Dominique White Wins 9th Max Mara Art Prize For Women
Max Mara, Whitechapel Gallery and Collezione Maramotti have announced Dominique White (b. 1993) as the winner of the Max Mara Art Prize for Women.
28 March 2023
News
Museum Visitor Figures Bounce Back Following Disruptive COVID Pandemic
Following the uncertainty and disruption caused by lockdown due to the COVID-19 pandemic, gallerygoers are finally returning to exhibitions at major museums worldwide.
28 March 2023
Ai Weiwei Unveils Lego Monet Water Lilies At Design Museum – Suffragette Millicent Garrett Fawcett Portrait Acquired By Parliament’s Art Collection
Ai Weiwei Unveils Lego Monet Water Lilies
27 March 2023
Art Basel Hong Kong 2023 – What The Dealers Said – Artlyst
The 2023 edition of Art Basel Hong Kong finished yesterday with optimistic sales reports and a sigh of relief at the return of pre-COVID attendance figures.
26 March 2023
New Banksy Mural Reduced To A Cloud Of Dust
Banksy created a new mural which appeared on the wall of a derelict farmhouse in the seaside town of Herne Bay, Kent
16 March 2023
Phyllida Barlow English Artist And Educator Dies Aged 78
Phyllida Barlow was a much-loved teacher at the Slade for nearly half a century. She had several illustrious students, including… Read More
13 March 2023
British Architect David Chipperfield Wins 2023 Pritzker Prize
Sir David Alan Chipperfield CH has won the 2023 Pritzker Architecture Prize. He is best known as a civic architect, urban planner, and activist.
9 March 2023
Blueprints Museum: An Interactive Devised Production At MOCA London
Blueprints Museum: An Interactive Devised Production At MOCA London
9 March 2023
Ghana-born El Anatsui To Create Next Hyundai Commission At Tate Modern
The Ghana-born artist El Anatsui will create the next annual Hyundai Commission at Tate Modern. He is one of the leading lights of contemporary African artists working internationally today.
22 February 2023
Frieze Los Angeles 2023 – What The Dealers Had To Say
Frieze Los Angeles has returned for the Largest edition of the Fair Yet, With Strong Sales, International Attendance….
20 February 2023
New Banksy Rearranged By Margate Council – Ronald S. Lauder Compensates Family For Restitution Klimt – Bob Ross Biopic Is Fiction Not Fact
A local council partially disassembled a new Banksy mural installation in Margate celebrating Valentine’s Day as it contained a broken freezer deemed dangerous.
16 February 2023
Gilbert & George Launch Private London Art Centre and Archive
Underpinned by the artists’ ethos’ Art for All’, The Gilbert & George Centre launches as a permanent HQ for Gilbert & George’s artistic legacy
15 February 2023
Veronica Ryan, Barbara Walker And Roger Hiorns Newly Elected As Royal Academicians
The Royal Academy of Arts has elected Veronica Ryan, Barbara Walker And Roger Hiorns as new Royal Academicians, at a recent General Assembly meeting. An honorary Royal Academician was given to Kerry James Marshall Hon RA and Professor Ngaire Woods CBE becomes an Honorary Fellow.
9 February 2023
Masterpiece Fair Relaunches Under New Branding – Photo London Welcomes New Fair Director Kamiar Maleki
The co-founders of the now defunct Masterpiece fair, cancelled last month by the MCH Group, owners of Art Basel, are reviving the fair in time for Summer
9 February 2023
Tate Modern Loses Privacy Court Case With Goldfish Bowl Luxury Flats
Tate Modern has lost their case with residents of the Neo Bankside luxury development after a high court ruling. The lawsuit has dragged on for several years.
1 February 2023
Events
Reviews
Religion and Spirituality in Post Impressionism National Gallery – Revd Jonathan Evens
After Impressionism: Inventing Modern Art explores the period in modern art from the last Impressionist exhibition in Paris in 1886 to the eve of the First World War in 1914. In the words of co-curator MaryAnne Stevens, it’s a period that can “claim to have broken links with tradition and laid the foundations for the art of the 20th and 21st centuries.” The exhibition seeks to explore the complexities of this period and its wider cultural manifestations.
26 March 2023
Black Artists From The American South Royal Academy – Rev Jonathan Evens
The ethos of art, art by everyone for everyone with anything, is what drives black artists from the American South.
23 March 2023
Oskar Kokoschka Expressionism, Rebellion and Humanism Guggenheim Bilbao – Sara Faith
Oskar Kokoschka (1886-1980) is best known for his early links to the Viennese art scene, where Gustav Klimt encouraged and supported him and where he, in turn, exerted an influence on Egon Schiele.
20 March 2023
Garry Fabian Miller: Adore Arnolfini Arts – Nico Kos Earle
When Garry Fabian Miller was 19 years old, he stepped out onto the balcony of his flat in Clevedon and looked across the Severn Estuary towards the coastline of Wales.
15 March 2023
East Sussex Gallery Reviews – St Leonards To Bexhill – Jude Montague And Gail Borrow
Anna Maria Nabirye and Annie Saunders have been collaborators since 2008. Nabirye co-founded the creative community dreaming space Afri-Co-lab in St Leonards
10 March 2023
Sir Paul Smith’s Sublime Homage To Picasso – Musée National Picasso – Paris
The English fashion designer Sir Paul Smith has created one of the most engaging Picasso exhibitions ever mounted to mark the fiftieth anniversary of the artist’s death on April 8 1973.
9 March 2023
Peter Doig: Painting By The Light Of The Moon – Courtauld – Nico Kos Earle
A pea green fishing boat drifts mysteriously on a moonlit sea. Along its length stand ghostly figures looking out to port, many carrying instruments highlighted in warm, golden tones.
20 February 2023
Donatello: The Divine Fused With The Human V&A – Revd Jonathan Evens
About one-third of the way into Donatello: Sculpting the Renaissance we encounter a ‘Virgin and Child’ tondo…
20 February 2023
Alice Neel Collector Of Souls Barbican Art Gallery – Sara Faith
Alice Neel: Hot Off The Griddle opens at the Barbican Art Gallery this week. The exhibition is the study of American figurative painter Alice Neel (1900-1984), who Barbican Artistic Director Will Gompertz describes as ‘a radical, creative artist undervalued for much of her six-decade career’.
16 February 2023
Vermeer: Stillness and Light Rijksmuseum Amsterdam – Sue Hubbard
Delft was Vermeer’s city. Stand in front of his small painting, The Little Street of 1658 and you will see cobbles and a gabled brick house with leaded windows, just as you still see all around you in the city today.
14 February 2023
Sam Ainsley Out of Redness comes Kindness – Clare Henry
I first met Sam Ainsley in 1978. She was a part-time assistant at Edinburgh’s Fruitmarket Gallery.
6 February 2023
Art In Spain And The Hispanic World A New RA Survey Exhibition – Lee Sharrock
Spain and the Hispanic World: Treasures from the Hispanic society museum & library is a major new survey exhibition featuring 150 works at the Royal Academy of Arts in London.
26 January 2023
Giorgio Morandi: A Quiet Moment Estorick Collection – James Payne
To mark the 25th anniversary of the Estorick Collection, the gallery is presenting a major exhibition of works by Giorgio Morandi, considered by many to be an “artist’s artist,” whose quiet canvases have developed a cult following.
16 January 2023
Magdalena Abakanowicz & Maria Bartuszová Every Tangle of Thread Every Broken Shell – Nico Kos Earle
At the entrance to Every Tangle of Thread and Rope is a vast black-and-white photographic transfer of Magdalena Abakanowicz (20 June 1930 – 20 April 2017)
5 December 2022
Laure Prouvost: An Immersive Migration – National Museum Norway
Her latest site-specific, immersive installation for the Light Hall at Norway’s new National Museum is spectacular.
7 November 2022
Previews
Steve McQueen Unveils Grenfell A New Artwork At The Serpentine
In December 2017, artist and filmmaker Steve McQueen (b. 1969, London, UK) made an artwork in response to the fire…
29 March 2023
Sassan Behnam-Bakhtiar: The Age of Energy New PhillipsX Show
PhillipsX is presenting The Age of Energy, a selling exhibition in collaboration with Sassan Behnam-Bakhtiar, with the support of SETAREH and curated by Kamiar Maleki.
14 March 2023
The Power of She: A Tribute to Women in the Arts: Bowman Sculpture and Guerin Projects
The Power of She: A tribute to Women in the Arts is a ground-breaking curatorial initiative from a duo of accomplished women curators: Marie-Claudine Llamas and Mica Bowman
14 March 2023
Manchester International Festival To Present Major Artists For 2023 Edition
Artists from around the world will exhibit in venues and spaces throughout the city and at Factory International’s much-anticipated new home.
14 March 2023
Sean Scully To Take Over Houghton Hall For Groundbreaking Exhibition
Sean Scully has been chosen to take over the grounds and historic interiors of Houghton Hall in Norfolk
13 March 2023
Blueprints Museum: An Interactive Devised Production At MOCA London
Blueprints Museum is an interactive, devised production at MOCA London from 15th – 18th March, with a limited run, opening on 15th March.
8 March 2023
Soutine And Kossoff Hastings Contemporary Explores Two Major Artists
Soutine / Kossoff is the first-ever museum exhibition to explore the artistic relationship between British artist Leon Kossoff (1926-2019) and Belarus-born painter Chaim Soutine (1893-1943).
2 March 2023
Mike Nelson: Extinction Beckons New Hayward Survey Exhibition
The Hayward Gallery is presenting Mike Nelson: Extinction Beckons, the first major survey exhibition of large-scale immersive installations and sculptural works by the internationally acclaimed British artist.
21 February 2023
Salon For A Speculative Future: Women Artists’ Print Portfolio And Exhibition Unveiled
MOCA London presents How to be in the Future? – Salon for a Speculative Future: Women Artists’ Print Portfolio exhibition and publication launch. 8-11 March 2023
16 February 2023
Annie Morris And Idris Khan Two Worlds Entwined – Newlands House
Newlands House Gallery in Petworth, West Sussex, is presenting Two Worlds Entwined: Annie Morris and Idris Khan, the UK’s first exhibition to explore the individual practices of artist couple Annie Morris and Idris Khan side by side.
16 February 2023
Charoula Nikolaidou: Emotion Lines Varvara Roza Galleries and The Blender Gallery London
Varvara Roza Galleries and The Blender Gallery are presenting the second major solo exhibition by Charoula Nikolaidou, “Emotion Lines”. The exhibition takes place at Gallery 8 in St. James’s, Mayfair, London from 1st to 17th March.
6 February 2023
Tricia Gillman Moment Fields At Benjamin Rhodes Arts
Tricia Gillman and Benjamin Rhodes have a historic exhibiting partnership with Gillman, having exhibited with Benjamin Rhodes through the late 1980s and early 1990s. Tricia Gillman Moment Fields: 2019-2023 will open at Benjamin Rhodes Arts on 9 February, the gallerist’s latest solo venture. The show follows Gillman’s participation in regular solo and group shows across the UK.
31 January 2023
Betty and George Woodman To Exhibit At Bloomsbury Group’s Charleston
Charleston, the proverbial home of Virginia Wolfe, Vanessa Bell, Roger Fry and Duncan Grant has announced details of a Betty Woodman and George Woodman exhibition
24 January 2023
Features
Radium Dreams Poetry by Sue Hubbard Artwork by Eileen Cooper
Opening on International Women’s Day, Radium Dreams showcases a series of poems and artworks inspired by the remarkable life story of the Nobel Prize-winning scientist Marie Curie. A punchy collaboration between award-winning poet Sue Hubbard and acclaimed artist Eileen Cooper RA
27 March 2023
Spotlight On Hong Kong Art Week 2023 – Artlyst
Hong Kong Art Week/Month has heralded the return of visual culture to the Asia-Pacific market hub.
26 March 2023
Frank Bowling Mirror 1964-66-Significant Works – Sue Hubbard
It’s been hard to choose a single painting by Frank Bowling for this series, to select one that is more significant in his long and illustrious career than any of the others. Each time his style has changed seems to have been a significant moment. His recent Tate one-man show illustrated the breadth and reach of his stylistic concerns.
23 March 2023
The Art Diary March 2023 – Revd Jonathan Evens
Nalini Malani’s work weaves together source materials drawn from different media and cultures in order to connect contemporary issues with history
12 March 2023
Visiting Sopheap Pich Art Bee-Hive Studio in Cambodia – Virginie Puertolas-Syn
On a recent trip to Phnom Penh, I was really excited to visit the studio of one of the leading Cambodian Contemporary artists, Sopheap Pich.
12 March 2023
Haroon Mirza: Interview of the Month, February 2023 – Paul Carey-Kent
Haroon Mirza’s exhibition of new work consists of installations that play ingeniously between sound, light and electric current
9 March 2023
Vibrant Asian Art Scene Update – Virginie Puertolas-Syn
Virgine Puertolas Syn explores the vibrant South Asian Art scene: from Dhaka Art Summit to Indian Art Fair in Delhi.
19 February 2023
The Art Diary February 2023 – Revd Jonathan Evens
2023 begins In Essex with a focus on female experience and perceptions of life changes, embodiment, and the world around them.
12 February 2023
Jonathan Baldock: Interview of the Month, February 2023 – Paul Carey-Kent
Jonathan Baldock works across sculpture, installation and performance. He has a way with unexpected faces – as in his long-running series of ceramic masks
30 January 2023
Andy Goldsworthy: Storm King Wall 1997 – 1998 Significant Works – Sue Hubbard
‘The child,’ Wordsworth famously remarked, ‘is father to the man.’ Growing up in West Yorkshire, the land was always close to Andy Goldsworthy’s heart.
28 January 2023
Contemporary Artists In The Spotlight 2023 – Nico Kos-Earle
For this rolling feature Nico Kos-Earle has chosen 15 international artists working in various mediums to look out for in 2023.
23 January 2023
David Mach RA: Heavy Metal Pangolin Gallery Kings Cross – Clare Henry
David Mach RA has always worked big. His sculpture always controversial, ambitious, and monumental.
23 January 2023
Women Artists Dominate 2023 Exhibition Schedule
Women artists are set to dominate the exhibition schedule in the major museums and galleries in 2023
18 January 2023
Twelve Out of London Art Exhibitions 2023
Artlyst has selected twelve art exhibitions that will take place out of London and around the UK during 2023.
9 January 2023
Fair Comment 2023: International Art Fair Guide Recommended By Artlyst
The collector’s word in the aisles during many of the international art fairs is that there are just too many art fairs!
8 January 2023
London Art Exhibitions 2023 A Month By Month Guide
*UPDATED*
Artlyst has put together a month-by-month guide of the best of the London art exhibitions coming in 2023.
2 January 2023
Alt Power 100 Artlyst 2022 – History Has Its Eyes On You
Presenting the much-coveted Alt Power 100 Artlyst 2022. This is Artlyst’s way of acknowledging our industry’s hard work and achievements, as we see and curate it.
29 December 2022
Andres Serrano: Talks About Free Speech And NFTs – Artlyst Interview
Serrano’s photograph, Piss Christ (1987), became the subject of a US national debate on freedom of artistic expression.
29 November 2022
Great Art Cities Explained – An Art And Travel Video Series
Following the wildly successful YouTube art history series, Great Art Explained in 15 Minutes, founded in 2020 by art writer and curator James Payne
7 November 2022
Pyotr Pavlensky Uncensored The Artlyst Interview With Paul Carter Robinson
Pyotr Pavlensky was born in 1984 in Leningrad. He studied monumental painting at the Saint Petersburg Stieglitz State Academy of Art and Design.
28 September 2022
Spencer Tunick: The Naked Facts – Artlyst Interview With Paul Carter Robinson
The work of artist Spencer Tunick defies genres by transforming both landscapes and the human form into powerful artworks.
30 August 2022
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