The United States has formally notified UNESCO of its intention to withdraw from the United Nations’ cultural arm by December 2026, reigniting a decade-long dispute over the organisation’s political direction….
24 July 2025
For the first time on British soil, Caravaggio’s Victorious Cupid (1601-02) prepares to unsettle London audiences this November. On loan from Berlin’s Gemäldegalerie, this life-sized depiction of a winged, grinning adolescent…
24 July 2025
Bridget Riley’s Concerto I (2024) enters the Tate collection—a gift from the artist herself. The painting debuts alongside Fall (1963) in a focused display running through June 2026, tracing six decades of Riley’s optical alchemy….
21 July 2025
After over 958 years in exile, the Bayeux Tapestry’s impending UK return has reignited old battles – not with swords this time, but with policy papers…
14 July 2025
The Turner Prize is coming to Teesside. Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art (MIMA) will stage the prestigious contemporary art award in autumn 2026…
14 July 2025
The Underground takes on a different timbre this month as Find Miracles, a new sound work by Turner Prize-nominated artist Rory Pilgrim…
14 July 2025
Now in its fourth decade, the British Art Fair returns this autumn as both a marketplace and a living archive…. Read More
24 July 2025
Christie’s first-half figures for 2025 reveal a market holding steady—$2.1 billion in sales, mirroring 2024’s tally. Yet, stability comes with… Read More
17 July 2025
Artlyst News Desk: Art Basel Qatar has confirmed the launch details of its highly anticipated Qatar edition, scheduled to debut… Read More
9 July 2025
A previously unknown painting by Diana de Rosa, a rare female voice in 17th-century Neapolitan art, has stunned the Old… Read More
8 July 2025
Fifteen summers after Nan Goldin first brought David Armstrong’s world to the Parc des Ateliers, his photographs return to Arles… Read More
23 July 2025
After three decades of shaping the Yorkshire Sculpture Park into a global cultural destination, Clare Lilley is set to step… Read More
20 July 2025
Los Angeles — The J. Paul Getty Trust has awarded its annual Getty Prize to Ann Philbin, director emeritus of… Read More
16 July 2025
A new film about Amedeo Modigliani, directed by Johnny Depp, Modigliani – Three Days on the Wing of Madness, is… Read More
13 July 2025
A major exhibition celebrating the monumental art of Emily Kam Kngwarray
This focused exhibition is the first to consider the lasting influence that Van Gogh has had on Kiefer.
Extraordinary sculptures by Louise Bourgeois, Eva Hesse and Alice Adams
Jenny Saville: The Anatomy of Painting brings together 45 works made throughout the artist’s career.
Gated Canyons is the highly anticipated exhibition by acclaimed artist Rachel Jones, the first contemporary solo show in the Gallery’s main exhibition space.
The UK’s best-loved art show returns this summer.
Dive into the captivating, creative world of Yoshitomo Nara in the largest European retrospective of one of Japan’s most celebrated artists.
A Capsule in Time by Marina Tabassum and her firm, Marina Tabassum Architects (MTA)
Experience the power and glamour of John Singer Sargent’s portraits in Kenwood’s new exhibition, Heiress: Sargent’s American Portraits.
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Within a new, intimate gallery in the Barbican, contemporary artist Huma Bhabha’s monumental sculptures forge new dialogues with works by 20th century sculptor Alberto Giacometti.
Large-scale installations, sculptures, videos and drawings by Korean-born artist Do Ho Suh
Grayson Perry: Delusions of Grandeur presents over 40 new works by Sir Grayson Perry (1960).
A celebration of the boundary-pushing career of artist Leigh Bowery.
FLOWERS – FLORA IN CONTEMPORARY ART & CULTURE seeks to reveal the myriad ways that flowers continue to be depicted by artists and their omnipresence within our contemporary culture.
1989 was ‘Museums Year’ in the United Kingdom, a celebration of our cultural institutions which inspired Lubaina Himid to make a body of work that was displayed at Chisenhale Gallery in London in the summer of that year.
22 July 2025
Pablo Bronstein has created a series of drawings for Waddesdon Manor in Aylesbury, the former home of Baron Ferdinand de Rothschild, based on the Temple of Solomon in Jerusalem.
21 July 2025
Claudia Barbieri Childs visited Pallant House and the Ditchling Museum of Art + Craft in Sussex to see their latest exhibitions.
14 July 2025
It’s well worth visiting The Box in Plymouth for a remarkably comprehensive and superbly orchestrated retrospective covering more than forty years of Jyll Bradley’s practice…
4 July 2025
Sussex Modernism at Towner Eastbourne is a complex show that breaks out of its historical box to include contemporary artists… Read More
1 July 2025
When Marina Tabassum’s architects were invited to design the Serpentine Pavilion in Kensington Gardens, its 25th iteration since Zaha Hadid, they drew inspiration from the trees….
30 June 2025
When I walked into Jenny Saville’s exhibition, The Anatomy of Painting, this morning, my face split into a grin.
24 June 2025
Edward Burra and Ithell Colquhoun were both Surrealists, which makes you understand their twinning at Tate Britain
16 June 2025
Another Annus Mirabilis, Another RA Summer Exhibition, No 258, which all kicked off in 1769, the year of Napoleon Bonaparte’s birth, so it’s always had big boots to fill….
11 June 2025
Andy Warhol: My True Story, the summer show at Newlands House Gallery, is a humanising portrait of one of Modern Art’s most sacred monsters.
10 June 2025
For the first time in the UK, a public institution has dedicated its space to a full-scale retrospective of Yoshitomo Nara, the Japanese artist whose enigmatic, wide-eyed children…
9 June 2025
A major retrospective at Kunsthalle Praha, And We’ll Never Be Parted, redefines the artistic partnership of the 20th-century Abstract painters Anna-Eva Bergman and Hans Hartung….
7 June 2025
There are seventy art spaces and over a hundred events listed as part of Amsterdam’s Art Week (20-25 May), including the open studios, which I have chosen below.
25 May 2025
One hundred years after John Singer Sargent’s death, Heiress: Sargent’s American Portraits arrives at Kenwood House in North London with bold bravado….
20 May 2025
For an artist synonymous with shock, scale, and spectacle, Damien Hirst’s most revealing works may be his most discreet yet.
13 May 2025
Houghton Hall, in Norfolk, was commissioned by the first British Prime Minister, Sir Robert Walpole.
7 May 2025
Sue Hubbard went to Scarborough to see the completed coastal art and nature trail, featuring works by Jeremy Deller, Emma Smith, Ryan Gander, Shezad Dawood with Daisy Hildyard, Paul Morrison and Juneau Projects…..
1 May 2025
Undersea is the latest exhibition on a maritime theme, curated by art historian James Russell, for the Hastings Contemporary. It completes a trilogy following Seaside Modern (2021) and (2022).
22 April 2025
Archibald Knox (1864-1933) is best known as a designer for The Silver Studio and then for Liberty & Co. in the early years of the 20th century,
22 April 2025
Giuseppe Penone’s show brings together Penone’s sculptures, installations and drawings from 1969 until now.
11 April 2025
Grayson Perry has always been a master of holding up a carnival mirror to society, and his latest exhibition, Delusions of Grandeur, at the Wallace Collection…
26 March 2025
Leigh Bowery was a groundbreaking performance artist, club entrepreneur, fashion designer, musician…. a thief, a shitkicker and…uh…he wanted to be famous.
27 February 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
On 1 August, Lucy Sparrow will serve up her latest felt fabrication—a fully detailed hand-stitched fish and chip shop—at Mayfair’s Lyndsey Ingram Gallery…
11 July 2025
MK Gallery continues its compelling run of exhibitions with the first UK retrospective of Chilean photographer Paz Errázuriz—a long overdue survey…
7 July 2025
CLOSE is presenting two concurrent solo exhibitions celebrating the life and legacy of the late British abstract artist Jane Harris (1956-2022)….
4 July 2025
In a bold and meticulous act of historical fabulation, Pablo Bronstein has turned his attention to one of the most elusive architectural enigmas in religious history…
30 June 2025
When Anselm Kiefer first traced Vincent van Gogh’s footsteps at 18, clutching a travel grant and a head full of visions, he found more than inspiration…
24 June 2025
To mark what would have been Jordan’s 70th year, a new exhibition unveils an unseen archive of images tracing her journey from childhood to Punk legend….
18 June 2025
Liverpool – The 13th edition of the Liverpool Biennial, titled BEDROCK, will unfold across the city from 7 June to 14 September 2025…
6 June 2025
As London Gallery Weekend returns for its fifth edition (6-8 June), we present an alphabetical selection of standout recommended exhibitions across the capital…
5 June 2025
“We love the 21st century. It is our best century so far!” So proclaim Gilbert & George, the irreverent duo who have spent over five decades holding up a mirror to modern life….
1 June 2025
The V&A’s new working store and visitor attraction, V&A East Storehouse, opens to the public on 31 May 2025.
28 May 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
Some friendships are written in the stars—or at least, on the same birthday. Maggi Hambling and Sarah Lucas first collided…
19 May 2025
This is Sorcha Carey’s first Folkestone Triennial as curator, but the festival has a firm reputation now as this is its sixth edition.
21 July 2025
The Serpentine gallery has spawned twins, by two very different architects: One a Bangladeshi woman from Dhaka, Marina Tabassum, the other a well-known Englishman, Sir Peter Cook….
16 July 2025
If you have any time off work this summer, please visit these art exhibitions, which are due to close in August. All the exhibitions have been singled out by the Artlyst team as well worth a visit.
14 July 2025
July’s Art Diary begins with exhibitions in and reflection on ecclesiastical buildings, through the Liverpool Biennial and the Waterloo Festival.
30 June 2025
I love London in the Summer, though many might argue. I love the art in parks, the getting out and discovering new lost and unfound museums and galleries…
25 June 2025
Mark Woods (b. 1961, Surrey) is a British artist whose work straddles the charged space between adornment, provocation, and artifice.
25 June 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
London-based German artist Nicole Wermers was Turner Prize-nominated in 2015 and features in the current Tate Britain hang. Her show ‘Tails & Fainters’, at Herald St….
10 June 2025
Art, education and environment. These are the three pillars at the heart of the newly launched not-for-profit Goodwood Art Foundation near Chichester, Sussex.
2 June 2025
Athens: Plásmata 3 ‘We’ve met before, haven’t we?’ Pedion tou Areos Park has unveiled a wide-ranging exhibition backed by Onassis Stegi. This year’s edition becomes a stage for the uncanny…
31 May 2025
Artlyst has selected ten exhibitions that will open outside London and throughout the UK in Summer 2025.
30 May 2025
Manifesta 16 Ruhr will open on the summer solstice, 21 June 2026, transforming Germany’s post-industrial Ruhr Area…
30 April 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
Here are ten London Art exhibitions to look out for in 2025.
17 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
Archives never lie, but they often surprise. Eighteen unassuming boxes marked “Fashion,” rescued from a Berkshire barn after David Armstrong… Read More
23 July 2025
Richard Calvocoressi’s prologue to this well-researched biography states that if Douglas Cooper and Roland Penrose had been able to “bury their differences….
16 July 2025
In Formula + Fetish, the first comprehensive monograph devoted to British artist Mark Woods, readers are drawn into a world where the decorative and the disturbing walk in lockstep….
10 July 2025
At seventeen, Anselm Kiefer embarked on a pilgrimage—funded by a travel grant—that would quietly shape his trajectory. He first followed… Read More
26 June 2025
