15 January 2019
Kanye West Pledges $10m Towards James Turrell’s Roden Crater Project
Last month the rap singer Kanye West visited the ethereal, glowing light installations of artist James Turrell. He was so moved by the works...
News
14 January 2019
McJesus Sculpture Sparks Protest At Haifa Museum
Several hundred fundamentalist Christians have staged a protest outside the Haifa Museum of Art in Israel demanding the removal of 'McJesus' a sculpture of...
Is Pyotr Pavlensky Just An Attention Seeking Muppet
In the aftermath of sentencing the exiled Russian artist Petr (AKA Pyotr) Pavlensky on Thursday, I ask myself why is he doing this? Is...
11 January 2019
Jock McFadyen RA Announced As Coordinator Of 251st Royal Academy Summer Exhibition
The Scottish painter, Jock McFadyen RA will be the coordinator of the 251st Summer Exhibition in 2019.
10 January 2019
Elmgreen & Dragset Prada Marfa Honoured With Cameo On The Simpsons
The ever-timely Elmgreen & Dragset have been honoured with a cameo appearence of the “Prada Marfa” Shop installation on an episode of The Simpsons....
9 January 2019
The Shed NY Unveils Buildings Named After Patrons Bloomberg And Tisch
The Shed has announced the opening date and building names for New Yorks newest not for profit artspace.
7 January 2019
Top Artists Join Forces To Raise Money For Refugee Crisis
Multicolour is a new exhibition and auction fundraiser to support those affected by the global refugee crisis created by Migrate Art.
6 January 2019
John Ruskin: 200th Anniversary Celebrated With Year-Long Programme
To mark the 200th anniversary of the birth of the influential writer, thinker, artist and social reformer John Ruskin (1819 -1900)
6 January 2019
Towner Art Gallery To Exhibit Living Collection At London Art Fair
The London Art Fair has partnered with Eastbourne’s Towner Art Gallery to present The Living Collection, an exhibition that celebrates the gallery’s rich heritage...
Zombie Formalism: Ticking The Right Boxes Be Damned – Edward Lucie-Smith
I’ve been looking again at Georgina Adam’s recently published book, The Dark Side of the Boom (Lund Humphries). It ranges over a wide variety...
Looking Forward To Art In 2019 – Edward Lucie-Smith
Looking forward to the art year ahead of us – 2019 – there are certain things one notices immediately, in the announcements so far...
Sister Wendy Beckett Art Historian And Carmelite Nun Dies Age 88
The celebrated art historian and nun Sister Wendy Beckett has died at the age of 88, it has been announced. In the 1990s she...
Tate Purchases Women’s Rights Campaigner Sylvia Pankhurst Watercolours
Tate Britain have revealed that it will be purchasing four watercolours by the renowned artist and women’s rights campaigner Sylvia Pankhurst (1882-1960).
17 December 2018
Manifesta 13 Director Hedwig Fijen Announces Team For Marseille Event
A new artistic team has been selected for Manifesta 13 which takes place in Marseille in 2020 by Director of Manifesta, Hedwig Fijen.
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,...
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...
26 October 2018
Jeff Koons Ashmolean Exhibition Announced For February 2019
Jeff Koons (b. 1955) will have a major exhibition to be held at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, in spring 2019.
What's On
17 Jan '19-26 Jan '20
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Bridget Riley: Messengers
National Gallery
A new large-scale work by Bridget Riley in Annenberg Court of the National
11 Jan '19-23 Feb '19
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Ulay
Richard Saltoun
ULAY is an unclassifiable artist whose trajectory amounts to a radically and historically unique oeuvre operating at the intersection of photography
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London Art Fair 2019
Business Design Centre
London Art Fair provides a space to showcase the most exceptional modern and contemporary art of our time, to discover and to
28 Nov '18-19 Jan '19
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Chiharu Shiota: Me Somewhere Else
Blain Southern
Chiharu Shiota’s first exhibition at Blain Southern’s London gallery centres around a new site-specific installation, along with sculpture
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
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
Reviews
16 January 2019
Lynette Yiadom Boakye In Lieu Of A Louder Love – Ilka Scobie
A couple of years after Lynette Yiadom Boakye dazzled New York with her solo show at the New Museum, she returns to the city...
15 January 2019
Mayfair’s Golden Oldies: Bernard Jacobson At 50 and Stephen Buckley @ Mayor Gallery – Edward Lucie-Smith
The Bernard Jacobson Gallery in the heart of London has had a long connection with artists’ prints and printmaking since it first opened its...
13 January 2019
Pailthorpe And Mednikoff The Birth of Psychorealism – Edward Lucie-Smith
This Christmas and New Year it was an exhibition at the sternly Modernist – yes, with a big M - De La Warr Pavilion...
9 January 2019
How Egon Schiele Became Egon Schiele – Fondation Louis Vuitton – Jude Cowan Montague
When I visited art college studios as a jealous English student in the 1980s, the cool, edgy artists had pictures of skinny, edgy women...
7 January 2019
Irving Penn Paintings: A Kind Of Photographic Sub-Stratum – Edward Lucie-Smith
Irving Penn (1917-2009) was one of the great stars of 20th century American photography, at a time when the United States was becoming the...
28 December 2018
Philip Colbert / Marshmallow Laser Feast – Saatchi Gallery- Review Edward Lucie-Smith
In the current context of London exhibitions, the unabashed rock-'n’roll energy of the Philip Colbert Hunt Paintings' show, recently opened upstairs at the Saatchi...
28 December 2018
Jean-Michel Basquiat – Fondation Louis Vuitton – Review Jude Cowan Montague
Where are the black artists in the galleries? We think it's bad now, what about during the 1980s? The early 1980s before Basquiat?
27 December 2018
Thomas Gainsborough: A Thirst For Visible Originality – Edward Lucie-Smith
After various adventures away from its traditional subject-matter – the recent Michael Jackson show being a case in point, the National Portrait Gallery returns...
17 December 2018
Edwin Landseer The Return Of A Moralistically Empathetic Artist – Edward Lucie-Smith
How times have changed! And how much they haven’t! A small but telling display of work by the celebrated Victorian artist Sir Edwin Landseer,...
15 December 2018
Bloomberg New Contemporaries South London Gallery – Review – Jude Cowan Montague
I confess straight away that I didn't have as much time as I would have liked to spend on this exhibition. It has a...
12 December 2018
Plaster Casters: Victoria & Albert Museum Cast Courts Reopen – Edward Lucie-Smith
The full re-opening of the Victoria & Albert Museum’s Cast Courts occurs at an apposite moment.
4 December 2018
Chiharu Shiota: Immersive Elegant Scarlet Threads – Blain|Southern – Edward Lucie-Smith
Today London’s official art world is full of enthusiasm for so-called ‘minority art’, made by artists of guaranteed ‘minority origin’. On the whole, however,...
2 December 2018
Five Academicians: Glasgow Print Studio – Clare Henry
You have to be reasonably senior to be an Academician of any sort. Put five together? The result is an exciting and extremely varied...
29 November 2018
Fernand Léger A Mechanical Visual Language – Tate Liverpool – Alice Lenkiewicz
It was captivating to see the Fernand Léger exhibition (until 17 March 2019) at Tate Liverpool.
28 November 2018
Robert Rauschenberg Light-Hearted Works With Serious Meaning – Edward Lucie-Smith
The Robert Rauschenberg show Spreads: 1975-83 just opened at Thaddaeus Ropac here in London comes complete with a museum-worthy hardcover catalogue, and is indeed,...
18 November 2018
Hilma af Klint: Paintings For The Future – Guggenheim Museum NY – Ilka Scobie
Hilma af Klint’s abstract paintings first dazzled me when I encountered her work in the 2013 Venice Bienalle.
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...
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...
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...
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.
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
15 January 2019
Newport Street Gallery Announces John Bellany and Alan Davie Exhibition
The Newport Street Gallery will be presenting an exhibition of work by John Bellany (1942–2013) and Alan Davie (1920–2014), opening on 27 February and...
8 January 2019
Edvard Munch Printmaking Explored In New British Museum Exhibition
The British Museum will be presenting a major new exhibition of printmaking by the Norwegian artist Edvard Munch (1863-1944).
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.
London Art Fair Returns For 2019 Bumper Edition
The London Art Fair 2019 (LAF) returns to the capital from 16-20 January to obliterate the winter blues and give us a boost of...
13 December 2018
Tracey Emin: A Fortnight of Tears – New Exhibition Announced By White Cube
Tracey Emin has a new show titled 'A Fortnight of Tears' opening in early 2019 at White Cube Bermondsey.
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.
20 November 2018
Diane Arbus The Formative Years New Hayward Exhibition Announced
The Hayward Gallery is to celebrate the early work of the American photographer Diane Arbus with a new exhibition of her work. Diane Arbus:...
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...
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...
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,...
Features
Bill Viola And The Art Of Contemplation – Revd Jonathan Evens
In welcoming Bill Viola’s installations at St Paul’s Cathedral, Mark Oakley noted that: ‘Viola’s art slows down our perceptions in order to deepen them.’
12 January 2019
Johnny Burt And Joe Kennedy The Ringmasters Behind Unit London – Zoltan Alexander
During December, Unit London ran their show with Jackie Tsai “Reincarnation", opened "Hunt Paintings" by pop artist Philippe Colbert at Saatchi, and in a...
3 January 2019
London Art Fair Competition Winners Announced – Artlyst
Answer the three questions below for the chance to win a free ticket for you and a guest to the London Art Fair worth...
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.
Sister Wendy Beckett – A Reminiscence By Revd Jonathan Evens – Artlyst Exclusive
I first encountered Sister Wendy Beckett in the pages of ‘Modern Painters’, the art magazine founded by the art critic Peter Fuller which ‘celebrated...
London Art Exhibitions January 2019 – Paul Carey- Kent
The noted writer and curator Paul Carey-Kent gives us his rolling ten recommended contemporary art shows in London now.
24 December 2018
Bruce Eves Canadian Art Instigator Interviewed By Filmmaker Peter Dudar – Artlyst Exclusive
Bruce Eves was awarded Canada's 2018 Governor General’s Award in Visual and Media Arts.
2018 A Melancholy Year For Art Exhibitions In Britain – Edward Lucie-Smith
It has been in many ways a somewhat melancholy year for art, here in Britain – or should I say: ‘here in London’? -since...
19 December 2018
My Ten Favourite UK-Centric Art Events Of 2018 – Paul Black
As we reach the end of yet another challenging year in the art world, Artlyst's Paul Black has chosen some of his 2018 highlights.
3 December 2018
Kelly Grovier On 57 Ways Of Seeing Art – Interview Sara Faith
Kelly Grovier discusses his new book A New Way of Seeing: The History of Art in 57 Works with Sara Faith.
24 November 2018
A Conversation With French Collector Thierry Forien – Paris Photo 2018 – Virginie Puertolas-Syn
Thierry Forien is a collector of Contemporary Art, Prix Découverte des Amis du Palais de Tokyo. He is on the board of Thalie Art...
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.
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
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...
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...