This week, three members of Just Stop Oil walked free from Salisbury Crown Court after being cleared of causing a public nuisance for spraying Stonehenge with a harmless orange powder….
3 November 2025
Miami power collectors Jorge and Darlene Pérez have donated 36 works by artists from Africa and the African diaspora to Tate…
3 November 2025
The British Council, Britain’s flagship for cultural diplomacy, is in trouble. Its chief executive, Scott McDonald…
3 November 2025
The Kunstmuseum Basel has reaffirmed the authenticity of what is believed to be Paul Gauguin’s final self-portrait, Portrait de l’artiste par lui-même….
28 October 2025
At the National Memorial Arboretum, the King joined veterans, campaigners, and artists for the dedication of Crumpled Letter, the first official LGBT+ Armed Forces memorial…
27 October 2025
French authorities have now confirmed the arrest of two suspects. One was intercepted at Charles de Gaulle Airport as he prepared to board a flight to Algeria…
26 October 2025
When Maurizio Cattelan unveiled America in 2016—a fully functioning toilet cast from more than 100 kilograms of 18-karat gold—it was… Read More
31 October 2025
London – The 1960s wasn’t just a run-of-the-mill decade. It was a seismic shift in thought, music, protest, and possibilities…. Read More
28 October 2025
Art Basel Paris has settled into its second year at the Grand Palais with the confidence of a show that… Read More
26 October 2025
This year’s Frieze London and Frieze Masters drew an estimated 90,000 visitors from 108 countries, a figure that underlines London’s… Read More
20 October 2025
Turner Prize winner Jasleen Kaur is set to unveil her first permanent public artwork next month in Thamesmead, south-east London…. Read More
30 October 2025
Soo Catwoman, a Punk style icon of the 1970s, has died at the age of 70. With her shaved skull… Read More
23 October 2025
The block of Great Jones Street between Bowery and Lafayette in Manhattan now carries a new name: Jean-Michel Basquiat Way…. Read More
22 October 2025
It has been two decades since Yoko Ono returned to Coventry Cathedral to plant a new pair of oak saplings—a… Read More
14 October 2025
Somerset House presents Infinite Bodies, a groundbreaking exhibition dedicated to the polymath practice of internationally renowned choreographer and director Sir Wayne McGregor CBE
‘Wright of Derby: From the Shadows’ is the first major exhibition dedicated to the British artist’s ‘candlelight’ paintings.
Celebrating four decades of ground-breaking contemporary art,
Annely Juda Fine Art announces its inaugural exhibition at the gallery’s new space on Hanover Square with works by David Hockney.
Discover the luminous paintings of Anna Ancher (1859–1935), one of Denmark’s most celebrated and pioneering artists, in her first-ever UK exhibition.
Serpentine presents a new project by Peter Doig that explores the role of music, film, and sites of communal gathering, listening and creative exchange within his practice.
This exhibition at The Courtauld Gallery will be the first-ever museum show of Wayne Thiebaud’s work in the UK.
Cecil Beaton’s Fashionable World is the first exhibition dedicated solely to Beaton’s ground-breaking contributions to fashion and portrait photography.
Explore the artists who revolutionised modern art in Nigeria in the mid-20th century.
This exhibition showcases Gilbert & George’s artistic journey, highlighting new pictures created since the start of the millennium.
The largest institutional exhibition of original prints by Howard Hodgkin to date.
A major exhibition of the trailblazing surrealist photographer Lee Miller.
Internationally acclaimed artist Kerry James Marshall is one of the most important painters working right now.
Experience Picasso’s works in a new way with an exhibition staged by contemporary artists.
The world’s most significant collection of Neo-Impressionist art.
A major exhibition celebrating the monumental art of Emily Kam Kngwarray
A colourful celebration of heritage, resilience, and unity, the Windrush Generation Black History Month exhibition…
1 November 2025
Sally Shaw MBE, Director of Firstsite, says: “Into Abstraction: Modern British Art and the Landscape offers a powerful way to view 20th-century British history through art.
30 October 2025
Wayne Thiebaud’s first-ever solo exhibition in London at the Courtauld Gallery is a long-awaited event….
26 October 2025
Peter Doig is one of those painters loved by the public and the cognoscenti alike. His vivid palette and the magic realism of paintings like White Canoe 1991 have brought him to a wide and varied audience
22 October 2025
The exhibition At Home in the 17th Century at the Rijksmuseum seems like a humble enterprise on one level. It may once have been considered rather a stoop for the national museum, but this exhibition on domestic interiors is curatorially ambitious on quite a few levels.
21 October 2025
The Nigerian Modernism exhibition at Tate Modern is massive. With work by over 50 artists from across 50 years to be displayed, the curators faced a dilemma as to how present so much from so many.
20 October 2025
It’s the season of mists and mellow fruitfulness.. The leaves are turning and the nights are drawing in. It must be time for Frieze….
16 October 2025
‘Can We Stop Killing Each Other?’ is, in the words of Jago Cooper, Executive Director of The Sainsbury Centre, a “wide-ranging exploration of human value systems,
14 October 2025
The Hayward Gallery opens its Autumn season with a bang: Gilbert & George: 21st Century Pictures, a panoramic and sometimes immersive survey of the duo’s output…
6 October 2025
The American photographer, Lee Miller, had to break through a glass ceiling in a predominantly man’s world, continually reinventing herself from fashion model to becoming one of the very few accredited female war photographers of the Second World War
2 October 2025
One wonders if that study was done before Bradford was nominated this year’s City of Culture and became host to the Turner Prize…
24 September 2025
Kerry James Marshall has quietly glided into the RA on a red eye from Chicago O’Hare. Every blessed visitor who can make a pilgrimage…
24 September 2025
Tate’s new Picasso exhibition is not, we are told in the catalogue, “an exhibition that explores the relationship between Picasso and theatre”. It is a ‘gesture’ to “bring out new relationships [between his works] and audiences”.
17 September 2025
The Rijksmuseum has devoted its south façade and auditorium to Steve McQueen’s Occupied City, an audacious and urgent work…
14 September 2025
Radical Harmony: Helene Kröller-Müller’s Neo-Impressionists at the National Gallery is an exhibition about dots in painting.
14 September 2025
The 20th century’s greatest existential sculptor, Alberto Giacometti, is being shown with the Palestinian artist Mona Hatoum at the Barbican. It’s a risky move.
8 September 2025
Massimiliano Pelletti: Metamorfosi The Language Of Stone – Bowman Sculpture
30 October 2025
Christopher Wool is back in London, marking a significant moment in his career, a convergence of everything that defines his restless practice…..
14 October 2025
Ruinart’s long-running Conversations with Nature series returns this week with a new commission from American artist Sam Falls…
11 October 2025
The Newport Street Gallery is hosting Triple Trouble, an ambitious exhibition that brings together three of contemporary art’s most provocative figures — Shepard Fairey, Damien Hirst, and Invader….
9 October 2025
Born in South Africa and now based in Las Vegas, artist Johnathan Schultz has steadily built an international reputation for his singular fusion of fine art
5 October 2025
Aberdeen’s The Worm gallery opens its doors this autumn to Eternal Ecstasy, a survey of the career of Jamie Reid….
25 September 2025
The Serpentine Galleries have announced a major presentation of new works by David Hockney, opening at Serpentine North from March 12 to August 23…
1 September 2025
A decade after its conception during nocturnal talks with MONA founder David Walsh, Conrad Shawcross’s The Nervous System (Umbilical) (2025) emerges as the climactic act of his 25-year Rope Makers cycle…
6 August 2025
Frieze Sculpture returns to Regent’s Park this Autumn, opening on 17 September and running until 2 November 2025
6 August 2025
The National Gallery of Ireland throws open the doors to Picasso’s private creative realms this autumn, presenting sixty works that chart the artist’s reinvention across studios from Montmartre to Mougins…
24 July 2025
From October 17, 2025, to March 2, 2026, the Fondation Louis Vuitton will host a sweeping survey of Gerhard Richter’s work—the first to fully span his six-decade career….
16 July 2025
The Design Museum is set to transport visitors back to the birthplace of 1980s subculture with Blitz: The Club That Shaped the 80s…
21 May 2025
Nico Kos Earle spoke to three art professionals about what they saw, what they loved and what they wanted to buy in Paris, during Art Basel Week.
3 November 2025
In advance of Schoeni projects’ debut at Asian Art in London @ Sotheby’s with Lloyd Choi Gallery, I sat down with Nicole Schoeni to discuss her work as a creative instigator and gallerist….
31 October 2025
Nico Kos Earle gives an artful roundup in London during the Autumn season.
28 October 2025
Artlyst has selected twelve art exhibitions that will take place outside of London in Autumn / Winter 2025,
20 October 2025
Frieze has ironically brought cold weather this year, which we’ve managed to avoid gallantly during this autumnal period, with some of us even wearing shorts up until last week…
20 October 2025
Sophie Parkin is pulled into the magical world of seances, spirits and automatic drawing in anticipation of the witching season, Halloween…
19 October 2025
A more interesting man than many people, wrote Vincent to his brother Theo in late July 1888, from Arles, underlining the word ‘postman’….
12 October 2025
Rebecca Brodskis’ paintings at Centro de las Artes San Luis Potosí in Mexico City visibly struck a chord on the opening night reports Nico Kos Earle
5 October 2025
From 15–19 October, Regent’s Park becomes the gravitational centre of the art world as Frieze London and Frieze Masters…
4 October 2025
Lugano, beautifully set alongside a mountain-ringed lake, has been part of Switzerland since 1513. However, the town is close to the Italian border…
4 October 2025
We Are Not Alone, part of Budapest’s Expanded Media Art Biennale, boldly explores new traditions and languages shaped by our time.
2 October 2025
Barcelona has always been one of my favourite European cities, with the Sagrada Família and Gaudí’s remarkable architecture
1 October 2025
For the October Art Diary, I feature exhibitions by several artists whose work I have championed through essays and exhibitions,
30 September 2025
New York Art Round-Up Autumn 2025: The magnificent and newly renovated Frick Collection debuted Flora Yukhnovich’s site-specific mural…
28 September 2025
In 1958, Mark Rothko was invited to paint a cycle of murals for the Four Seasons restaurant inside the Seagram Building, then the epicentre of New York’s chic modernism….
23 September 2025
It’s 1895. Jo is a young widow, burdened by an immense task, but her friendship with the painter Isaac Israëls makes her feel alive again. She confides it in her diary….
17 September 2025
Artlyst has compiled a comprehensive guide to the London Art Fair season to help you navigate this hectic time of year in the art fair calendar.
2 September 2025
Autumn exhibitions at the major museums and galleries in London will feature an array of blockbuster shows
1 September 2025
Linder—first weaponised scissors and glue in the mid-1970s, hacking through women’s magazines and softcore pornography to create photomontages…
16 June 2025
Artlyst has selected twelve art exhibitions that will take place out of London and around the UK during 2025.
14 January 2025
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2025 promises to see another full and varied programme of art exhibitions in London. Artlyst has put together this month-by-month guide.
5 January 2025
Contemporary Art has an energy that pulses and a creativity that collides with culture to ignite something extraordinary. Nowhere is this fusion more electrifying than in the world’s premier art fairs….
3 January 2025
Welcome to the Alt Power 100 Artlyst 2024/2025. The Alt Power 100 Artlyst celebrates the visionaries transforming the artistic landscape…
31 December 2024
Welcome to this new series of monthly artist interviews by critic Paul Carey-Kent. Paul has written for Art Monthly and Frieze Magazine
26 October 2021
In this new series, Sue Hubbard explores single works by leading contemporary artists.
1 September 2020
This is a new series by Artist/historian James Payne demystifying great works of art. We will be adding to this page as the content is produced.
1 June 2020
There are a few words in the English language that carry as much quiet discomfort as menopause. It’s the point… Read More
23 October 2025
In a cultural field long defined by Western narratives, Nigerian Modernism arrives as a necessary act of reclamation. Published to accompany a landmark exhibition…
14 October 2025
Published to coincide with Wayne Thiebaud, American Still Life at The Courtauld Gallery, this catalogue offers a long-overdue introduction to… Read More
9 October 2025
Andy Friend’s Comrades in Art is a remarkable excavation of a decade when British art and politics collided with an urgency…
2 October 2025
