20 November 2018
It's been a week of record-breaking sales for the two leading auction houses Christie's and Sotheby's recording billion dollar sales totals and record-breaking prices...
19 November 2018
Once again it's RCA Secret time where the public is invited to try and spot the named artists from the students in order to...
15 November 2018
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,...
15 November 2018
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....
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 the 350th anniversary of Rembrandt’s death in 2019 with ‘Year of Rembrandt’. The year-long celebration opens with All the Rembrandts (15 February...
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
The Ben Uri Gallery and Museum, known internationally for its extensive collection of Jewish immigrant art is to sell off part of its permanent...
23 September 2018
The balmy Summer has been gobbled up by a new cooler season which promises to excite and challenge our sensibilities.
02 Oct '18-09 Dec '18
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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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This exhibition – his first solo show at Tate since 1933 – charts Burne-Jones’s rise from an outsider with little formal art training to
10 Oct '18-27 Jan '19
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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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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 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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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 '18-21 Dec '18
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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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This exhibition juxtaposes a survey of Elmgreen & Dragset’s emotional figurative sculptures with an extraordinary new large-scale
20 November 2018
Once you struggle through the fairly formidable Introduction to this biography – a chapter devoted to orientating the reader concerning Josef Albers’ major achievement,...
18 November 2018
Hilma af Klint’s abstract paintings first dazzled me when I encountered her work in the 2013 Venice Bienalle.
15 November 2018
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
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
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
‘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
Here, lumped together for the sake of convenience in an overcrowded Autumn season, are four London galleries.
6 November 2018
Tucked away in a group of spaces on the gloomy ground floor of the National Gallery is a superb exhibition that seems likely to...
31 October 2018
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
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
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
Just as I had begun to despair of the future of video, or of video + installation, as mediums for genuinely convincing contemporary art,...
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
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
It’s depressing how rapidly once-big art stars manage to fade nowadays. You blink your eyes, and suddenly they’re gone.
10 October 2018
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 is quite frankly a peculiar artist for Tate Modern to devote an entire solo exhibition.
6 October 2018
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 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: To some extent, our ideas about what we call ‘primitive’ or ‘tribal’ art are still formed by what we have learned,...
1 October 2018
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
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
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
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
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...
20 November 2018
The Hayward Gallery is to celebrate the early work of the American photographer Diane Arbus with a new exhibition of her work. Diane Arbus:...
14 November 2018
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
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...
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
Accumulation: Legacy and Memory will bring the best of contemporary and modern art from Bahrain to London for the third edition of Bahrain Art...
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
A new exhibition by Bruce McLean 'MINIMAL INVISIBLE MISSING' is opening at School Gallery.
15 October 2018
'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: 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
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 '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 returns to his North East roots with a new show at the Laing in Newcastle. The internationally acclaimed artist has reimagined the...
12 November 2018
In Praise of the Art Shop - Marina Vaizey looks back on 50 years of the Annely Juda gallery.
8 November 2018
Michael Petry is a visual artist whose works often leads him to write about the topics of his artistic attention.
3 November 2018
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
Artlyst has visited Pirelli HangarBicocca Milan, which is currently presenting the iconic igloos of the late Mario Merz
22 October 2018
Artist Katharina Grosse is the Gagosian guest of honour at the FIAC this 2018
14 October 2018
“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
'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
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
Artlyst recently visited the Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, which is currently presenting Gauguin and Laval in Martinique
27 September 2018
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
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.
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
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
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
Artlyst talks to fair Director Kaneka Subberwal the mastermind behind it all, she conceived the idea and curated the fair.
19 July 2018
The 2018 Liverpool Biennial is celebrating its 20th birthday. The 10th edition is more compact than in previous years with the majority of venues...
