National Gallery: One Small Step Towards Privatisation One Giant Leap Towards BP
The National Gallery found itself the centre of a large PR pickle this week as the dirty word ‘privatisation’ was bandied back and forth...
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Professionals Scrutinise The Art World’s Shady Dealings
Regulation is needed in the global art market because it is vulnerable to money laundering, tax evasion, trading on inside information and price manipulation...
25 January 2015
Zavier Ellis Explores Young Gods, Modernism, And Jigsaws
Young artist/curator Zavier Ellis runs the highly regarded CHARLIE SMITH London, which is renowned for identifying some of London’s best new art talent. Ellis...
Kitsch Happens: Utilitarian Objects Rather Than Works Of Art?
This spring twelve Jack Vettriano paintings are expected to fetch up to £1.2m when auctioned at Bonham’s.
18 January 2015
Zavier Ellis Talks To Artlyst About Young Gods, Narratives, And Toothpaste
Zavier Ellis is a young artist/curator who runs the highly regarded CHARLIE SMITH London, a gallery with a history of identifying some of London’s...
Labour Policy For The Arts As Bad As Conservatives Tweet Reveals
Labour has come under fire after a message was tweeted by the party confirming that it would uphold the £180m slashed from the Arts...
Art Replicants: Why Is The Dulwich Picture Gallery Full Of Fakery?
Following last week’s musings on intellectual property, the Dulwich Picture Gallery has recently announced that as part of its exhibition programme
BBC Broadcasts Cover Of Charlie Hebdo Depicting Cartoon Of Prophet Muhammad
The BBC's Newsnight which was broadcast after the 10 o'clock news last night, briefly showed a copy of the latest edition of Charlie Hebdo,
Is Image Appropriation Just Plagiarism Of Intellectual Property
Jeff Koons is facing a second lawsuit over alleged plagiarism of intellectual property in two weeks; first regarding the sculpture
Visual Arts Snubbed In 2015 New Year Honours List
It is truly astounding that not one noted British visual artist has been presented with an order of chivalry in this year's New Year...
Adolf Hitler vs Winston Churchill Who Was The Better Artist?
With the former US President George W. Bush admitted that he may not be "a great painter" - yet still exhibiting more than 24...
ArtBytch Round-Up The Best And Worst London Art 2014
The highs and lows of art in 2014: early on the Whitechapel Gallery scored a big hit with deco-haired Hannah Höch’s impressively hard-hitting collages
20 December 2014
Jeremy Deller Explores Warhol, Morris And The Factory
In 1986 a young Jeremy Deller took up an invitation from Andy Warhol to hang out at the artist's eponymous Factory. Deller was an...
Art The Miracle That Exists Outside A Saccharine Schmaltz Christmas
It’s that time of year again, when a saccharine schmaltz descends in snowy suffocating blanket over us; Christmas is the most profitable time of...
13 December 2014
Jeremy Deller Mixes A Cocktail Of Warhol, Morris And Politics
Little did the Turner Prize winning artist Jeremy Deller realise that a chance meeting with Andy Warhol would have a pivotal effect on his...
Art Basel Miami: Summing Up Superficiality In The Contemporary Art World
If you thought the Frieze Art Fair was the pinnacle of superficiality in the contemporary art world, Art Basel which took place last week...
Give Elgin Marbles Back: British Public Support Dwindles To 25%
The Elgin Marbles, also known as the Parthenon Marbles, which were scrubbed clean, whitened and preserved by the British Museum
Helly Nahmad: Early Prison Release Sparks Outcry Of Two Tier Justice System
The New York art dealer Helly Nahmad has been released from prison after spending only five months of his one-year and one-day sentence.
6 December 2014
Jeremy Deller Talks To Artlyst About Warhol, Morris And Love
At the age of 20, the Turner Prize winning artist Jeremy Deller took up an invitation from Andy Warhol to hang out at the...
Shia LaBeouf Is Living Proof That Actors Can’t Be Visual Artists
News emerged this week that Shia LaBeouf was ‘raped’ by a spectator at his collaborative show with the artists Luke Turner and Nastja Säde...
ArtBytch: Black Spider Memos, Victorian Excess, And Smell-O-Vision Art At Leighton House
The arrival of the rule of law signified the backbone upon which democracy continues to structure itself.
Allen Jones: Wince-inducing Furniture Women Just The Tip Of The Iceberg
Welcome to the Establishment, Mr Jones, you may now safely wheel out your once risqué, now wince-inducing archaic women as furniture.
BBC Incompetence As Television Centre Memorabilia Goes For A Song
The BBC have been criticised for not properly promoting a series of auctions of memorabilia, from Television Centre, the last of which raised only...
Brand Beckham, Warhol and Koons ArtBytch Reveals The Common Denominator
My name is Charles Saatchi and I am an alcoholic: given the growing trend for sprinkling the magical commercial fairy dust that is “Art”
Artlyst Power 100: 2014 Alternative Art Power List revealed
Each October during Frieze Week, Artlyst releases the Art PowerLyst, the alternative to ArtReview’s Power 100. Many think that AR’s list is erroneous and...
25 February 2014
Listening to Scarlett Lingwood: An Interview With One Of London’s Leading Emerging Artists
The emerging artist, Scarlett Lingwood, has a new show called, “Calasetta Calling,” on March 4th at the Stationer’s Hall in St. Paul’s. Since graduating...