The British Museum opens a major new exhibition presenting a history of Indigenous Australia opening to the public 23 April. This exhibition will be the first in the UK devoted to the history and culture of Indigenous Australians: both Aboriginal peoples and...
Controversy caused when the judge, Perpetua Durack Clancy, decided not to award the prize, and that there would be no winner for the Aboriginal art category at the Shinju art awards in Broome, an area of Western Australia. The Shinju Matsuri board made the...
When two employees from Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) walked into the National Endowment for the Arts last March, they did not bring any knowledge of the cultural and scholarly work the agency had supported for six decades. What they...
In Venice, the myth is often the map. The curated centrepiece may command the headlines, but anyone who has drifted between the Giardini and the Arsenale knows you must sift through a lot of "crap" to discover the underlying message of the theme and its push to...
I must admit I hadn't heard of Fabio Mauri. So who was he and why has curator Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev edited a catalogue raisonné of his work, and what's his relevance today? To find out more about who he was and why he matters, I travelled to the Milan Triennale...
America is (to repurpose the famous quote from The Go-Between, that most quintessential of English novels by L.P Hartley) ‘a foreign country: they do things differently there.’ If in doubt, two influential exhibitions at Gagosian emphasise the point that we are two...
Museums and galleries outside of London and across the UK will host a variety of major exhibitions in 2026. From the celebration of home-grown gems like Gwen John, Euan Uglow, John Piper and Sir John Vanburgh to Indigenous North American artists and European...
For the January 2026 Art Diary, I have selected my personal selection of upcoming exhibitions and installations throughout 2026. These reflect my regular interests in art that engages with creativity, ecclesiastical contexts, environmental concerns, reconciliation,...
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...