Banksy’s New COVID Rats Alert Underground Passengers
Keep Alert! The elusive street artist Banksy has taken to the underground literally by producing a series of sneezing rats warning passengers of the danger of not wearing masks.
14 July 2020
Frieze London Cancels Flagship Autumn Fair 2020
Frieze has announced that their flagship London fair won’t take place this year. The announcement came into VIPs this afternoon. See full statement below.
Gilbert & George Quit Royal Academy Over Cancelled Show
Gilbert & George have quit the Royal Academy over an alleged dispute involving a cancelled show promised before the change over of Administration, last winter. This included the departure of their friend Artistic Director Tim Marlow and the election of Rebecca Salter as new President (PRA).
Liverpool Biennial Announces New 2021 Dates
The 11th edition of Liverpool Biennial, under the directorship of Fatoş Üstek will take place from 20 March – 6 June 2021. Titled The Stomach and the Port, the programme will be delivered as conceived initially but responsive to the new context – curated by Manuela Moscoso, with the artist list announced in November 2019.
8 July 2020
National Gallery Re-Opening What to Expect – Edward Lucie-Smith
The National Gallery is re-opening its doors, somewhat in advance of the Tates. The Titian show of mythological paintings made for Philp II of Spain is once again available, though it isn’t continuing on to Scotland.
7 July 2020
Christo’s Mastaba Returns To Serpentine In Augmented Reality
Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s London Mastaba returns to the Serpentine this summer recreated in Augmented Reality by Acute Art in collaboration with the Serpentine Galleries.
Grenfell Victim Khadija Saye Featured In New Public Art Project
A new public art project, Breath is Invisible (7 July – 9 October 2020), will be launched by the MP David Lammy in Notting Hill on Tuesday 7 July with an installation of works by Khadija Saye, the young Gambian-British artist who tragically lost her life in the Grenfell Tower fire in 2017, aged just 24.
2 July 2020
Turner Prize Bursaries 10 Artists Revealed
Tate Britain has announced the ten artists who will each receive one-off £10,000 bursaries in place of this year’s Turner Prize: Arika, Liz Johnson Artur, Oreet Ashery, Shawanda Corbett, Jamie Crewe, Sean Edwards, Sidsel Meineche Hansen, Ima-Abasi Okon, Imran Perretta and Alberta Whittle.
2 July 2020
Art Derivatives Challenges Auction House Manipulation By Analysing Data
Art Derivatives a project by the Italian artist Paolo Cirio that challenges the ‘out of control’ practices of manipulation of the art market, the largest unregulated market after narcotics
Queer Frontiers: Moves Online For Annual Pride Exhibition
This year the exhibition is back with a diverse collection of artists from around the world. Works can be purchased on the website and delivered directly to your home.
Tate, National Gallery And Royal Academy To Reopen In July
You saw it here first, Tate, The National Gallery and the Royal Academy have announced plans to reopen in July.
Michael Craig-Martin Unveils New Oxford Street Installation
Sir Michael Craig-Martin has created a new work for an iconic site in London’s Oxford Street, which will be launched on Monday 29 June, presented by W1 Curates. The installation, Cornucopia Galactica, will run 24hrs a day until 12 July 2020.
25 June 2020
Lavish Sir Anish Kapoor Exhibition Set To Open At Houghton Hall Norfolk
Important works by the British sculptor Sir Anish Kapoor will go on show across the grounds and historic interiors of Houghton Hall in Norfolk for the exhibition Anish Kapoor at Houghton Hall (12 July – 1 November 2020).
Leonardo’s Last Supper: Is The RA’s Copy Better? – Edward Lucie-Smith
Leonardo’s Last Supper is back on view at the RA. Or at least a copy of it is, made by his pupil Gianpetrino. And to celebrate the event, there’s now a website devoted to it – the copy not the original. You can find it Here
Murillo Virgin Mary Painting Destroyed By Amateur Restoration
A 19th-century copy of a painting by the Baroque artist Bartolomé Esteban Murillo’s titled The Immaculate Conception of Los Venerables has been destroyed by an amateur artist, in Spain. This is yet another example of works of art in Spain that have been updated by well-meaning Sunday painters. The incident is reminiscent of the restoration […]
23 June 2020
UK Museums And Galleries May Reopen From 4 July
Museums and galleries will be allowed to reopen in England from 4 July. Prime Minister Boris Johnson has announced measures easing the coronavirus restrictions in place since March.
Hackney Council Announce Public Statues Honouring The Windrush Generation
Hackney Council has announced two public artworks to be unveiled celebrating the Windrush Generation.
19 June 2020
Marlborough To Close NY Gallery – London Next?
The legendary Marlborough Gallery is to close their NY premises with an announcement about the future of their London flagship pending.
Oxford Statue Of Imperialist Cecil Rhodes To Be Removed
Oriel College in Oxford, the epicenter for recent student protests, has announced that they will remove the controversial statue of the racist/imperialist Cecil Rhodes. The governors of the Oxford University college voted on Wednesday night to relocate the statue of the colonialist to a museum. Last week Louise Richardson, the vice chancellor of Oxford University, […]
17 June 2020
Giuseppe Penone Donates Drawings To Pompidou And Philadelphia Museum
Giuseppe Penone (born in 1947) has made two generous gifts of 350 drawings to the Centre Pompidou and a similar number works on paper to the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
Forensic Architecture Continue Grenfell Tower Project Awareness
On the third anniversary of the tragic fire which took seventy-two lives in the Grenfell tower block in West London, Artlyst thought it a good time to highlight an excellent project that the Turner Prize-nominated collective Forensic Architecture has put together using mapping technology.
A Sculpture Falls – The Trouble With Problematic Public Statues – Richard Stone
As a sculptor who has used Victorian and other found sculptures in my work for some time, the increasingly heated debate on the future of public Victorian statues, buildings and street names across the country has resonated with me.
10 June 2020
Banksy: Stolen Bataclan Mural Found In Italy – Colston Statue Update
Banksy, Bristol’s international artist/influencer has suggested a plan which should appeal to both critics of the sudden removal and dumping of the statue of slave-trader Edward Colston and the protesters.
André Daughtry: Art, Rebellion And Racial Justice – Revd Jonathan Evens
Artworks acquire layers of meaning over time. André Daughtry’s Weight is a video work from 2014 that attempts ‘to visualise societal projections on the black male body’.
8 June 2020
London’s Galleries And Auction Houses To Reopen From 15 June
The first of the London mega galleries have announced they are to reopen after a three-month lockdown period. White Cube and Gagosian will open by timed appointment to comply with social distancing measures from next week.
8 June 2020
Do Tate Galleries Have A Slavery Past?
The Tate issued a statement in 2019 to put to rest talk about the gallery founder and namesake Henry Tate’s involvement in slavery.
Protesters Tear Down Statue To Slave Trader In Bristol
A notorious statue dedicated to a slave trader in Bristol has been torn down and thrown into the harbour during a second day of anti-racism protests across the UK. Following a peaceful demonstration in Bristol
Banksy Unveils New Painting Honouring George Floyd’s Memory
The elusive Street Artist Banksy has unveiled a new artwork inspired by the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis.
6 June 2020
Art Basel Cancels 2020 Flagship Fair
Art Basel has announced that after an extensive analysis of the current global situation, due to the Coronavirus pandemic they will not be presenting their flagship Basel show this year.
Museum Futures Post Lockdown – Edward Lucie-Smith
Tate Modern is easily the most popular gallery of modern art in the world… For a location that consists mostly of open spaces, lightly sprinkled with the odd moment of art, that is some achievemen
31 May 2020
Christo Artist Who Wrapped The Reichstag Dies Age 84
The sad news that the larger than life artist Christo passed away aged 84 was announced on his website on 31 May.
26 May 2020
Ben Eine Unveils Spectacular New West Hampstead Mural
“Through Arts We Rise” painted, sprayed and blessed by the world’s foremost street art lettering demi-god, Ben Eine