31 March 2020
Early Van Gogh Painting Stolen From Dutch Museum
Police have launched a criminal investigation and are reviewing security footage after a painting by Vincent van Gogh was stolen during the early hours...
News
29 March 2020
Art Goes Viral – Edward Lucie-Smith
The coronavirus has been responsible for a major crisis in the art world. Museums and galleries have slammed their doors shut. Increasingly the only...
26 March 2020
And Last But Not Least Art Basel Gets Postponed
Well well, we all knew this was coming. TEFAF Maastricht is currently under fire for infecting the upper echelons of the art world with...
25 March 2020
Manifesta 13 Marseille Postponed Due to COVID-19 Crisis
Manifesta 13, the European Nomadic Biennial which originated in the early 1990s in response to the political, economic, and social change following the end...
25 March 2020
Rebecca Salter PRA Wins £25,000 Genesis Prize
The Genesis Foundation today announced Rebecca Salter, President of the Royal Academy of Arts, as the winner of the 2020 Genesis Prize.
24 March 2020
Paul Kasmin Formative Contemporary Art Dealer Dies Age 60
The London-born dealer PAUL KASMIN (1960–2020) has died in New York after a protracted illness. The gallery released the following statement.
Italy I Love You My Heart Is With You – Marina Abramović
Marina Abramović made a statement to the people of Italy in association with Palazzo Strozzi as part of project IN TOUCH. The international artist...
Cass Art Shuts All UK Shops
Cass Art has shut all of their stores leaving artists to scramble for supplies. All professionals and students looking to stock up on materials...
Art And Corona What happens Afterwards – Edward Lucie-Smith
As the contemporary art world goes dark, and as galleries - official spaces and commercial ones - slam shut their doors, one inevitably starts...
20 March 2020
Fourth Plinth Commission Postponed Because Of You Know What
The unveiling of the Fourth Plinth commission, a giant soft-serve dollop of whipped cream topped with a cherry, a fly and a drone by...
18 March 2020
Frieze New York 2020 Cancelled
Frieze has announced the cancellation of the ninth edition of the Frieze New York art fair. It falls in line with health and safety...
Art In The Time Of COVID19 – Sue Hubbard
First, the Louvre in Paris closed. Then the galleries in London started to shut their doors, one by one, like the “lamps going out...
16 March 2020
London Art Gallery Closures Latest COVID19 Updates
The National Gallery has unprecedentedly cancelled their highly anticipated Artemisia Gentileschi exhibition, scheduled to open on 4th April. The ICA, Wellcome Collection, South London...
15 March 2020
Old Master Paintings Stolen From University Of Oxford Gallery
If you think UK galleries are safe while everyone is panicking from the COVID19 virus think again. Three valuable paintings have been stolen from...
15 March 2020
Arts Council England Promises Arts Support But Warns Of Closures
Arts Council England has released a statement outlining support for the arts during the COVID 19 crisis. In a statement released today (Sunday 15...
13 March 2020
Anicka Yi To Create Next Hyundai Commission At Tate Modern
Tate Modern has announced that Anicka Yi will create the next annual Hyundai Commission, an annual event at the gallery. Her new site-specific work...
Emma Talbot Wins Max Mara Art Prize for Women 2020
The Max Mara prize 2020 has been awarded to Emma Talbot. The award supports UK-based female artists who have not previously had a major...
Ulay: Marina Abramović Creative Collaborator Dies
Frank Uwe Laysiepen, AKA Ulay, Conceptual artist and long-term creative partner of Marina Abramović, has died age 76. Born in Germany and based in...
Penny Macbeth Appointed New Glasgow School of Art Director
Penny Macbeth has been appointed as the new director of the Glasgow School of Art. Following a tumultuous week of uncertainty, as reported by...
Mackintosh Museum Closure Highlights A Culture Of Complacency – Clare Henry
Today's terrible news, a local Glasgow council is closing Mackintosh's iconic Scotland Street School Museum. I despair. Soon there will be nothing Mackintosh left...
Glasgow School Of Art: A Burnt-Out Toxic Culture – Clare Henry
There have been few iconic institutions more beloved that Charles Rennie Mackintosh's Glasgow School of Art.
12 February 2020
Sonia Boyce Chosen To Represent Britain At 59th Venice Biennale
Sonia Boyce OBE RA has been announced as the artist to represent the UK at the 59th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di...
11 December 2019
Alt Power 100 2019 Artlyst – Back To Basics
The Alt Power 100 2019 Artlyst is our annual way of acknowledging and thanking all of the recipients for making a difference to the...
10 December 2019
Rebecca Salter Becomes Twenty-Seventh President of The Royal Academy
Rebecca Salter has been elected the 27th President of the Royal Academy It was announced today that she will succeed Christopher Le Brun PPRA...
Tackling Artistic Inequality Outside Mainstream Art Institutions
Art has incredible power. It is a force for cultural reflection, social change and an invaluable medium through which we challenge existing assumptions, broaden...
How Wheelchair Friendly Are London Commercial Galleries? – David Lock Investigates
As a wheelchair user, I wanted to write a piece about what it's like for a disabled person visiting commercial galleries in London.
What's On
12 Mar '20-06 Sep '20
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Andy Warhol
Tate Modern
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This major retrospective is the first Andy Warhol exhibition at Tate Modern for almost 20 years.
04 Mar '20-17 May '20
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Among the Trees
Hayward Gallery
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This exhibition brings together artworks that explore our relationships with trees and
04 Mar '20-17 May '20
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Cao Fei: Blueprints
Serpentine Gallery
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Cao Fei is a multi-media artist and filmmaker based in Beijing. Video, digital media,
16 Mar '20-14 Jun '20
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Titian: Love, Desire, Death
National Gallery
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Titian’s sensuous interpretation of Classical myths of love, temptation, and
12 Mar '20-08 Sep '20
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Edmund de Waal: library of exile
British Museum
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Created as a ‘space to sit and read and be’, library of exile is an
27 Feb '20-28 Jun '20
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David Hockney: Drawing from Life
National Portrait Gallery
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The first major exhibition devoted to David Hockney’s drawings in over twenty
20 Feb '20-17 May '20
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Masculinities: Liberation through Photography
Barbican Art Gallery
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Examining depictions of masculinity from behind the lens, the Barbican brings together the work
06 Feb '20-10 May '20
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Radical Figures: Painting in the New Millennium
Whitechapel Gallery
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Radical Figures: Painting in the New Millennium brings together a new generation of artists who
13 Feb '20-11 May '20
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Steve McQueen
Tate Modern
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Tate Modern presents the first major exhibition of Steve McQueen’s artwork in the UK for 20
04 Mar '20-25 May '20
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Aubrey Beardsley
Tate Britain
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Aubrey Beardsley shocked and delighted late-Victorian London with his sinuous black and white
23 Feb '20-25 May '20
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Léon Spilliaert
Royal Academy of Arts
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From his celebrated self-portraits to dreamlike scenes of the North Sea coast, this exhibition
25 Jan '20-13 Apr '20
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Picasso and Paper
Royal Academy of Arts
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Picasso didn’t just draw on paper – he tore it, burnt it, and made it three-dimensional.
Reviews
26 March 2020
Edmund de Waal Books Thousands of Books British Museum – Marina Vaizey
Books written in exile by the exiled. It is this phenomenon, the triumph of the human spirit in dire circumstances, that is the focus...
19 March 2020
Titian: A Pity To Miss – National Gallery – Edward Lucie-Smith
The Titian show at the National Gallery in London has arrived at a particularly inauspicious moment. Major public galleries in Europe are shutting their...
16 March 2020
Drawn To Another World Alexander Hinks – The Cello Factory
What is this ‘other world’ Alexander Hinks is drawn to and asks that we be drawn into? His current exhibition at ‘The Cello Factory’ spans...
12 March 2020
Andy Warhol Multiple Identities – Tate Modern – Edward Lucie-Smith
Andy Warhol (1928-1987) has, even since his death more than thirty years ago, retained a central position in the world of contemporary art.
9 March 2020
Among The Trees A Sense Of Loss – Edward Lucie-Smith
Among the Trees which just opened at the Hayward Gallery, is an ambitious exhibition that has all the best intentions, and somehow fails to...
4 March 2020
Aubrey Beardsley: A Sensual Sometimes Erotic Divertissement – Edward Lucie-Smith
As the exhibition catalogue notes, the Beardsley show that just opened at Tate Britain is the first comprehensive survey of his work to have...
27 February 2020
Young Rembrandt: Influencer Of His Generation – Edward Lucie-Smith
I’ve always liked the exhibitions at the Ashmolean in Oxford. They offer sensible examples of art historical explanation - something that can’t always be...
25 February 2020
David Hockney: Two Major Shows Open In London – Edward Lucie-Smith
As the National Portrait Gallery prepares for its long sleep - three years with its doors firmly shut - it is not surprising to...
7 February 2020
Brandt And Moore: A Shared British Vision – Hepworth Wakefield – Sara Faith
A new exhibition at the Hepworth Wakefield features two very British artists with crossover interests. The photographer Bill Brandt (1904-1983) and sculptor Henry Moore...
5 February 2020
Radical Figures: A New Art Movement? – Edward Lucie-Smith
The rather splendid show of new figurative painting, now on view at the Whitechapel Art Gallery, boasts that it is the first event of...
5 February 2020
Fugitive Artists Display Powerful Images At Turner Contemporary
'We Will Walk—Art and Resistance in the American South' is one of the most powerful and important shows I've seen. It is co-curated by the...
4 February 2020
Rose Wylie: Harnessing A Rebellious Energy – Paul Carter Robinson
Rose Wylie has become one of the leading British contemporary artists of her generation. In the last decade, her work has come to the...
29 January 2020
American Pastoral Art Celebrated In New London Show – Edward Lucie-Smith
The new American Pastoral exhibition at Gagosian’s Britannia Street space is of museum quality, even if what’s on show doesn’t always seem to relate...
22 January 2020
Picasso Exhibition Triumphs With Rarely Seen Works On Paper – Edward Lucie-Smith
Wow! This show is a real blockbuster! Spread out in the main exhibition galleries of the Royal Academy. It gives an excellent idea of...
19 January 2020
New York Gallery Walkabout Winter 2020 – Ilka Scobie
Ilka Scobie takes a look at the first New York exhibitions for 2020 and discovers a few surprises along the way.
18 December 2019
Theaster Gates: Racial, Ethnic And Religious Minglings – Alice Lenkiewicz
The exhibition, AMALGAM by Theaster Gates, now showing at Tate Liverpool is an experience not to be missed with a poignant message for our...
28 November 2019
George IV: The Art Of Spectacle – Queen’s Gallery – Edward Lucie-Smith
The Queen’s Gallery, behind Buckingham Palace, is the place where the British Royal Collection Trust displays its treasures. The latest exhibition there – George...
Previews
12 March 2020
Gustave Moreau: The Fables A New Exhibition At Waddesdon Manor
Gustave Moreau (1826-98) is one of the most brilliant and influential artists of the French Symbolist movement, and this exhibition reveals some of the...
3 March 2020
Ryan McGinley Explores Trademark Nude Genres At Marlborough
Marlborough is presenting Pretty Free, a solo exhibition by the American photographer Ryan McGinley. The show comprises work from several years, but with a...
27 February 2020
Christopher Wool To Exhibit New Works On Paper In London
Galerie Max Hetzler, London has announced an exhibition of new works on paper and sculptures by Christopher Wool. This will be the artist’s first...
20 February 2020
Atakan, French and Cj Hendry Three London Previews
Pi Artworks has announced 'It still is as it always was', the first joint exhibition by Nancy Atakan and Kalliopi Lemos; artists who have...
10 February 2020
Jake Wood-Evans At The Gallery, Winchester Discovery Centre
Hampshire Cultural Trust, in collaboration with Unit London, is presenting an exhibition of specially created new works by the leading British artist, Jake Wood-Evans...
10 February 2020
Nancy Fouts Posthumous Retrospective Announced
Fags, Birds and a Couple of Guns, a retrospective dedicated to the extraordinary work of Nancy Fouts has been announced for Hang-Up Gallery, Hoxton....
29 January 2020
Wolfgang Tillmans First Major Solo Exhibition In Belgium Announced
WIELS inaugurates 2020 with the first large-scale solo exhibition in Belgium of the artist Wolfgang Tillmans.
19 January 2020
Cecily Brown To Mount Major Show At Blenheim Palace
The Blenheim Art Foundation will unveil a significant solo exhibition by acclaimed British artist Cecily Brown at Blenheim Palace, running from 23 April to...
19 January 2020
Larry Achiampong Unveils New Solo Show At John Hansard Gallery
A significant solo exhibition of new and existing works, by Larry Achiampong, titled 'When the Sky Falls', is to open at John Hansard Gallery...
18 January 2020
James Turrell: The Materiality of Light – Pace Gallery, London
New works by Light and Space master James Turrell is to go on show at Pace London 6 Burlington Gardens 11 February to 27...
18 December 2019
Historical Depiction Of Women Explored In New Guildhall Exhibition
A major exhibition at Guildhall Art Gallery will feature work by over 50 artists that draw upon the historical Depiction of women in enclosed...
11 December 2019
Second Riga International Biennial of Contemporary Art – Artists Announced
The second Riga International Biennial of Contemporary Art (RIBOCA) has been announced. This major new biennial in Latvia lists participants for the event entitled...
9 November 2019
Metropolitan Museum Unveils Plans For New British Decorative Arts Galleries
The Met Museum's collection of British decorative arts is one of the most important outside the United Kingdom. Covering the 16th to 19th century
28 October 2019
Andy Warhol Tate Retrospective Announced For Spring
Andy Warhol Tate Modern retrospectivecelebrates one of the most influential artists of the 20th century. His life and work continue to fascinate and be...
Features
30 March 2020
More Interviews From Isolation Four Artists – Oliver Malin
Whilst I will refrain from touting out the current word de jour again, the new normal, it's hard not to feel the paradigm shift...
Art And Faith A Time For Seeing – Revd Jonathan Evens
Edward Lucie-Smith has rightly wondered, as 'the contemporary art world goes dark, and as galleries – official spaces and commercial ones – slam shut...
26 March 2020
Interviews From Isolation Four Artists – Oliver Malin
This is a new series of interviews coordinated by Oliver Malin that Artlyst is going to run over the next few weeks illustrating how...
Peter Saul And Jordan Casteel New Museum NYC – Ilka Scobie
A weird and interesting dichotomy of two painters who share neither age, gender, race or subject matter are united by passionate painting and masterful...
9 March 2020
ULAY: A Personal Reminiscence – Clare Henry
ULAY, who died last week at 76, was tall, handsome, clever, charismatic. In the 1980s he was also half of the world’s golden couple...
4 March 2020
Stanley Spencer: His Two Wives And A Love Triangle
Despite the fact that this remarkable story has been the subject of fascination and debate for decades in books, films and documentaries this show...
24 February 2020
Carolina Mazzolari: Painting With Thread – Interview – Paul Carter Robinson
Carolina Mazzolari is one of the key artists currently in an exhibition and auction sale at Sotheby's to benefit Fine Cell Work, a charity...
9 February 2020
National Gallery Explores ‘Sin’ In New Exhibition – Interview Dr Joost Joustra Curator With Revd Jonathan Evens
The first exhibition in the UK exploring sin in art will be staged at the National Gallery this spring. ‘Sin’ will bring together paintings...
7 February 2020
Margate – Art In Ex Toilets And Family Homes – James Payne
With smaller Galleries being squeezed out of the market more and more, it makes sense to look towards ad hoc spaces. Inventive curators are...
29 January 2020
Photographing The Colony Room Club – Clancy Gebler Davies
It wouldn't be possible to take these pictures now - not least because the fabled Dean Street member's Club (the Colony Room Club) is...
10 Biennial/Triennials You Must see In 2020
Yes, there are a number of biennials/triennials on offer around the globe this year.
4 January 2020
International Art Fair Guide 2020 – Artlyst’s Global Companion
Welcome to the Artlyst printable pull-out International Art Fair Guide 2020. This is our curated choice of the events not to miss in the...
2 January 2020
London Art Exhibitions Preview A Month By Month Guide 2020
We’ve just welcomed in not only a new year but a new decade. So let's look forward to the exciting exhibitions that will be...
What I Don’t Like About The Contemporary Art Scene – Edward Lucie-Smith
A New Year, a new decade - I’ve been thinking about all the things I currently don’t like about the contemporary art scene here...
Andy Warhol: Catholicism His Work, Faith And Legacy – Revd Jonathan Evens
In 1987, in a eulogy given at a Memorial Mass for Andy Warhol, the art historian John Richardson revealed the extent of Warhol’s Catholic...
9 December 2019
Sculptor Conrad Shawcross On Space And Time – Interview Paul Carter Robinson
On the surface, Conrad Shawcross' sculpture retains the appearance of scientific rationality.
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