Joel Shapiro: Sculptor Who Made Wooden Beams Dance Has Died Aged 83
Joel Shapiro (1941–2024), the American sculptor whose deceptively simple wooden figures pulsed with life, tension, and wit, died on Saturday in Manhattan at 83….
16 June 2025
News
Maurizio Cattelan Golden Toilet Caper Ends In Jail Time For Career Criminals
A story that played out like a comedy caper has now finished in the courts. Two men have been sentenced for their part in the infamous 2019 theft…
13 June 2025
Lost Rodin Marble Sells for $1.2 Million In A French Auction
A rediscovered Auguste Rodin marble sculpture, kept in plain sight for decades atop a piano in a French family home, has fetched €1.1 million ($1.2 million)…
10 June 2025
Tate Liverpool: Waterside Transformation Backed By Major Funding Injection
Liverpool’s cultural landscape is set for a dramatic change as Tate secures £12 million in government funding alongside major private donations for its landmark redevelopment…..
9 June 2025
East End Art Dealer Jailed in Landmark Terror Financing Case
In a landmark prosecution, art dealer and television personality Oghenochuko Ojiri has been sentenced to two and a half years in prison…
7 June 2025
Barbara Hepworth: Pivotal Masterpiece Must Be Saved For The Nation
The Hepworth Wakefield and the Art Fund have launched an urgent £3.8m appeal to prevent a rare Modernist sculpture from leaving the UK….
4 June 2025
Art Market News
Art Basel 2025: The Main And Collateral Events – Artlyst Guide
Art Basel 2025 will gather 289 top galleries from 42 countries, showcasing a vast range of works—paintings, sculptures, photographs, and… Read More
12 June 2025
Rare Mahatma Gandhi Portrait Painted From Life by Clare Leighton Auctioned
A rare and important oil portrait of Mahatma Gandhi, painted during his 1931 visit to London, will be auctioned at… Read More
5 June 2025
Art Basel Paris 2025 Takes Over the Grand Palais Again – Here’s What’s Coming
This October, the city of light becomes the centre of the art universe as Art Basel Paris returns to the… Read More
29 May 2025
Art Basel Announces Doha Edition In Landmark Qatari Partnership
Doha will join Basel, Miami Beach, Hong Kong, and Paris as an Art Basel host city when the fair launches… Read More
20 May 2025
People
Leonard A. Lauder: Visionary Art Patron Dies Aged 92
Leonard A. Lauder (1933–2025): the venerable collector, philanthropist, and driving force behind the Estée Lauder empire, has died at 92…. Read More
16 June 2025
Sting Launches Baltic’s £10m Endowment Fund with Major Donation
Gateshead, UK – Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art has received a transformative donation from North East music legend Sting, marking… Read More
12 June 2025
Simon Wallis OBE Appointed To Lead Royal Academy Of Arts
The Royal Academy of Arts has named Simon Wallis OBE as its new Secretary and Chief Executive, marking a pivotal moment for the… Read More
6 June 2025
Adrien Brody Made in America: A Mixed-Media Pastiche Salad
Adrien Brody, the Oscar-winning actor, has spent the past decade layering paint, newspaper clippings, and graffiti onto canvases in a… Read More
5 June 2025
Events
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
RA Summer Exhibition 2025
The UK’s best-loved art show returns this summer.
Yoshitomo Nara
Dive into the captivating, creative world of Yoshitomo Nara in the largest European retrospective of one of Japan’s most celebrated artists.
Design and Disability
The exhibition will showcase the radical contributions of Disabled, Deaf, and neurodivergent people to contemporary design and culture from 1940s to now.
Serpentine Pavilion 2025 By Marina Tabassum
A Capsule in Time by Marina Tabassum and her firm, Marina Tabassum Architects (MTA)
The Barber in London: Highlights from a Remarkable Collection
Exceptional paintings from the Barber Institute of Fine Arts, University of Birmingham, go on show at The Courtauld Gallery.
Ancient India living traditions
Reaching back more than 2,000 years, this new exhibition explores the origins of Hindu, Jain and Buddhist sacred art in India.
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.
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Encounters: Giacometti x Huma Bhabha
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.
Do Ho Suh: Walk The House – The Genesis Exhibition
Large-scale installations, sculptures, videos and drawings by Korean-born artist Do Ho Suh
Hiroshige artist of the open road
The first exhibition on Hiroshige to be held at the British Museum, and the first on the artist in London for more than a quarter of a century
Richard Wright
Camden Art Centre presents Richard Wright’s (b. 1960, London, UK) first solo exhibition at an institution in London
Cartier
A major exhibition featuring more than 350 objects, including precious jewels, historic gemstones, iconic watches and clocks.
Grayson Perry: Delusions of Grandeur
Grayson Perry: Delusions of Grandeur presents over 40 new works by Sir Grayson Perry (1960).
Siena: The Rise of Painting, 1300 ‒1350
With over a hundred exhibits made by artisans working in Siena, Naples, Avignon and beyond, see some of Europe’s earliest, most exquisite and most significant artworks.
Leigh Bowery!
A celebration of the boundary-pushing career of artist Leigh Bowery.
Flowers – Flora In Contemporary Art & Culture
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.
Reviews
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
London Gallery Weekend: A Snapshot of some favourite shows – Nico Kos Earle
London Gallery Weekend: Nico Kos Earle stalked these spaces with a critic’s eye and a flâneur’s instincts. What emerged wasn’t a coherent narrative, but something better…
12 June 2025
RA Summer Exhibition: An Annual Artistic Ephemeral Jamboree – Oliver Malin
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
Intimations Of Andy Warhol Newlands House Gallery – Claudia Barbieri Childs
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
Yoshitomo Nara: A Wide-Eyed Rebellion – Hayward Gallery
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
Anna-Eva Bergman & Hans Hartung: A Dialogue of Light and Gesture
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
Sussex Modernism Towner Eastbourne Thought Provoking And Original – Claudia Barbieri
Sussex Modernism at the Towner Eastbourne Gallery one of the most thought-provoking and original exhibitions in the current summer season.
2 June 2025
Amsterdam Art Week 2025: The Shows/The Studios – Paul Carey Kent
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
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
Damien Hirst: The Unseen Drawings Behind The Velvet Curtain
For an artist synonymous with shock, scale, and spectacle, Damien Hirst’s most revealing works may be his most discreet yet.
13 May 2025
Stephen Cox: Atavistic Sculptures Adorn Houghton Hall Norfolk – Sue Hubbard
Houghton Hall, in Norfolk, was commissioned by the first British Prime Minister, Sir Robert Walpole.
7 May 2025
Jeremy Deller Unveils Roman Style Mosaic At Scarborough Coastal Art Trail – Sue Hubbard
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
Underwater Extravaganza Hastings Contemporary – Jude Montague
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 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
Giuseppe Penone Thoughts in The Roots Serpentine – Sue Hubbard
Giuseppe Penone’s show brings together Penone’s sculptures, installations and drawings from 1969 until now.
11 April 2025
Grayson Perry: Delusions of Grandeur A Raucous Romp Through The Wallace Collection
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
Victor Hugo Astonishing Things Royal Academy – John K Grande
Astonishing Things, the RA show’s title comes from a comment Vincent van Gogh made on seeing Victor Hugo’s drawings.
24 March 2025
Siena: The Creative Achievement Of Christendom – Revd Jonathan Evens
A key exhibit in Siena: The Rise of Painting, 1300‒1350, is a ‘Head of Christ’ by Lando di Pietro, which is split in two.
17 March 2025
Amsterdam: Anselm Kiefer & Vincent van Gogh – Mariella Guzzoni
The Van Gogh Museum and the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, collaborating for the first time on a common project, present Anselm Kiefer – Sag mir die Blumen sind (Where have all the flowers gone?…
15 March 2025
Edvard Munch Portraits: Personas With A Body – John K. Grande
“Nature is the vast eternal kingdom which nourishes art,” Munch observed, and this vast source was not a choice but a reality…
13 March 2025
The Myth of Leigh Bowery Laid Bare in New Tate Show – James Payne
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
Previews
Liverpool Biennial 2025: ‘BEDROCK’ – A City’s Foundations Unearthed
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
London Gallery Weekend 2025: An Alphabetical Guide to Essential Exhibitions
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
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
V&A East Storehouse Opens Unique Museum Experience
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
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
Maggi Hambling & Sarah Lucas: A Shared Brutal Wit – Sadie Coles HQ London
Some friendships are written in the stars—or at least, on the same birthday. Maggi Hambling and Sarah Lucas first collided…
19 May 2025
Liliane Lijn: Moonmeme The WORD is ART – MOCA London
MOCA London is hosting a virtual reality (extended reality, XR) version of Liliane Lijn’s ongoing project, Moonmeme. This is the first in a series of extended reality…
13 May 2025
Suzanne Blank Redstone: ‘Catching Light CLOSE’ 80th Birthday Celebrated – Close Ltd
CLOSE Gallery presents a major exhibition celebrating six decades of work by Suzanne Blank Redstone, opening on 10 May and running to 28 June.
10 May 2025
The Parkin Lot: Three generations One Show Rogue Gallery St Leonards – Sophie Parkin
Sophie Parkin on Molly Parkin’s Alzheimer’s, growing up as an artist and passing the paint brushes on to her daughter…
9 May 2025
Bob Dylan Unveils 97 Brand New Paintings At Halcyon
Halcyon has announced Point Blank, a solo show of brand-new paintings by visionary artist Bob Dylan, opening on the 9th of May 2025…
7 May 2025
Features
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
Nicole Wermers: Interview of the Month, June 2025 – Paul Carey-Kent
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
Goodwood Art Foundation New Destination For Art Education And Environment
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
The Art Diary June 2025 – Revd Jonathan Evens
For the June diary, I begin with two important recently published books about religion and contemporary art.
2 June 2025
Plásmata 3: An Art Trail Where Reality Melts Into Illusion – Onassis Stegi
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
Ten Out Of London Art Exhibitions Summer 2025
Artlyst has selected ten exhibitions that will open outside London and throughout the UK in Summer 2025.
30 May 2025
New York Art Week: Three perfect Days Of Big Apple Culture – Nico Kos Earle
This initial silence, which partly reflects a refusal to engage in the endless clickbait of politics, became a palette cleanse before three near-perfect days attending the many openings, art fairs, and happenings scheduled for New York Art Week….
25 May 2025
Belonging And Berlin Gallery Weekend 2025 – Philip Dodd And Enrica Costamagna
How comfortable is it to be Asian, particularly Chinese, in the European art world in 2025? Intense geopolitical tensions, economic instability…
17 May 2025
London Art Degree Shows 2025 Guide
Here is a comprehensive list of all the major London art degree shows scheduled for the summer.
13 May 2025
Interview With Maggie Tsai Director Fubon Art Museum Taipei – Virginie Puertolas-Syn
While visiting Taipei a few weeks ago, I had the opportunity to sit down with Maggie Tsai, Director of the Fubon Art Museum
12 May 2025
Richard Wright: Interview of the Month, May 2025 – Paul Carey-Kent
Richard Wright, who won the Turner Prize in 2009, is known primarily for his site-responsive, and usually temporary, ceiling and wall-based paintings…
7 May 2025
Manifesta 16 Ruhr: Nomadic Biennial To Transform Post-War Churches Into Cultural Hubs
Manifesta 16 Ruhr will open on the summer solstice, 21 June 2026, transforming Germany’s post-industrial Ruhr Area…
30 April 2025
Ten Out Of London Exhibitions Spring 2025
Artlyst has selected ten exhibitions that will take place out of London this Spring, 2025.
22 March 2025
Rags to Riches: The Myth of Arte Povera – Marcus Howard-Vyse
To what extent is the famous Italian art movement a ‘poor art’ rebellion or a rich man’s game?…
26 February 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
Ten London Art Exhibitions Opening In 2025
Here are ten London Art exhibitions to look out for in 2025.
17 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
Anna-Eva Bergman & Hans Hartung And We’ll Never Be Parted – Kunsthalle Praha
The first major retrospective of artist-couple Anna-Eva Bergman and Hans Hartung reveals a shared vision forged in nature, music, and the infinite…
12 June 2025
Just Looking – A Celebration of the Everyday Extraordinary – Book Review
As a society, we’re drowning in images, yet ‘Just Looking’ gives us something we’ve almost forgotten—a chance to stop and really see. Drawn from the Instagram feeds…
1 June 2025
Artists Siblings Visionaries – Judith Mackrell Reframes The John Siblings
Judith Mackrell’s latest book is an insight into two of the greatest British painters of the Edwardian period. Artists, Siblings,… Read More
14 May 2025
Damien Hirst Drawings: The Unseen Career Blueprints – Reviewed for Artlyst
Beneath the formaldehyde and diamond dust, Damien Hirst’s most revealing work has always existed on paper. The Visual/Conceptual Language of Damien Hirst…
8 May 2025