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.
News
15 May 2022
Man Ray Sets New Photography Record Price at $12.4m
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
Otto Dix Watercolours From The Gurlitt Hoard Auctioned
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 Seminal NY 1980s Painter Dies Age 65
Donald Baechler, who died in April, was one of the most promising artists of the 1980s.
10 May 2022
Andy Warhol Marilyn Breaks 20th c Auction Records – Art Fund Museum Of The Year Shortlist Announced – Sackler Name Removed From National Gallery London And Guggenheim
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
Maurizio Cattelan Sued – New York Auction Industry Deregulation – Major Tate Liverpool Refurbishment
The Italian Conceptual artist Maurizio Cattelan is being sued in Paris over intellectual property infringement.
Controversial Philip Guston Exhibition To Open In Boston – Art Gallery of New South Wales To Open In December – Professor Deborah Swallow To Step Down At Courtauld
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
Hermann Nitsch Austrian Multidisciplinary Artist Dies Age 83
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
Golden Lion For Sonia Boyce GB and Simone Leigh US At 59th Venice Biennale
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
Turner Prize 2022 Shortlist Announced In Liverpool
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...
Royal College of Art Still Number One In The World – Stolen Charles Darwin Notebooks Returned – Philip Guston Painting Expected To Break Records At Sotheby’s
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
Mega Dealer Ivor Braka Sued By Artist Collection Societies – Mariupol Museum Levelled – Artist Steve McQueen Knighted
The Art dealer Ivor Braka is being sued by artists’ resale rights groups for not paying royalties to living artists or their estates. The...
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04 May '22-04 Sep '22
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Reframed: The Woman in the Window
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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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Cornelia Parker
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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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Walter Sickert
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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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Raphael: The Credit Suisse Exhibition
National Gallery
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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Postwar Modern: New Art in Britain 1945-1965
Barbican Art Gallery
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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Surrealism Beyond Borders
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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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A Century of the Artist’s Studio: 1920 – 2020
Whitechapel Gallery
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09 Feb '22-15 May '22
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Louise Bourgeois: The Woven Child
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The first major retrospective of legendary artist Louise Bourgeios to focus exclusively on her work using fabrics and
Reviews
9 May 2022
Radical Landscapes: A Reaction To Nature – Tate Liverpool – Alice Lenkiewicz
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
New York In Focus Whitney Biennial Plus Gallery Round-Up – Ilka Scobie
The Whitney Biennial is big, sprawling across the entire museum, featuring 59 artists and bravura curation.
13 April 2022
Auerbach Unseen An Unflinching Vision Newlands House Gallery – Claudia Barbieri Childs
Newlands House Gallery in Petworth, Sussex, is showing more than 65 paintings and smaller works on paper by Frank Auerbach,
11 April 2022
Raphael The Human And Divine – National Gallery – Rev Jonathan Evens
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
Camille Pissarro Catalyst of Impressionism Ashmolean Museum – Nico Kos Earle
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
Damien Hirst The Visceral Reality Of Death – Revd Jonathan Evens
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: Artist in Residence National Gallery – Revd Jonathan Evens
Ali Cherri, as an artist growing up in Lebanon during the Civil War, embodying traumatic experiences of catastrophe and violence
19 March 2022
Maggi Hambling And Faith Ringgold The Matriarchs of March – Ilka Scobie
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
Ai Weiwei Juxtaposes Politics and Artefacts Kettle’s Yard – Lee Sharrock
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
Love Is In The (Open) Air Robert Indiana Sculpture YSP – James Payne
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
A Look Inside The Artist’s Studio – Whitechapel Gallery
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 Outside The Usual Story – Tate Modern – Revd Jonathan Evens
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
Whistler’s Symphony In White Royal Academy
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
Louise Bourgeois: Vision Of The Safe Womb – Hayward Gallery – Sue Hubbard
is a mythmaker and a storyteller. A chronicler of the self who has used her life to create narratives that speak of female desire
Van Gogh Self Portraits The Infinite And The Ordinary – Revd Jonathan Evens
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
Francis Bacon: Birth Copulation And Death – Royal Academy – Sue Hubbard
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
Lubaina Himid: So Many Competing Ideas Tate Modern – Sue Hubbard
She’s the oldest artist to have won the Turner Prize (she is now 67). Born in Zanzibar, Lubaina Himid returned
Previews
9 May 2022
Yurim Gough: VainEgo – A New Solo Exhibition at APT Gallery
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
Wallace Chan Living In A Material World 59th Venice Biennale – James Payne
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
FUTURERITUAL: Exploring Ritual In Queer Performance Cultures – ICA London
Exploring ritual in queer and performance cultures, FUTURERITUAL is a new, artist-led programme at the ICA this month.
3 May 2022
Sean Scully Explores The Role Of The Square In New Dublin Exhibition
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
Cornelia Parker To Mount Major Survey Of Her Work At Tate Britain
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
Molly Parkin A 90th Birthday Retrospective – The Stash Gallery Vout O Reenees London
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
Walter Sickert A Complex Personality Evolved On Canvas – Tate Britain
Tate Britain will present London’s biggest retrospective of Walter Sickert (1860-1942) in almost 30 years.
24 March 2022
William Turnbull At 100 Retrospective Announced By Offer Waterman
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...
Features
8 May 2022
The Return Of A Post Pandemic Art Brussels – Paul Carey Kent
Art Brussels sprouts back to life after two years missed for Covid, from 28 April – 1 May.
4 May 2022
Andrew Marr Talks Painting Not Politics With Ria Higgins
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
Venice To London May 2022 Diary – Revd Jonathan Evens
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: Interview of the Month May 2022 – Paul Carey-Kent
Martin Parr is famous worldwide for over 50 years of intensely colourful and wittily affectionate photographic observations of people.
2 May 2022
Surrealism’s Alternative History The 59th Venice Biennale – Nico Kos Earle
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 YouTube Series Venice Biennale Special
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
59th Venice Biennale: Twelve Things To See On-Site – Paul Carter Robinson
I have just returned from the 59th Venice Biennale, which was thrown off course by a year due to the pandemic.
26 April 2022
Eight Of The Best Collateral Events – 59th Venice Biennale – Lee Sharrock
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
Venice Biennale 2022: Official Collateral Events Guide – Artlyst
This year, the Venice Biennale offers 30 official collateral events that the curators have sanctioned. They will run at the same time as the...
59th Venice Biennale One Stop Guide To Artists Curators And Pavilions – Artlyst
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11 April 2022
Glasgow’s Burrell Nearly 40 Years On Gets A New Look – Clare Henry
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
No Surprises: Annual Art Basel Global Art Market Report 2022 Revealed
The Art Basel Market Report 2022 is a highly anticipated industry barometer.
16 March 2022
London’s West End Galleries The Art Of Upstairs Downstairs – Clive Jennings
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
Marilyn Stafford Beyond A Jobbing Photographer – Claudia Barbieri Childs
BRIGHTON: Marilyn Stafford thought of herself as a jobbing photographer; she had a living to earn as a single mother.
28 February 2022
Twelve Out Of London Art Exhibitions Spring 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
Fair Comment: What’s On And Off In 2022 – Artlyst Fair Guide
Artlyst has compiled a dateline of international Art Fairs scheduled to open in the next twelve months
29 December 2021
Alt Power 100 Artlyst 2021 – Art Makes People Powerful
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
Homage To Wayne Thiebaud – In Conversation With Colin Smith
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
Twelve London Art Exhibitions To Energise You in 2022
Artlyst has selected twelve of the most exciting exhibitions promised for 2022 in London.
26 October 2021
Paul Carey Kent Artist Interview Of The Month Index – Artlyst
Welcome to this new series of monthly artist interviews by critic Paul Carey-Kent. Paul has written for Art Monthly and Frieze Magazine
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Great Artworks Explained A New Video Series By James Payne
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...