In present circumstances, both public and private galleries have had to think hard about what is practical and within their reach to do. Sometimes they come up with curiously similar solutions. This is the case with two shows that have just opened in London – one at the National Gallery and the other at Colnaghi in St James’s.
8 October 2020
Art News, Exhibition, Reviews
On 21 September, a statement quietly appeared on the website of the National Gallery Washington. It announced the postponement, of the “Philip Guston Now” exhibition
6 October 2020
Art News, Interviews, Opinion
Rafael Pérez Evans, the most talked-about MFA candidate this year has created ‘Grounding’, an installation utilising 30 tonnes of fresh carrots.
5 October 2020
Art News
An iconic portrait by the British Artist David Hockney of Royal Opera House boss Sir David Webster will go under the hammer this month at Christie’s. It has been suggested that the painting will fetch up to £18m.
4 October 2020
Art Market, Art News
The British/Portuguese artist Paula Rego has severed ties with her long-term gallery Marlborough and joined Victoria Miro
2 October 2020
Announcement, Art Market, Art News
The Artemisia Gentileschi exhibition has opened at the National Gallery at long last. It is accompanied by a handsome, fully illustrated hardcover catalogue. The hassle is that you have to book your slot to see it.
1 October 2020
Art News, Reviews
Damien Hirst has announced his first solo exhibition at his Newport Street Gallery, London, from 7 October 2020 – 7 March 2021. Titled ‘End of a Century’, the exhibition will feature over fifty artworks spanning Hirst’s formative years as a student in the 1980s to becoming one of Britain’s leading contemporary artists during the 1990s.
1 October 2020
Announcement, Art News
The V&A (Victoria and Albert Museum) are contemplating mass redundancies a press release received on the Artlyst desk today states:
29 September 2020
Announcement, Art News, News
Robert Bechtle who has died age 88 was an American painter and printmaker born in San Francisco in 1932. He lived all his life in the Bay Area. His practice focused on snapshots from everyday life, mostly his own life.
26 September 2020
Art News, Obituary
The eagerly awaited retrospective exhibition of the American artist Philip Guston, set to take place at Tate Modern in February 2021 has been postponed until 2024.
25 September 2020
Art Criticism, Art News
A portrait of a Young Man Holding a Roundel by Sandro Botticelli painted in the 15th century will go under the hammer at Sotheby’s in January. Young Man Holding a Roundel is expected to fetch more than 80 million dollars the highest estimate ever placed on a work by an Old Master in Sotheby’s history, the auction house says.
24 September 2020
Art Market, Art News
The Royal Academy has announced that they will be entering a period of consultation over staff redundancies at their London gallery. This is due to the impact of COVID on ticket sales, their catering facilities and gift shop.
22 September 2020
Art News
The V&A and Smithsonian have cancelled their joint venture in East London which would have seen the world-renowned institutions partner in creating a collaborative museum.
20 September 2020
Art News
The American performance artist/impresario Spencer Tunick, known for his nude human installations in public spaces has gathered two hundred twenty members of the public for a socially distanced naked art piece
16 September 2020
Art News, News
The French are a defiant lot when it comes to business and culture, but COVID and new EU movement regulations have cancelled FIAC Paris the last major fair of the year to announce it will not be taking place in October.
15 September 2020
Announcement, Art Market, Art News
The daughter of advertising mogul/collector Charles Saatchi has announced the launch of a new gallery in London’s Mayfair.
10 September 2020
Art Market, Art News
Tate and the art dealer Anthony d’Offay have agreed to end their relationship. The announcement came today in a joint statement by Tate and Anthony d’Offay.
4 September 2020
Art News, News
Cure3 is an annual charity selling exhibition. It was devised by Susie Allen and Laura Culpan founders of Artwise. This is the same dynamic curatorial team that was behind the original RCA Secret postcard project. Cure3 has established itself as a critical and commercial success and will take place at Bonhams London flagship gallery
2 September 2020
Art News, Interviews
Experts are not always right. A painting, in the style of Rembrandt which has gathered dust for decades in the basement of the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, may very well be by the master or in the least his studio. The portrait thought a copy was never displayed publically by the institution.
1 September 2020
Announcement, Art News, News
Frank Dunphy, the man behind Damien Hirst and many leading YBAs financial success has died age 82.
30 August 2020
Art Market, Art News, Obituary
The elusive ‘Street Artist’ Banksy has put his money where his mouth is by funding a rescue boat to help save refugees in dangerous situations in the Mediterranean.
28 August 2020
Art News, News
An architecture student who caused over £350,000 damage to a Picasso painting at Tate Modern has been jailed for eighteen months.
27 August 2020
Art News, News
The founder of the British Museum Sir Hans Sloane has had his bust removed from a prominent position in the gallery due to his connection to the slave trade. The statue, currently in a cupboard, will now make up part of a display which acknowledges colonial oppression.
25 August 2020
Art News, News
Tate Britain will present a landmark exhibition Turner’s Modern World, dedicated to JMW Turner (1775-1851), exploring what it meant to be a modern artist during his lifetime, this Autumn.
25 August 2020
Art News, Exhibition
Barbara Hepworth has been honoured with a google doodle. The animated gif sees the sculptor chiselling away at one of her trademark works. This marks a turning point for championing British women artists.
25 August 2020
Art News, News
Photo London the UK’s premier photo fair which was supposed to take place in October during Frieze week has been cancelled
24 August 2020
Announcement, Art Market, Art News
The highly regarded GLASGOW PRINT STUDIO will soon be 50. Incredible. Half a century ago its humble beginnings in a rundown former electricians was created from nothing by a group of penniless volunteers – dedicated Glasgow Art School post-graduates wanting a place to work.
19 August 2020
Announcement, Art News
The collection from the Picture Gallery at Buckingham Palace, widely acknowledged to be the highlight of the Royal art collection will be brought together in a gallery exhibition for the first time. Sixty-five paintings that usually hang in the Queen’s private gallery in Buckingham Palace are set to go on public display at the Queen’s Gallery.
17 August 2020
Art News, Exhibition
UAL’s summer graduate shows are a celebration of all the hard work and fantastic creativity for the students. Since lockdown started, they’ve been working with technology partners, IBM, to find the best way to share the students’ work with the world.
15 August 2020
Art News, Exhibition
Hastings Contemporary mount beautifully curated intimate exhibitions of both British and now international artists. They are currently showing a retrospective exhibition of the Modern British artist Victor Pasmore as well as a large scale show of drawings and paintings by Quintin Blake depicting migration.
14 August 2020
Art News, Exhibition
Ellora Sutton and Elsie Hayward have been announced as the inaugural winners of the Artlyst Art to Poetry Award
31 July 2020
Announcement, Art News
The artist Heather Phillipson quietly unveiled her fourth plinth commission in Trafalgar Square, yesterday with a lack of fanfare not seen before in past unveilings.
31 July 2020
Announcement, Art News