2 August 2020
Peter Doig: White Canoe 1990/1 – Significant Works – Sue Hubbard
Born in Scotland and raised in Trinidad and Canada, Peter Doig is widely considered one of the most renowned contemporary figurative painters of his...
Features
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Anish Kapoor Country House Splendour – Stuart Semple
Anish Kapoor Houghton Hall Norfolk: Have you ever felt like you want to ring your mum to tell her you think you might have...
9 July 2020
Ralph Steadman Fear & Loathing In 2020 – Interview By Oliver Malin
There is no ignoring the odd upside from a certain angle, offered up by our current miasm. Over the last three months, all of...
8 July 2020
Richard Demarco Art Impresario At 90 – Clare Henry
Richard Demarco, C.B.E., H.R.S.A., R.S.W., F.R.S.A., Hon. F.E.C.A., Hon. F.R.I.A.S. - where to start?
5 July 2020
Patrick Wray Graphic Storytellers/Comic Creatives In Conversation With Jude Cowan Montague
The second piece in a series of conversations with new graphic novelists and comic artists. With many 'fine artists' (whatever this means!) turning to...
5 July 2020
Kara Walker: Fons Americanus – Significant Works – Sue Hubbard
In this new series, art critic, Poet and novelist Sue Hubbard discusses seminal contemporary artworks
2 July 2020
SOHO HOUSE ANNOUNCES THE INAUGURAL SOHO HOUSE ART PRIZE
Judges including Maria Balshaw CBE, Director of Tate, Hebru Brantley, contemporary American artist and Kate Bryan, Head of Collections for Soho House will select...
25 June 2020
Wim Wenders An Exclusive Artlyst Interview
Renowned as one of the most important film directors of our time, Wim Wenders (b.1945, Dusseldorf) developed, in parallel, an extensive photographic oeuvre. It...
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...
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...
1 June 2020
Great Artworks Explained A New Video Series By James Payne
This is a new series by 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...
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
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...
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...
9 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.
Photo Features
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...
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
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.
16 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 tickets to give away....
23 July 2019
Hirvitalo: A Hive For Finland’s Experimental Arts With DIY Anarchist Roots – Jude Cowan Montague
Pipoca (Paola de Ramos) invited me to participate in an art exhibition and residency at Hirvitalo, Pispala, Tampere, Finland in July 2019, the theme...
13 July 2019
Expressionist Prints: From Turmoil To Conflict – Hunterian Glasgow – Leyla Sanai
The unassuming Hunterian Gallery in Glasgow, perched next to the University library, houses stunning paintings by the Glasgow Boys (and Girls) and the Scottish...
12 July 2019
Cornwall’s Eden Project: A Little-Known Art Collection – Paul Carter Robinson
This Summer Cornwall's Eden Project has unveiled new permanent sculptural works by Julian Opie and Ryan Gander installed in the grounds. This tops up...
14 May 2019
Venice Biennale Collateral Exhibitions Provide Calm and Quality
It was a relief to step away from the hustle and bustle of the Giardini and Arsenale, the main venues for the 58th Venice...
Opinion
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...
Bill Viola And The Art Of Contemplation – Revd Jonathan Evens
In welcoming Bill Viola’s installations at St Paul’s Cathedral, Mark Oakley noted that: ‘Viola’s art slows down our perceptions in order to deepen them.’
2018 A Melancholy Year For Art Exhibitions In Britain – Edward Lucie-Smith
It has been in many ways a somewhat melancholy year for art, here in Britain – or should I say: ‘here in London’? -since...
Picasso To Souza: The Crucifixion Imagery Rarely Exhibited – Revd Jonathan Evens
Overshadowed by iconic images from Picasso 1932 and Bacon/Freud two of the Tate’s current exhibitions feature powerfully expressive crucifixion images.
Stuckism Is Alive And Well And Living In Prague – Edward Lucie-Smith
I’m just back from a visit to Prague. I went there specifically to see an exhibition of new British painting organised by an organisation...
Edward Lucie-Smith Bids A Final Farewell To The Avant-Garde
The contemporary art world seems an increasingly strange place to be.
6 January 2018
Frank Gehry: Fondation Louis Vuitton Paris – An Architect’s Impression – Alex Murray
I had never experienced a Frank Gehry up-close. Never stood slack-jawed, gawping at the gymnastic splendours that the photographs in the glossies promise.
4 January 2018
Sean Scully Indisputably The Most Universal Living Contemporary Artist- Edward Lucie-Smith
One name immediately sprang to mind - that of the born Irish, once British, now American painter Sean Scully.
Interviews
9 July 2020
Ralph Steadman Fear & Loathing In 2020 – Interview By Oliver Malin
There is no ignoring the odd upside from a certain angle, offered up by our current miasm. Over the last three months, all of...
5 July 2020
Patrick Wray Graphic Storytellers/Comic Creatives In Conversation With Jude Cowan Montague
The second piece in a series of conversations with new graphic novelists and comic artists. With many 'fine artists' (whatever this means!) turning to...
25 June 2020
Wim Wenders An Exclusive Artlyst Interview
Renowned as one of the most important film directors of our time, Wim Wenders (b.1945, Dusseldorf) developed, in parallel, an extensive photographic oeuvre. It...
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...
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...
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.
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
Quiz
14 March 2017
Quiz – Test Your Knowledge of Sir Howard Hodgkin
Turner-prize winning artist Sir Howard Hodgkin sadly died last week at the age of 84. Test your knowledge of him here.
Artlyst Competition: Win A Pair Of Preview Evening Tickets To The London Art Fair
Artlyst is once again media partners with the London Art Fair 2017. Competition: Answer The Following questions and email to info@ artlyst.com subject as,...
Quiz – How much do you know about the Turner Prize?
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Quiz – James Turrell
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Quiz – Masterpiece
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Quiz – Top Selling Artists in 2015
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Top 10
Top 10 London Museum Exhibitions Summer 2017
Here’s the Artlyst guide to the Top 10 best Museum exhibitions on in London this Summer, half of which have Free admission.
Top 10 Most Memorable Kisses in Art
Throughout the History of Art, there are examples of loving couples in passionate embraces. Here Artlyst presents its top 10 most memorable kisses in...
Top 10 – Black Paintings
In 2016 Anish Kapoor acquired exclusive rights to the unique Vanta black pigment, reported to be the blackest shade of black in existence. ...
Top 10 – Dada Artists
2016 saw the 100 year anniversary of the first Dada performances at the Cabaret Voltaire in Zurich, Switzerland. So in reverence to this...
Top 10 – International Black Artists
Here is the Artlyst for the top 10 international black artists working today, the first of many celebrating diversity in the visual arts!
Top 10 – Feminist Artists
The feminist art movement emerged in the 1960s with women artists taking an interest in how they differed from their male counterparts. Artlyst has...
Top 10 – Appropriation Artworks
Appropriation art or the art of appropriation is is the use of pre-existing objects or images with little or no transformation applied to them....
Top 10 – White Artworks
As Winter is upon us and the nights are already closing in, what can be more appropriate than works of art in monochromatic white....
Artbytch
Artbytch 2016: Death, Fake News And A Few Bloody Good Exhibitions
Artbytch looks back on a depressing year with great exhibitions.
USA Website ArtList That Infringed UK’s Artlyst Name Closes Down
The New York based online company ArtList, not to be confused with the popular London based art information website Artlyst is to shutdown. The...
Brexit: Expect Museums To Start Charging And Non-UK Art Prices To Skyrocket
The decision by British voters to leave the European Union has been announced – and commentators have begun the analysis, the post event combing...
Tate’s Switch House A Dialogue Between Art And Space
It’s alarming to think that Tate Modern opened in 2000, firstly because it makes me feel super old, but also one wonders, what did...
Fun House: Royal Academy Summer Exhibition A Hodgepodge Of All Sorts
Ok I admit it. I’ve deliberately avoided the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition every year since I first saw it in 2007, mainly because it’s such...
Dropping Out Like Flies In A Damien Hirst Installation
The Artlyst lystical of creative people who dropped out at uni includes some predictable names: John Lennon, Orson Welles, good old Pablo Picasso. What...
Yayoi Kusama: Turning Pumpkins Into Vuitton Bags And Airbnb Rooms
I was interested to read that Tate Modern has apparently been working in conjunction with Airbnb to provide the opportunity for renters to have...
Jeff Koons: Showing The Love For Irony And Pseudo Philosophical Claptrap
The loads of people who know me as a boring old traditionalist (Turner Prize?! Yah boo hiss!) are always surprised when I say I...