Photographing The Colony Room Club – Clancy Gebler Davies
It wouldn’t be possible to take these pictures now – not least because the fabled Dean Street member’s Club (the Colony Room Club) is now someone’s living room
29 January 2020
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Betty Spackman: Posthumanism Debates – Interview Revd Jonathan Evens
Betty Spackman is an installation artist and painter who exhibited internationally for over 25 years with a studio based in Toronto and Europe before coming to British Columbia.
18 January 2020
London Art Fair Ticket Giveaway 2020
Here we go again! It’s time for the London Art Fair. Artlyst as 2020 media partners have ten pairs of… Read More
16 January 2020
10 Biennial/Triennials You Must see In 2020
Yes, there are a number of biennials/triennials on offer around the globe this year.
7 January 2020
International Art Fair Guide 2020 – Artlyst’s Global Companion
Welcome to the Artlyst printable pull-out International Art Fair Guide 2020. This is our curated choice of the events not to miss in the Contemporary Art calendar.
4 January 2020
London Art Exhibitions Preview A Month By Month Guide 2020
We’ve just welcomed in not only a new year but a new decade. So let’s look forward to the exciting exhibitions that will be on offer in London during 2020.
2 January 2020
What I Don’t Like About The Contemporary Art Scene – Edward Lucie-Smith
A New Year, a new decade – I’ve been thinking about all the things I currently don’t like about the contemporary art scene here in Britain. Most of all, I don’t like its pervasive self-righteousness, the ever-increasing assumption that ‘official art’ has all the answers.
1 January 2020
Andy Warhol Catholicism, His Work, Faith And Legacy – Revd Jonathan Evens
In 1987, in a eulogy given at a Memorial Mass for Andy Warhol, the art historian John Richardson revealed the… Read More
29 December 2019
Artlyst Art To Poetry Competition
Artlyst In association with The Poetry Society is pleased to launch a new international award for poetry based on works of art.
19 December 2019
London Christmas Museum Guide 2019 – What’s Open, What’s Closed
Artlyst has produced a helpful guide to the closing times of the major London museums and galleries during the 2019 Christmas holiday period.
17 December 2019
Sculptor Conrad Shawcross On Space And Time – Interview Paul Carter Robinson
On the surface, Conrad Shawcross’ sculpture retains the appearance of scientific rationality.
9 December 2019
Recommended London Art Exhibitions December 2019 – Paul Carey Kent
The noted writer and curator Paul Carey-Kent gives us his rolling ten recommended Contemporary and Modern art exhibitions in London now (December 2019).
3 December 2019
London Art Fair: First UP For The 2020 Art Season
London Art Fair is the UK’s oldest established Contemporary art fair. It returns from 22-26 January 2020, bringing museum-quality modern and contemporary art to the capital.
2 December 2019
Your Art Basel Miami Beach 2019 Everything Guide – Artlyst
The 18th edition of Art Basel Miami Beach takes place in the newly renovated Miami Beach Convention Centre from 5-8 December 2019.
29 November 2019
Art and Christianity Awards A Positive New Millennium Legacy – Revd Jonathan Evens
The Art and Christianity Awards are one of the more positive legacies of the new millennium, being set up in 2003 to draw attention to the abundance of creative responses to the Year 2000.
21 November 2019
Victor Willing: Two New UK Exhibitions Celebrate His Life And Career
Two new exhibitions of work by the highly regarded painter Victor Willing (1928-1988) are currently on display at Hastings Contemporary and the Turps Gallery in S.E. London. The retrospective in Hastings is the first significant show of his work since his untimely death from multiple sclerosis in 1988.
12 November 2019
Christopher Clack: Connecting The Material And Immaterial – Interview Revd Jonathan Evens
Christopher Clack says; I have been making images for as long as I can remember, and for as long as I can remember there has always been an element of religious imagery or content in the work I have produced.
10 November 2019
She Got Her TV Eye On Me Pat Ivers/Emily Armstrong Gonightclubbing at 72 Gallery
An exhilarating multi-media deep dive into the New York punk scene of the late 70s and early 80s, “She Got Her TV Eye On Me” showcases the work of video artists, Pat Ivers and Emily Armstrong.
28 October 2019
MICAS Launches International Art Weekend In Valletta Malta
Visiting Valletta Malta is an intoxicating experience for adventurous travellers to the island. It is located just south of Sicily (136 miles) and around 700 miles off the coast of Libya. The weather in mid-October is a consistent 25c a welcoming climate to enjoy art and cultural sites, all in abundance.
19 October 2019
FIAC Paris 46th Edition A Grand Palais Happening – What’s On
As everyone must know by now, FIAC one of Europe’s most important fairs opened for the VIP preview today at the Grand Palais in Paris.
16 October 2019
Pallas 100: Legendary Art School Tartu Kunstimuseum Estonia – Jude Cowan Montague
The floors of Tartmus are dedicated to an exhibition to celebrate the centenary of the Pallas Art School which opened in 1919.
14 October 2019
My Frieze Week 2019 – Zoltan Alexander
From Botticelli to Tillmans. 160 of the world’s leading galleries at Frieze, 130 at Frieze Masters, over 1000 international artists. No sign of the Brexit-uncertainty and escalating political instability. No sign that Britain is in the midst of an economic and political crisis. Dealers did good business.
10 October 2019
Tom of Finland: Drawing Beautiful Men Proud To Love Each Other – Rebecca Larkin
The exhibition Let’s Go Camping with Tom of Finland at Cross Lane Projects celebrates the work and influence of the iconic queer artist and comics creator ahead of the 100th anniversary of his birth.
10 October 2019
Weaver Beaver: Frieze London 2019 – My 10 – Paul Carter Robinson
Frieze London is in full throttle with day two of the previews underway at the time of writing. I spent the first day walking around with curator Lee Cavaliere and artist-writer Michael Petry. Each year there is an outstanding trend which clearly manifests and this year it is weaving. Here are my top ten picks from the Fair, in no order.
3 October 2019
Best Art Of The 21st Century? – In Your Dreams – Edward Lucie-Smith
Recently the Guardian newspaper here in Britain offered yet another of those ‘best of’ lists to which both the print press and websites of various kinds are now addicted. In this case, what it listed was ‘the best art of the 21st century’.
29 September 2019
London Frieze Week Pull Out Guide 2019 – Artlyst
Welcome to this year’s Artlyst Frieze Week 2019 printable pull-out Guide. This is our curated choice of the events not to miss during the busiest week in the London Contemporary Art calendar.
25 September 2019
Bahrain Pavilion Shines At The 2019 La Biennale Paris
Le Biennial de Paris is an unusual anomaly of a fair. For one thing, it isn’t actually a biennial as it takes place every year, not every other.
17 September 2019
Summer Art Chronicles: Arles, Puglia and Milan – Virginie Puertolas-Syn
I love summer not only because of the weather but although because it is a great time to venture to new territories to discover and to encounter new talents, new ideas.
11 September 2019
A Belonging Project And Exiles Loss and Displacement – Revd Jonathan Evens
Matilde Damele creates screenprints on black plastic bin bags, screenprints of migrants on bold backgrounds painted with house paints named after the positivity and stability they are not afforded, birdcages housing a variety of found and bought objects
7 September 2019
Passaggiatina 2019: Mefiti’s Year – Jude Cowan Montague
For three years, artists Chris Simpson and Jude Cowan Montague have been curating a two-week residency during the second two… Read More
7 September 2019
Twelve London Exhibitions Not To Miss Opening Autumn 2019
Summer is over, but there is much to look forward to this Autumn. Here is the Artlyst guide to twelve exhibitions not to miss opening Autumn 2019.
2 September 2019
Robert Polidori: Fra Angelico Opus Operantis – Revd Jonathan Evens
William Hood, when writing of Fra Angelico at San Marco, noted that the ‘translucent surfaces’ of the architecture ‘shimmer in the soft currents of light gliding over from just outside’.
18 August 2019