Steve McQueen: Granddaughter Sues Over $65m Jackson Pollock Drip Painting
A Jackson Pollock ‘Drip’ painting once thought to be lost has become the focus of a transatlantic legal battle. The work, valued at around $65 million…
29 September 2025
News
Ronald Perelman: $400m Insurance Claim Over Fire-Damaged Art Dismissed
A New York judge has dismissed Ronald Perelman’s attempt to claim $400 million from insurers for paintings he said had been damaged in a 2018 fire at his East Hampton estate….
27 September 2025
Original Drawing Behind Rembrandt’s Dog In The Night Watch Found
New research has revealed that the barking dog in Rembrandt’s The Night Watch draws directly on an early 17th-century design…
25 September 2025
Is Arts Council England About To Be Put Out To Pasture?
Rumblings around Whitehall suggest that Arts Council England (ACE) may be about to lose one of its most fundamental powers….
25 September 2025
Bayeux Tapestry: British Museum Launches Nationwide Programme Ahead Of Display
The British Museum has announced plans for a nationwide programme to accompany its landmark exhibition of the Bayeux Tapestry, which will travel to the UK…
17 September 2025
Pussy Riot Members Sentenced In Absentia As Kremlin Escalates Crackdown
Five members of Pussy Riot, the feminist punk collective that has spent more than a decade confronting Vladimir Putin’s regime, have been sentenced in absentia by a Moscow court….
17 September 2025
Art Market News
Three Lucian Freud Works Go Under The Hammer At Christie’s
Christie’s has announced the sale of three paintings by Lucian Freud, each from the same private collection, in its 20th/21st… Read More
27 September 2025
Christie’s Offers Masterpieces From Kawamura Memorial DIC Museum
Christie’s had secured a significant consignment from Japan’s Kawamura Memorial DIC Museum of Art, which closed its doors in March… Read More
22 September 2025
Sotheby’s Bets Big: Pritzker and Lauder Estates Hit the Block
Sotheby’s will stage one of its most ambitious autumn seasons in living memory, as two of the most prominent collecting… Read More
17 September 2025
Francis Bacon: Chopped Down Portrait Of A Dwarf Heads to Sotheby’s
Francis Bacon’s 1975 canvas Portrait of a Dwarf will lead Sotheby’s London evening sale on 16 October, carrying an estimate… Read More
15 September 2025
British Art Fair Announces Exhibitors For Autumn 2025 Edition
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
People
Terry Farrell: Architect of Postmodernist Fantasy Dies Aged 87
Terry Farrell, who has died aged 87, was one of the most conspicuous figures in British postmodernism – a designer… Read More
29 September 2025
Sophie Parkin On Legacy Or What We Make Of Our Past
Legacy comes in different forms. It isn’t by chance that some are remembered a year, a decade, a century or… Read More
28 September 2025
RSA Appoints David Joseph CBE as Chief Executive
The Royal Society of Arts has named David Joseph CBE, former Chairman and CEO of Universal Music UK, as its… Read More
22 September 2025
Ralph Rugoff To Step Down As Director Of The Hayward Gallery
After two decades at the helm, Ralph Rugoff OBE will step down as Director of the Southbank Centre’s Hayward Gallery… Read More
11 September 2025
Tracey Emin: Extensive Survey Announced For Tate Modern
Tate Modern has announced the most extensive survey of Tracey Emin’s work to date. A Second Life will bring together… Read More
8 September 2025
Events
In The Shadows: Frieze Sculpture 2025
Free to attend, the 13th iteration of this much-celebrated annual public art event features 14 leading international artists
24 hours
Blitz: the club that shaped the 80s
A major exhibition on the legendary Blitz club night that transformed 1980s London style
Marie Antoinette Style
Marie Antoinette Style will be the UK’s first exhibition on the French queen Marie Antoinette.
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.
Mona Hatoum Encounters: Giacometti
Works by contemporary artist Mona Hatoum and 20th-century sculptor Alberto Giacometti are seen together for the first time in this ground-breaking exhibition, part of Encounters: Giacometti.
Emily Kam Kngwarray
A major exhibition celebrating the monumental art of Emily Kam Kngwarray
Kiefer / Van Gogh
This focused exhibition is the first to consider the lasting influence that Van Gogh has had on Kiefer.
Rachel Jones: Gated Canyons
Gated Canyons is the highly anticipated exhibition by acclaimed artist Rachel Jones, the first contemporary solo show in the Gallery’s main exhibition space.
Edward Burra – Ithell Colquhoun
Heiress: Sargent’s American Portraits
Experience the power and glamour of John Singer Sargent’s portraits in Kenwood’s new exhibition, Heiress: Sargent’s American Portraits.
daily 10am-5pm
Do Ho Suh: Walk The House – The Genesis Exhibition
Large-scale installations, sculptures, videos and drawings by Korean-born artist Do Ho Suh
Grayson Perry: Delusions of Grandeur
Grayson Perry: Delusions of Grandeur presents over 40 new works by Sir Grayson Perry (1960).
Reviews
Hastings Contemporary Three New Shows Autumn 2025 – Jude Montague
Three distinct new shows at Hastings Contemporary. But what pulls them together is the vision of Kathleen Soriano, Director of Hastings Contemporary.
29 September 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
Giacometti And Mona Hatoum Linked By Existentialism – Sue Hubbard
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
Millet Life On The Land National Gallery – Revd Jonathan Evens
Jean-François Millet began his career by painting idylls in imitation of 18th-century French painters but was increasingly moved by the spectacle of social injustice.
18 August 2025
Andy Goldsworthy Fifty Years Royal Scottish Academy – Clare Henry
Andy Goldsworthy has been hailed as a genius for his mega half-century retrospective, FIFTY, organised by the Scottish National Gallery at the Royal Scottish Academy as the centrepiece…
4 August 2025
Pablo Bronstein A Stately Visit To Waddesdon Manor – Sara Faith
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
Sussex Reflections Pallant House and Ditchling Museum – Claudia Barbieri Childs
Claudia Barbieri Childs visited Pallant House and the Ditchling Museum of Art + Craft in Sussex to see their latest exhibitions.
14 July 2025
Jyll Bradley: Running and Returning The Box Plymouth – Paul Carey-Kent
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
Jenny Saville Excavating The Feminine NPG – Sooz Belnavis-Abbott
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 Bring Joy To Tate Britain – Sophie Parkin
Edward Burra and Ithell Colquhoun were both Surrealists, which makes you understand their twinning at Tate Britain
16 June 2025
Heiress: Sargent’s American Portraits – A Gilded Age Reckoning at Kenwood House
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
Archibald Knox The Visionary Manx Designer – Sara Faith
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
Previews
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
Ru Knox Unveils New Work with Guerin Projects At British Art Fair 2025
This September, Guerin Projects presents British painter Ru Knox in the Solo Contemporary section of the British Art Fair, curated by Xavier Ellis…
24 September 2025
Bowman Sculpture Reopens Renovated Mayfair Gallery Ahead of Frieze Week
At a time when many London galleries are shutting their doors, Bowman Sculpture has chosen to expand. The Mayfair gallery has unveiled a £200,000 refurbishment…
24 September 2025
Inclusion & Transmute: Mal Fostock And Bushra Fakhoury At Mall Galleries
INCLUSION, the debut UK solo exhibition of Mal Fostock, will occupy the West Gallery. At the same time, the North Galleries will be given over to TRANSMUTE, a new body of work by Bushra Fakhoury….
17 September 2025
Claridge’s Royal Academy Schools Prize Winner Jame St Findlay Debuts Harmony
Claridge’s and the Royal Academy Schools have announced details of Harmony, a major new commission by Jame St Findlay…
2 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
Frieze Sculpture 2025 Returns To Regent’s Park With In The Shadows
Frieze Sculpture returns to Regent’s Park this Autumn, opening on 17 September and running until 2 November 2025
6 August 2025
Pablo Picasso: Private Creative Realms Revealed in Dublin Exhibition
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
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
Gilbert & George: Landmark Hayward Gallery Exhibition Coming Soon
“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
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
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
Berlin Art Week Is A Veritable Art Feast – Tabish Khan
Berlin Art Week has been running since 2012, but this was my first visit to the event, and I was thoroughly impressed by both the strength and depth of the art on offer and the number of exhibitions to see…
19 September 2025
Jo van Gogh-Bonger: Isaac Israëls And The Big Pot – Mariella Guzzoni
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
Bex Massey: Interview of the Month, September 2025 – Paul Carey-Kent
Seventeen is well worth a visit on its twentieth anniversary, as you can see both a celebratory group show with many of the gallery’s artists, and Bex Massey’s solo exhibition…
14 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
The Art Diary September 2025 – Revd Jonathan Evens
September provides an opportunity to look back as well as look forward. The celebrations for the centenary of Francis Newton Souza’s birth culminated in the first half of 2025.
30 August 2025
D*Face: Subversion Armed With A Spray Can – Artlyst Interview 2025
London’s streets have long been a battleground for visual dissent, but few have weaponised pop iconography as precisely as Dean Stockton, better known as D*Face…
7 August 2025
Folkestone Triennial 2025 How Lies The Land – Jude Montague
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
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
Twelve Out of London Art Exhibitions 2025
Artlyst has selected twelve art exhibitions that will take place out of London and around the UK during 2025.
14 January 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
Great Art Explained Demystifying the Masterpiece – James Payne
Great Art Explained is a new book by James Payne, the creator of the hugely popular YouTube channel of the same name, in which he explores 30 masterpieces from across art history.
22 September 2025
Kerry James Marshall: The Histories – Artlyst Book Review
Kerry James Marshall: The Histories arrives as the most comprehensive publication yet on one of the defining artists of the… Read More
18 September 2025
Oliver Hoare The Exchange: How A de Kooning Was Traded For A Persian Manuscript Page
Few art world stories read like a political thriller, but Oliver Hoare’s The Exchange manages exactly that. Published posthumously, this memoir lays bare the tangled circumstances…
11 September 2025
Banksy Cultural Outlaw – The World’s Most Famous Unknown Artist – Book Review
Banksy’s career has long been narrated as a detective story. His anonymity has created a mythology so embedded in his reputation that it often eclipses the work itself….
4 September 2025