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...
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...
Welcome to the Alt Power 100 Artlyst 2024/2025. The Alt Power 100 Artlyst celebrates the visionaries transforming the artistic landscape and culture. This year's edition cuts through traditional hierarchies to spotlight those who wield influence in unexpected and...
London, 14 October 2024—Frieze London and Frieze Masters closed their doors after a successful five-day run, with significant sales and solid international attendance. With 90,000 visitors, the fairs again became a leading global art event. This year, the fairs...
Welcome to the Alt Power 100 Artlyst 2023/2024, an exclusive exploration of influential figures reshaping the contemporary art and cultural landscape. Within this dynamic List, we transcend the confines of traditional power dynamics, directing our focus towards...
Alice Neel: Hot Off The Griddle opens at the Barbican Art Gallery this week. The exhibition is the study of American figurative painter Alice Neel (1900-1984), who Barbican Artistic Director Will Gompertz describes as 'a radical, creative artist undervalued for much...
A neo-dadaist painting by Banksy, which shredded itself at a Sotheby's auction has sold for a record £16 million. Love is in the Bin sold for £1m in 2018. It was re offered at Sotheby's in London on Thursday, selling for £16m - far more than its £4-6m guide price. The...
After a record-breaking year, the Victoria & Albert (V&A) Museum has been named the Museum of the Year 2016. The judges said the museum had "indisputably" become one of the best in the world. The Duchess of Cambridge at a ceremony at the Natural History Museum...
In 2015, BBC art editor Will Gompertz asked, “What can the Tate do to regain those hundreds of thousands of domestic visitors that they have lost?”It was actually a tad more than hundreds of thousands. Tate Modern had over 1 million fewer visitors,...