After two decades at the helm, Ralph Rugoff OBE will step down as Director of the Southbank Centre’s Hayward Gallery in spring 2026. His tenure, spanning twenty years, has been marked by daring programming, unconventional approaches to exhibition-making, and a...
A series of dynamic performance has been announced for the opening week and final weekend of the 58th Venice Biennale of Art. There will be fourteen performances utilising the gardens and galleries of the Giardini and Arsenale, as well as the Teatro Piccolo Arsenale....
La Biennale di Venezia has today announced the appointment of Hayward Gallery Director Ralph Rugoff as the Curator the 58th International Art Exhibition to be held in Venice in 2019. The dates of the 58th International Art Exhibition have now been confirmed and the...
Banksy seems to be active again these days with two new murals, one in London at Marble Arch, where Extinction Rebellion's climate change activists were protesting for a few weeks. His latest offering is in Venice in time for the 58th Biennale. To make things even...
The Southbank Centre has confirmed the appointment of Sally Tallant as Director of the Hayward Gallery. She will replace Ralph Rugoff OBE, who will step down in spring 2026 after two decades in the role. Sally will take up the post in July 2026, assuming...
When Artlyst first started its Alt Power 100 Artlyst fifteen years ago, we were aiming at an audience fed up with the gratuitous love fest that other Power 100 lists produced. This list rewarded the commercial while ignoring the hard work of curators, museum...
2026 promises an exciting new programme of art exhibitions opening in London. Artlyst has put together a month-by-month guide to steer you through this plethora of exhibitions. 2026 will see solo shows by Modern British and Contemporary greats Lucian Freud, David...
Anish Kapoor has spent decades wrestling with monumental mirrors, voids, blood-red pigment and the impossible density of Vantablack — but this week, the British-Indian artist found himself staring into a different kind of abyss. A photograph, sent to him by a friend...
This year's Frieze London and Frieze Masters drew an estimated 90,000 visitors from 108 countries, a figure that underlines London's ongoing pull as a global meeting point for art, ideas and influence. The surge in attendance included record numbers of museum groups...