2 July 2020
Turner Prize Bursaries 10 Artists Revealed
Tate Britain has announced the ten artists who will each receive one-off £10,000 bursaries in place of this year's Turner Prize: Arika, Liz Johnson...
News
2 July 2020
Art Derivatives Challenges Auction House Manipulation By Analysing Data
Art Derivatives a project by the Italian artist Paolo Cirio that challenges the 'out of control' practices of manipulation of the art market, the...
Tate, National Gallery And Royal Academy To Reopen In July
You saw it here first, Tate, The National Gallery and the Royal Academy have announced plans to reopen in July.
Michael Craig-Martin Unveils New Oxford Street Installation
Sir Michael Craig-Martin has created a new work for an iconic site in London’s Oxford Street, which will be launched on Monday 29 June,...
Leonardo’s Last Supper: Is The RA’s Copy Better? – Edward Lucie-Smith
Leonardo’s Last Supper is back on view at the RA. Or at least a copy of it is, made by his pupil Gianpetrino. And...
Hackney Council Announce Public Statues Honouring The Windrush Generation
Hackney Council has announced two public artworks to be unveiled celebrating the Windrush Generation.
19 June 2020
Marlborough To Close NY Gallery – London Next?
The legendary Marlborough Gallery is to close their NY premises with an announcement about the future of their London flagship pending.
17 June 2020
Giuseppe Penone Donates Drawings To Pompidou And Philadelphia Museum
Giuseppe Penone (born in 1947) has made two generous gifts of 350 drawings to the Centre Pompidou and a similar number works on paper...
Forensic Architecture Continue Grenfell Tower Project Awareness
On the third anniversary of the tragic fire which took seventy-two lives in the Grenfell tower block in West London, Artlyst thought it a...
A Sculpture Falls – The Trouble With Problematic Public Statues – Richard Stone
As a sculptor who has used Victorian and other found sculptures in my work for some time, the increasingly heated debate on the future...
8 June 2020
Do Tate Galleries Have A Slavery Past?
The Tate issued a statement in 2019 to put to rest talk about the gallery founder and namesake Henry Tate's involvement in slavery.
Banksy Unveils New Painting Honouring George Floyd’s Memory
The elusive Street Artist Banksy has unveiled a new artwork inspired by the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis.
Black Art Matters – Paul Carter Robinson
This is long overdue, but under the worrying circumstances that have dominated the news in the past week, I feel it is essential to...
Museum Futures Post Lockdown – Edward Lucie-Smith
Tate Modern is easily the most popular gallery of modern art in the world… For a location that consists mostly of open spaces, lightly...
2 June 2020
Christo A Personal Recollection By Marina Vaizey
Over four decades ago I had one of the most exciting experiences of my life – encountering perhaps the most original and innovative artists...
28 May 2020
Hayward Gallery And Southbank Centre Could Close For Years
The Southbank Centre including the Hayward Gallery may close until April 2021. This is as a result of the economic impact of COVID-19.
26 May 2020
Turner Prize Replaced With Bursaries Scheme For 2020
This year the Turner Prize will be replaced by a bursaries scheme In response to the COVID19 pandemic. Tate Britain has announced that it...
Arts Renewal Taskforce Announced By Culture Secretary
The Culture Secretary Oliver Dowden has today announced representatives from the arts, cultural and sporting worlds who will join a new task force aimed...
Manifesta 13 Marseille To Go Ahead In August
Manifesta 13 Marseille the ‘European nomadic biennial’ is to go ahead at the end of August 2020. It was supposed to take place in...
59th Venice Biennale Art Event Skips To 2022
The Venice Biennale organisers have postponed both the Art and Architecture events for up to two years.
14 May 2020
Photo London Moves To October Date At Gray’s Inn Gardens
Photo London has relocated to Gray's Inn Gardens for new Frieze Week Autumn dates (7–11 October with a preview on the evening of 6...
14 May 2020
Daata Partners With International Galleries To Establish New Video Platform
Daata has launched a new public platform for galleries to showcase and sell video art online via the Daata website.
Tate Modern Turns Twenty Despite London Lockdown
Tate Modern has turned twenty despite the lockdown but not to worry you can still celebrate their 20th anniversary online.
6 May 2020
Cathie Pilkington Elected New Keeper Of Royal Academy
Cathie Pilkington RA has been elected as the new Keeper of the Royal Academy. She was elected as a Royal Academician in 2014 and...
Jiab Prachakul Wins 2020 BP Portrait Award
A self-taught artist, Jiab Prachakul has won the prestigious first prize in the BP Portrait Award 2020
Germano Celant Arte Povera Champion Dies From COVID19 Age 80
Germano Celant (1940-2020) the Italian art historian, critic and curator who coined the term " Arte Povera " (poor art) in 1967 has died...
British Museum Puts Four Million Objects Online
The British Museum today launches a major revamp of its online collection database, allowing over 4 million objects to be seen by people anywhere...
Sue Davies Founder Of The Photographers’ Gallery Dies Aged 87
Sue Davies, who founded The Photographers' Gallery in London's Covent Garden in 1971 has died age 87.
16 April 2020
Olafur Eliasson Launches New Earth Day Serpentine Project
The Danish Icelandic artist Olafur Eliasson has announced a new Earth Day project in association with the Serpentine Galleries.
Bloomsbury Group’s Charleston Trust Must Raise £400k To Survive
An emergency appeal has been launched by the Charleston Trust, the keepers of the Bloomsbury Group's country retreat Charleston. The Trust is looking to...
10 April 2020
Paul Hamlyn Foundation Creates £20m emergency COVID-19 Fund
The Paul Hamlyn Foundation has created a £20m emergency fund and will this year split its £1m visual artists and composers’ awards amongst EVERY eligible entrant.
What's On(line)
07 Feb '20-01 Nov '20
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Bill Brandt / Henry Moore: In Detail
The Hepworth Wakefield
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05 May '20-01 Oct '20
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BP Portrait Award 2020
National Portrait Gallery
Selected from 1,981 entries by artists from 69 countries around the world, the BP Portrait Award 2020 represents the very best in contemporary
06 May '20-31 Jul '20
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The Botanical Mind Online
Camden Arts Centre
This new online project has been developed in response to the COVID-19
13 Mar '20-14 Jun '20
The Enchanted Interior
Guildhall Art Gallery
Visit online
This major exhibition explores the recurring motif of female subjects in art, as depicted in enclosed, ornate
27 Jul '20-06 Sep '20
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Andy Warhol
Tate Modern
Reopening
This major retrospective is the first Andy Warhol exhibition at Tate Modern for almost 20 years. As well as his iconic pop
13 Jul '20-23 Aug '20
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Masculinities: Liberation through Photography
Barbican Art Gallery
Reopening
Examining depictions of masculinity from behind the lens, the Barbican brings together the work of over 50 international
27 Jul '20-20 Sep '20
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Aubrey Beardsley
Tate Britain
Reopening
Aubrey Beardsley shocked and delighted late-Victorian London with his sinuous black and white drawings. He explored the
09 Jul '20-02 Aug '20
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Picasso and Paper
Royal Academy of Arts
Reopening
Picasso didn’t just draw on paper – he tore it, burnt it, and made it three-dimensional. From studies for
Reviews
26 June 2020
Zoobs Ansari – Elephant West – Edward Lucie-Smith
As this exhibition demonstrates, Zoobs Ansari’s work covers a lot of contemporary themes. On the one hand, there is the experience of the outsider,...
25 June 2020
London’s Masterpiece Art Fair Moves Online – Edward Lucie-Smith
The Masterpiece Art Fair, a regular feature of the summer season in London, is now up online and will be available there until 28...
17 June 2020
Vincent Van Gogh A Durable Art Legend – Two New Books – Edward Lucie-Smith
Two books from Thames & Hudson about Vincent Van Gogh, one of the most durable legends in art. One offers his life-story, as told...
11 June 2020
Bryan Robertson Promoter Of New Art – Edward Lucie-Smith
Andrew Lambirth's The Life of Bryan, recently published by Unicorn, describes itself rather demurely as a celebration, rather than as a biography.
26 May 2020
BP Portrait Award Survives Online – Edward Lucie-Smith
As the National Portrait Gallery closes its doors, not just in response to the Coronavirus epidemic, but in preparation for a three-year rehab, the...
18 May 2020
Photographer Don McCullin Online At Hamiltons – Edward Lucie-Smith
The ways of the art market are pretty strange. Hamiltons, a leading gallery here in London that specialises in photography, have just put a...
6 May 2020
The Last Leonardo Art Porn For Millennials – Edward Lucie-Smith
Ben Lewis’s book The Last Leonardo, subtitled ‘A Masterpiece, A Mystery and the Dirty World of Art’, has now appeared in paperback after its...
30 April 2020
London’s New Art Scene Creative Britain 1962-68 – Edward Lucie-Smith
Here's a handsome new volume, well-illustrated, but more social history than art book, which tells of the emergence of London as an international art...
23 April 2020
Infamous Colony Room Relived In New Book – Edward Lucie-Smith
Darren Coffield’s well-presented Tales from the Colony Room, Soho’s Lost Bohemia, memorialises an epoch in the London world of the arts that now seems...
Artemisia Gentileschi A Retrospective Online – Edward Lucie-Smith
The much-anticipated Artemisia Gentileschi exhibition at the National Gallery in London has now been indefinitely postponed, to the disappointment of many.
9 April 2020
Piranesi Drawings – Neoclassical Visions – Edward Lucie-Smith
This handsome soft-cover catalogue published by Thames & Hudson for the British Museum was intended to commemorate an exhibition that hasn’t in fact taken...
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...
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...
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...
Previews
2 July 2020
Cure3 Announces Line Up Of Top Artists For 2020
The Cure Parkinson’s Trust, in association with Bonhams and Artwise, has announced the complete list of participating artists for Cure3 2020. This is the 3rd...
Queer Frontiers: Moves Online For Annual Pride Exhibition
This year the exhibition is back with a diverse collection of artists from around the world. Works can be purchased on the website and...
25 June 2020
Lavish Sir Anish Kapoor Exhibition Set To Open At Houghton Hall Norfolk
Important works by the British sculptor Sir Anish Kapoor will go on show across the grounds and historic interiors of Houghton Hall in Norfolk...
14 June 2020
The People Behind Community Is Kindness Billboard Campaign – Revd Jonathan Evens
There was a moment, writes Mark Dean, Chaplain & Interfaith Adviser to University of Arts London, corresponding to, but not defined by the lockdown
11 June 2020
Marcus Lyall: Scream the House Down A Socially-Distanced Art Installation Unveiled
You are invited to vocalise your inner frustrations and power a large-scale light installation.
11 June 2020
Sotheby’s Rembrandt Self Portrait Should Be Returned To Holland
Sotheby's announced this week that a small, delicate Rembrandt self-portrait is to be auctioned on July 28th, here in London. The painting is unusually...
4 June 2020
National Gallery Extends Titian Exhibition in London
The National Gallery has announced that the universally acclaimed exhibition Titian: Love, Desire, Death will be extended due to the generosity of its partners and lenders....
Salisbury Cathedral 800 Years Of Art And Spirit – Revd Jonathan Evens
When an exhibition celebrating 800 years of spirit and endeavour at Salisbury Cathedral has to be installed against the clock and then its launch...
20 May 2020
Munch Museum Launches New Digital Exhibition
The Munch Museum in Oslo has launched a newly redesigned website, which will serve as a platform for digital exhibitions and art experiences.
12 May 2020
Rembrandt’s Night Watch 44.8-Gigapixel Image Goes Live
The largest and most detailed ever photograph of Rembrandt’s masterpiece The Night Watch has been unveiled on The Rijksmuseum's website. The 44.8-gigapixel image will...
Outside The Box: Hauser & Wirth Launch First VR Exhibition
In its Future Menorca Space Using New HWVR Technology Hauser & Wirth have announced their first VR exhibition in the new space. The exhibition features...
13 April 2020
Rashid Johnson Online Coronavirus Pandemic Drawings Unveiled
With the online exhibition ‘Untitled Anxious Red Drawings,’ American artist Rashid Johnson introduces a selection of new works made since the onset of the...
8 April 2020
Henry Moore Foundation Edmund de Waal Show Postponed Until 2021
This Living Hand, the exhibition curated by artist and writer Edmund de Waal for the Henry Moore Foundation, has now been postponed until 2021.
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...
Features
2 July 2020
SOHO HOUSE ANNOUNCES THE INAUGURAL SOHO HOUSE ART PRIZE
Judges including Maria Balshaw CBE, Director of Tate, Hebru Brantley, contemporary American artist and Kate Bryan, Head of Collections for Soho House will select...
25 June 2020
Wim Wenders An Exclusive Artlyst Interview
Renowned as one of the most important film directors of our time, Wim Wenders (b.1945, Dusseldorf) developed, in parallel, an extensive photographic oeuvre. It...
18 June 2020
Last Lockdown Interviews pART 6 – Oliver Malin
The date was 13th June, When I first started writing this installment in this potentially infinite series, but everything I wrote felt stale. As...
13 June 2020
Elizabeth Kwant Interview With Revd Jonathan Evens
Elizabeth Kwant’s work engages contemporary socio-political issues; immigration detention, migration, gender and slavery through her multi-disciplinary practice. Her socially engaged arts projects have often...
André Daughtry: Art, Rebellion And Racial Justice – Revd Jonathan Evens
Artworks acquire layers of meaning over time. André Daughtry's Weight is a video work from 2014 that attempts 'to visualise societal projections on the black...
4 June 2020
London Lockdown Interviews pART 5 – Oliver Malin
Usually, an article written by this author within this feature series would only be aiming for laughs, confusion and splashes of enlightenment.
1 June 2020
Great Paintings Explained A New Video Series By James Payne
This is a new series by historian James Payne demystifying great works of art. We will be adding to this page as the content...
31 May 2020
Wallis Eates Graphic Storytellers/Comic Creatives In Conversation With Jude Cowan Montague
In this first series of interviews with graphic novelists, I spoke with Wallis Eates, author, artist and raconteur.
14 May 2020
Scotland Marks Thirtieth Anniversary Of Historic Venice Biennale Takeover – Clare Henry
Thirty years ago this week, in 1990, Scotland made history at the 44th Venice Biennale. It was the first and only time in its...
7 May 2020
Sean Scully In Conversation With Kelly Grovier – Lockdown 2020 – Video Added
Lockdown 2020 and the art world has been brought to a grinding halt. Major exhibitions that have taken years to plan and organize have...
4 May 2020
London Gallery Lockdown Night And Day – A Photo Essay
London Gallery Lockdown 4/05/2020: Greta Thunberg would undoubtedly agree with the first statement
29 April 2020
London Lockdown Interviews pART 4 – Oliver Malin
Lockdown Interviews: Samuel Johnson once explained to a friend at some point on September 20, 1777, in a London bookshop that "you find no...
26 April 2020
Lockdown London A Photo Essay By Oliver Malin
It seems odd to be writing an introduction to a lockdown London photographic series investigating the epicentre of the night, the quiet, airy night,...
15 April 2020
How To Isolate: Art Industry Interviews – Oliver Malin
Dearly beloved, we are all unfortunately still gathered here on this unexpected Summer holiday to a destination unknown.
6 April 2020
Solitude An Essay By Jeremy Cooper
Some of us have spent much of our lives seeking first to explain to self and then to justify to loved others the need...
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...
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...
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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