Bridget Riley has unveiled a painted ceiling for the British School of Rome (BSR) Riley has created many murals and wall paintings but this is her first ceiling painting. Entitled Verve, the large-scale work has been installed in the foyer of the BSR, covering the...
News In Brief: Harvard Students have been protesting at the University's Arthur M. Sackler Museum in Cambridge, Massachusetts. They are demanding the removal of the Sackler name from the building. The institution's namesake was one of three brothers who built Purdue...
I’m just back from the opening of Charles March photography show at Palazzo Borghese in Rome. His work, often on a very large scale, is well suited to the grandeur of Italian palace rooms. I write about it here because it answers some of the questions raised by Shape...
The Monochrome show at the National Gallery has gained less coverage and generated much less enthusiasm that the current Living Gods show at the British Museum. The Guardian, for example, sums it up thus: ‘This peculiar exhibition shirks black and white certainties in...
Monochrome: Painting in Black And White is an extraordinary new show at the National Gallery in London. It takes the viewer on a journey through a world void of colour that focuses on shadow and light. This is the first survey of painting from the Medieval period to...
The National Gallery, this Autumn goes monochrome on a journey through a world of shadow and light. With more than fifty painted objects created over 700 years, Monochrome: Painting in Black and White is a radical new look at what happens when artists cast aside the...
A new exhibition at the National Gallery is a celebration of monochrome and in particular painting in black and white. The term monochrome is used to describe paintings, drawings, design or photographs in one colour or values of one colour. The show at the National...
Art and antique fairs are in full swing in London right now. On successive days I went to the VIP opening of Masterpiece, located near Chelsea barracks, in a vast temporary building that looks as if it is made of solid brick but isn’t, and also to the Olympia...
Artlyst had the pleasure of joining the American Artist Alex Katz, on the eve of the opening of his latest show 'Black Paintings,' at the Timothy Taylor Gallery, in London, last week. This also featured a talk with the Director of the Whitechapel Gallery, Iwona ...