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Top 10 Horse Paintings for the Year of the Fire Horse
The Chinese zodiac turns once more to the Horse, but not just any horse. This year brings the rare Fire Horse, a volatile alignment that appears...
Top 10 – Most Expensive Works Of Art – Artlyst
With auction houses achieving new records all the time, don’t believe the moaning minnies, as the outlook for sales is more than on target for...
Tracey Emin: Interview of the Month, October 2024 – Paul Carey-Kent
Diagnosed with cancer during the 2020 lockdown, Tracey Emin underwent radical surgery for bladder cancer. That hasn’t stopped her returning to art...
Tracey Emin: My Bed (1998) – Significant Works – Sue Hubbard
Until now, I have avoided writing about Tracey Emin in this series of 'Significant Works'. It just seemed too obvious. She rose to fame on the crest...
Did Marcel Duchamp Steal Dadaist Elsa von Freytag Loringhoven’s Urinal
Marcel Duchamp's "Fountain" has been one of those moments that defined modern art history. A urinal signed and dated with the inscription "R Mutt...
Paul Carey -Kent: Artist Interview Of The Month Index – Artlyst
Welcome to this series of monthly artist interviews by the art critic Paul Carey-Kent. Paul is the former editor of Art World magazine and has...
Significant Works: A New Series Of Contemporary Art Essays By Sue Hubbard
In this series, Sue Hubbard explores single works by leading contemporary artists. Sue Hubbard is a freelance art critic, novelist, award-winning...
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....
Peter Doig and Parisian Avant-Gardists Launch London Autumn Gallery Season – Edward Lucie Smith
Two exhibitions just opened at a pair of well-respected West End commercial galleries here in London, seem to illustrate the complexity of the...
Rose Wylie: Forget Age And Gender The Message Is The Painting – Edward Lucie-Smith
Rose Wylie is 83 years old. Her rise to fame has been fairly meteoric. Ten years ago few had heard of her, either in this, her native country, or...
Harland Miller – Voyage To The End Of Pop Art – Edward Lucie-Smith
Harland Miller’s rather handsome exhibition at White Cube, Mason’s Yard, looks more like the end of something than the beginning of something. There...
Kiev In Focus A Contemporary Art Profile – Edward Lucie Smith
A trip to Kiev – no, call it ‘Kviv’, which is the correct form in the Ukrainian language – revealed a bustling, energetic contemporary art world,...