25 April 2018
The Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool has announced the 60 artists whose paintings will feature in the John Moores Painting Prize 2018 exhibition, marking 60 years of the UK’s longest-established painting prize.
16 April 2018
Helen Cammock has won the 2018 Max Mara Art Prize for Women in collaboration with Whitechapel Gallery.
11 April 2018
Gillian Ayres was one of the leading British abstract painters of her generation has died age 88.
11 April 2018
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
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
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
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, will mark its 20th anniversary this year with the 10th edition under the title Beautiful world, where are you?
8 February 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 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
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 (b. 1952) was presented with the prestigious annual Art Icon award at the Whitechapel Gallery on Monday 29 January.
26 January 2018
Martin Boyce the Turner Prize-winning artist has been commissioned to create a new installation outside Tate Britain.
24 January 2018
Grayson Perry RA will be the co-ordinator of the Royal Academy annual Summer Exhibition in June 2018.
18 January 2018
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 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, 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 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
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 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
Tate Britain has announced Anthea Hamilton as the next artist to undertake the Tate Britain Commission.
5 December 2017
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
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
MCH Group which owns and operates Art Basel has acquired a majority shareholding in Masterpiece London.
3 December 2017
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
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
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
Hauser & Wirth have announced worldwide exclusive representation of The Estate of Eduardo Chillida, Spain’s foremost sculptor of the twentieth century.
30 November 2017
The Connaught Christmas Tree is rapidly becoming an art community tradition in London.
28 November 2017
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
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 is to leave its home at the ICA London for Block 336 in Brixton.