18 June 2020
Last Lockdown Interviews pART 6 – Oliver Malin
The date was 13th June, When I first started writing this installment in this potentially infinite series, but everything I wrote felt stale. As...
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13 June 2020
Elizabeth Kwant Interview With Revd Jonathan Evens
Elizabeth Kwant’s work engages contemporary socio-political issues; immigration detention, migration, gender and slavery through her multi-disciplinary practice. Her socially engaged arts projects have often...
10 June 2020
Black Lives Matter March American Embassy London – Oliver Malin
Unless you've been stuck in outer space or Elon Musk has deployed you to test out the feasibility of luxury corporate space travel during...
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...
4 June 2020
London Lockdown Interviews pART 5 – Oliver Malin
Usually, an article written by this author within this feature series would only be aiming for laughs, confusion and splashes of enlightenment.
1 June 2020
Great Artworks Explained A New Video Series By James Payne
This is a new series by Artist/historian James Payne demystifying great works of art. We will be adding to this page as the content...
31 May 2020
Wallis Eates Graphic Storytellers/Comic Creatives In Conversation With Jude Cowan Montague
In this first series of interviews with graphic novelists, I spoke with Wallis Eates, author, artist and raconteur.
14 May 2020
Scotland Marks Thirtieth Anniversary Of Historic Venice Biennale Takeover – Clare Henry
Thirty years ago this week, in 1990, Scotland made history at the 44th Venice Biennale. It was the first and only time in its...
9 May 2020
Artist Lockdown In New York City – Scarlett Lingwood
The reality of Covid19 started to appear more on my radar towards the beginning of March. By the time the Armory Show happened with...
7 May 2020
Sean Scully In Conversation With Kelly Grovier – Lockdown 2020 – Video Added
Lockdown 2020 and the art world has been brought to a grinding halt. Major exhibitions that have taken years to plan and organize have...
4 May 2020
London Gallery Lockdown Night And Day – A Photo Essay
London Gallery Lockdown 4/05/2020: Greta Thunberg would undoubtedly agree with the first statement
29 April 2020
London Lockdown Interviews pART 4 – Oliver Malin
Lockdown Interviews: Samuel Johnson once explained to a friend at some point on September 20, 1777, in a London bookshop that "you find no...
28 April 2020
Helaine Blumenfeld: Undulating Structures – Interview – Revd Jonathan Evens
Helaine Blumenfeld is Best known for her monumental public commissions, such as the five-metre bronze sculpture ‘Fortuna’ that in 2016
26 April 2020
Lockdown London A Photo Essay By Oliver Malin
It seems odd to be writing an introduction to a lockdown London photographic series investigating the epicentre of the night, the quiet, airy night,...
21 April 2020
Annya Sand: Renaissance Lockdown Project – Interview
Annya Sand (born 1983) is a British artist, currently completing an MA at Central Saint Martins, London. She explores abstract painting using her own...
Salvador Dalí The Enigma of Faith – Revd Jonathan Evens
Salvador Dalí was an enigma, perhaps never more so than in his engagement with religion. An exhibition currently touring the US demonstrates the divided...
15 April 2020
How To Isolate: Art Industry Interviews – Oliver Malin
Dearly beloved, we are all unfortunately still gathered here on this unexpected Summer holiday to a destination unknown.
6 April 2020
Art In Isolation More Industry Interviews – Oliver Malin
If this isn't your first time visiting this series, thank you for your returning custom.
6 April 2020
Solitude An Essay By Jeremy Cooper
Some of us have spent much of our lives seeking first to explain to self and then to justify to loved others the need...
30 March 2020
More Interviews From Isolation Four Artists – Oliver Malin
Whilst I will refrain from touting out the current word de jour again, the new normal, it's hard not to feel the paradigm shift...
Art And Faith A Time For Seeing – Revd Jonathan Evens
Edward Lucie-Smith has rightly wondered, as 'the contemporary art world goes dark, and as galleries – official spaces and commercial ones – slam shut...
26 March 2020
Interviews From Isolation Four Artists – Oliver Malin
This is a new series of interviews coordinated by Oliver Malin that Artlyst is going to run over the next few weeks illustrating how...
Peter Saul And Jordan Casteel New Museum NYC – Ilka Scobie
A weird and interesting dichotomy of two painters who share neither age, gender, race or subject matter are united by passionate painting and masterful...
9 March 2020
ULAY: A Personal Reminiscence – Clare Henry
ULAY, who died last week at 76, was tall, handsome, clever, charismatic. In the 1980s he was also half of the world's golden couple...
4 March 2020
Stanley Spencer: His Two Wives And A Love Triangle
Despite the fact that this remarkable story has been the subject of fascination and debate for decades in books, films and documentaries this show...
24 February 2020
Carolina Mazzolari: Painting With Thread – Interview – Paul Carter Robinson
Carolina Mazzolari is one of the key artists currently in an exhibition and auction sale at Sotheby's to benefit Fine Cell Work, a charity...
17 February 2020
Frieze LA 2020: What The Dealers Said
Frieze LA 2020 attracted 35,000 visitors during its four days at Paramount Pictures Studios, which featured 75 local and international galleries in addition to unique...
Frieze LA 2020 Plus Satellite Fairs Pull-Out Guide
Welcome to the Artlyst Frieze LA Week 2020 printable pull-out Guide, This is our curated choice of the events not to miss during the...
9 February 2020
National Gallery Explores ‘Sin’ In New Exhibition – Interview Dr Joost Joustra Curator With Revd Jonathan Evens
The first exhibition in the UK exploring sin in art will be staged at the National Gallery this spring. ‘Sin’ will bring together paintings...
7 February 2020
Margate – Art In Ex Toilets And Family Homes – James Payne
With smaller Galleries being squeezed out of the market more and more, it makes sense to look towards ad hoc spaces. Inventive curators are...