Quiz – Anish Kapoor Olympic Orbit Tower Factoid
Test your knowledge of Anish Kapoor’s Olympic Orbit Tower
21 November 2016
Test your knowledge of Anish Kapoor’s Olympic Orbit Tower
21 November 2016
In art, the firing squad is composed as much in time as it is in space; in these first words of Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude, we encounter a plethora of narrative potential for past future heroism.
21 November 2016
The Design Museum unveiled its new building to the press yesterday ahead of its public opening on 24 November 2016. Housed in a landmark grade II listed modernist building from the 1960s on Kensington High Street, formerly the home of the Commonwealth Institute, the building has been sensitively retuned by John Pawson, the culmination of a five-year construction process costing £83m.
18 November 2016
In his new book ‘How to See: Looking, Talking, and Thinking about Art’ 80’s art star David Salle aspires to teach nonartists to see art the way artists do!
6 November 2016
Caravaggio – “What a man! What a painter, but what a man and what a believer.” Those are the words of… Read More
6 November 2016
Art Basel Miami Beach has announced the Film Programme for the 2016 event. This year it will run from November 30 through December 4, presenting a premier program of over 50 film and video works by some of today’s most exciting artists from North and South America, Europe, Asia and Africa.
2 November 2016
From 1–10 November, the collection will be exhibited at Sotheby’s New Bond Street galleries in London, giving fans, collectors, art lovers and experts a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to immerse themselves in the extraordinary range of objects that informed Bowie’s private world.
1 November 2016
Hugh Mendes is a German-born British painter. He graduated with an MA in Fine Art from City and Guilds of… Read More
12 October 2016
An average year seems the general verdict on Frieze. Everyone picks up on the Focus section of young gallery projects,… Read More
9 October 2016
Visitors to London during Frieze week will no doubt be in for art over-kill this year, with thousands of artworks,… Read More
6 October 2016
Paul Carey-Kent gives us his selection of what to do in London during Frieze week. There’s quite the overload of art…. Read More
2 October 2016
Beatrice Haines: The 2015 Winner of the Anthology Competition was born in 1986 and lives and works in London and the… Read More
29 August 2016
Paul Carter Robinson interviews Eva Masterman, the winner of the 2016 Anthology Art Competition, sponsored by CHARLIE SMITH LONDON. The… Read More
16 August 2016
Tate Britain is presenting an exhibition of Paul Nash, the largest exhibition of the artist’s work for a generation. Paul Nash is… Read More
11 July 2016
The New York based online company ArtList, not to be confused with the popular London based art information website Artlyst… Read More
8 July 2016
The decision by British voters to leave the European Union has been announced – and commentators have begun the analysis,… Read More
24 June 2016
It’s alarming to think that Tate Modern opened in 2000, firstly because it makes me feel super old, but also… Read More
17 June 2016
Ok, I admit it. I’ve deliberately avoided the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition every year since I first saw it in… Read More
10 June 2016
The Artlyst lystical of creative people who dropped out at uni includes some predictable names: John Lennon, Orson Welles, good… Read More
3 June 2016
I was interested to read that Tate Modern has apparently been working in conjunction with Airbnb to provide the opportunity… Read More
27 May 2016
The loads of people who know me as a boring old traditionalist (Turner Prize?! Yah boo hiss!) are always surprised… Read More
20 May 2016
This week Artbytch looks at the announcement of the shortlisted Turner Prize nominees for 2016.
13 May 2016
I know I’m a little late to the party here but several people have been asking me what I make… Read More
6 May 2016
The Herrick Gallery, London is currently presenting a selection of drawings purportedly by the great British painter Francis Bacon, lent… Read More
5 May 2016
Gavin Nolan’s latest exhibition at Charlie Smith London consists of recent paintings depicting versions of historical figures. The show runs… Read More
16 April 2016
The news of a new Rembrandt is bound to set tongues wagging. And any preconceived doubts about its authenticity are… Read More
8 April 2016
When learning of Tracey Emin’s decision to marry a rock of course the first thing the less charitable parts of… Read More
25 March 2016
Paul Black has visited the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford to meet Turner Prize, and 2013 Contemporary Art Society Award winner… Read More
22 March 2016
A couple of years ago, for this very publication, I lambasted the Royal Academy for its Allen Jones retrospective, which… Read More
18 March 2016
Did Shakespeare really write all those plays? I find myself not even caring that much whether he did, or was… Read More
11 March 2016
I’m apprehensive of the announcement by Oscar winning Breakthru Animation studios of “the world’s first feature-length painted animation,” ‘Loving Vincent’…. Read More
4 March 2016
I would love to say I’ve met David Hockney: I admire him enormously as a draughtsman, especially innumerable portraits capturing… Read More
26 February 2016