
D*Face: Subversion Armed With A Spray Can – Artlyst Interview 2025
London’s streets have long been a battleground for visual dissent, but few have weaponised pop iconography as precisely as Dean Stockton, better known as D*Face…
7 August 2025
London’s streets have long been a battleground for visual dissent, but few have weaponised pop iconography as precisely as Dean Stockton, better known as D*Face…
7 August 2025
There are carnivals and an explosion of seaside joy happening in very British style because it’s LGBTQ+ season, and that now includes Margate….
6 August 2025
For two decades, Emma Critchley’s subject has been the underwater world: she describes herself as ‘an artist who uses a combination of photography, film, sound and installation to continually explore the human relationship…
4 August 2025
The Serpentine gallery has spawned twins, by two very different architects: One a Bangladeshi woman from Dhaka, Marina Tabassum, the other a well-known Englishman, Sir Peter Cook….
16 July 2025
If you have any time off work this summer, please visit these art exhibitions, which are due to close in August. All the exhibitions have been singled out by the Artlyst team as well worth a visit.
14 July 2025
July’s Art Diary begins with exhibitions in and reflection on ecclesiastical buildings, through the Liverpool Biennial and the Waterloo Festival.
30 June 2025
I love London in the Summer, though many might argue. I love the art in parks, the getting out and discovering new lost and unfound museums and galleries…
25 June 2025
Mark Woods (b. 1961, Surrey) is a British artist whose work straddles the charged space between adornment, provocation, and artifice.
25 June 2025
For those seeking respite from the intensity of the global fair circuit—or simply pacing themselves ahead of Art Basel in mid-June—ARCO Lisboa offers a refreshing and rewarding detour.
18 June 2025
Linder—first weaponised scissors and glue in the mid-1970s, hacking through women’s magazines and softcore pornography to create photomontages…
16 June 2025
London-based German artist Nicole Wermers was Turner Prize-nominated in 2015 and features in the current Tate Britain hang. Her show ‘Tails & Fainters’, at Herald St….
10 June 2025
Art, education and environment. These are the three pillars at the heart of the newly launched not-for-profit Goodwood Art Foundation near Chichester, Sussex.
2 June 2025
For the June diary, I begin with two important recently published books about religion and contemporary art.
2 June 2025
Athens: Plásmata 3 ‘We’ve met before, haven’t we?’ Pedion tou Areos Park has unveiled a wide-ranging exhibition backed by Onassis Stegi. This year’s edition becomes a stage for the uncanny…
31 May 2025
Richard Wright, who won the Turner Prize in 2009, is known primarily for his site-responsive, and usually temporary, ceiling and wall-based paintings…
7 May 2025
For the May Art Diary, I include three exhibitions involving gardens – at Gainsborough’s House, Philip Mould and Company, and Waddesdon Manor.
1 May 2025
Taking place throughout 2025, events across the UK will celebrate 250 years since the birth of the renowned painter J.M.W. Turner.
23 April 2025
Artlyst has selected ten exhibitions that will take place out of London this Spring, 2025.
22 March 2025
In 1943, Peggy Guggenheim, the pioneering collector and art dealer, made history by mounting the first exhibition of women artists in the US…..
18 March 2025
The German-Polish writer and anarchist Stanislaw Przybyszewski described his friend, the artist Edvard Munch, as ‘a painter of the soul’.
16 March 2025
Citra Sasmita grew up in the traditional Balinese Hindu culture. That flows into how her first UK solo show, ‘Into Eternal Land’, is not just visually compelling but has plenty behind how it looks….
9 March 2025
To what extent is the famous Italian art movement a ‘poor art’ rebellion or a rich man’s game?…
26 February 2025
Frieze Los Angeles will return to Santa Monica Airport for its sixth edition despite the devastating wildfires that overtook parts of the city in early January….
11 February 2025
For the February 2025 Art Diary, I begin with exhibitions by artists I’ve followed and whose work I’ve written about. These include Peter Howson, Jonathan Anderson, Barbara Hepworth and Theaster Gates.
4 February 2025
The London Art Fair 2025 reveals every aspect of the art world’s precarious global economy whilst remaining relevant to its local market.
29 January 2025
Artlyst has selected twelve art exhibitions that will take place out of London and around the UK during 2025.
14 January 2025
This is the first Art Diary of 2025. Each exhibition listed will reward the paying of sustained attention, enabling entry to a state of contemplation and even contemplative prayer.
6 January 2025
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2025 promises to see another full and varied programme of art exhibitions in London. Artlyst has put together this month-by-month guide.
5 January 2025
Daniel Silver populates Frith Street gallery with ten sculptural figures that place bronze heads atop blocks of marble. Ranged around like totems…
4 January 2025
Contemporary Art has an energy that pulses and a creativity that collides with culture to ignite something extraordinary. Nowhere is this fusion more electrifying than in the world’s premier art fairs….
3 January 2025
Welcome to the Alt Power 100 Artlyst 2024/2025. The Alt Power 100 Artlyst celebrates the visionaries transforming the artistic landscape…
31 December 2024
Here are ten London Art exhibitions to look out for in 2025.
17 December 2024