Two artists whose dogged persistence with figurative art, in the face of more reductive critical perceptions of art, enabled us to reach this place of diversity are currently having major retrospectives in London: Philip Guston and R.B. Kitaj.
17 October 2023
The first time I saw the sculptor, Bridget McCrum, she was holding a blow torch in her left hand, which followed her right, as she painted chloride mixture onto the crescent-shaped breast of a large bronze.
27 July 2023
Gwen John: Art and Life in London and Paris has just opened at Pallant House Gallery, Chichester.
15 May 2023
Phyllida Barlow was a much-loved teacher at the Slade for nearly half a century. She had several illustrious students, including… Read More
13 March 2023
A noted John Deakin photograph of Michael Andrews, Frank Auerbach, Francis Bacon and Lucian Freud in Soho in 1963
1 December 2022
Yesterday I battled through the streets of London thronged with the Queen’s mourners to make my way to Asia House, where Lord Patten of Barnes was announcing the recipients of the Praemium Imperiale Awards.
21 September 2022
Oldenburg’s show at Judson House in May 1959 was his first solo show and consisted of three-dimensional constructions.
1 August 2022
Dame Paula Rego, one of the finest UK based figurative painters of her generation, has died suddenly in London aged 87.
8 June 2022
Held every year since the Summer Exhibition is the world’s oldest submission exhibition with works selected and hung by Academicians.
16 September 2021
The new over-life size statue group of Princess Diana, just unveiled at Kensington Palace, to celebrate what would have been her sixtieth birthday, shows the late princess surrounded by three children.
10 July 2021
Ellora Sutton and Elsie Hayward have been announced as the inaugural winners of the Artlyst Art to Poetry Award
31 July 2020
Edward Lucie-Smith has rightly wondered, as ‘the contemporary art world goes dark, and as galleries – official spaces and commercial ones – slam shut their doors,’ ‘what the art world will be like once all this is over.’ However, the immediate wondering is simply, what do we do now?
28 March 2020
Artlyst In association with The Poetry Society is pleased to launch a new international award for poetry based on works of art.
19 December 2019
This year the RA Summer Exhibition has returned to form with a talented lineup of artists chosen by an inexhaustible group of jurors. The 251st edition received over 16,000 entries. Around 1200 works, in a range of media, goes on display, next week. The majority of these artworks are offered for sale, allowing visitors to purchase original work by upcoming and established artists.
3 June 2019
Over the years, the Giardini and the Arsenale, the two official locations for the Venice Biennale have become interchangeable in terms of weightiness. Some years the Arsenale outshines the Giardini and in others, the grandeur of 20th-century pavilions in the Giardini wins hands down. This year it is certainly the year for the Arsenale and beyond.
13 May 2019
An Italian bomb squad swooped on the Golden Lion winning Lithuanian pavilion at the Venice Biennale yesterday after a group of British Journalists and artists complained to the authorities about a Russian man’s erratic behavior.
13 May 2019
Frogmore has published an outstanding experimental pamphlet of poetry by novelist Lindy Usher. It was produced by New Art Projects, London,… Read More
31 March 2019
Gillian Ayres was one of the leading British abstract painters of her generation has died age 88.
11 April 2018
Artlyst chooses six of the best from the 2018 London Art Fair. The London Art Fair is the capital’s 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.
19 January 2018
While the New Year has lots of great exhibitions to look forward to (see the Artlyst guide to exhibitions in 2018) there are also great exhibitions to see that you may have missed and that are closing in January.
3 January 2018
If you’re planning on leaving the capital this Summer, Artlyst has put together a selection of the best UK shows outside of London.
14 July 2017
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
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
Exhibitions in major galleries are usually planned years ahead. So it is the Royal Academy’s good fortune that their two excellent shows Revolution: Russian Art 1917-32* and American After the Fall: Painting in the 1930s, should be so in tune with the current political zeitgeist.
26 February 2017
Christian Science does not explain the work of Nash and Nicolson just as surely as their work does not illustrate Mary Baker Eddy’s Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures.
15 January 2017
The Royal Academy of Arts has revealed the committee for the upcoming 256th Summer Exhibition, which is set to be coordinated by the renowned British artist and Royal Academician Ann Christopher.
5 December 2023
In an exploration of our species’ intricate dance with its industrially crafted surroundings, Sir Antony Gormley’s “Body Politic” tackles….
23 November 2023
Ghislaine Leung is one of the four artists nominated for this year’s Turner Prize, the winner of which will be announced on 5 December.
11 November 2023
In a fusion of ancient mythology and modern digital landscapes, artist Jenny Saville is set to unveil her latest exhibition
6 November 2023
Damien Hirst best known for his bold concepts and provocative artworks, has unveiled his first retrospective exhibition in Germany
31 October 2023
To get into Happy Gas, Sarah Lucas’ new solo show at Tate Britain, you have to walk through a gift shop; floating on the sugary peach wallpaper
3 October 2023
