London Art Exhibitions Preview A Month By Month Guide 2019
Here’s a month by month guide to the highlights of the year’s exhibitions at the major museums and art galleries.
29 December 2018
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Tate Announces New Exhibition Dedicated To Women Artists In Britain
A new display dedicated to women artists working in Britain over the past 60 years will open in April 2019.
19 December 2018
Josef Albers Life And Work – A New Book – Review Edward Lucie-Smith
Once you struggle through the fairly formidable Introduction to this biography – a chapter devoted to orientating the reader concerning Josef Albers’ major achievement, the long Homage to the Square series of paintings
20 November 2018
Unseen John Virtue Paintings To Be Unveiled At Fortnum’s X Frank 2018
Fortnum & Mason will be continuing their annual artistic collaboration Fortnum’s X Frank 2018 (FXF18), 10th September – 20th October
7 July 2018
London Gallery Exhibitions July 2018 Chosen By Paul Carey-Kent
Ahhh London in the Summer, and what better way to soak up the weather but to see a few shows. Paul Carey-Kent picks the best London exhibitions not to miss in July 2018
4 July 2018
Art Basel 2018 Round-Up Reports Buoyant Sales At Core Event
Art Basel Switzerland which is always an important barometer in the art market has reported that some of the world’s premier galleries experienced remarkable sales across all levels of the market.
18 June 2018
Morley Gallery Presents New Work By Turner Prize Winning Artist Elizabeth Price
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16 June 2018
London Art Exhibition Round-Up June 2018 – Paul Carey-Kent
The noted writer and curator Paul Carey-Kent gives us his rolling ten recommended contemporary art shows in London now.
4 June 2018
Shape Of Light: Photography’s Relationship With Abstract Art – Tate Modern
London 30 April: Tate Modern reveals the intertwined stories of photography and abstract art in a new exhibition.
30 April 2018
London’s Latest Must-See Photography Exhibitions
There are some thought-provoking and informative photography exhibitions on show in London at the moment. Ranging from the Barbican’s Another Kind of Life: Photography on the Margins which explores subjects on the edge of society to the four artists shortlisted for the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize 2018 at the Photographers’ gallery. Also just opened is the Victorian Giants: The Birth of Art Photography which shows together Oscar Rejlander (1813–75), Lewis Carroll (1832–98), Julia Margaret Cameron (1815–79) and Lady Clementina Hawarden (1822-65). Here is a selection of what’s on offer.
28 February 2018
Lubaina Himid: Lost Voices Of Slavery – Walker Art Gallery – Alice Lenkiewicz
Lubaina Himid’s significant starting point for her exhibition ‘Naming the Money’, at the Walker Art Gallery is
21 November 2017
Monochrome: A World Void Of Colour Explored At The National Gallery
Monochrome: Painting in Black And White is an extraordinary new show at the National Gallery in London.
26 October 2017
Frieze London Reports Strong Sales And Robust Institutional Support 2017 Round-Up
Frieze London which closed on Sunday 8th October has brought together more than 160 galleries from 31 countries and driven strong sales across the fair and throughout the week.
11 October 2017
Lubaina Himid: Turner Prize Nominee Unveils New Liverpool Exhibition
The Turner Prize-nominated Lubaina Himid presents Meticulous Observations and Naming the Money, a powerful new exhibition at Liverpool’s Walker Art Gallery.
9 October 2017
The National Gallery Goes Monochrome For New B&W Exhibition
The National Gallery, this Autumn goes monochrome on a journey through a world of shadow and light.
16 August 2017
Banksy Balloon Girl Tops Poll of The Nation’s Favourite Artworks
Banksy’s Girl With A Balloon has been voted the nation’s favourite artwork.
26 July 2017
Benefactors Tim Sayer And Annemarie Norton Celebrate Hepworth Wakefield Prize Win
Tim Sayer and Annemarie Norton, whose personal collection, built up over the last five decades was generously donated to the Hepworth Wakefield last year were on stage to see The Hepworth Wakefield win this year’s Art Fund Museum of The Year £100,000 prize.
7 July 2017
Hepworth Wakefield Wins Prestigious Museum Of The Year £100,000 Prize
The Hepworth Wakefield has won this year’s Museum of The Year Award. The gallery located in West Yorkshire has beaten Tate Modern, the Lapworth Museum of Geology in Birmingham, Sir John Soane’s Museum in London and the National Heritage Centre for Horseracing and Sporting Art in Suffolk. The Art Fund aims to reward an institution that has shown “exceptional imagination, innovation, and achievement across the preceding 12 months”.
6 July 2017
Clifford Chance Showcases LGBT Art In 2017 International Exhibition Series
Clifford Chance is again celebrating Gay Pride with an international series of exhibitions showcasing the work of some of the best… Read More
19 June 2017
Tate Announces Blockbuster Line-up For 2018 But is It Too Safe?
Tate has announced its 2018 programme which covers all four venues. The forthcoming shows include exhibitions of work by ground-breaking figures in painting, performance, textiles, film and photography.
26 May 2017
Largest Piet Mondrian Exhibition To Be Mounted at Holland’s Gemeentemuseum
The complete collection of works by Piet Mondrian at the Gemeentemuseum in The Hague will go on display in the largest exhibition of the artist’s work ever mounted.
22 March 2017
British Council Announces 2017 Partnerships For 57th Venice Biennale
The British Council has announced their 2017 partnership with England, Scotland, and Wales in presenting three exhibitions at the 57th International Venice Biennale Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia.
10 February 2017
Top 10 – Richest Living Women Artists
Rich is a non-gender specific term. But what about the fact that the top ten richest artists are all male. Welcome to Artlyst’s Top 10 Richest Women Artists. (First published June 2015)
23 December 2016
British Artist Mat Chivers Presents New Work At PM/AM
New work by the British artist Mat Chivers, his first solo show in London in more than five years is presented at PM/AM. Harmonic Distortion, an exhibition of. Chivers’s uses a range of media to explore relationships between environmental phenomena, the fundamental materials that constitute the world, and the contemporary production technologies that we use to understand and interact with them.
23 November 2016
Hull City Of Culture: Rembrandt To Turner Prize Highlights Announced
The reopening of the Ferens Art Gallery following a £4.5 million facelift, the Turner Prize, an exhibition of Francis Bacon’s Screaming Popes, Spencer Tunick’s nudes, works by… Read More
22 September 2016
Modern and Contemporary British Art Takes Centerstage At Fortnum & Mason London
I’m sure all of Artlyst’s regular readers know how much we love an exhibition that thinks outside the box, when… Read More
13 September 2016
Hackney WickED 2016: Get Ready For London’s Super-Atmospheric Art Festival
Hackney WickED CIC is always one of the high points of the Summer art season. Not only is it located… Read More
26 July 2016
Antony Gormley To Suspend Life-Size Figure From Ceiling Of NPG
Antony Gormley is to display a life-size sculpture suspended from the ceiling of the Ondaatje Wing Main Hall of the National Portrait… Read More
18 July 2016
Henry Moore: £24.7m Auction Record For Important Festival Of Britain Masterpiece
Henry Moore’s ground-breaking 1951 modernist sculpture Reclining Figure: Festival (£24.7m) led Christie’s 250th anniversary auction Defining British Art on 30 June, the sale achieved… Read More
2 July 2016
Tate Builds A New Dream Palace In the forefront of what?
In this latest opinion piece Edward Lucie-Smith gives us the low down on London’s ‘most significant’ cultural building since the… Read More
16 June 2016
Top Art School And College Dropouts Who Changed Our World
Oh no, not another bloody Listicle! When I first got into writing drivel for advertising, using a numbered list format was frowned upon.
1 June 2016
Tate’s Nicholas Serota Fears High Cost London Will Force Artists Out
Nicholas Serota director of Tate has warned that ‘London’s increasingly high cost of living is making it impossible for young artists to… Read More
17 March 2016