
William S. Burroughs: Rare and Unseen Artworks On Show in London
William S. Burroughs, the maverick writer, artist, and cultural provocateur whose work defied convention, reshaping the landscape of 20th-century literature…
5 February 2025
William S. Burroughs, the maverick writer, artist, and cultural provocateur whose work defied convention, reshaping the landscape of 20th-century literature…
5 February 2025
King Charles III has appointed the artist Tracey Emin a Dame Commander for services to the arts at Buckingham Palace. The event took place earlier today (Tuesday, 4 February).
4 February 2025
In a move that has sent ripples through the US cultural sector, the Smithsonian Institution has shuttered its diversity office just days after President…
30 January 2025
After nearly a century, Philip Guston’s monumental mural, The Struggle Against Terrorism, has been meticulously restored…
29 January 2025
As speculation grows about Donald Trump’s return to the White House, questions loom over the future of arts funding in the United States…
22 January 2025
The British Council is considering selling off its £200 million art collection due to debts incurred during the COVID crisis.
20 January 2025
One day before its Old Masters sale in New York, Christie’s withdrew the auction’s top lot, El Greco’s Saint Sebastian… Read More
6 February 2025
A legal battle is brewing with Hong Kong-based cryptocurrency entrepreneur Justin Sun suing billionaire media mogul David Geffen over the… Read More
6 February 2025
Sotheby’s released its 2024 earnings last week, revealing a year marked by resilience and challenges. CEO Charles Stewart announced consolidated… Read More
30 January 2025
Art Basel announces further highlights for its 2025 edition in Hong Kong, including details on unique sectors and an extensive… Read More
21 January 2025
Artist and national treasure Sir Grayson Perry was unveiled as the celebrity behind the Kingfisher mask on Saturday night’s edition… Read More
1 February 2025
Paris: A/POLITICAL presented the highly anticipated debut runway show of Coucou Bebe 75018, TESTOSTERONE, during Paris Fashion Week at the… Read More
30 January 2025
The Serpentine has announced that Bangladeshi architect and educator Marina Tabassum and her firm, Marina Tabassum Architects (MTA), will design… Read More
28 January 2025
Jo Baer, the celebrated American painter who revolutionised Minimalist abstraction before charting a bold course into figuration, has died at… Read More
23 January 2025
Lisson Gallery presents a compelling exhibition of new works by the renowned artist Ai Weiwei, showcasing a provocative exploration of contemporary issues.
The Courtauld Gallery presents an exceptional selection of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist paintings in the first ever exhibition of the Oskar Reinhart Collection.
Mickalene Thomas’ vibrant, large-scale portraits of Black women at rest reclaim space and representation in art history, celebrating love and radical repose.
Linder’s first London retrospective showcases 50 years of the pioneering feminist artist’s work, dissecting our fascination with the body and its representation.
Celebrating the late artist’s expansive creativity, this debut retrospective showcases Noah Davis as one of the most original and uncanny painters emerging in recent years.
At Home: Alice Neel in the Queer World highlights the artist’s career-long commitment to depicting the human condition and her practice of painting people from many walks of life.
A major exhibition featuring over 130 works by ten important Brazilian artists from the twentieth century, capturing the diversity of Brazilian art at the time.
This exhibition traces the work of a diverse community of photographers, collectives and publications –creating radical responses to the turbulent Thatcher years in 80s Britain.
Chris Martin’s expansive vision encompasses astrophysical orbs, aluminium, and constellations choreographed with bursts of glitter…
3 February 2025
Brasil! Brasil!, the new show at the Royal Academy in London, claims that at the time of the emergence of its modernist art movement in the 1910s, Brazil was ‘a young, ambitious, and optimistic nation’ and that its modernist artists’ rejected European tastes for academic art.’
1 February 2025
The early 20th century was an era of dramatic social and political upheaval. Futurism, the art movement that began in Italy, embodied a love affair with speed and new technology that ‘aimed to liberate Italy from the weight of its past’.
24 January 2025
Artists’ homes can offer an intriguing insight into their life and work. Gainsborough’s House in the silk-weaving town of Sudbury, in Suffolk, and Leighton House in the heart of Kensington, London…
16 December 2024
Philippe Parreno Haus der Kunst, Munich: The current curation of Haus der Kunst, driven by Andrea Lissoni is a subject of discussion among the staff and those preparing for the latest significant opening….
14 December 2024
The central premise for Michelangelo, Leonardo, Raphael: Florence, c.1504 at the Royal Academy of Arts is that at the turn of the sixteenth century, these three titans of the Italian Renaissance briefly crossed paths, competing for the attention of the most powerful patrons in Republican Florence.
3 December 2024
The Guyanese-British artist Hew Locke worked for two years with staff across the British Museum to select objects with which to explore the cultural impact of British Imperialism.
25 November 2024
Dora Carrington was, and remains, an enigma. A rebel who shunned the public gaze, an outsider who immersed herself in the Bloomsbury set…
20 November 2024
Vanessa Bell (1879-1961) was an avant-garde artist associated with the early twentieth-century Bloomsbury Group.
21 October 2024
The four artists shortlisted for the 40th edition of the Turner Prize 2024, Pio Abad, Claudette Johnson, Jasleen Kaur and Delaine le Bas, are a motley crew.
30 September 2024
LONDON — Chain of Hope has unveiled a star-studded art exhibition and auction to support global children’s cardiac care.
4 February 2025
LONDON — As awards season approaches, 45 Park Lane, the sleek Mayfair hotel under the Dorchester Collection umbrella, is set… Read More
29 January 2025
A unique approach to showcasing Contemporary Art, Condo returns to London for its 2025 edition. Short for Condominium, this large-scale collaborative exhibition
9 January 2025
Lisson Gallery is presenting a compelling exhibition of new works by the renowned artist Ai Weiwei, showcasing a provocative exploration of contemporary issues…
9 December 2024
Pablo Picasso (1881–1973) worked with printmaking throughout his career, yielding some of the 20th century’s most iconic graphic works.
7 November 2024
The Victoria and Albert Museum in London unveils its upcoming blockbuster exhibition, The Great Mughals: Art, Architecture and Opulence, on 9th November 2024.
31 October 2024
Tate Modern celebrates the early innovators of optical, kinetic, programmed, and digital art, who forged a new era of immersive environments and artworks that engage with new technologies. …
23 October 2024
Barbara Nessim is an artist recognised as a pioneer in early computer art. She was among the first to explore the creative potential of computers…
14 September 2024
For the February 2025 Art Diary, I begin with exhibitions by artists I’ve followed and whose work I’ve written about. These include Peter Howson, Jonathan Anderson, Barbara Hepworth and Theaster Gates.
4 February 2025
The London Art Fair 2025 reveals every aspect of the art world’s precarious global economy whilst remaining relevant to its local market.
29 January 2025
I spoke to Sheffield-based painter Ryan Mosley in his new show ‘Heavy is the Mountain’ at Josh Lilley: twenty-odd works full of figures…
22 January 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
When interviewed for my book, the pop icon Marianne Faithfull said she first crossed paths with Bacon after she’d just split up from Mick Jagger…
7 October 2024
Diagnosed with cancer during the 2020 lockdown, Tracey Emin underwent radical surgery for bladder cancer. That hasn’t stopped her returning to art…
1 October 2024
Step into the creative hotbed of 1980s London with a new exhibition at the Fashion + Textile Museum in Bermondsey…. Read More
1 October 2024
These were the words Vincent van Gogh sent to his brother Theo from Arles on 18 September 1888. He had arrived in Provence just seven months earlier and, in that brief span…
20 September 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
Sue Tilley’s definitive biography of Leigh Bowery, the man Boy George once called “modern art on legs,” returns in a vibrant new edition
5 February 2025
AI and the Art Market by Jo Lawson-Tancred is a timely and accessible exploration of a subject rapidly transforming the cultural landscape….
30 January 2025
Surrealism: First and Always is a distinctive and essential catalogue produced in conjunction with the Centre Pompidou’s exhibition celebrating the… Read More
21 January 2025
Cindy Sherman has long been recognised as a transformative figure in contemporary art. Her engagement with the fashion world…
16 January 2025