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.
9 August 2021
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Yorkshire Sculpture Park Where Time Slows Down – James Payne
Yorkshire Sculpture Park is open again for business, and it is so good to revisit it. The great news is many of its temporary shows have been extended, like Joana Vasconcelos’ Beyond (till January 2022).
5 August 2021
Rosie Gibbens: Interview of the Month August 2021 – Paul Carey-Kent
The entertaining and thought-provoking solo exhibition, ‘Soft Girls’, by Rosie Gibbens, is at the Zabludowicz Collection, London, until 15 August.
1 August 2021
More Out Of London Summer Exhibitions 2021 – Artlyst Recommends
Have you planned your summer staycation away from London? Artlyst has put together a selection of exhibitions throughout the country to satisfy your cultural cravings.
26 July 2021
Frida Kahlo: A Question Of Ethnicity – Edward Lucie-Smith
A recent Opinion piece on the website Hyperallegenic fiercely condemned Frida Kahlo, long one of the patron saints of contemporary feminist art.
18 July 2021
Spencer Finch: Interview of the Month July 2021 – Paul Carey-Kent
In his current exhibition at Lisson Gallery (‘Only the hand that erases writes the true thing’, to 31 July), Spencer Finch presents new works
14 July 2021
Paula Rego: The Policeman’s Daughter 1987 Significant Works – Sue Hubbard
In an era when modernism was dictating that painting should abandon all connection to narrative, Paula Rego
6 July 2021
Ena Swansea: Interview of the Month June 2021 – Paul Carey-Kent
There’s an aura of mystery to Ena Swansea’s big, impressive paintings at Ben Brown Fine Arts (‘green light’ to 30 July)
28 June 2021
Ken Currie: Unknown Man Scottish National Portrait Gallery – Clare Henry
Ken Currie, undoubtedly among the most significant painters of our time, is known for his dark side, his bleak, black pictures
24 May 2021
Mona Hatoum: The Light at the End 1989 Significant Works – Sue Hubbard
I first saw Mona Hatoum’s installation The Light at the End at The Showroom in East London in 1989.
20 April 2021
Keith Haring: Personal Spiritual Imagery – Revd Jonathan Evens
Keith Haring was a revolutionary artist who transformed the art world during his short but impactful life
13 April 2021
Artist Anka Dabrowska Discusses New Margate Project With James Payne
Anka Dabrowska, a Warsaw born queer woman artist living and working in London, spoke to Artlyst on the eve of an exciting new project in the seaside town of Margate.
13 April 2021
Modus Operandi What Makes Successful Public Art: Vivien Lovell Interviewed By Revd Jonathan Evens
Founded in 1999, Modus Operandi, an independent arts unit with a track record of curating and producing high-quality art in the public realm, recently celebrated its 21st birthday.
10 April 2021
Blackpentecostal Breath: Spirit-Led Movement Jumps From Music To Visual Art – Revd Jonathan Evens
Blackpentecostal Breath: The Aesthetics of Possibility is proving to be a profoundly influential as well as innovative book. Its author Ashon T. Crawley – academic and artist – features in two exhibitions (one current, one upcoming) which explore themes taken from the book.
21 February 2021
Noah Becker: Apprehensive/Emancipatory — Raphy Sarkissian
The perceptively formulated and compelling paintings of Becker expansively synthesize the historical and fictional solipsism.
10 February 2021
Genesis Tramaine: A Queer Devotional Painter Interview – Revd Jonathan Evens
Genesis Tramaine is an Expressionist Devotional painter who, through abstract portraits of men and women transcends gender, race, and social structures
7 February 2021
Penn Station New York Gets Site Specific Art Upgrade – Clare Henry
For 20 years having spent many hours at the cramped, sooty, underground Penn Station in Manhattan waiting for trains to go Upstate
31 January 2021
Luise Kaish: An American Art Legacy – Clare Henry
Luise Kaish was a key figure in the New York art scene. Petite, 38, beautiful, married and mother of a small child, by 1964
9 December 2020
Mary Wollstonecraft: A Lumpen Statue By Maggie Hambling – Sue Hubbard
It’s been quite a year for statues. Normally no more than street furniture that no one bothers to look at – old white men standing on plinths in all weathers extolling some arcane ‘victory’ of the Empire
12 November 2020
Rachel Howard: Suicide Drawings – Significant Works – Sue Hubbard
Rachel Howard’s Suicide Paintings were first shown at the Bohen Foundation in NY, in 2007 and the following year at London’s Haunch of Venison gallery. Left shocked and devastated by the suicide of an acquaintance who was found kneeling in an almost prayer-like position, suicide was, she realised, one of the last taboos.
1 October 2020
John Lennon At 80 The Subject Of A Curated London Exhibition
A totally unauthorised and 100 % unofficial tribute to John Lennon celebrating (believe it or not) his 80th birthday is to take place at London’s Stash Gallery. Curator Harry Pye has selected 80 artists (some very well known) and asked them to make a work to mark the life and career of this great artist and cultural legend.
27 September 2020
Rachael Ball: Graphic Storytellers/Comic Creatives in Conversation with Jude Cowan Montague
My latest conversation is with the graphic novelist Rachael Ball. She is an inspiring educator and an incredible visual storyteller, excellent at representing inner lives and tying it into a naturalistic narrative told in a comic book world.
14 September 2020
Geraldine Swayne: Annunciation And The Unspoken – Artlyst Interview
Geraldine Swayne is a highly regarded painter known for her intimate portrait and figure paintings in enamel on copper, aluminium and canvas. Her subjects engage in everyday activities
6 September 2020
Significant Works: A New Series Of Contemporary Art Essays By Sue Hubbard
In this new series, Sue Hubbard explores single works by leading contemporary artists.
1 September 2020
Anish Kapoor Country House Splendour – Stuart Semple
Anish Kapoor Houghton Hall Norfolk: Have you ever felt like you want to ring your mum to tell her you think you might have left an important part of your brain somewhere in a field in Norfolk? Well, this whole experience is a bit like that!
27 July 2020
SOHO HOUSE ANNOUNCES THE INAUGURAL SOHO HOUSE ART PRIZE
Judges including Maria Balshaw CBE, Director of Tate, Hebru Brantley, contemporary American artist and Kate Bryan, Head of Collections for Soho House will select the winner, who will be commissioned to create an exhibition and site-specific installation at Miami Beach House during Art Basel Miami Beach
2 July 2020
Inspiration – Contemporary Art & Classics – Revd Jonathan Evens
Galleries and museums around the world are reopening. Among the first exhibitions being shown that caught my eye were Leaves of Grass by Max Gimblett at Page Galleries in Wellington, the pairing of Kudditji Kngwarreye and Idris Murphy at Mitchell Fine Art in Brisbane, and Inspiration – Contemporary Art & Classics at Ateneum Art Museum in Helsinki.
27 June 2020
Last Lockdown Interviews pART 6 – Oliver Malin
The date was 13th June, When I first started writing this installment in this potentially infinite series, but everything I wrote felt stale. As it stands, Churchill is still standing, hoarding uncovered for a state visit from Macron.
18 June 2020
Black Lives Matter March American Embassy London – Oliver Malin
Unless you’ve been stuck in outer space or Elon Musk has deployed you to test out the feasibility of luxury corporate space travel during the pandemic, you’ll be aware that we are currently experiencing the most significant global Black civil rights movement since 1968.
10 June 2020
André Daughtry: Art, Rebellion And Racial Justice – Revd Jonathan Evens
Artworks acquire layers of meaning over time. André Daughtry’s Weight is a video work from 2014 that attempts ‘to visualise societal projections on the black male body’.
8 June 2020
London Lockdown Interviews pART 5 – Oliver Malin
Usually, an article written by this author within this feature series would only be aiming for laughs, confusion and splashes of enlightenment.
4 June 2020
Great Artworks Explained A New Video Series By James Payne
This is a new series by Artist/historian James Payne demystifying great works of art. We will be adding to this page as the content is produced.
1 June 2020