11 April 2018
Gillian Ayres Leading British Abstract Painter Dies Age 88
Gillian Ayres was one of the leading British abstract painters of her generation has died age 88.
11 April 2018
BP Portrait Award 2018 Shortlist Revealed At NPG
The National Portrait Gallery, London, has revealed the four artists shortlisted for the BP Portrait Award 2018. The award will be presented on 11 June 2018.
10 April 2018
Tracey Emin Unveils Pro-Europe Neon Art At St Pancras International
Royal Academician Tracey Emin unveiled a monumental pro-Europe neon work this morning, attended by RA Director Tim Marlow and many other art officials. The installation titled,
4 April 2018
Arts Council Collection Acquire More Women Artists In 2017-18
The UK’s largest national loan collection of modern and contemporary art, the Arts Council Collection, has unveiled the full list of 47 works by 25 artists that it has acquired for the nation in 2017-18.
27 March 2018
Duchess of Cambridge Becomes V&A Museum’s First Royal Patron
The V&A has announced that Her Royal Highness The Duchess of Cambridge has agreed to become Royal Patron to the Museum.
15 March 2018
Liverpool Biennial Announce Programme For 20th Anniversary Edition
Liverpool Biennial, will mark its 20th anniversary this year with the 10th edition under the title Beautiful world, where are you?
8 February 2018
Mexican Architect Frida Escobedo To Design Serpentine Pavilion 2018
Frida Escobedo, a young Mexican architect celebrated for dynamic projects that reactivate urban space, has been commissioned to design the Serpentine Pavilion 2018.
7 February 2018
Rachel Whiteread Sculpture Chosen For UCL Student Centre
Rachel Whiteread the Turner Prize winning sculptor is returning to the university where she learned her craft to create an artwork that will be a centrepiece of UCL’s new multi-million pound student centre.
1 February 2018
Serpentine Launches Inaugural Beijing Pavilion Collaboration With JIAKUN Architects
The Serpentine Galleries (London) and WF CENTRAL (Beijing) have announced a major international collaboration: a new architecture Pavilion, designed by JIAKUN Architects
31 January 2018
Mona Hatoum Presented With Prestigious Annual Art Icon Award 2018
Mona Hatoum (b. 1952) was presented with the prestigious annual Art Icon award at the Whitechapel Gallery on Monday 29 January.
26 January 2018
Turner Prize Winner Martin Boyce Unveils New Commission At Tate Britain
Martin Boyce the Turner Prize-winning artist has been commissioned to create a new installation outside Tate Britain.
24 January 2018
Grayson Perry RA Appointed Coordinator Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 2018
Grayson Perry RA will be the co-ordinator of the Royal Academy annual Summer Exhibition in June 2018.
18 January 2018
Bayeux Tapestry To Go On Display At British Museum
Sources have told Artlyst today that the Bayeux Tapestry will go on display at British Museum after the French Government agreed it could leave its shores for the first time in 950 years.
8 January 2018
Matt Hancock Appointed Culture Secretary In May’s Latest Reshuffle
Matt Hancock has been named the new culture secretary replacing Karen Bradley in the cabinet reshuffle which took place Today, Monday, 8th January, following the holiday recess.
29 December 2017
Richard Long Knighted In New Year’s Honours List 2018
Richard Long, the four-times Turner Prize nominee and one-time winner (1989) has been knighted in the Queens New Year’s honours list.
20 December 2017
V&A Unveil Uniforms More Suitable For Rambling Than Museuming
V&A staff have new uniforms designed by the British fashion designer Christopher Raeburn. Sorry, Tristram, you could have done much better! You are in fact a museum with a well-respected fashion collection!
13 December 2017
Landseer Monarch of the Glen Voted Art fund’s Favourite Acquisition 2017
Sir Edwin Landseer’s ‘The Monarch of the Glen’ (c. 1851) at National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh, was announced today as winner of the Art Fund Work of 2017.
12 December 2017
Coventry Plans Diverse and Inclusive UK City Of Culture For 2021
Coventry is still reeling from the good news, last week that they have succeeded in their bid to become the Uk’s City of Culture in 2021.
11 December 2017
Artist Anthea Hamilton To Undertake 2018 Tate Britain Commission
Tate Britain has announced Anthea Hamilton as the next artist to undertake the Tate Britain Commission.
5 December 2017
Lubaina Himid Wins Prestigious Turner Prize Age 63
The prestigious Turner Prize has been won by Lubaina Himid. At age 63 she is the oldest recipient of the prize since it launched in 1984.
4 December 2017
Tobias Rehberger To Unveil New Light Installation In Gasholders Kings X
A major new interactive light work by the internationally acclaimed German sculptor, Tobias Rehberger, will be unveiled in January 2018. It is one of a series of ambitious international art commissions created for King’s Cross.
4 December 2017
Art Basel Parent Company MCH Buys Masterpiece London In Takeover Deal
MCH Group which owns and operates Art Basel has acquired a majority shareholding in Masterpiece London.
3 December 2017
DCMS Reports £92bn Sector Bonanza For Creative Industries, Digital and Sport
The Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) has just released a report stating that the sector’s contribution to the economy is up by 3.6 percent year-on-year to almost £250bn, accounting for 14.2 percent of the UK’s Gross Value Added (GVA)
2 December 2017
Bill Gates To Loan Da Vinci Leicester Codex To Uffizi Gallery
The Leicester Codex by Leonardo da Vinci will be loaned to the Uffizi Gallery in Florence for the first time in 20 years.
30 November 2017
Art Wars Art Initiative Travels to Miami And LA
Artlyst is again the media partner with London-based art initiative Art Wars which travels to Miami and Los Angeles this December to unveil 20 brand new works by emerging and established artists.
30 November 2017
Eduardo Chillida Estate To Be Handled By Hauser & Wirth
Hauser & Wirth have announced worldwide exclusive representation of The Estate of Eduardo Chillida, Spain’s foremost sculptor of the twentieth century.
30 November 2017
Tracey Emin Unveils Artist Decorated Connaught Christmas Tree 2017
The Connaught Christmas Tree is rapidly becoming an art community tradition in London.
28 November 2017
UK Artists Getting Poorer As 82% Earn Less Than £10,000 PA
A new report out today shows that UK emerging and mid-career artists are getting poorer: 82% now earn less than £10,000 a year. Artfinder who produced the study, shows an increase in the percentage of artists earning less than £10,000 a year, up from 72% in 2013 to 82%. It’s also worse for women – with 83.6% earning under £10,000 (from 98% of respondents who stated gender).
28 November 2017
Design Museum Proves Popular With 780,000 Visitors Recorded Last Year
The new Design Museum now located at Kensington High Street has reason to celebrate since it opened its doors on 24 November 2016 More than 780,000 people have visited.
23 November 2017
Bloomberg New Contemporaries Leaves ICA Home For Block 336 In Brixton
Bloomberg New Contemporaries is to leave its home at the ICA London for Block 336 in Brixton.
15 November 2017
César Dezfuli Wins Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize 2017
The Tenth Anniversary Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize 2017 has been won by César Dezfuli for his portrait of a migrant rescued in the Mediterranean Sea off the Libyan coast, the National Portrait Gallery has announced. The £15,000 award was presented to the Spanish photographer at an awards ceremony on Tuesday 14 November 2017.
13 November 2017
Rare Portrait of Lucian Freud by Francis Bacon Exhibited At Tate
An important portrait by Francis Bacon of his friend/rival Lucian Freud is to be shown in Tate Britain’s landmark exhibition