the realm of Pop Art. It does, however,...
11 November 2018
Mantegna and Bellini In Presence of the Triumphs – National Gallery – Edward Lucie-Smith
This exhibition at the National Gallery is a landmark event. It brings together a rich selection of paintings, and some drawings, by two of...
10 November 2018
Peter Howson: The play is over – Flowers Gallery – Revd Jonathan Evens
‘Life-destroyer’, ‘get lost’, ‘monkeys’, ‘in bad faith’, ‘malediction’, ‘concealed dungeon’, ‘poison head’, ‘parasite’, ‘disenchantment’, ‘lechery’. The titles of Peter Howson's latest work, in translation...
7 November 2018
Bradley, Burden, Fischer and Pascali Four London Shows – Edward Lucie-Smith
Here, lumped together for the sake of convenience in an overcrowded Autumn season, are four London galleries.
6 November 2018
Lorenzo Lotto Metaphors Through Gestures And Symbols – Edward Lucie-Smith
Tucked away in a group of spaces on the gloomy ground floor of the National Gallery is a superb exhibition that seems likely to...
4 November 2018
EMPIRE 2 Project Moves To Paris – Jude Cowan Montague
As one of the participants in the globe-trotting EMPIRE 2 project, exhibiting the moving image on a world tour, I came to Paris for...
31 October 2018
Klimt And Schiele: Naked Social Disruption – Royal Academy – Edward Lucie-Smith
The R.A.’s show of drawings by Gustav Klimt and Egon Schiele, almost all of them loaned by the Albertina Museum in Vienna, arrives at...
30 October 2018
African American Art vs Art From Africa In London – Edward Lucie-Smith
As is becoming more and more apparent, contemporary art in the United States is becoming increasingly regionalised. Which is to say, identified with one...
29 October 2018
Taylor Wessing Photo Prize 2018 Identity Politics And Culture War – Edward Lucie-Smith
Looking around the NPG’s new Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize exhibition, I was immediately reminded of the fact that we are right in the...
28 October 2018
Raqs Media Collective – Caio Locke And Rammellzee Three Reviews – Edward Lucie-Smith
Just as I had begun to despair of the future of video, or of video + installation, as mediums for genuinely convincing contemporary art,...
William Hunter: Anatomy of the Modern Museum – Clare Henry
Celebrating the tercentenary of Glasgow University Hunterian founder, Dr. William Hunter obviously calls for a significant exhibition. This impressive memorable display, immaculately presented, is organised by...
25 October 2018
Edward Burne-Jones Erotic And The Androgynous Tate Britain – Edward Lucie-Smith
I have various reasons for being interested in Edward Burne-Jones. Some are purely personal. For example, I happen to live in the area of...
22 October 2018
Georg Baselitz And Afro Gesture vs Figuration – Edward Lucie-Smith
It’s depressing how rapidly once-big art stars manage to fade nowadays. You blink your eyes, and suddenly they’re gone.
16 October 2018
Paul Feiler And The Rothko Factor – Redfern Gallery – Paul Carter Robinson
I first encountered the work of Paul Feiler (born Germany 1918 Died 2013) at his centenary exhibition held at the Jerwood Gallery in Hastings...
10 October 2018
Black Mirror: Art as Social Satire – Saatchi Gallery – Edward Lucie-Smith
Black Mirror presents itself as ‘Art as Social Satire’, and there is indeed a real black mirror in the show.
9 October 2018
Anni Albers Weaves Her Way Into Art History – Tate Modern
Anni Albers is quite frankly a peculiar artist for Tate Modern to devote an entire solo exhibition.
6 October 2018
Michelangelo Pistoletto A Reflective Life – Virginie Puertolas-Syn
Last Wednesday, before the Frieze frenzy, I attended the opening of the Michelangelo Pistoletto exhibition, “Origins and Consequences” at the Mazzoleni gallery in Mayfair....
4 October 2018
Sean Scully: Architecture Of The Sublime – Edward Lucie-Smith
Sean Scully is extremely widely known as a painter. Indeed, I might go so far as to say that he is as widely known...
1 October 2018
Oceania Royal Academy A Lasting Air Of Strangeness – Edward Lucie-Smith
Oceania, Royal Academy: To some extent, our ideas about what we call ‘primitive’ or ‘tribal’ art are still formed by what we have learned,...
1 October 2018
Space Shifters Hayward Gallery An Object Lesson In Contemporary Disorientation – Edward Lucie-Smith
The Space Shifters show at the Hayward lives up to its title, often in ways you don’t quite expect. This, in spite of the...
24 September 2018
Turner Prize Smug-Fest Crashes And Bores – Edward Lucie-Smith
Before I go any further, let me note that, on the very day this iteration of the annual Turner Prize exhibition was revealed to...
5 September 2018
Spellbound: Enchanted By Magical Thinking At The Ashmolean Museum – Paul Black
The Ashmolean Museum's autumn exhibition Spellbound explores the timeless cross-cultural belief in magic through 180 objects - often strange and chilling - from the ritualistic,...
21 August 2018
Britain’s Passion For Rembrandt Explored In New Scottish Exhibition – Clare Henry
Rembrandt can be a controversial figure. As the latest TV documentary tells us, the number of his paintings recognised as genuine varies with each...
7 August 2018
Magic Realism: Objectivity In Weimar – Tate Modern – Edward Lucie-Smith
The Magic Realism Art In Weimar Germany 1919-33 show that just opened at Tate Modern is a welcome addition to what you can see at...
Previews
14 November 2018
Compass 2018: Live Art And Interactive Encounters Across Leeds
The biennial Compass Festival in Leeds, a ten-day programme of live art encounters and interaction returns this week. Artistic Directors Annie Lloyd and Peter...
13 November 2018
Michael Craig-Martin Royal Academy Collaboration Announced For Windsor Vero Beach
The iconic British artist Michael Craig-Martin will present an exhibition of painting, sculpture and prints at The Gallery at Windsor, Vero Beach, Florida, opening...
Major Keith Haring Exhibition For Tate Liverpool In June 2019
Looks like Tate Liverpool has once again trumped (if that word is still acceptable) Tate Modern or in fact all of the major London Galleries...
6 November 2018
Bahrain Art Week London 2018 November Dates Announced
Accumulation: Legacy and Memory will bring the best of contemporary and modern art from Bahrain to London for the third edition of Bahrain Art...
Camille Henrot: Scientific History And Creation Story Mash Up – Revd Jonathan Evens
Twenty-one video and film installations, 11 hours plus of imagery created by today’s most radical image makers and at the beginning is an installation...
20 October 2018
Bruce McLean Exhibition Announced For School Gallery Wandsworth
A new exhibition by Bruce McLean 'MINIMAL INVISIBLE MISSING' is opening at School Gallery.
15 October 2018
J. B. Blunk: Taking On The Immediate Natural World – Jude Cowan Montague
'My way of working, the core of all my sculpture, is a theme, the soul of the piece. Sometimes it is evoked by the...
8 October 2018
Frances Richardson Tanner Prize Exhibition Opens At Cross Lane Projects Kendal
Frances Richardson: Cross Lane Projects, Kendal, welcomes a major UK sculpture award as it is shown outside of London for the first time. Frances...
24 September 2018
Second Hepworth Prize For Sculpture Exhibition Unveiled In October
In October 2018 the Hepworth Wakefield launches the second Hepworth Prize Sculpture exhibition. This year's shortlisted artists are Michael Dean, Mona Hatoum, Phillip Lai,...
23 September 2018
Chris Burden: Gagosian Unveils Two Large-scale Works For Frieze Week
Chris Burden 'Measured', an exhibition of two large-scale works 1 Ton Crane Truck (2009) and Porsche with Meteorite (2013) will be unveiled at Gagosian...
1 September 2018
Glenn Brown: Appropriated Images Changing Shape, Form, Colour – Laing Art Gallery
Glenn Brown returns to his North East roots with a new show at the Laing in Newcastle. The internationally acclaimed artist has reimagined the...
Features
12 November 2018
Annely Juda Celebrates 50 Years – A Recollection by Marina Vaizey
In Praise of the Art Shop - Marina Vaizey looks back on 50 years of the Annely Juda gallery.
8 November 2018
The Only Word Is Art – Michael Petry Interview – Paul Carter Robinson
Michael Petry is a visual artist whose works often leads him to write about the topics of his artistic attention.
3 November 2018
Anselm Kiefer: Beneath The Crumbling Pillars Of The Divine – Paul Black
Artlyst has recently visited Pirelli HangarBicocca, Milan, to walk among the monumental towers of one of Anselm Kiefer's most iconic of works, The Seven...
25 October 2018
Mario Merz – HangarBicocca: Nomadic Bodies In Synchronous Orbits – Paul Black
Artlyst has visited Pirelli HangarBicocca Milan, which is currently presenting the iconic igloos of the late Mario Merz
22 October 2018
Katharina Grosse Interview – Grand Palais FIAC 2018 – Virginie Puertolas-Syn
Artist Katharina Grosse is the Gagosian guest of honour at the FIAC this 2018
14 October 2018
Sarah Lucas: A Walk On NY’s Wild Side – Ilka Scobie
“We need her work now more than ever,” Lisa Philips, the New Museum director stated, she continued, “We hope jaws will drop with this...
12 October 2018
Vanessa Prager: Soft Serve Painting – Interview Paul Carter Robinson
'Soft Serve' the title of American artist Vanessa Prager's first London solo show at Kristin Hjellegjerde dishes up a series of portraits and figures...
7 October 2018
Bruegel The Painter Who Painted Things That Couldn’t Be Painted
Few painters have fascinated and enthralled over the centuries as much as Pieter Bruegel the Elder (c. 1525/30‒1569) Now, the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna...
6 October 2018
Gauguin And Laval In Martinique: Building Paradise With Savagery – Paul Black
Artlyst recently visited the Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, which is currently presenting Gauguin and Laval in Martinique
27 September 2018
Elmgreen & Dragset Turn Whitechapel Gallery Into Derelict Swimming Pool
Elmgreen & Dragset have transformed the ground floor exhibition space at The Whitechapel Gallery into a disused municipal swimming pool complete with cracked tiles,...
10 September 2018
Evan Roth Red Lines Winner Of Artangel’s International Open Call – Interview – Paul Carter Robinson
Artangel has unveiled Red Lines a new work by the pioneering new media artist Evan Roth, the winning work of Artangel's International Open Call.
Pronounce Artists’ Names Correctly – An Artlyst How To Guide
All of us here at the Artlyst find it daunting at times to correctly pronounce the names of the artists that appear daily on...
28 August 2018
Guide to London Art Exhibitions Autumn 2018 Part 1
The Autumn is an incredibly busy period in the London art scene. Here is the first part of the Artlyst guide to art in...
7 August 2018
Gala Dalí: The Forgotten Woman Behind The Surrealist Looking-Glass – Agnish Ray
Ever since the publication of Andre Breton’s Surrealist Manifesto (1924), the erotic male gaze on the female body came to be a defining component...
27 July 2018
Kaneka Subberwal Talks ArtBAB Plus Bahrain Art Weeks Paris and London
Artlyst talks to fair Director Kaneka Subberwal the mastermind behind it all, she conceived the idea and curated the fair.
19 July 2018
Liverpool Biennial 2018: Here Are Twelve Reasons To Visit This Event
The 2018 Liverpool Biennial is celebrating its 20th birthday. The 10th edition is more compact than in previous years with the majority of venues...