New Contemporaries has opened in Liverpool to coincide with the 20th birthday of the Liverpool Biennial. The exhibition selected from recent graduates of UK art schools, it is a good insight into practices, showcasing some of the most dynamic work being made by emerging artists.
15 July 2018
Tate St Ives has won the Art Fund Museum of the Year 2018 award.
7 July 2018
The Frieze open-air sculpture park opened in the English Garden at Regent’s Park on July 4th, overlapping by a day with the Masterpiece art fair.
4 July 2018
Over 100 artists, including Tracey Emin, Jeremy Deller, Antony Gormley, Lubaina Himid, Anish Kapoor, Grayson Perry, Sam Taylor Johnson, Mark Wallinger and Rachel Whiteread, have written to The Guardian to protest against the decline of art in schools.
8 May 2018
New Contemporaries has announced this year’s selected artists with support from Bloomberg Philanthropies.
3 May 2018
London: Tate Britain has announced the 2018 shortlist for the Turner Prize on their website, this evening 25 April.
26 April 2018
The longer I spent in the British Museum’s admirable new blockbuster show, Rodin and the art of ancient Greece, the more keenly I seemed to feel the presence of a third, uninvited presence
26 April 2018
Helen Legg currently Director of Spike Island, Bristol, has been appointed the new Director of Tate Liverpool.
20 March 2018
The National Portrait Gallery will exhibit a portrait slashed with a butcher’s cleaver by a suffragette for the first time in over twenty years.
29 January 2018
Kevin Brennan, the shadow arts minister, has revealed that there is an ‘Institutional’ male bias in the government’s art collection. He pointed out that only a quarter of works acquired by the government in the last five years are by female artists.
7 January 2018
Bloomberg New Contemporaries is to leave its home at the ICA London for Block 336 in Brixton.
23 November 2017
The Tenth Anniversary Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize 2017 has been won by César Dezfuli for his portrait of a migrant rescued in the Mediterranean Sea off the Libyan coast, the National Portrait Gallery has announced. The £15,000 award was presented to the Spanish photographer at an awards ceremony on Tuesday 14 November 2017.
15 November 2017
Frieze is here again, and we’ve been crossing the days off since summer! Not only is this the buzziest week of the London autumn art calendar but it’s a great time to discover new artists, watch performances by young talent and films by some of the most exciting experimental filmmakers in the world
5 October 2017
Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2017 launches in Gateshead showcasing new and recent fine art graduates
2 October 2017
The Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize jury has selected three photographers shortlisted for the 2017 competition.
5 September 2017
One of the highlights of the London contemporary art calendar is the Goldsmiths 2017 MFA degree exhibition.
18 July 2017
Contemporary artist Marlene Dumas (b.1953) displays portraits of Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) and his lover Lord Alfred Douglas (1870–1945), also known as ‘Bosie,’ painted last year and exhibited in Artangel’s ambitious exhibition at Reading Gaol, Wilde’s place of incarceration.
4 April 2017
When Maria Balshaw takes over from Sir Nicolas Serota at Tate (not yet officially confirmed as I write this, but a racing certainty), she takes over an empire that seems to be in excellent health.
13 January 2017
London in 2017 will play host to a number of truly exciting exhibitions. Here is a sample of what will be on offer.
31 December 2016
Here is our selection for the Top 10 Most Laughable Works of Art. We leave it up to your imagination as to what we’re conveying by giving these pieces airtime on Artlyst.
22 December 2016
Artlyst has decided to cross the line and ‘name and shame’ local UK councils and public bodies for commissioning some of the most horrendous misuses of bronze and other materials in history.
19 December 2016
Christie’s Auctioneers have Released their Frieze Week Post War And Contemporary Art Auction Results. The total reaching £91,092,925 / $115,611,199 /… Read More
10 October 2016
Ten artists have been chosen to display artworks on sites across the London Tube network, as part of Art on the Underground’s latest campaign… Read More
30 July 2016
Artlyst has attended the Foundling Museum, London, currently presenting the exhibition ‘FOUND’ curated by Foundling Fellow and Royal Academician Cornelia… Read More
23 June 2016
Frieze New York launch their 2016 edition, on Randall’s Island Park, Manhattan this week from May 5-8 (4th VIP Opening). This… Read More
1 May 2016
Artist Laurie Anderson has created an installation using her late musician husband, Lou Reed’s guitars and amps in a sound… Read More
17 February 2016
Emma Hart has won the sixth Max Mara Art Prize for Women at a ceremony at the Whitechapel Gallery, London, on 3 February… Read More
3 February 2016
Plymouth’s £4.2 million Ocean Studios, artistic development within 60,000 ft Grade I listed, former naval building, was officially launched yesterday (Thursday 30th July)… Read More
31 July 2015
Alex Farquharson, Director of Nottingham Contemporary has been appointed as the new Director of Tate Britain, it was announced today. He… Read More
29 July 2015
Ocean Studios has announced their inaugural show at their new Plymouth gallery. The programme highlights key ideas and themes; identity, communication, feminism, diversity, radical craft… Read More
13 July 2015
The Ferens Art Gallery in Hull has announced it will shut its doors for a revamp in time to host the Turner Prize… Read More
8 July 2015
Here’s a rather perversely democratic choice of just one piece each from a dozen categories: Art Basel’s gallery section; Art Unlimited… Read More
22 June 2015
