27 September 2021
The Turner Prize-winning artist Lubaina Himid CBE has been awarded the Robson Orr TenTen Award 2021 by the Government Art Collection (GAC).
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: X-Con Goes On Trial - Firstsite Selected Art Fund Museum of the Year
Christo and Jeanne-Claude Posthumously Wrap The Arc de Triomphe - Donald Judd Now Represented By Gagosian - Gavin Turk Pisses Himself
12 September 2021
Italian police have seized 500 drawings and collages reputed to be by the Irish born artist Francis Bacon.
11 September 2021
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...
Tate Gauguin Is A Fake - Bank of England Removes Slave Trade Portraits - Stedelijk Museum Kandinsky Returned To Heirs
Watch A $3m painted bronze Kusama Pumpkin Wash Out To Sea In Typhoon. The sculpture was rescued by locals and is now in a...
The Government Art Collection has been going for over 120 years, through Government and private investment.
Despite current COVID restrictions, FIAC Paris has optimistically announced their 2021 exhibitors list plus the cultural programmes on offer this year.
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...
7 July 2021
Samson Kambalu and Teresa Margolles have been announced as the next two artists chosen for the Fourth Plinth commission in Trafalgar Square.
21 May 2021
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
Suddenly my web feed is full of information about Non-Fungible Tokens - the latest form of digital art. Here, for example, are images of...
10 Sep '21-12 Dec '21
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The first major exhibition of Richard Estes’ work in the
11 Sep '21-09 Jan '22
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Wim Wenders: Photographing Ground Zero presents large scale photographs taken less than two months after the terror attacks of 9/11, as the gravity
22 Sep '21-30 Jan '22
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This exhibition will bring together a careful selection of the artist’s best male portraits from Europe and North
14 Sep '21-31 Oct '21
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Returning to the English Gardens in The Regent’s Park in London, Frieze Sculpture will open on 14 September until 31 October 2021. It is
09 Sep '21-12 Dec '21
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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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The first major UK exhibition of woodcuts by leading Abstract Expressionist, Helen
22 Sep '21-02 Jan '22
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The Summer Exhibition is the world’s largest open-submission art show. It brings together art in all mediums, from prints, paintings, film and
07 Jul '21-24 Oct '21
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The UK’s largest and most comprehensive retrospective of Paula Rego’s work to
28 September 2021
Emily Speed's new exhibition at Tate Liverpool is based upon the human body and related very much so to architecture.
19 September 2021
With major as well as offbeat art fairs, ranging from the Armory at the massive Javits Center (where I last went for my Covid...
16 September 2021
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
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
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
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 is the first exhibition of his work in the North West for thirty years. Widely regarded as a master...
20 July 2021
Meek Gichugu's No Erotic Them Say, included in this show, traumatised the imagination of Michael Armitage as a child.
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 (b 1935) is an artist who is vividly expressive and imaginative in her use of colour deployed in the service of brilliantly...
6 July 2021
The dust-jacket of this handsome new book proclaims that ‘Judy Chicago is America’s most dynamic living artist’.
3 July 2021
Late, as often can be the case with our timetable, we arrived at Bridge Point Rye creative arts centre at a deserted exhibition.
9 June 2021
To stage a major Rodin exhibition in 2021, the 700th anniversary of the death of Dante is particularly appropriate ...
3 June 2021
Jude Cowan Montague explores Seaside Modern: Art and Life on the Beach at Hastings Contemporary.
27 May 2021
David Hockney is, for a variety of reasons, a British National Treasure. Why? It is stunningly evident in the special exhibition of paintings done...
12 May 2021
Tony Cragg is the latest artist to be featured in the magnificent grounds of Houghton Hall, Norfolk this Spring and Summer.
23 September 2021
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...
A collection of NFT digital art, created by leading talent, is currently under the hammer to support young artists. Sponsored by Hendrick’s Gin
15 September 2021
Over 50 artists with connections to Hastings and St Leonards will be exhibiting in a group show to be held at Electro Studios Project...
13 September 2021
Shape Chroma: Tension London: Newton and Goethe famously disagreed on the genesis of colour. Most commentary assumes Goethe was wrong.
2 September 2021
Jonny Green explores gender politics and portraiture for his first solo show at New Art Projects.
31 August 2021
A new solo exhibition at The Art Stable in Child Okeford will feature the work of Tobit Roche.
27 August 2021
Pablo Bronstein: Hell in its Heyday will present a new body of work by this prominent British-Argentinian contemporary artist.
26 July 2021
This autumn, Charleston, the country home of the Bloomsbury Group, will recreate Duncan Grant’s (1885-1978) first solo exhibition
26 July 2021
Modern Art Oxford has announced a new exhibition of paintings by the internationally celebrated artist Anish Kapoor
8 July 2021
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
An exhibition devoted to Vincent van Gogh’s self-portraits across his entire career will take place at The Courtauld Gallery.
29 June 2021
Artist couple Liliane Tomasko and Sean Scully will present their practices side by side at Newlands House Gallery, West Sussex, for the first time...
24 June 2021
Sophie Taeuber-Arp (1889-1943) was one of the most innovative artists and designers of the 20th-century avant-garde.
10 June 2021
A full scale exhibition of the Photorealist painter Richard Estes born 1932 covering the last 35 years of his career will be presented at...
11 March 2021
Creative Folkestone has announced the new dates for the fifth Folkestone Triennial, The Plot, from 22 July – 2 November 2021.
18 February 2021
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
The long-awaited opening of British Art Show 9 has been announced by Hayward Gallery Touring.
12 March 2020
NEW DATES - Gustave Moreau (1826-98) is one of the most brilliant and influential artists of the French Symbolist movement, and this exhibition reveals...
28 September 2021
Ibrahim Mahama came to international attention for his monumental installation of jute sacks at the Venice Biennale in 2015
27 September 2021
Art Basel 2021 marks a return to the art world as we left off in 2020. The fair brought together 272 premier galleries from...
1 September 2021
To interpret, through paint, what verbal language cannot. No contemporary painter does this better than Sean Scully.
1 September 2021
I've always had a huge respect for the work of Don McCullin, and it was, therefore, a pleasure to see an article by him
1 September 2021
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
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
When I first went to visit Chuck Close in his studio in 2004, I was in awe of him. But he was easy to...
14 August 2021
Banksy Spraycation Guide. How To Find Them in Great Yarmouth, Gorleston and Cromer, Norfolk, Lowestoft and Oulton Broad in Suffolk
5 August 2021
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
The entertaining and thought-provoking solo exhibition, ‘Soft Girls’, by Rosie Gibbens, is at the Zabludowicz Collection, London, until 15 August.
26 July 2021
Have you planned your summer staycation away from London? Artlyst has put together a selection of exhibitions throughout the country to satisfy your cultural...
A recent Opinion piece on the website Hyperallegenic fiercely condemned Frida Kahlo, long one of the patron saints of contemporary feminist art.
14 July 2021
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
There’s an aura of mystery to Ena Swansea’s big, impressive paintings at Ben Brown Fine Arts (‘green light’ to 30 July)
The event was a travesty of everything the Colony stood for, organised by people who thought they could recreate a special place.
17 June 2021
Art Night 2021 is back for the Summer expanding out of London across the country and taking place in locations
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, undoubtedly among the most significant painters of our time, is known for his dark side, his bleak, black pictures
10 April 2021
In light of the changes introduced by Venice town council, it is becoming increasingly difficult for private exhibition spaces
2 January 2021
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.
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
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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