Love it or loathe it the RA’s Summer Exhibition is here to stay as a permanent fixture of the London art calendar. This year we are assaulted by the RA’s most flamboyant flaneur Grayson Perry who has chosen to paint the walls buttercup yellow.
6 June 2018
Every spring I look forward to the buzz of the London art school degree show season.
27 May 2018
A new fund has been created will allow the celebrated arts commissioning agency Artangel to continue to produce extraordinary works… Read More
3 May 2018
Gallery Weekend Berlin has been rapidly evolving, over the past fourteen years, morphing into a leading international event, to be reckoned with.
2 May 2018
Grayson Perry RA will be the co-ordinator of the Royal Academy annual Summer Exhibition in June 2018.
24 January 2018
Overview: The London Art Fair is the capitals longest running Contemporary and Modern art fair. Now in its 30th year, the event presents leading British and international galleries alongside specially curated spaces, Art Projects and Photo50.
16 January 2018
It has been a challenging year in the art world with record auction prices and soaring fair costs.
29 December 2017
The week of Miami Beach Art Basel has become a major event for Miami and the global art pack.
29 November 2017
The Art on a Postcard Secret Auction returns for its 4th year next week. Art on a Postcard raises money for The Hepatitis C Trust.
9 November 2017
One of the best collateral art events during Frieze Week takes place in the car park beneath Cavendish Square
28 September 2017
A new exhibition celebrating the cult of Nature Morte explores how leading artists of the 21st century have reinvigorated the still life.
18 August 2017
Art Out of the Bloodlands: A Century of Polish Artists in Britain at the Ben Uri Gallery focuses on the contribution made by the largest migrant community to 20th/21st Century British Art
25 July 2017
The Turner prize-winning artist Keith Tyson is to marry TV executive Elisabeth Murdoch today.
22 July 2017
This year’s big graduation show of work by Fine Arts students from the Royal College of Art is both inspiriting and at the same time just a little bit depressing.
28 June 2017
Galleries throughout Art Basel 48 have reported exceptional sales across the board, pointing to Art Basel’s ability to convene leading galleries and collectors from around the world.
18 June 2017
Art Basel 2017 is a curated selection of 291 first-rate galleries exhibiting at the fair’s 48th edition in Basel. The gallery list for the Swiss event, taking place from June 15 to June 18, 2017, is a corker.
7 June 2017
Central St Martins BA and MA degree shows kicked off this weekend with a number of multidisciplinary exhibitions stretching across the Kings Cross campus.
29 May 2017
Photo London opens their third edition to the public this week. The fair was created to give London an international photography event befitting the city’s status as a global cultural capital. Founded in 2015, it has already established itself as a world-class photography Fair and as a catalyst for London’s dynamic photography community.
16 May 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
Designs for Manchester’s £110m Factory arts venue have been approved and will now go to the next stage of realisation. The Rem Koolhaas design will transform a former warehouse into a global quality multi-purpose venue. Housing two performance spaces – a theatre and a warehouse area for art, performance, and video.
14 January 2017
Warning… If you are easily offended then please do not open this top 10!
22 December 2016
Another major art fair another round-up! Art Basel’s show in Miami Beach closed on Sunday amidst high praise from participating galleries reporting healthy sales across all levels of the market.
6 December 2016
The first comprehensive exhibition of the pioneering British photographer Olive Edis (1876-1955) has been unveiled at Norwich Castle Museum & Art Gallery. Although… Read More
9 October 2016
Hassan Sharif (1951 – 2016) was arguably the best known Emirati artist. He lived and worked in Dubai, United Arab Emirates after studying in London at Byam… Read More
19 September 2016
Artangel has created what is likely to be the most thought-provoking exhibition of 2016. Known mostly for their solo projects,… Read More
1 September 2016
A major new large-scale public artwork by Yinka Shonibare MBE RA has been unveiled at the Royal Academy. It wraps… Read More
16 May 2016
First held in 1957, the John Moores Painting Prize is the UK’s best-known painting competition and is named after Sir… Read More
25 April 2016
The Columbia Threadneedle Prize, one of Europe’s leading open competition for figurative and representational art, has announced the six artists… Read More
10 December 2015
Director of the Whitworth, Dr Maria Balshaw, has announced a major donation of works by leading British artists including: Tracey Emin, Anya Gallaccio, Gilbert… Read More
21 November 2015
Welcome to the fifth birthday edition of the Artlyst Alternative Power 100. This is a list of merit awarded, by… Read More
2 November 2015
A retrospective of the work of Luc Tuymans has been announced at the Qatar Museums. It will be the first solo show… Read More
12 August 2015
A major ‘Mike Kelley’ exhibition in New York has been announced by Hauser & Wirth. It will be the gallery’s first… Read More
3 August 2015
