Feature Archives

Andy Goldsworthy: Storm King Wall 1997 – 1998 Significant Works – Sue Hubbard

‘The child,’ Wordsworth famously remarked, ‘is father to the man.’ Growing up in West Yorkshire, the land was always close to Andy Goldsworthy’s heart.

Antony Gormley Angel Of The North Significant Works – Sue Hubbard

Anthony Gormley Angel Of The North: We are enthralled by gigantic statues. The ancient Greeks referred to them as kolossoi.

Ronit Keret Tears Palazzo Mora Venice – Virginie Puertolas-Syn

The installation of Ronit Keret Tears, presented at the Palazzo Mora in Venice until the end of November, is a striking example of how an artist can contribute to our understanding of a significant scientific problem.

Alexander de Cadenet And Michael Forbes October 2022 Diary – Revd Jonathan Evens

I begin this month with two exhibitions that touch on religion in the context of exploring identity and end with a series of book-based installations

Spiritual Joseph Beuys Plus More: September Diary – Revd Jonathan Evens

Last year was the centenary of the birth of Joseph Beuys. Centenary exhibitions included ‘The Inventor of Electricity – Joseph Beuys and the Christian Impulse’

Re-imagining Essex July 2022 Diary – Revd Jonathan Evens

The image of Essex is currently being questioned, challenged and re-framed by artists and exhibitions in and from Essex.

Channeling Andrew Wyeth: Jeffery Becton And Andrea Hamilton Between Two Worlds – The Poetics of Coastal Places

It is a work that has deeply influenced the practice of countless artists, in particular fine art photographer Jeffery Becton.

Twelve Out of London Art Exhibitions Summer 2022

Summer has arrived. Have you planned your UK staycation yet? To help you, Artlyst has put together a selection of twelve exhibitions to tempt you outside of London and across the length and breadth of the UK.

Peter Buggenhout: Interview of the Month, June 2022 – Paul Carey-Kent

Belgian sculptor Peter Buggenhout makes slippery, near-formless sculptures that typically repulse with their abject materials, yet draw you in to an uncanny unknowability.

Henry Moore Sharing Form At Hauser & Wirth Somerset – James Payne

In the autumn of 1921, Henry Moore, a student from the Royal College of Art, visited Stonehenge. It would have a profound effect on him.

Dreaming With Our Bodies In Ancient Futures – Venice Biennale 2022 – Marie-Louise Jones

The 59th Venice Biennale reconnects sensory awareness with ancestral forms of knowledge

Venice To London May 2022 Diary – Revd Jonathan Evens

Several exhibitions/installations in Venice during the 59th Biennale re-situate key works or themes from Christianity’s historic engagement with the Arts, in some cases overlaying biblical narrative onto the present.

Martin Parr: Interview of the Month May 2022 – Paul Carey-Kent

Martin Parr is famous worldwide for over 50 years of intensely colourful and wittily affectionate photographic observations of people.

Surrealism’s Alternative History The 59th Venice Biennale – Nico Kos Earle

The Venice Biennale sparks surreal conversations between past and present in ‘Milk of Dreams’, curated by Cecilia Alemani

Great Art Cities Explained YouTube Series Venice Biennale Special

Great Art Cities Explained (GACE) follows the successful YouTube art history series Great Art Explained in 15 Minutes, founded last year by art writer and curator James Payne.

NFTs Hog The Headlines But Traditional Fine Art Sales Outperform Due To Digital Auctions

Love them or loathe them, non-fungible tokens (NFTs) have now established their place in the art world firmament and, in doing so, have hogged the headlines.

Mexico Art Week A Vibrant Hectic Tour – Virginie Puertolas-Syn

After exploring Oaxaca and the iconic Casa Wabi designed by Tadao Ando in Puerto Escondido, I was happy to be back in Mexico for Art Week.

Allison Katz: Interview of the Month February 2022 – Paul Carey-Kent

London-based Canadian Allison Katz relishes the second of those options at Camden Art Centre

Frank Auerbach: Head of E.O.W.II – Significant Works – Sue Hubbard

The painter Frank Auerbach, sent in 1939 to England learned years later, that his parents had perished in Auschwitz.

Marlene Dumas: Oscar Wilde and Bosie – Significant Works – Sue Hubbard

Marlene Dumas’ portraits of the writer Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) and his young lover, Lord Alfred Douglas (1870–1945), known as ‘Bosie’, illustrate that social attitudes do change

Harmony Hammond: Women In Abstraction Guggenheim Bilbao – Artlyst Interview

Artist/activist Harmony Hammond was born in Chicago in 1944 and is associated with the feminist art movement in New York during the 1970s.

Art Basel Miami Beach 2021 Pull Out Fair Guide – Artlyst

The last Art Basel Miami Beach to take place was in 2019. It was an optimistic time for the international art world

Magnus Plessen: Artist Interview of the Month December 2021 – Paul Carey-Kent

The German painter Magnus Plessen tends to paint in thematic groups: in 2016, he showed his ‘1914-1918’ series in London

Fabergé: Lavish Opulent And Magnificently Kitsch – Bring On The Revolution!

Whenever you hear the name Fabergé, you think of opulent, lavish, jewelled, decorated and, let’s face it kitsch, Russian Imperial eggs.

Richard Wilson 20:50 Significant Works First Created 1987 – Sue Hubbard

Richard Wilson 20:50: Nearly one-hundred-and-five years after Marcel Duchamp’s porcelain urinal was daubed with the pseudonym ‘R..Mutt.’

Paul Carey Kent Artist Interview Of The Month Index – Artlyst

Welcome to this new series of monthly artist interviews by critic Paul Carey-Kent. Paul has written for Art Monthly and Frieze Magazine

Mr Brainwash Loves London But Is It Mutual? – Conversation With Oliver Malin

Mr Brainwash (Thierry Guetta) a cross between a Beaver and John Belushi in conversation with Oliver Malin ahead of his London show.

Frieze Week London 2021 Pull Out Guide – Artlyst

Welcome to this year’s Artlyst Frieze Week 2021 printable pull-out Guide.

Sidney Nolan’s Africa Interview With Andrew Turley And Revd Jonathan Evens

Nolan’s Africa will be the first book on Sidney Nolan written with access to the newly opened Sidney Nolan archives

Tate’s Ervin Bossanyi Stained Glass Window Mothballed After 2011 Redevelopment

Tate’s Ervin Bossanyi Stained Glass Window Vanishes After 2011 Redevelopment

Banksy Spraycation – East Coast Summer 2021 – How To Find Them

Banksy Spraycation Guide. How To Find Them in Great Yarmouth, Gorleston and Cromer, Norfolk, Lowestoft and Oulton Broad in Suffolk

Rachel Whiteread: House 1993 Significant Works – Sue Hubbard

Rachel Whiteread approached the last tenant, retired docker Sydney Gale to explain her desire to make an artwork out of his old home.