Bob Ross Works Worth Millions Auctioned To Support PBS After Federal Cuts
Bob Ross, the gentle-voiced painter whose sublime landscapes became a fixture in American living rooms, is now lending his posthumous brush….
8 October 2025
News
National Gallery Sells Off Benches Over Health And Safety Concerns
A familiar fixture of the National Gallery is soon to disappear. The red leather benches that have long punctuated its rooms—symbols of quiet contemplation amid masterpieces….
7 October 2025
British Museum Inaugural Fundraiser Ball Announced
The British Museum will venture into new territory of its own. On 18 October, the institution hosts its first fundraising Ball…
1 October 2025
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
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
Art Market News
Almine Rech Pulls Out Of London As Mayfair Gallery Enters Liquidation
The international gallery Almine Rech has confirmed the closure of its London operation, marking the end of its presence in… Read More
4 October 2025
Artnet/Artsy In Turmoil As CEO Resigns Before AGM
Artnet AG’s already turbulent year took another turn this week with the abrupt resignation of CEO Jacob Pabst, delivered on… Read More
1 October 2025
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
People
Anya Gallaccio Named Recipient Of Robson Orr TenTen Award 2025
The Government Art Collection has announced that Scottish artist Anya Gallaccio has been named the recipient of the 2025 Robson… Read More
6 October 2025
Rosa Klerkx Claims Claridge’s Royal Academy Schools Art Prize 2025
LONDON — Rosa Klerkx has been announced as the 2025 winner of the Claridge’s Royal Academy Schools Art Prize. The… Read More
1 October 2025
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
Events
Frieze London 2025 / Frieze Masters 2025
The fairs return to The Regent’s Park this October, spanning 6,000 years of historical art and today’s most pioneering artists.
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.
Howard Hodgkin: In a Public Garden
The largest institutional exhibition of original prints by Howard Hodgkin to date.
Lee Miller
A major exhibition of the trailblazing surrealist photographer Lee Miller.
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
Reviews
The World Of Dermot O’Brien – Not Only But Also – James Payne
Dermot O’Brien (Not Only) But Also is one of the strongest shows I’ve seen in London for quite some time.
7 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
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
Previews
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
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
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
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
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
Frieze Week London 2025: Artlyst’s Essential Pull-Out Guide
From 15–19 October, Regent’s Park becomes the gravitational centre of the art world as Frieze London and Frieze Masters…
4 October 2025
Liking Lugano An Art Travelogue – Paul Carey Kent
Lugano, beautifully set alongside a mountain-ringed lake, has been part of Switzerland since 1513. However, the town is close to the Italian border…
4 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
Barcelona Gallery Weekend 2025 A Joyful Experience Virginie Puertolas-Syn
Barcelona has always been one of my favourite European cities, with the Sagrada Família and Gaudí’s remarkable architecture
1 October 2025
The Art Diary October 2025 – Revd Jonathan Evens
For the October Art Diary, I feature exhibitions by several artists whose work I have championed through essays and exhibitions,
30 September 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
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
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
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
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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
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
Wayne Thiebaud: Painting The American Everyday – Artlyst Book Review
Published to coincide with Wayne Thiebaud, American Still Life at The Courtauld Gallery, this catalogue offers a long-overdue introduction to… Read More
9 October 2025
Comrades in Art by Andy Friend T&H – Artlyst Book Review
Andy Friend’s Comrades in Art is a remarkable excavation of a decade when British art and politics collided with an urgency…
2 October 2025
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