23 October 2021
Andy Warhol Electric Chair Owned By Alice Cooper Unsold At Auction
The American rock legend Alice Cooper has auctioned a painting by Andy Warhol, 'Little Electric Chair' Red (1964).
News
Egypt Frees Ai-Da The Robot Artist – Gillian Wearing Unveils Statue Of Diane Arbus – New Munch Museum Opens
Egypt Frees Ai-Da The Robot Artist - Gillian Wearing Unveils Statue Of Diane Arbus - New Munch Museum Opens
Spencer Tunick Restages Nude Dead Sea Project 10 Years On
Three hundred Models wearing only white body paint have posed in a desert landscape in southern Israel as part of the latest project by...
18 October 2021
Found: Egyptian Sphinxes A Tiepolo Drawing And Two Newly Discovered Van Goghs
Egyptian Sphinxes A Tiepolo Drawing And Two Newly Discovered Van Gogh's found in gardens, lofts and cellars.
14 October 2021
Banksy Shred Art Sells For Record £16m At Sotheby’s
A neo-dadaist painting by Banksy, which shredded itself at a Sotheby's auction has sold for a record £16 million.
Anicka Yi Unveils A Robotic Ecosystem At Tate’s Turbine Hall – Studio Voltaire Reopens – documenta fifteen Announces Participating Artists
Anicka Yi Unveils A Robotic Ecosystem At Tate's Turbine Hall - Studio Voltaire Reopens - documenta fifteen Announces Participating Artists
7 October 2021
Warhol Portrait Of Basquiat Auctioned – Botticelli Christ Leads $40m Estimate At Sotheby’s – Christie’s Record Contemporary Achieves Highest Total
Warhol Portrait Of Basquiat Auctioned - Botticelli Christ Leads $40m Estimate At Sotheby's - Christie's Record Contemporary Achieves Highest Total
4 October 2021
Pandora Papers Reveal Artworld Money Laundering – Windrush Sculpture Unveiled – LA’s Academy Museum Opens
The Pandora Papers released over the weekend have released over twelve million documents revealing systematic tax-dodging by fourteen firms utilising offshore bank accounts to...
Courtauld Gallery Announces Reopening Dates – Frida Kahlo Trademark Dispute Dropped By US Court – Sonic Ray Installation Revives London’s Only Lighthouse
Courtauld Gallery Announces Reopening Dates - Frida Kahlo Trademark Dispute Dropped By US Court - Sonic Ray Installation Revives London’s Only Lighthouse
27 September 2021
Lubaina Himid Unveils GAC Commission – Tate’s Turbine Hall Commission Dates Announced – British Museum Launches NFT Partnership Platform
The Turner Prize-winning artist Lubaina Himid CBE has been awarded the Robson Orr TenTen Award 2021 by the Government Art Collection (GAC).
Brancusi Kiss: French Authorities Refuse Historical Monument Export Licence
A sculpture by the Romanian artist Constantin Brancusi is the subject of a long-running legal battle. It has now been...
23 September 2021
Frida Kahlo Last Self-Portrait Auctioned – Van Gogh And Frans Hals Theft Trial – Firstsite Selected Art Fund Museum of the Year
Frida Kahlo Last Self-Portrait Auctioned - Van Gogh And Frans Hals: X-Con Goes On Trial - Firstsite Selected Art Fund Museum of the Year
12 September 2021
Francis Bacon Forgery Ring Italian Police Make Arrests
Italian police have seized 500 drawings and collages reputed to be by the Irish born artist Francis Bacon.
11 September 2021
Wim Wenders 9/11 Photos Exhibited At Imperial War Museum
A new exhibition of photos by Wim Wenders taken at the site of the World Trade Center towers a month after 9/11 has gone...
Watch A $3m Kusama Pumpkin Wash Out To Sea In Typhoon
Watch A $3m painted bronze Kusama Pumpkin Wash Out To Sea In Typhoon. The sculpture was rescued by locals and is now in a...
Banal Public Statues – We Deserve Better – Edward Lucie-Smith
The new over-life size statue group of Princess Diana, just unveiled at Kensington Palace, to celebrate what would have been her sixtieth birthday, shows...
21 May 2021
The Trouble With The Turner Prize – Edward Lucie-Smith
The Turner Prize continues to be in trouble. The competition has an aim: to single out the best new artists living and working in...
26 February 2021
What’s The Fuss About Non-Fungible Tokens? – Edward Lucie-Smith
Suddenly my web feed is full of information about Non-Fungible Tokens - the latest form of digital art. Here, for example, are images of...
What's On(line)
30 Sep '21-30 Jan '22
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Hokusai: The Great Picture Book of Everything
British Museum
Over 100 newly rediscovered drawings by Japanese artist, Katsushika Hokusai (1760–1849) will go on public display for the very first time at the
08 Oct '21-13 Nov '21
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Mark Rothko 1968: Clearing Away
Pace London
This landmark exhibition will be the first in the United Kingdom that is solely dedicated to Mark Rothko’s extraordinary paper-based
11 Sep '21-09 Jan '22
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Wim Wenders: Photographing Ground Zero
IWM London
Wim Wenders: Photographing Ground Zero presents large scale photographs taken less than two months after the terror attacks of 9/11, as the gravity
30 Sep '21-04 Dec '21
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Leon Kossoff: A Life in Painting
Annely Juda Fine Art
Comprising 58 works, this touring show will be the first posthumous and largest exhibition of Kossoff’s paintings in a commercial setting to
09 Oct '21-02 Jan '22
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06 Oct '21-02 Jan '22
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Pablo Bronstein: Hell in its Heyday
Sir John Soane's Museum
n a new body of work created especially for Sir John Soane’s Museum, contemporary artist Pablo Bronstein presents his unique, seductive and deeply
22 Sep '21-30 Jan '22
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Frans Hals: The Male Portrait
Wallace Collection
This exhibition will bring together a careful selection of the artist’s best male portraits from Europe and North
30 Sep '21-09 Jan '22
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Noguchi
Barbican Art Gallery
An exhibition celebrating Japanese American sculptor Isamu Noguchi (1904-1988), one of the most experimental and pioneering artists of the 20th
09 Sep '21-12 Dec '21
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Mixing It Up: Painting Today
Hayward Gallery
Mixing It Up brings together 31 contemporary painters who exploit the unique characteristics of their medium to create fresh, compelling works of
15 Sep '21-18 Apr '22
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Helen Frankenthaler: Radical Beauty
Dulwich Picture Gallery
The first major UK exhibition of woodcuts by leading Abstract Expressionist, Helen
22 Sep '21-02 Jan '22
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Summer Exhibition 2021
Royal Academy of Arts
The Summer Exhibition is the world’s largest open-submission art show. It brings together art in all mediums, from prints, paintings, film and
Reviews
23 October 2021
Lucy McKenzie Master Of Trompe-l’œil Tate Liverpool – Alice Lenkiewicz
It's a challenging and wonderful exhibition by a woman artist, Lucy McKenzie, Glasgow born, Brussels - based
23 October 2021
George Condo Lockdown Works Hauser & Wirth – Revd Jonathan Evens
There is an explosion of paint at Hauser & Wirth in the latest exhibition by George Condo. The energies of emergence and encounter surge...
19 October 2021
Theaster Gates Clay As A Profound Metaphor – Revd Jonathan Evens
In the beginning, there was Clay. Clay was without form. Thus begins Theaster Gates' 'A Clay Sermon',
10 October 2021
Mark Rothko: Mesmerising And Intimate Works On Paper – Revd Jonathan Evens
Among Mark Rothko’s artistic philosophies, he held that painting was a deeply psychological and spiritual experience
5 October 2021
Duncan Grant An Enigmatic Bohemian Rhapsody – Marina Vaizey
The artist Duncan Grant (1885-1978) was a charismatic, much-loved central figure in the Bloomsbury Group, a collection of friends, including the writer Virginia Woolf,...
Turner Prize 2021: A Collective Experience – Sue Hubbard
In a year dominated by the pandemic, it was decided not to award the Turner Prize to an individual but to a collective.
1 October 2021
The Last Temptation of Christo – L’Arc de Triomphe: Wrapped – James Payne
James Payne has been to Paris to see Christo's wrapping of L'Arc de Triomphe. Napoléon's monument to himself has been turned into a memento mori...
28 September 2021
Emily Speed: Body Architecture Tate Liverpool – Alice Lenkiewicz
Emily Speed's new exhibition at Tate Liverpool is based upon the human body and related very much so to architecture.
16 September 2021
International Autumn Art Exhibition Reviews – Revd Jonathan Evens
Periodic reviews of exhibitions around the globe can highlight a range of work in a range of styles in many different galleries.
4 September 2021
The Lost Leonardo Film Review by James Payne
James Payne reviews the new film "The Lost Leonardo" directed by Andreas Koefed and encounters a thrilling journey through the murky world of art.
17 August 2021
Roger Cecil: A Once In A Generation Welsh Painter – Revd Jonathan Evens
Aged 21, after just one week, Roger Cecil walked away from his scholarship at the Royal College of Art to make art on his...
13 August 2021
Tino Sehgal: Location, Nature And Pandemic – Blenheim Palace – Revd Jonathan Evens
The female participant in Tino Sehgal’s ‘Kiss’ is stretched out on the floor, head arched, looking back, as her partner moves in slow motion
26 July 2021
Lucian Freud: Real Lives In Focus Tate Liverpool – Alice Lenkiewicz
Lucian Freud - Real Lives is the first exhibition of his work in the North West for thirty years. Widely regarded as a master...
Sidney Nolan: Colour of the Sky – Auschwitz Paintings – Revd Jonathan Evens
The Australian modernist Sidney Nolan was among those responding in this way, but his responses have remained unseen and unappreciated within his archive until...
8 July 2021
Paula Rego Ambiguous Persuasive and Subversive Tate Britain – Marina Vaizey
Paula Rego (b 1935) is an artist who is vividly expressive and imaginative in her use of colour deployed in the service of brilliantly...
9 June 2021
Rodin: Suffering And Conflict – Tate Modern – Revd Jonathan Evens
To stage a major Rodin exhibition in 2021, the 700th anniversary of the death of Dante is particularly appropriate ...
Previews
Cristina Iglesias Unveils Sea Cave (Entrance) Installation At Malta’s MICAS Art Weekend
Malta's MICAS International Art Weekend 2021 has witnessed the unveiling of a stunning new sculpture by the artist Cristina Iglesias.
13 October 2021
Francis Bacon: RA Show Explores His Fascination With Animals
The Royal Academy of Arts is presenting Francis Bacon: Man and Beast, the first exhibition to chart the development of the artist’s work through...
12 October 2021
Louise Bourgeois Hayward Exhibition To Focus On Late Fabric Works
The Hayward Gallery will present the first major retrospective of Louise Bourgeois to focus exclusively on the works that she made with fabrics and...
6 October 2021
Manolis Anastasakos: Mythos Series Unveiled In London During Frieze Week
Varvara Roza Galleries (London) and The Blender Gallery (Athens) are presenting a solo exhibition of Manolis Anastasakos, one of the leading Greek artists of...
4 October 2021
Pace Inaugurates New London Gallery With Mark Rothko Exhibition
Pace inaugurates their new London gallery with Mark Rothko 1968: Clearing Away, an exhibition of rarely seen works on paper
30 September 2021
Leon Kossoff: A Life in Painting Major New Touring Retrospective Opens
Leon Kossoff: A Life in Painting is a major new touring retrospective of paintings by the seminal British artist (1926 – 2019).
23 September 2021
Frans Hals Blockbuster Opens At Wallace Collection
Opening this week at The Wallace Collection, Frans Hals: The Male Portrait is the first-ever show to focus solely on Hals’s portraits of men...
2 September 2021
Jonny Green Explores Gender Politics At New Art Projects
Jonny Green explores gender politics and portraiture for his first solo show at New Art Projects.
27 August 2021
Pablo Bronstein: Referencing Hell in its Heyday Sir John Soane’s Museum
Pablo Bronstein: Hell in its Heyday will present a new body of work by this prominent British-Argentinian contemporary artist.
26 July 2021
Anish Kapoor: A Painter Working As A Sculptor – Modern Art Oxford
Modern Art Oxford has announced a new exhibition of paintings by the internationally celebrated artist Anish Kapoor
8 July 2021
New Contemporaries 2021 Announce Artist Line Up
Seventy-Five artists selected for New Contemporaries 2021 demonstrating the resilience of the creative process in a challenging year have been revealed by Bloomberg New...
1 July 2021
Vincent van Gogh Self-Portraits Exhibition Announced By Courtauld Gallery
An exhibition devoted to Vincent van Gogh’s self-portraits across his entire career will take place at The Courtauld Gallery.
10 June 2021
Photorealist Richard Estes To Exhibit At Damien Hirst’s Newport Street Gallery
A full scale exhibition of the Photorealist painter Richard Estes born 1932 covering the last 35 years of his career will be presented at...
18 February 2021
Sir Frank Bowling Exhibition Announced For Bristol’s Arnolfini
Bristol's Arnolfini has announced a major exhibition with the pioneering abstract painter Sir Frank Bowling, OBE RA. This will be part of their 60th...
18 February 2021
British Art Show 9 Announce New Opening and Tour Dates
The long-awaited opening of British Art Show 9 has been announced by Hayward Gallery Touring.
12 March 2020
Gustave Moreau: The Fables A New Exhibition At Waddesdon Manor
NEW DATES - Gustave Moreau (1826-98) is one of the most brilliant and influential artists of the French Symbolist movement, and this exhibition reveals...
Features
25 October 2021
FIAC Paris 47th Edition What The Dealers Had To Say
FIAC, the International Contemporary Art Fair, one of the seminal, global, annual art events, has celebrated its 47th edition in Paris.
20 October 2021
Alice Maher Rachel Fallon Explore The Magdalene – Sue Hubbard
Sue Hubbard visited Dublin to see The Map: A Collaboration by Alice Maher and Rachel Fallon at Rua Red Gallery. If you were born in...
18 October 2021
Frieze And Frieze Masters 2021 Artlyst Chooses Twenty Of The Best
Frieze London was back on course this year, with most dealers putting their best foot forward. You could feel the excitement and 'antici...pation'
11 October 2021
Yvonne Robinson: A Remarkable 70 Year Career In The Art World
Yvonne Robinson has been a significant figure in the art world for over 70 years. A friend of David Sylvester, Bacon, Freud, Pontus Hulton,
10 October 2021
Mr Brainwash Loves London But Is It Mutual? – Conversation With Oliver Malin
Mr Brainwash (Thierry Guetta) a cross between a Beaver and John Belushi in conversation with Oliver Malin ahead of his London show.
3 October 2021
Sidney Nolan’s Africa Interview With Andrew Turley And Revd Jonathan Evens
Nolan's Africa will be the first book on Sidney Nolan written with access to the newly opened Sidney Nolan archives
29 September 2021
Chris Ofili: The Holy Virgin Mary – Significant Works – Sue Hubbard
Mayor Rudy Giuliani - threatened to close it on the grounds that the image of Chris Ofili's The Holy Virgin Mary was religiously...
28 September 2021
Ibrahim Mahama: Interview of the Month, October 2021 – Paul Carey-Kent
Ibrahim Mahama came to international attention for his monumental installation of jute sacks at the Venice Biennale in 2015
1 September 2021
Alexandre da Cunha: Interview of the Month September 2021 – Paul Carey-Kent
Brazilian artist Alexandre da Cunha has a major show at Brighton’s CCA. ‘Duplex’ (to 25 Sept) articulates ‘his engagement with cultures
30 August 2021
London Art Exhibitions Autumn 2021 – Month By Month Guide
Artlyst has put together a month by month selection to guide you through the best of the shows on offer Autumn 2021.
22 August 2021
Chuck Close: A Calligraphy Of Squares Remembered – Clare Henry
When I first went to visit Chuck Close in his studio in 2004, I was in awe of him. But he was easy to...
5 August 2021
Yorkshire Sculpture Park Where Time Slows Down – James Payne
Yorkshire Sculpture Park is open again for business, and it is so good to revisit it. The great news is many of its temporary...
1 August 2021
Rosie Gibbens: Interview of the Month August 2021 – Paul Carey-Kent
The entertaining and thought-provoking solo exhibition, ‘Soft Girls’, by Rosie Gibbens, is at the Zabludowicz Collection, London, until 15 August.
14 July 2021
Spencer Finch: Interview of the Month July 2021 – Paul Carey-Kent
In his current exhibition at Lisson Gallery ('Only the hand that erases writes the true thing', to 31 July), Spencer Finch presents new works...
28 June 2021
Ena Swansea: Interview of the Month June 2021 – Paul Carey-Kent
There’s an aura of mystery to Ena Swansea’s big, impressive paintings at Ben Brown Fine Arts (‘green light’ to 30 July)
Hello Cunty: Sotheby’s Appropriates The Colony Room – Darren Coffield
The event was a travesty of everything the Colony stood for, organised by people who thought they could recreate a special place.
20th Century Women Artists Challenging Conventions In Britain – Revd Jonathan Evens
The twentieth century was a time of great change for women. Those born, raised and educated in the 19th century, then forming relationships and...
24 May 2021
Ken Currie: Unknown Man Scottish National Portrait Gallery – Clare Henry
Ken Currie, undoubtedly among the most significant painters of our time, is known for his dark side, his bleak, black pictures
10 April 2021
Venice Curator Luca Berta Explains Latest Biennale Private Venue Restrictions – Interview
In light of the changes introduced by Venice town council, it is becoming increasingly difficult for private exhibition spaces
2 January 2021
London Art Exhibitions 2021 A Month By Month Guide
UPDATED Well, the exhibitions schedule for 2020 didn't quite go as planned. But here is an idea of what exhibitions to expect in 2021.
Revolutionary Art Movement Or Just A Catch Up – Edward Lucie- Smith
Looking at official galleries here in Britain (all temporarily closed as of this publication) - more especially at those situated in London - it...
1 June 2020
Great Artworks Explained A New Video Series By James Payne
To celebrate getting 5000 subscribers and over 150.000 views James Payne's next film will be whichever work of art gets the most votes.
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