16 May 2022
Whitechapel Gallery Appoints Gilane Tawadros As New Director
The Whitechapel Gallery has announced that curator and writer, Gilane Tawadros, has been appointed their new Director.
16 May 2022
The Whitechapel Gallery has announced that curator and writer, Gilane Tawadros, has been appointed their new Director.
15 May 2022
A Man Ray photograph 'Le Violon d'Ingres' has set a new record price for a photograph, selling for $12.4 million
13 May 2022
Ten years after the Gurlitt Hoard ("Schwabing Art Trove") hit the headlines worldwide, two important watercolours by Otto Dix will go under the hammer...
Donald Baechler, who died in April, was one of the most promising artists of the 1980s.
10 May 2022
Andy Warhol's Shot Sage Blue Marilyn made double history last night as the most expensive pCostly Costly painting ever sold by a US artist and...
5 May 2022
The Italian Conceptual artist Maurizio Cattelan is being sued in Paris over intellectual property infringement.
After two years of indecision from museum directors both in the US and UK, The Philip Guston exhibition will finally open to the public...
24 April 2022
The Nitsch Foundation, has announced the sad news of Hermann Nitsch’s death at age 83 on April 18, 2022. Nitsch was known as a...
24 April 2022
The 59th Venice Biennale’s top prize, the Golden Lion, has been awarded to Great Britain’s Sonia Boyce OBE RA for Best National Participation at La Biennale...
12 April 2022
In the early morning hours, I walked beside a tranquil River Mersey towards Tate Liverpool’s press launch, where there was an exciting buzz as...
The Royal College of Art (RCA), London, has been ranked the number 1 university for art & design internationally for the 8th consecutive year...
24 March 2022
The Art dealer Ivor Braka is being sued by artists’ resale rights groups for not paying royalties to living artists or their estates. The...
04 May '22-04 Sep '22
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Reframed: The Woman in the Window is the first exhibition to explore the enigmatic motif of the ‘woman in the
19 May '22-16 Oct '22
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Using transformation, playfulness and storytelling, Cornelia Parker engages with important issues of our time, be it violence, ecology or human
28 Apr '22-18 Sep '22
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The first major retrospective of Walter Sickert at Tate in over 60 years, this exhibition explores how he had an often radical, distinctive approach
09 Apr '22-31 Jul '22
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This exhibition, one of the first-ever to explore Raphael’s complete career, looks at his celebrated paintings and drawings as well as his
03 Mar '22-26 Jun '22
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A revelatory new take on art in Britain after the Second World War, a period when artists had to make sense of an entirely altered
24 Feb '22-29 Aug '22
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This landmark exhibition will rewrite the history of the revolutionary art
24 Feb '22-05 Jun '22
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Whitechapel Gallery presents a 100-year survey of the studio through the work of artists and image-makers from around the
09 Feb '22-15 May '22
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The first major retrospective of legendary artist Louise Bourgeios to focus exclusively on her work using fabrics and
9 May 2022
I wasn't sure what to expect from Radical Landscapes, but it went beyond my expectations. As usual, Tate Liverpool has developed a thought-provoking and...
4 May 2022
The Whitney Biennial is big, sprawling across the entire museum, featuring 59 artists and bravura curation.
13 April 2022
Newlands House Gallery in Petworth, Sussex, is showing more than 65 paintings and smaller works on paper by Frank Auerbach,
11 April 2022
Raphael's brief career shaped the course of Western culture like no other artist; this was so whether his work was affirmed or his influence...
31 March 2022
Upstairs, on the third floor of the Ashmolean, is a show that will quietly break your heart. Entitled Pissarro: Father of Impressionism (12 June 2022), this...
28 March 2022
Everything Damien Hirst does is controversial, from the initial shock of the new - the sensation of the YBAs - through his use of...
23 March 2022
Ali Cherri, as an artist growing up in Lebanon during the Civil War, embodying traumatic experiences of catastrophe and violence
19 March 2022
Women's history month in New York City heralds two amazing women artists whose long inspirational careers are celebrations of feminism and creativity. Maggi Hambling...
16 March 2022
Kettle’s Yard, part of the University of Cambridge, is the venue for a new exhibition of celebrated contemporary artist Ai Weiwei (born 1957, Beijing)....
10 March 2022
Even if you don’t know Robert Indiana’s name, you know his most popular work, LOVE. Cited as the most known artwork in the world,...
9 March 2022
The artist’s studio is a timeless, complex space. A place where artists go to work, to think, providing both inspiration and comfort, as well...
1 March 2022
Surrealism: Beyond Borders presents an expansive and hugely varied retelling of the story of Surrealism that challenges the Paris-centric traditional art history tale of...
26 February 2022
Walking into Whistler's Woman in White exhibition, one does not know quite what to expect. After all, it is a bold choice to construct an exhibition...
13 February 2022
is a mythmaker and a storyteller. A chronicler of the self who has used her life to create narratives that speak of female desire
In a letter to his brother Theo, Vincent Van Gogh wrote, ‘I’d like to paint men or women with that je ne sais quoi...
27 January 2022
If there is one image that Bacon made his own above any other, it is the mouth contorted in a scream or grimace.
30 November 2021
She’s the oldest artist to have won the Turner Prize (she is now 67). Born in Zanzibar, Lubaina Himid returned
9 May 2022
London 18 March 2022 - Fine art ceramicist Yurim Gough will have a solo exhibition, supported by Arts Council England, at APT Gallery in...
8 May 2022
The last time we saw Wallace Chan’s work was in the Docklands in London when he showed ten of his large-scale titanium and iron...
6 May 2022
Exploring ritual in queer and performance cultures, FUTURERITUAL is a new, artist-led programme at the ICA this month.
3 May 2022
The art of Sean Scully is widely acknowledged as among the most influential proponents of abstraction during the last half-century — particular attention has...
14 April 2022
This May, Tate Britain will present the first significant survey of work by Cornelia Parker in London. Parker is one of Britain’s leading contemporary...
14 April 2022
A new retrospective exhibition celebrating the life of Molly Parkin is set to open in April, at The Stash Gallery, Vout O Reenees London.
5 April 2022
Tate Britain will present London’s biggest retrospective of Walter Sickert (1860-1942) in almost 30 years.
24 March 2022
William Turnbull (1922-2012) was one of Britain's most important post-war Modernists. He was described by Nicholas Serota when Director of the Tate as 'an...
8 May 2022
Art Brussels sprouts back to life after two years missed for Covid, from 28 April – 1 May.
4 May 2022
Away from the political battles of Westminster, Britain’s most famous interrogator has a passion not many people know about… painting. With his latest exhibition...
3 May 2022
Several exhibitions/installations in Venice during the 59th Biennale re-situate key works or themes from Christianity's historic engagement with the Arts, in some cases overlaying...
3 May 2022
Martin Parr is famous worldwide for over 50 years of intensely colourful and wittily affectionate photographic observations of people.
2 May 2022
The Venice Biennale sparks surreal conversations between past and present in 'Milk of Dreams', curated by Cecilia Alemani
29 April 2022
Great Art Cities Explained (GACE) follows the successful YouTube art history series Great Art Explained in 15 Minutes, founded last year by art writer...
27 April 2022
I have just returned from the 59th Venice Biennale, which was thrown off course by a year due to the pandemic.
26 April 2022
Writer and PR Consultant Lee Sharrock has selected eight of the best collateral events taking place in Venice during the 59th Biennale.
17 April 2022
This year, the Venice Biennale offers 30 official collateral events that the curators have sanctioned. They will run at the same time as the...
The 59th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia, titled 'The Milk of Dreams', from Saturday April 23 to Sunday November 27
11 April 2022
Back in 1983, on the day the Queen opened the famous Burrell, I reported enthusiastically for the BBC on its unique qualities.
31 March 2022
The Art Basel Market Report 2022 is a highly anticipated industry barometer.
16 March 2022
The traditional epicentre in Cork Street has moved west to Dover Street and Albemarle Street. Soho has always been home to several galleries.
7 March 2022
BRIGHTON: Marilyn Stafford thought of herself as a jobbing photographer; she had a living to earn as a single mother.
28 February 2022
Artlyst has selected twelve exhibitions taking place in galleries and museums out of London and around the country this Spring 2022. Covering textile art,...
13 January 2022
Artlyst has compiled a dateline of international Art Fairs scheduled to open in the next twelve months
29 December 2021
Presenting the much-coveted Alt Power 100 Artlyst 2021. This is our way of acknowledging our industry's hard work and achievement, as we see it....
28 December 2021
I had the good fortune to meet Wayne Thiebaud in Sacramento, California. We spent a day together and I was impressed with his kindness...
14 December 2021
Artlyst has selected twelve of the most exciting exhibitions promised for 2022 in London.
26 October 2021
Welcome to this new series of monthly artist interviews by critic Paul Carey-Kent. Paul has written for Art Monthly and Frieze Magazine
1 June 2020
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...