17 May 2019
Susan Meiselas Wins Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize 2019
The Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize 2019 has been won by Susan Meiselas.
News
I M Pei World Renowned Architect Dies Age 102
The world-renowned architect I M Pei, best known for his iconic design for the Louvre pyramid, has died aged 102.
16 May 2019
Jeff Koons $91m Rabbit Sets World Auction Record for Living Artist
Christies Postwar and Contemporary Sale in New York has realised a total of $538,971,750 / £418,131,691 million, reaching their revised presale estimates after the...
15 May 2019
Monet Haystacks Breaks the $100m Mark At Sotheby’s
Sotheby’s New York has broken yet another record for the Impressionist artist Claude Monet. The painting titled Meules (Haystacks) from 1890 sold for $110.7...
Bomb Scare Shuts Lithuanian Pavilion At Venice Biennale
An Italian bomb squad swooped on the Golden Lion winning Lithuanian pavilion at the Venice Biennale yesterday after a group of British Journalists and...
12 May 2019
Lithuania Wins Golden Lion Award At 58th Venice Biennale
The Golden Lion awards for Best National Participation at the 58th Venice Biennale has been announced. Lithuania's Sun & Sea (Marina) an immersive sound...
Discarded Gerhard Richter Drawings – Man Found Guilty Of Theft
A German man has been found guilty by a court on charges of stealing discarded works of art from the well-known abstract painter Gerhard...
Maurizio Cattelan: Blenheim Art Foundation Exhibition Announced For Autumn
The first solo exhibition in twenty years of work by Maurizio Cattelan is to be mounted at Blenheim Palace this autumn, running from 12...
1 May 2019
Diverse Turner Prize 2019 Tate Britain Announces Nominees
The four artists who have been shortlisted for the Turner Prize 2019 have been announced at Tate Britain today.
BP Portrait Award Shortlist For 40th Year at NPG
The shortlist for the BP Portrait Award 2019 has been announced by the National Portrait Gallery, London. The prize which will be presented on...
Nancy Fouts Sculptor Who Reconfigured Commonplace Objects Dies
The artist Nancy Fouts who has died age 74 found herself starting adult life in what, for a girl from Kentucky, must have been...
Art Fund Museum of the Year 2019 Finalists Announced
The Art Fund has announced the five museums which have been selected as finalists for Art Fund Museum of the Year 2019, the world’s...
20 April 2019
Spencer Tunick Nude Installations Take On Facebook and Instagram Censorship
The Body Installation artist Spencer Tunick has staged more than 75 large-scale installations using hundreds or thousands of nude participants in urban and natural...
16 April 2019
Elton John and David Furnish Donate Photography Gallery To V&A
The V&A has announced a new, long-term collaboration with Elton John and David Furnish to improve public access to photography.
Sackler: A Family Divided – Dame Jillian Sackler Speaks Out
Dame Jillian Sackler, third wife of the late Arthur Sackler has defended her branch of the family's philanthropic donations with a statement to the...
Claude Lalanne Fantastical Sculptor And Designer Dies Aged 93
Claude Lalanne best-known for her Surrealist inspired sculptures and Neo-Art-Nouveau bronze furniture and jewelry depicting flowers and playful animals has died in Fontainebleau, at...
10 April 2019
Emil Nolde: Contradictions of A Degenerate Artist And Nazi Sympathiser
Emil Nolde (1867–1956) was arguably one of the best known “degenerate artists” working in Germany at the time of the Third Reich. No other...
7 April 2019
Grayson Perry Brexit Vases Go On Display At V&A
Grayson Perry's timely pair of vases depicting Brexit, one leave the other remain go on permanent display in the V&A’s Ceramics Galleries from today.
5 April 2019
Jimmie Durham Receives 58th Venice Biennale Golden Lion Lifetime Achievement Award
Jimmie Durham has been announced the recipient of the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement at the 58th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di...
4 April 2019
Has Art On Instagram Reached Saturation Point – Hiscox Releases 2019 Report
The Hiscox online art trade report 2019 was released this week and besides revealing some very discouraging growth figures it has explored the indeterminate...
3 April 2019
Anish Kapoor Creates The Ultimate Brexit Artwork
Anish Kapoor has created a new work titled 'A Brexit, A Broxit, We All Fall Down'. The work depicts an open wound representing the...
27 March 2019
Tate Modern Tops Visitor Attraction List For First Time
The public has chosen Tate Modern over the British Museum for the first time since records began. The UK's most popular visitor attractions' list...
20 March 2019
Art And Money Laundering Why The Global Art Market Needs Regulation
High-end art, antiquities, and antiques have become more and more attractive to money launders says, Peter D. Hardy a partner at Ballard Spahr, writing...
11 March 2019
Kara Walker To Create Next Hyundai Commission At Tate Modern
The African American Artist Kara Walker has been selected to create the next annual Hyundai Commission at Tate Modern.
12 February 2019
Fatos Ustek Appointed Director Of Liverpool Biennial
Fatoş Üstek has been appointed as the new Director of Liverpool Biennial.
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...
What's On
15 May '19-22 Jun '19
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Anish Kapoor
Lisson Gallery (27 Bell St)
Anish Kapoor returns for his seventeenth exhibition at Lisson Gallery with a new body of work that brings together two fundamental directions of his
01 May '19-06 Jul '19
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Anthony Caro: Seven Decades
Annely Juda Fine Art
An exhibition of works by Sir Anthony Caro, spanning seven decades of his career including early pieces from the 1950s through to his last works in
26 Apr '19-15 Sep '19
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Stanley Kubrick: The Exhibition
Design Museum
Step inside the world of Stanley Kubrick, one of the greatest filmmakers of the 20th
13 Apr '19-27 Oct '19
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Chihuly at Kew: Reflections on nature
Kew Gardens
Iconic artist Dale Chihuly will once again exhibit his luminous glass artworks in our spectacular landscape, featuring pieces never seen
13 Apr '19-11 Aug '19
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Sea Star: Sean Scully at the National Gallery
National Gallery
See new work by Sean Scully inspired by the National Gallery Collection and Joseph Mallord William Turner’s ‘The Evening
11 Apr '19-21 Jul '19
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Edvard Munch: love and angst
British Museum
Discover more about Edvard Munch, the pioneering, subversive artist as the British Museum lifts the veil on his life and works in the largest show
16 Mar '19-18 Aug '19
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Anish Kapoor
Pitzhanger Manor & Gallery
For the inaugural exhibition at Pitzhanger Manor & Gallery, Anish Kapoor will present a series of sculptures, some previously unseen in Britain,
07 Mar '19-27 May '19
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Only Human: Martin Parr
National Portrait Gallery
This major new exhibition brings together works by one of Britain’s best-known and most widely celebrated photographers, Martin
02 Feb '19-01 Sep '19
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Christian Dior: Designer of Dreams
Victoria and Albert Museum
NOW EXTENDED UNTIL 1 SEPTEMBER 2019
Spanning 1947 to the present day, this exhibition will trace the history and impact of one of the 20th
27 Mar '19-11 Aug '19
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Van Gogh and Britain
Tate Britain
This major exhibition brings together 45 works by Vincent van Gogh to reveal how he was inspired by Britain and how he inspired British
Reviews
18 May 2019
Piero Manzoni The grid And Everyday Materials – Ilka Scobie
Self-taught artist and avant-garde predecessor to the Arte Povera movement, Piero Manzoni was born to an aristocratic family in Soncino, Italy in 1933.
14 May 2019
Cathy Wilkes: Resurrecting The Forgotten British Pavilion Venice Biennale – Sue Hubbard
May you live in interesting times is the overarching theme of this year’s Biennale. Dystopia and dissonance are everywhere played out in the themes...
14 May 2019
Whatever Happened To Anthony Caro? – Three Reviews – Edward Lucie-Smith
Whatever happened to Anthony Caro? In Jonathan Jones’ new book about the history of British art from Hogarth to Banksy, Caro gets about half...
5 May 2019
Jonathan Jones Sensations – Book Review – Edward Lucie-Smith
Jonathan Jones’ new book from Laurence King Publishing is a quality job. Entitled Sensations, it bears on its back cover a recommendation from none...
2 May 2019
Bruce McLean Plus Three Other London Shows – Edward Lucie Smith
In a trough after its immediately pre-Easter excitements – Rembrandt at Gagosian, Sean Scully at the NG – the London art world looks faintly...
1 May 2019
Kathy Acker And I – ICA Retrospective – Paul Carter Robinson
I,I,I,I,I,I,I Kathy Acker is a fitting title for this quasi-retrospective exhibition which opened at the ICA on Tuesday night. In fact, it would have...
27 April 2019
Chantal Joffe: Her Own Sense Of Being – Victoria Miro – Sue Hubbard
Chantal Joffe Victoria Miro London: In his seminal 1972 book Ways of Seeing, the late John Berger claimed that: ‘A woman must continually watch...
Sean Scully National Gallery – Rembrandt and Now Gagosian – Edward Lucie-Smith
At first glance, the Sean Scully show that just opened at the National Gallery in London couldn’t be more different from the exhibition not...
11 April 2019
Edvard Munch: Ibsenian Imagery And Isolation – Edward Lucie-Smith
A new exhibition of work by the Norwegian artist Edvard Munch now at the British Museum claims to be the biggest ever devoted to...
1 April 2019
Woman Artist Filmmakers Takeover FACT Liverpool – Alice Lenkiewicz
FACT Liverpool: Erika Beckman’s film, ‘Cinderella’ created in 1986 is a strange slip of time. I was quite intrigued by the film. At first,...
28 March 2019
Vincent Van Gogh His Very British Legacy – Edward Lucie-Smith
Tate Britain has one very good reason to offer us a Vincent Van Gogh show, which is that it is sure to raise attendances...
27 March 2019
Sorolla: National Gallery And Mike Nelson – Tate Britain – Edward Lucie-Smith
Two shows have just opened at major London institutions –Sorolla at the National Gallery and Mike Nelson at Tate Britain. Different as they are, they...
27 March 2019
Anne Imhof: The World As A Durational Techno Sex Performance
After catching only the last few moments of the atmospheric Faust (2017) at the 57th Venice Biennale, I was excited to discover that Anne...
9 March 2019
Henry Moore Helmet Heads Historic Armour And Modernism – Jude Cowan Montague
Henry Moore Helmet Heads: As an etcher, I have a long term interest in armour as one of the early applications of the process....
23 February 2019
Diane Arbus Street Of Secrets – Hayward Gallery – Sue Hubbard
My favourite thing is to go where I’ve never been’ wrote the photographer Diane Arbus, the poor little rich Jewish girl who walked on...
16 February 2019
All the Rembrandts Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam – Sue Hubbard
With his Bob Dylan mop of curls and pug nose, he looks every inch the rebellious teenager that he was.
Previews
Lorna Simpson Explores Race Gender and History At Hauser & Wirth NY
Native New Yorker Lorna Simpson has creatively explored race, gender and history for over thirty years.
2 May 2019
Gallerist Holly Solomon Collection To Be Focus Of New Exhibition
Holly Solomon 1968-1981 was one of the shakers and movers in New York gallery culture in the 1960s and Seventies. Now Marlborough is to...
2 May 2019
Twenty Unmissable Pavilions at 58th Venice Biennale – Artlyst
What goes around comes around and again it is time for the Venice Biennale. Now in its 58th edition and under the direction of...
Sean Scully Unveils New Sculptural And Figurative Works During Venice Biennale
The Irish/American artist Sean Scully unveils Human: an exhibition of recent works both new and unseen pieces at the Basilica of San Giorgio Maggiore,...
9 April 2019
Grayson Perry Donates Brexit Head To Raise Funds For Terrence Higgins Trust
Grayson Perry has donated a work of art to raise funds for the leading HIV and sexual health charity Terrence Higgins Trust.
8 April 2019
Antony Gormley Celebrated With Royal Academy Solo Show
In September 2019, the Royal Academy of Arts will present a solo exhibition of the internationally acclaimed British sculptor Antony Gormley (b. 1950), the...
2 April 2019
Queer Spaces: New Whitechapel Gallery Exhibition Opens
Over half of London’s LGBTQ+ venues closed between 2006 and 2016 New exhibition explores queer spaces through contemporary artworks and rare archival material. It...
27 March 2019
Radical London Art Fair Endorsed By Banksy Call For Submissions
The world’s largest arms fair will quietly set up shop in London, In September 2019. It will sell weapons and tools of torture to...
6 March 2019
New Sean Scully Show Announced For 58th Venice Biennale
The Irish/American painter Sean Scully will be presenting Human: an exhibition of recent works and new, unseen pieces at the Basilica of San Giorgio...
19 December 2018
Tate Announces New Exhibition Dedicated To Women Artists In Britain
A new display dedicated to women artists working in Britain over the past 60 years will open in April 2019.
27 November 2018
Bridget Riley: Comprehensive New Exhibition Announced By Hayward Gallery
The Hayward Gallery is to present a major retrospective exhibition devoted to the work of the celebrated British artist, Bridget Riley.
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...
Features
19 May 2019
The Rebirth Of Cork Street But Where Are The Galleries? – Oliver Malin
When most people think of the London art scene, It may be tricky to pinpoint what constitutes its epicenter. Perhaps it starts with the...
18 May 2019
The Erotic Garden Of Shen Wei – Zoltan Alexander
Sensual bodies, erotic flowers, urban settings. That would give a somewhat accurate description of New York-based Chinese artist, Shen Wei's work. His style is...
16 May 2019
Photo London 2019 The Capitals Most Coherent Photography Fair – Kerim Aytac
This week Photo London returns for its fifth edition, and it’s the strongest iteration yet. No longer just a fair, over the course of...
16 May 2019
London Degree Shows Guide 2019
Here is a comprehensive list of all the major London degree art shows scheduled for the summer. The list is not complete so keep...
14 May 2019
Venice Biennale Collateral Exhibitions Provide Calm and Quality
It was a relief to step away from the hustle and bustle of the Giardini and Arsenale, the main venues for the 58th Venice...
13 May 2019
Venice Biennale 58: From Climate Change To Automatonics – Paul Carter Robinson
Over the years, the Giardini and the Arsenale, the two official locations for the Venice Biennale have become interchangeable in terms of weightiness. Some...
2 May 2019
Stanley Kubrick Framing Perfection – Design Museum – Zoltan Alexander
Kubrick’s renaissance is undoubtedly in full swing. The Design Museum opened last week one of the most compelling exhibitions of the year “Stanley Kubrick:...
2 May 2019
Recommended London Art Exhibitions May 2019 – Paul Carey Kent
The noted writer and curator Paul Carey-Kent gives us his rolling ten recommended contemporary art exhibitions May 2019
1 May 2019
Henry Moore At Houghton Hall An Exemplary Pairing
A trip to the magnificent Palladian house Houghton Hall in Norfolk is always a much look forwarded to pleasure. The current exhibition is a...
28 April 2019
Michael Petry In Conversation With Artist William Cobbing
Artists Michael Petry and William Cobbing are here in conversation in this exclusive interview for Artlyst.
20 April 2019
58th Venice Biennale Collateral Events Guide – Artlyst
Outside of the Giardini and Arsenale, the main venues for the 58th Venice Biennale, there is an overwhelming abundance of other exhibitions and events....
17 April 2019
Dale Chihuly: His Stunning Return To Kew After Thirteen Years
Dale Chihuly is known for transforming the Studio Glass movement and elevating the possibilities of glass as a medium for fine art.
7 April 2019
Renzo Piano’s Landmark Spacecraft Defines The Academy Museum LA
The Academy Museum which is set to launch in Autumn 2019 will be the go-to institution dedicated to the art and science of film....
6 April 2019
Van Gogh’s Religious Journey Around London – Revd Jonathan Evens
Vincent van Gogh arrived in Britain as a young trainee art dealer who then had a spell as a teacher before leaving Britain to...
17 February 2019
How To Become an Independent Curator Sarah Sparkes Explains
I am an Artist Curator. I also teach the short course 'How To Become an Independent Curator' at Central St Martins, University of the...
29 December 2018
London Art Exhibitions Preview A Month By Month Guide 2019
Here's a month by month guide to the highlights of the year's exhibitions at the major museums and art galleries.