15 September 2020
COVID19 Blamed For 36% Drop In Gallery Sales Art Basel Reports
Art Basel has published their 2020 mid-year survey 'The Impact of COVID- 19 on the Gallery Sector' shows smaller galleries have been hardest hit,...
News
15 September 2020
FIAC Paris: Artworld Morns Another Major Fair Cancellation
The French are a defiant lot when it comes to business and culture, but COVID and new EU movement regulations have cancelled FIAC Paris...
12 September 2020
Sir Terence Conran Designer And Design Museum Founder Dies
Sir Terence Conran, designer, philanthropist and founder of the Design Museum, has passed away, Saturday 12 September, he was 88 years old.
10 September 2020
Meet The Next Generation Saatchi Gallery Entrepreneurs
The daughter of advertising mogul/collector Charles Saatchi has announced the launch of a new gallery in London's Mayfair.
Tate Breaks Ties With Art Dealer Anthony d’Offay After Racist Selfies Appear On Social Media
Tate and the art dealer Anthony d'Offay have agreed to end their relationship. The announcement came today in a joint statement by Tate and...
2 September 2020
Art Basel Announces Cancellation Of Miami Beach fair
Art Basel has had a very tough year. Could it be the Murdoch curse? Due to the COVID pandemic's impact, Art Basel has announced...
1 September 2020
Ashmolean Rembrandt Discovery Contradicts 1982 Copy Attribution
Experts are not always right. A painting, in the style of Rembrandt which has gathered dust for decades in the basement of the Ashmolean...
30 August 2020
Frank Dunphy Damien Hirst’s Financial Advisor And Manager Dies Age 82
Frank Dunphy, the man behind Damien Hirst and many leading YBAs financial success has died age 82.
Banksy Launches Full Scale Refugee Rescue Ship
The elusive 'Street Artist' Banksy has put his money where his mouth is by funding a rescue boat to help save refugees in dangerous...
Student Who Vandalised Picasso Painting At Tate Modern Jailed
An architecture student who caused over £350,000 damage to a Picasso painting at Tate Modern has been jailed for eighteen months.
Sir Hans Sloane British Museum Founder Relegated To History
The founder of the British Museum Sir Hans Sloane has had his bust removed from a prominent position in the gallery due to his...
20 August 2020
Grayson Perry Unveils New Unknown Craftsman Tomb At British Museum
Grayson Perry the Turner Prize-winning transvestite artist has unveiled the installation of a previously unseen edition of his work The Tomb of the Unknown...
17 August 2020
Queen’s Private Art Collection To Go On Public Display
The collection from the Picture Gallery at Buckingham Palace, widely acknowledged to be the highlight of the Royal art collection will be brought together...
14 August 2020
Hastings Contemporary Re-Opens With Victor Pasmore Retrospective And Quentin Blake’s Most Ambitious Exhibition
Hastings Contemporary mount beautifully curated intimate exhibitions of both British and now international artists. They are currently showing a retrospective exhibition of the Modern...
31 July 2020
Ellora Sutton and Elsie Hayward Win Inaugural Artlyst Art to Poetry Award
Ellora Sutton and Elsie Hayward have been announced as the inaugural winners of the Artlyst Art to Poetry Award
31 July 2020
Heather Phillipson Quietly Unveils Fourth Plinth Commission In Trafalgar Square
The artist Heather Phillipson quietly unveiled her fourth plinth commission in Trafalgar Square, yesterday with a lack of fanfare not seen before in past...
Public Art Galleries vs Commercial Who Will Win – Edward Lucie-Smith
At the moment there is an undeclared contest going on, both within the British art world and also, on a much larger scale, in...
Liverpool Biennial Announces New 2021 Dates
The 11th edition of Liverpool Biennial, under the directorship of Fatoş Üstek will take place from 20 March – 6 June 2021. Titled The Stomach and the...
Has The Word Master Reached Its Sell-By Date? – Revd Jonathan Evens
The debate about the continuing use of the term ‘Old Master’ has been re-energised by exhibitions shortly to open or reopen, such as ‘Forgotten...
Grenfell Victim Khadija Saye Featured In New Public Art Project
A new public art project, Breath is Invisible (7 July – 9 October 2020), will be launched by the MP David Lammy in Notting...
Leonardo’s Last Supper: Is The RA’s Copy Better? – Edward Lucie-Smith
Leonardo’s Last Supper is back on view at the RA. Or at least a copy of it is, made by his pupil Gianpetrino. And...
Hackney Council Announce Public Statues Honouring The Windrush Generation
Hackney Council has announced two public artworks to be unveiled celebrating the Windrush Generation.
Forensic Architecture Continue Grenfell Tower Project Awareness
On the third anniversary of the tragic fire which took seventy-two lives in the Grenfell tower block in West London, Artlyst thought it a...
A Sculpture Falls – The Trouble With Problematic Public Statues – Richard Stone
As a sculptor who has used Victorian and other found sculptures in my work for some time, the increasingly heated debate on the future...
8 June 2020
Do Tate Galleries Have A Slavery Past?
The Tate issued a statement in 2019 to put to rest talk about the gallery founder and namesake Henry Tate's involvement in slavery.
Black Art Matters – Paul Carter Robinson
This is long overdue, but under the worrying circumstances that have dominated the news in the past week, I feel it is essential to...
Museum Futures Post Lockdown – Edward Lucie-Smith
Tate Modern is easily the most popular gallery of modern art in the world… For a location that consists mostly of open spaces, lightly...
2 June 2020
Christo A Personal Recollection By Marina Vaizey
Over four decades ago I had one of the most exciting experiences of my life – encountering perhaps the most original and innovative artists...
11 December 2019
Alt Power 100 2019 Artlyst – Back To Basics
The Alt Power 100 2019 Artlyst is our annual way of acknowledging and thanking all of the recipients for making a difference to the...
What's On(line)
15 Sep '20-31 Oct '20
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Grayson Perry: The MOST Specialest Relationship
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Inspired by his three-part documentary Grayson Perry’s Big American Roadtrip, these new works explore some of the biggest cultural and political
10 Sep '20-31 Dec '20
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Hogarth: London Voices, London Lives
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For the first time in 200 years, Hogarth’s The Rake’s Progress returns as the centrepiece of Pitzhanger Gallery’s next exhibition,
12 Jul '20-01 Nov '20
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Anish Kapoor at Houghton Hall
Houghton Hall
Seminal works by the celebrated British sculptor Anish Kapoor will go on show across the grounds and historic interiors of Houghton Hall in
01 Aug '20-01 Nov '20
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Bill Brandt / Henry Moore: In Detail
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See the Bill Brandt / Henry Moore exhibition
05 May '20-01 Oct '20
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BP Portrait Award 2020
National Portrait Gallery
Selected from 1,981 entries by artists from 69 countries around the world, the BP Portrait Award 2020 represents the very best in contemporary
27 Jul '20-15 Nov '20
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Andy Warhol
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Reopening
This major retrospective is the first Andy Warhol exhibition at Tate Modern for almost 20 years. As well as his iconic pop
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Among the Trees
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Reopens 1 August 2020
This exhibition brings together artworks that explore our relationships with trees and
27 Jul '20-20 Sep '20
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Aubrey Beardsley
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Aubrey Beardsley shocked and delighted late-Victorian London with his sinuous black and white drawings. He explored the
Reviews
13 September 2020
Quentin Blake and Victor Pasmore A Discursive Conversational Piece – Jude Cowan Montague
Quentin Blake and Victor Pasmore Hastings Contemporary: I'm standing for the first time inside the Hastings Contemporary
1 September 2020
Guston, Riley And Matisse Essential Autumn Book Releases
Three very colourful large format art books on Philip Guston, Bridget Riley and Henri Matisse have arrived this week.
30 July 2020
Ai Weiwei A Disturbing History Of Bombs IWM Marina Vaizey
Ai Weiwei IWM: History of Bombs. Little Boy, Fat Man, Daisy Cutter, Snake Eye, Grand Slam, Tomahawk, Tsar Boba, are seemingly innocuous even childlike...
19 July 2020
Wartime London Explored in Paintings – Marina Vaizey
London was never invaded, but London has been at war. The look of London during the Blitz and after is captured in this marvel...
16 July 2020
Anish Kapoor Bringing Heaven To Earth – Houghton Hall – James Payne
"Anish Kapoor is a magician," says Lord Cholmondeley in his introduction to this exhibition. His ancestral seat, Houghton Hall is presenting the largest ever...
13 July 2020
Revisiting the Decameron – Flowers Gallery Online – Edward Lucie-Smith
An online show called Revisiting the Decameron, curated by Laura Gascoigne, has recently gone up on the Flowers Gallery web-site. It runs until 9th...
11 July 2020
Sean Scully: Rhythm, Restraint, Splendor – Raphy Sarkissian
Painting, sculpture, architecture: here is a triumvirate wherein painting and sculpture remain in commanding dialogue with architecture throughout the impressive output of Sean Scully,...
11 June 2020
Bryan Robertson Promoter Of New Art – Edward Lucie-Smith
Andrew Lambirth's The Life of Bryan, recently published by Unicorn, describes itself rather demurely as a celebration, rather than as a biography.
18 May 2020
Photographer Don McCullin Online At Hamiltons – Edward Lucie-Smith
The ways of the art market are pretty strange. Hamiltons, a leading gallery here in London that specialises in photography, have just put a...
Artemisia Gentileschi A Retrospective Online – Edward Lucie-Smith
The much-anticipated Artemisia Gentileschi exhibition at the National Gallery in London has now been indefinitely postponed, to the disappointment of many.
9 April 2020
Piranesi Drawings – Neoclassical Visions – Edward Lucie-Smith
This handsome soft-cover catalogue published by Thames & Hudson for the British Museum was intended to commemorate an exhibition that hasn’t in fact taken...
26 March 2020
Edmund de Waal Books Thousands of Books British Museum – Marina Vaizey
Books written in exile by the exiled. It is this phenomenon, the triumph of the human spirit in dire circumstances, that is the focus...
19 March 2020
Titian: A Pity To Miss – National Gallery – Edward Lucie-Smith
The Titian show at the National Gallery in London has arrived at a particularly inauspicious moment. Major public galleries in Europe are shutting their...
12 March 2020
Andy Warhol Multiple Identities – Tate Modern – Edward Lucie-Smith
Andy Warhol (1928-1987) has, even since his death more than thirty years ago, retained a central position in the world of contemporary art.
25 February 2020
David Hockney: Two Major Shows Open In London – Edward Lucie-Smith
As the National Portrait Gallery prepares for its long sleep - three years with its doors firmly shut - it is not surprising to...
Previews
4 September 2020
Flaubert Inspired Group Exhibition Explores Transformation At Project 78
A new group show curated by Scott Robertson featuring the artists, Ryan Gander, Katerina Kamprani, Scott King, Aidan Moffat, Jonathan Monk, Lynda Morris, Simon...
2 September 2020
Tracey Emin Meets Munch Show Given Green Light At Royal Academy
The Royal Academy of Arts plans to go ahead with an exhibition bringing together for the first time the work of the British artist...
25 August 2020
Turner’s Modern World Explored At Tate Britain
Tate Britain will present a landmark exhibition Turner's Modern World, dedicated to JMW Turner (1775-1851), exploring what it meant to be a modern artist...
20 August 2020
Major Chantal Joffe Show Announced For Arnolfini This Autumn
An exclusive, new exhibition from one of Britain's foremost painters, Chantal Joffe is to open this Autumn at the Bristol's Arnolfini.
13 August 2020
Larry Achiampong Creates Sound Piece For The Line Art Walk
The Line is London’s first dedicated public art walk; an outstanding, free outdoor art gallery, following the line of the Greenwich Meridian along a...
23 July 2020
Emergence & Transformation – IAP Fine Art Online Exhibition
This exhibition comprises carefully selected works that reflect—with both humour and seriousness---our collective human experience during the global pandemic and lockdown.
14 July 2020
Gerry Judah: BENGAL The Four Elements Unveiled At Grizedale Forest Gallery
This solo exhibition brings together a striking body of work built over nearly a decade and originally commissioned by the Arts Council England. Visually...
4 June 2020
National Gallery Extends Titian Exhibition in London
The National Gallery has announced that the universally acclaimed exhibition Titian: Love, Desire, Death will be extended due to the generosity of its partners and lenders....
Salisbury Cathedral 800 Years Of Art And Spirit – Revd Jonathan Evens
When an exhibition celebrating 800 years of spirit and endeavour at Salisbury Cathedral has to be installed against the clock and then its launch...
20 May 2020
Munch Museum Launches New Digital Exhibition
The Munch Museum in Oslo has launched a newly redesigned website, which will serve as a platform for digital exhibitions and art experiences.
12 May 2020
Rembrandt’s Night Watch 44.8-Gigapixel Image Goes Live
The largest and most detailed ever photograph of Rembrandt’s masterpiece The Night Watch has been unveiled on The Rijksmuseum's website. The 44.8-gigapixel image will...
8 April 2020
Henry Moore Foundation Edmund de Waal Show Postponed Until 2021
This Living Hand, the exhibition curated by artist and writer Edmund de Waal for the Henry Moore Foundation, has now been postponed until 2021.
Features
14 September 2020
Graphic Storytellers/Comic Creatives In Conversation With Jude Cowan Montague
Jude Cowan Montague's lasted series titled, 'Graphic Storytellers/Comic Creatives in Conversation' comes at a time when fine artists are increasingly using references from graphic...
14 September 2020
Rachael Ball: Graphic Storytellers/Comic Creatives in Conversation with Jude Cowan Montague
My latest conversation is with the graphic novelist Rachael Ball. She is an inspiring educator and an incredible visual storyteller, excellent at representing inner...
10 September 2020
Of Church And The Visual Arts – Revd Jonathan Evens
The beginning of the modern period saw art and artists firmly and finally separating from dependence on Church patronage and wishing to maintain that...
9 September 2020
Christine Binnie And Jennifer Binnie Curate The Towner Collection -Artlyst Interview
Christine Binnie and Jennifer Binnie have been collaborating as 'The Binnie Sisters' to create installations since 2009. These often include works from their individual...
6 September 2020
Geraldine Swayne: Annunciation And The Unspoken – Artlyst Interview
Geraldine Swayne is a highly regarded painter known for her intimate portrait and figure paintings in enamel on copper, aluminium and canvas. Her subjects...
2 September 2020
Artwise Susie Allen and Laura Culpan Talk About Cure3 Exhibition 2020
Cure3 is an annual charity selling exhibition. It was devised by Susie Allen and Laura Culpan founders of Artwise. This is the same dynamic...
1 September 2020
Significant Works: A New Series Of Contemporary Art Essays By Sue Hubbard
In this new series, Sue Hubbard explores single works by leading contemporary artists. Sue Hubbard is a freelance art critic, novelist, award-winning poet, lecturer...
1 September 2020
Marc Quinn: Alison Lapper Pregnant 2005 – Significant Works – Sue Hubbard
Marc Quinn: Alison Lapper Pregnant 2005: From gym ads to dating apps, from T.V. programmes on plastic surgery to how to look ten years...
Anish Kapoor Country House Splendour – Stuart Semple
Anish Kapoor Houghton Hall Norfolk: Have you ever felt like you want to ring your mum to tell her you think you might have...
9 July 2020
Ralph Steadman Fear & Loathing In 2020 – Interview By Oliver Malin
There is no ignoring the odd upside from a certain angle, offered up by our current miasm. Over the last three months, all of...
25 June 2020
Wim Wenders An Exclusive Artlyst Interview
Renowned as one of the most important film directors of our time, Wim Wenders (b.1945, Dusseldorf) developed, in parallel, an extensive photographic oeuvre. It...
1 June 2020
Great Artworks Explained A New Video Series By James Payne
This is a new series by historian James Payne demystifying great works of art. We will be adding to this page as the content...
7 May 2020
Sean Scully In Conversation With Kelly Grovier – Lockdown 2020 – Video Added
Lockdown 2020 and the art world has been brought to a grinding halt. Major exhibitions that have taken years to plan and organize have...
4 May 2020
London Gallery Lockdown Night And Day – A Photo Essay
London Gallery Lockdown 4/05/2020: Greta Thunberg would undoubtedly agree with the first statement
6 April 2020
Solitude An Essay By Jeremy Cooper
Some of us have spent much of our lives seeking first to explain to self and then to justify to loved others the need...
9 December 2019
Sculptor Conrad Shawcross On Space And Time – Interview Paul Carter Robinson
On the surface, Conrad Shawcross' sculpture retains the appearance of scientific rationality.
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