16 November 2018
David Hockney Pool Painting Breaks All Records For Living Artist $90 312 500
A David Hockney painting depicting an iconic landscape with swimming pool has broken world records in New York. Portrait of an Artist (Pool with...
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15 November 2018
Cerith Wyn Evans Wins The Second Hepworth Prize For Sculpture
Cerith Wyn Evans has won The Hepworth Prize For Sculpture now in its second edition. This year’s shortlisted artists were Michael Dean, Mona Hatoum,...
15 November 2018
Street Artist Ron English Buys Banksy Slave Labour Mural To Whitewash
The US Street Artist Ron English has purchased Banksy's Poundland wall mural 'Slave Labour' for £561,000, with the plan to whitewash over the artwork....
Michel Comte Multimedia Arctic Installation Commissioned By Wavelength Foundation
Responding to an international call to the global arts and culture community, acclaimed artist and photographer Michel Comte will be the first high-profile artist...
13 November 2018
Rijksmuseum Marks 350th Anniversary of Rembrandt’s Death With New Exhibition
Rijksmuseum marks the 350th anniversary of Rembrandt’s death in 2019 with ‘Year of Rembrandt’. The year-long celebration opens with All the Rembrandts (15 February...
12 November 2018
Paris Photo Closes 22nd Edition With Robust Sales And Optimism
Paris Photo, the well established fair dedicated to the photographic medium, closed the doors to its 22nd edition on Sunday 11 November
10 November 2018
Living War Memorial Artist-led Campaign Save Avenue Of Trees
An Artist-led campaign to save a street dubbed the ‘Living War Memorial’ has resulted in a dramatic victory for a community stirred into art-activism
Jeff Koons Loses Second French Plagiarism Case
The American artist Jeff Koons has been found guilty of copying an idea from an advertisement used by the French clothing chain Naf Naf.
8 November 2018
Chris Dercon To Head Up Grand Palais and Musée du Luxembourg
The former Director of Tate Modern, Chris Dercon has been appointed President of the French government cultural body, Réunion des musées nationaux-Grand Palais (Rmn-GP)....
7 November 2018
Deutsche Börse Photography Prize 2019 Announce Shortlist
The Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation has announced the four artists shortlisted for this major prize and the nominees are: Laia Abril, Susan Meiselas, Arwed Messmer...
6 November 2018
Sally Tallant Moves To Queens Museum NY As New Executive Director
The Board of Queens Museum in New York has announced the appointment of Sally Tallant as its new Executive Director. She will take up...
5 November 2018
Spectacular Jean Nouvel Designed National Museum Qatar To Open In March
Qatar Museums have announced the opening dates for the National Museum of Qatar (NMoQ), housed within a spectacular new building designed by architect Jean...
1 November 2018
£1m Peterloo Massacre Memorial By Jeremy Deller – Design Unveiled
Jeremy Deller the Turner Prize-winning artist has unveiled the design for his 38ft (11.5m) memorial to mark the 200th anniversary of the Peterloo Massacre.
31 October 2018
Nazi-Looted Degas: Investigators Seek Information From Art Dealer Mathias F. Hans
An important pastel by Edgar Degas looted by the Nazis in Paris in 1940 ‘Portrait of Gabrielle Diot’, 1890, owned by the renowned art...
30 October 2018
Alt Power 100 Artlyst 2018 – Celebrating Artists And Art Professionals
The Alt Power 100 Artlyst 2018, now in its 8th edition is a celebration of artists and art professionals who have made a difference...
30 October 2018
Ben Uri Gallery Sells Off Collection To Fund Global Immigrant Artist Expansion
The Ben Uri Gallery and Museum, known internationally for its extensive collection of Jewish immigrant art is to sell off part of its permanent...
Gillian Wearing Exhibition Celebrating Her Parliament Square Millicent Fawcett Statue Announced
Courage Calls to Courage Everywhere, an exhibition documenting the creation of Turner Prize-winning artist Gillian Wearing’s recently- unveiled statue of Suffragist leader Millicent Fawcett,...
26 October 2018
Jeff Koons Ashmolean Exhibition Announced For February 2019
Jeff Koons (b. 1955) will have a major exhibition to be held at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, in spring 2019.
25 October 2018
Diebenkorn Ocean Park Masterpiece From Mary Tyler Moore Collection Auctioned At Christie’s
Christie’s NY will be offering a large Richard Diebenkorn, Ocean Park series painting from 1985 on November 15.
24 October 2018
Ugo Rondinone Unveils Fluorescent Magic Mountain Sculpture In Liverpool
Ugo Rondinone has unveiled his latest work commissioned by Liverpool Biennial and Tate Liverpool was unveiled Tuesday 23 October 2018, by the artist. The...
Alternative Miss World: Logan’s Long Running Peace & Love Happening
The Alternative Miss World Pageant which took place at Shakespeare's Globe Theatre Saturday night was a triumph of artistic anarchy.
19 October 2018
Grayson Perry Unveils Major Monnaie de Paris Exhibition During FIAC Week
The Monnaie de Paris is presenting the first French solo exhibition of the Turner Prize-winning artist Grayson Perry (born 1960).
18 October 2018
Tate Collective Unveil Public Art Commissions Celebrating Key Women Across London
An exhibition of 20 newly-commissioned artworks celebrating London women was unveiled in public spaces across the city today Thursday 18 October. In conjunction with...
17 October 2018
Banksy Sotheby’s Shredder Stunt Was All Smoke And Mirrors
Was the art stunt of the century carried out by the Street Artist Banksy on the 5th of October an elaborate magic trick? or...
17 October 2018
Mel Ramos: West Coast Pop Artist Dies Age 83
The West Coast Pop Artist Mel Ramos (born July 24, 1935) has died in California, age 83. He was best known as an American...
13 October 2018
Discredited Banksy Mural To Go Under The Hammer In LA
An iconic secondary market Banksy mural that was hacked off of a wall in London is to go under the hammer at Julien’s Auctions...
Tracey Emin Wins Commission For Seven Metre High Sculpture In Oslo
A newly commissioned artwork by the British Artist Tracey Emin has been approved for installation on the Oslo harbour.
12 October 2018
Rachel Whiteread Unveils First Permanent UK Sculpture: First Photos – Paul Black
Artlyst has recently travelled to Dalby Forest, North Yorkshire, the site of the first permanent UK sculpture from Turn Prize-winning artist Rachel Whiteread.
10 October 2018
Mat Collishaw Exhibits Elizabeth I Inspired Installation In Greenwich
A major new installation by internationally acclaimed British artist, Mat Collishaw has been unveiled at The Queen’s House, Greenwich.
8 October 2018
Jeff Koons Cracked Egg Blue Loses Its Lustre At Christie’s
Jeff Koons Cracked Egg (Blue) a large two-part stainless steel sculpture from the Celebration Series, which began with Balloon Dog in 1994, is the...