A Manchester Magistrates’ Court judge has spared jail for two activists from Just Stop Oil who had glued themselves to a JMW Turner painting at Manchester Art Gallery…
3 October 2024
Just Stop Oil Activists have targeted the National Gallery’s Van Gogh ‘Poets and Lovers’ exhibition with another vandalistic climate protest.
27 September 2024
Phoebe Plummer and Anna Holland, both 22, Just Stop Oil activists, have been found guilty of criminal damage after throwing tomato soup at Vincent Van Gogh’s “Sunflowers”
28 July 2024
In yet another redundant gestural protest, two Just Stop Oil activists have targeted the iconic Stonehenge with orange powder paint.
19 June 2024
The British Library in London was the centre of an incident on Friday when two elderly women attempted to breach the protective glass…
13 May 2024
Just Stop Oil activists have smashed the glass covering the Rokeby Venus, located in London’s National Gallery.
6 November 2023
UK museum directors have written an open letter calling for an end to protests which target galleries and artworks. The demonstrations
12 October 2024
Over 200 artists and arts organisations pledged not to accept sponsorship money from oil companies. The signatories include fourth plinth… Read More
28 September 2015
Improved Security Measures at the National Gallery will take effect immediately following Just Stop Oil and pro-Palestinian protests…
17 October 2024
A third person has been charged in relation to a June protest at Stonehenge, during which the ancient monument was sprayed with orange powder….
21 November 2024
They’ve smashed up petrol pumps and glued themselves to museum masterpieces; now, the latest audacious stunt saw mashed potatoes thrown at a Monet by climate activists.
24 October 2022
The 15th edition of Manifesta opened on the 8th of September in metropolitan Barcelona.
3 December 2024
Red Eight Gallery and Nina Churchill have announced Rediscovered Geniuses: Juan Antonio Guirado and Igor Gorsky. This transatlantic exhibition…
3 October 2024
August’s diary highlights a range of shows which engage with art as a form of storytelling by revealing hidden histories and telling lost stories.
6 August 2024
The UK government has officially cancelled the controversial Stonehenge tunnel project, which aimed to construct a two-mile tunnel near the iconic prehistoric monument.
29 July 2024
The July Art Diary includes exhibitions at Fitzrovia Chapel, Ingleby, The Gallery of Everything, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Cristea Roberts Gallery, The Parsonage Gallery, Wellhouse Gallery
2 July 2024
Frieze LA is a perfect opportunity to catch some of the most influential new art being made on the West Coast while visiting the global art world stalwarts displaying all their finery.
4 March 2024
Hals’ paintings have an incisive immediacy – of something captured in the moment. To achieve this, one not only needs virtuosity of talent – for the hand to capture what the eye has seen…
26 February 2024
In an unparalleled move, leaders from 68 UK museums, sector bodies, and funders have come together for the first UK Museum COP summit.
8 November 2023
Van Gogh along the Seine is the title of the new exhibition now open at the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, concluding the Museum’s 50th anniversary year
6 November 2023
The picturesque landscapes of East and West Sussex have long been a muse for artists seeking to capture the essence of its rolling hills,
21 August 2023
With 30 kilos of luggage, just enough to hold his most precious items, Vincent boarded the train heading back North… Read More
2 August 2023
With so much to see, Artlyst highlights exhibitions in three areas during London Gallery Weekend 2023.
8 June 2023
“Epic. Powerful. Brutal. Incredible. Miraculous. Spectacular.” Hyperbole is essential when speaking of PETER HOWSON’s work.
6 June 2023
The May Art Diary by Rev Jonathan Evens covers new books and selected exhibitions.
8 May 2023
Art Basel Miami Beach 2022: The verdict is still out on whether or not the 20th edition of the fair was a runaway success with sales as buoyant across the fair as predicted.
6 December 2022
They say that in Paris, the story finds you. With the first edition of Paris + Art Basel opening after Frieze London, the city of lights has re-emerged as the leading capital of culture.
1 November 2022
Sometimes I wonder if the art fair is a symptom of the internet and our contemporaneous assumption that everything is instantly available at the click of a button
18 October 2022
I approached the Centro Botín from the right – its smooth, pixellating belly cantilevered over the silvery waves.
16 August 2022
After two years of indecision from museum directors both in the US and UK, The Philip Guston exhibition will finally… Read More
26 April 2022
Through the window of Meakin + Parsons Gallery opposite, sunbeams illuminated a quad of brightly coloured works on paper.
16 March 2022
I had the good fortune to meet Wayne Thiebaud in Sacramento, California. We spent a day together and I was impressed with his kindness and modesty.
28 December 2021
