Courtauld Announces Sweeping Plans For New London Campus
For months, rumours have trickled out of Somerset House suggesting the Courtauld was gearing up for something big—bigger than a refit, bigger than a gallery…
27 November 2025
News
Experts Claim Tourist Tax Could Rival National Lottery For Culture Sector
The Cultural Policy Unit (CPU), a think tank that’s been quietly pushing for the notion for years, can finally see light at the end of a tunnel for a tax that benefits us all….
25 November 2025
Smoke Clears: British Museum Ends Tobacco Sponsorship Deal
The British Museum has quietly stamped out its long-running tobacco sponsorship deal — a partnership that always sat awkwardly in its portfolio of advertisers….
25 November 2025
Turner Prize 2025: Artlyst Asks AI To Predict The Winner
The Turner Prize exhibition has settled into Cartwright Hall in Bradford like a slightly unpredictable houseguest—brilliant, messy, emotional, occasionally aloof…
24 November 2025
Sotheby’s Sued Over Modigliani Painting It Once Attributed And Sold
Behind the polished glass and discreet lighting, a significant legal dispute involving a Modigliani has emerged….
23 November 2025
Caravaggio’s Street-Savvy Cupid Makes Its London Debut
The Wallace Collection has secured Victorious Cupid — the brazen, smirking, bare-fleshed Caravaggio masterpiece painted around 1601–02.
17 November 2025
Art Market News
Michelangelo: Newly Discovered Sistine Chapel Study Set For Auction At Christie’s
The academic world is occasionally disrupted by someone, somewhere, uploading a photograph to an auction house portal. This time—almost absurdly—a… Read More
25 November 2025
Frida Kahlo Dazzles NY Auction Week With $54.6m World Record
Sotheby’s wrapped its marathon week of New York autumn sales on Thursday night with the kind of back-to-back performance the… Read More
21 November 2025
Sotheby’s Breuer Debut: $236.3m Klimt Record With Sale Totalling $706m
Sotheby’s eased into its new headquarters with its first evening sales at the former Whitney Museum, designed by Marcel Breuer…. Read More
19 November 2025
Sotheby’s Transforms Marcel Breuer Brutalist Masterpiece Into NY Headquarters
New York: There’s something almost poetic about seeing the Breuer alive again — that hulking, cantilevered block of brutalist calm… Read More
8 November 2025
People
Pam Hogg: Scottish Fashion Designer Artist And Musician Dies
Pam Hogg, the Scottish designer, artist, musician and renegade spirit who spent four decades blowing holes in the polite boundaries… Read More
27 November 2025
The Gustav Klimt Barbra Streisand Bought Sold And Regrets
Barbra Streisand, never short on candour, has admitted she still winces at one particular decision from her early collecting days:… Read More
26 November 2025
Piss Christ Artist Andres Serrano Discussed Trump In Emails With Jeffrey Epstein
Artist Andres Serrano is no stranger to controversy, with thousands of postings on various social platforms mostly related to his… Read More
16 November 2025
Alma Allen To Represent United States At 2026 Venice Biennale
Update: Alma Allen: The State Department confirmed Alma Allen as US Pavilion Artist for 2026 Venice Biennale, opening next May… Read More
7 November 2025
Events
Caravaggio’s Cupid
Victorious Cupid, on special loan from the Gemäldegalerie in Berlin and never-before-seen in public in the UK,
Turner & Constable: Rivals & Originals
Tate Britain presents the first major exhibition to explore the intertwined lives and legacies of Britain’s most revered landscape artists: JMW Turner (1775–1851) and John Constable (1776–1837).
Maggi Hambling and Sarah Lucas: OOO LA LA
The exhibition will reveal the affinities between the artists’ distinct approaches.
The Long Now: Saatchi Gallery At 40
Celebrating four decades of ground-breaking contemporary art,
David Hockney: Some Very, Very, Very New Paintings Not Yet Shown in Paris
Annely Juda Fine Art announces its inaugural exhibition at the gallery’s new space on Hanover Square with works by David Hockney.
Peter Doig: House Of Music
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.
Wayne Thiebaud. American Still Life
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
Cecil Beaton’s Fashionable World is the first exhibition dedicated solely to Beaton’s ground-breaking contributions to fashion and portrait photography.
Nigerian Modernism
Explore the artists who revolutionised modern art in Nigeria in the mid-20th century.
Gilbert & George: 21st Century Pictures
This exhibition showcases Gilbert & George’s artistic journey, highlighting new pictures created since the start of the millennium.
Lee Miller
A major exhibition of the trailblazing surrealist photographer Lee Miller.
Kerry James Marshall: The Histories
Internationally acclaimed artist Kerry James Marshall is one of the most important painters working right now.
Theatre Picasso
Experience Picasso’s works in a new way with an exhibition staged by contemporary artists.
Radical Harmony: Helene Kröller-Müller’s Neo-Impressionists
The world’s most significant collection of Neo-Impressionist art.
Emily Kam Kngwarray
A major exhibition celebrating the monumental art of Emily Kam Kngwarray
Reviews
Turner And Constable Reinventing Landscape Painting Tate Britain – John K Grande
To celebrate the 250th anniversaries of John Constable and J.M.W. Turner’s births, Tate Britain presents these two titans of the British landscape in their first major exhibition.
26 November 2025
Jane Bown Photographer And Newspaper Woman Newlands House Gallery – Claudia Barbieri
Jane Bown liked to say that other photographers took pictures; she found them.
18 November 2025
The Long Now – Saatchi Gallery At Forty – P C Robinson
There’s a certain irony in calling an exhibition The Long Now when its host, Saatchi Gallery, has built its reputation on immediacy — on the jolt of the new…
5 November 2025
Standing Firm In Power And Pride: Windrush Generation Black History Month Exhibition At Westfield Stratford City – Lee Sharrock
A colourful celebration of heritage, resilience, and unity, the Windrush Generation Black History Month exhibition…
1 November 2025
Into Abstraction Meaning Connection And Hope Firstsite – Revd Jonathan Evens
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: American Still Life – Courtauld Gallery – John K. Grande
Wayne Thiebaud’s first-ever solo exhibition in London at the Courtauld Gallery is a long-awaited event….
26 October 2025
Peter Doig House of Music Serpentine South – Sue Hubbard
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
At Home In The 17th Century Rijksmuseum A Scholarly Approach – Jude Montague
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
Nigerian Modernism Explored Tate Modern – Revd Jonathan Evens
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
Can We Stop Killing Each Other? – Sainsbury Centre – Revd Jonathan Evens
‘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
Gilbert & George: The Gospel According To Men In Suits – Hayward Gallery
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 Daring Lee Miller From It Girl To War Photographer – Sue Hubbard
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
Turner Prize 2025: The Good The Bland And The Ugly – Sue Hubbard
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 – Everyday Life As Epic History – RA – Oliver Malin
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
Theatre Picasso – Performativity of his Art – Tate Modern – Clare Finn
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
Steve McQueen: Occupied City Exposes An Unsettled Presence – Rijksmuseum
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 The Art Of The Dot National Gallery – Sara Faith
Radical Harmony: Helene Kröller-Müller’s Neo-Impressionists at the National Gallery is an exhibition about dots in painting.
14 September 2025
Previews
Harland Miller Brings Monumental Typography To London’s Design Museum
Harland Miller is back in London, bringing monumental, brash, and unapologetically graphic works. These new pieces, alongside pieces…..
17 November 2025
Art Basel Miami Beach 2025 Brings The Americas Into Focus
The 23rd edition of Art Basel Miami Beach unites 283 leading galleries from 43 countries, foregrounding the voices, histories, and innovations that define the American art…
10 November 2025
OOO LA LA: Sarah Lucas and Maggi Hambling Join Forces For Exhibition
Maggi Hambling and Sarah Lucas have been friends for nearly twenty-five years — not the art world’s polite…
9 November 2025
David Hockney: Paintings Not Yet Shown in Paris – Annely Juda
There’s a kind of quiet mischief in the title alone — Some Very, Very, Very New Paintings Not Yet Shown in Paris.
6 November 2025
Christopher Wool Returns to London With His Most Expansive Exhibition In Two Decades
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
Triple Trouble: Hirst, Fairey and Invader Collide At Newport Street Gallery
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
Johnathan Schultz: Reforging The Language Of Resilience And Hope – Lee Sharrock
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
Jamie Reid: Defiant Punk Image-Maker – Survey Exhibition Announced
Aberdeen’s The Worm gallery opens its doors this autumn to Eternal Ecstasy, a survey of the career of Jamie Reid….
25 September 2025
David Hockney Announces New Exhibition At Serpentine Galleries
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
Conrad Shawcross: Unveils His Largest Rope Maker’s Cycle Sculpture To Date
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
Gerhard Richter Retrospective: Fondation Louis Vuitton Showcases Nicholas Serota Curated Exhibition
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
Blitz Club Exhibition Explores 1980s New Romantic London – Design Museum
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
Features
Paul Smith Space Where Art And Fashion Collide – Nico Kos Earle
There is a wall inside the entrance to Paul Smith in Mayfair, currently painted a soft blush, that has come to represent the creative vitality and resilient joy of London’s contemporary art scene.
18 November 2025
Marina Abramović Talks To Louis Theroux About The State Of Art And Politics Today
The Louis Theroux Podcast: This week, Louis sits down with critically and culturally acclaimed performance artist Marina Abramović. In this dynamic and fascinating interview…
18 November 2025
The Long Now Saatchi Gallery A Curators Dialogue – Nico Kos Earle
The Long Now, Saatchi Gallery: In quantum physics, the “now” or “present moment” is described as the locus of indefinite possibilities that have collapsed into concrete reality…
11 November 2025
Cristina Iglesias: Interview of the Month, November 2025 – Paul Carey-Kent
Over the past four decades, Spanish artist Cristina Iglesias has developed a sculptural vocabulary, creating immersive and experiential environments that engineer nature…
11 November 2025
Untouchable Nature And The Ecosystem Of Culture – John K. Grande
Over the years, many artists have crossed my path, and I have crossed theirs. I have nothing but respect for the ways they commit to a life in the arts….
5 November 2025
The Art Diary November 2025 – Revd Jonathan Evens
November’s art diary begins with exhibitions by artists (including Lakwena Maciver, Hannah Rose Thomas, Tuli Mekondjo, and Paul B. Kincaid)
4 November 2025
Paris Art Basel Week 2025 Highlights From Three Art Professionals – Nico Kos Earle
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
Nicole Schoeni Discusses Being A creative Instigator And Gallerist – Oliver Malin
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
Artful Autumn: Nico Kos Earle Visits A Harvest Of Events
Nico Kos Earle gives an artful roundup in London during the Autumn season.
28 October 2025
Twelve Out Of London Art Exhibitions Autumn Winter 2025
Artlyst has selected twelve art exhibitions that will take place outside of London in Autumn / Winter 2025,
20 October 2025
Frieze Focus London 2025: Selection By Oliver Malin
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
Ectoplasmic – A Spiritual Post Frieze London 2025 – Sophie Parkin
Sophie Parkin is pulled into the magical world of seances, spirits and automatic drawing in anticipation of the witching season, Halloween…
19 October 2025
Vincent Van Gogh: The Postman His Family And A Quiet Revolution – Mariella Guzzoni
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 Strikes A Chord San Luis Potosí Mexico – Nico Kos Earle
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
Budapest Expanded Media Art Biennale Grapples With The Digital Zeitgeist – Susan Schulman
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
New York Art Exhibition Insights Autumn 2025 – Ilka Scobie
New York Art Round-Up Autumn 2025: The magnificent and newly renovated Frick Collection debuted Flora Yukhnovich’s site-specific mural…
28 September 2025
Mark Rothko’s Seagram Murals: The Dark Tale Behind Thirty Paintings
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
London Art Fair Guide Autumn 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
London Art Exhibitions Not To Miss Opening Autumn 2025
Autumn exhibitions at the major museums and galleries in London will feature an array of blockbuster shows
1 September 2025
Linder: A Kind of Glamour And Danger – Interview Anna Goodman
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 Art Exhibitions 2025 An Artlyst Month by Month Guide
*UPDATED*
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
Fair Comment 2025: International Art Fairs Guide – Recommended By Artlyst
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
Alt Power 100 Artlyst 2024/2025 Art Of Our Time
Welcome to the Alt Power 100 Artlyst 2024/2025. The Alt Power 100 Artlyst celebrates the visionaries transforming the artistic landscape…
31 December 2024
Paul Carey -Kent: Artist Interview Of The Month Index – Artlyst
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
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.
1 September 2020
Great Artworks Explained A New Video Series By James Payne
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
Books For Sale
Pyotr Pavlensky Subject–Object Art Theory – Artlyst Book Review
There’s an eureka moment, reading Pyotr Pavlensky’s Subject–Object Art Theory, when you realise he isn’t interested in reassuring anyone…
22 November 2025
Maggi Hambling At Eighty: A Chunky New Monograph
Maggi Hambling has never been one for half-measures, and this hulking new monograph—published to mark her eightieth birthday…
20 November 2025
Painting Writing Texting Chantal Joffe and Olivia Laing – Book Review
Chantal Joffe and Olivia Laing have created something that sits between genres — a painter’s visual tempo meeting a writer’s analytical hum….
12 November 2025
My Life Through Art Volume One By Alice Lenkiewicz – Book Review
It isn’t easy to separate Alice Lenkiewicz from the act of making — she’s been doing it all her life, and My Life Through Art….
6 November 2025