Sculptures By Nick Hornby Impress At Glyndebourne Festival 2017
A collection of work, Sculpture (1504-2017), by artist Nick Hornby are currently on display at the Glyndebourne Festival 2017.
15 August 2017
Features
Matisse vs The Multi-Cultural Multi-Ethnic 21st Century Art World – Edward Lucie-Smith
I went to see the R.A.’s new Matisse show, but not at the press view, as I was abroad. I did go very shortly after it opened. Not unexpectedly, it was jammed with visitors, and I mean jammed. You had to dodge round backs to get a proper view of some of the smaller items, notably the drawings.
11 August 2017
Word On The Street – British Graffiti Art In Focus
Is an indigenous rock painting showing off the number of kills any different to a rebellious teenager taking his girl to their local make-out spot where he declares his love to her spray-painted in crude bright colours the night before?
5 August 2017
Paul Carey -Kent Curates His London Gallery Choices For August 2017
There’s seems to be more on than usual over August, partly due to a new trend for shows running July-September
2 August 2017
Art Awakening Humanity Alexander de Cadenet Interviewed By Revd Jonathan Evens
Alexander de Cadenet’s series of bronze and silver sculptures featuring ‘consumables’ contain a deeper spiritual message. This includes his ‘Life-Burger’ hamburger sculptures… Read More
30 July 2017
Les Rencontres d’Arles A World Class Photography Festival – By Virginie Puertolas-Syn
The 48th edition of the World premiere photography festival: Les Rencontres d’Arles. With 100,000 visitors in 2016, it is becoming increasingly popular among art lovers. The old Roman city is the perfect setting to discover the best of international photography.
26 July 2017
Top 10 London Museum Exhibitions Summer 2017
Here’s the Artlyst guide to the Top 10 best Museum exhibitions on in London this Summer, half of which have Free admission.
25 July 2017
Polish Art In Britain Centenary Marked At London’s Ben Uri Gallery
Art Out of the Bloodlands: A Century of Polish Artists in Britain at the Ben Uri Gallery focuses on the contribution made by the largest migrant community to 20th/21st Century British Art
25 July 2017
Ultimate Kitsch: State Visit Gifts Go On Display At Buckingham Palace
The Summer Opening of Buckingham Palace is upon us and this year the featured exhibition in the State Rooms is a special display of more than 200 State visit gifts presented to Her Majesty The Queen, throughout her 65-year reign.
24 July 2017
Goldsmiths MA Degree Students Strut Their Wares In Final 2017 Exhibition
One of the highlights of the London contemporary art calendar is the Goldsmiths 2017 MFA degree exhibition.
18 July 2017
Art Beyond London: Unmissable Exhibitions Summer 2017
If you’re planning on leaving the capital this Summer, Artlyst has put together a selection of the best UK shows outside of London.
14 July 2017
Christopher Gray In Search Of Dumas Artlyst Exclusive Interview
Christopher Gray was born in 1965 and has always lived and worked in London.
5 July 2017
Virtual Masterpiece The Masterpiece Art Fair By Edward Lucie-Smith
What people choose to describe as ‘a masterpiece’ is usually pretty much a matter of context. On the whole, at this annual beanfeast for conspicuous consumers, you won’t find much in the way of graffiti art lurking around, though it’s just possible that you might be confronted with a work by Jean-Michel Basquiat now that he’s included in the pantheon of artists with multi-million dollar price tags.
2 July 2017
Australian Artist Martin Brown Picks 10 Artists At The 57th Venice Biennale
As a regular attendee of the Venice Biennale, this was my sixth visit, I was fortunate to attend the Vernissage week with an invitation from the Australia Council for which I am eternally grateful. This is a summary of some of the things that I liked that caught my eye. There were many others of equal interest but I’ve pared it down to just a few.
1 July 2017
I love Christine Macel’s Venice Biennale By Virginie Puertolas-Syn
Much has been said about the Biennale. It is daring indeed from Christine Macel, the French curator from Pompidou appointed the curator of the Venice Biennale 2017, to extract herself from the actual political and social turmoil the world is facing.
29 June 2017
Michael Pendry New Installation Lights Up St Martin In The Fields
Michael Pendry light installations were first presented to a larger audience in 2005 for the ‘Lange Nacht der Museen’ (Long… Read More
24 June 2017
Art Basel 48 A Curated Selection Of Twelve By Virginie Puertolas-Syn
Curator and Gallerist Virginie Puertolas-Syn chooses twelve of the best stands at Art Basel 2017. Art Basel is a curated selection of 291 first-rate galleries exhibiting at the fair’s 48th edition in Basel.
18 June 2017
London Gallerist Zavier Ellis Chooses Six Works At VOLTA 13
London gallerist Zavier Ellis of Charlie Smith chooses six of the best works appearing at VOLTA, Basel’s art fair for new international art.
17 June 2017
Qatar Boycott: Will It Marginalise The Region’s Cultural Renaissance?
Last October I was in Doha the capital of Qatar which seemed like a well-oiled machine when it came to Art, Education, and Culture.
15 June 2017
Kiev In Focus A Contemporary Art Profile – Edward Lucie Smith
A trip to Kiev – no, call it ‘Kviv’, which is the correct form in the Ukrainian language – revealed a bustling, energetic contemporary art world, but little in the way of public collections.
12 June 2017
RA Summer Exhibition 2017 Twelve Highlights by Sara Faith
Artlyst’s highlights of the Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition 2017.
12 June 2017
Art Basel Plus Satellite Fair Guide 2017 What To See
Art Basel 2017 is a curated selection of 291 first-rate galleries exhibiting at the fair’s 48th edition in Basel. The gallery list for the Swiss event, taking place from June 15 to June 18, 2017, is a corker.
7 June 2017
Jamaican Art – Intuitive Outsiders But With That Old Time Religion
Jamaican art has never been as experimental as that to be found in – say – Cuba, its neighboring island in the Greater Antilles. Cuban art reached out to the Modernist Movement almost as soon as it began. And Cuba has always had links to what was going on in the mainland nations of Latin America. Art in Jamaica, linked to the UK, remained consistently more conservative.
6 June 2017
Antarctic Biennale Breaking Barriers At the 57th Venice Biennale
The Antarctic Biennale is a bespoke cultural event, different from any other. It is a creative journey, expanding the parameters of what art can be today.
5 June 2017
Sgt Pepper Reimagined At 50 Liverpool Creates A Festival To Remember
Sgt Pepper At 50 is the 50th anniversary of the original album by The Beatles and through this festival has become a newly ‘re-imagined album’ of artworks, theater, music and dance pieces.
3 June 2017
Vulgarity Rules A-List Contemporary Art Non-Existent At Riviera amfAR AIDS Gala
A – lister actors Leonardo DiCaprio, Dustin Hoffman, Nicole Kidman and Will Smith turned out for the amfAR AIDS benefit that is the social highlight of the Cannes film festival. The event held annually at the Eden Roc Hotel, Cap d’Antibes on the French Riviera saw celebrities and benefactors paying up to $500,000 for a table. But where was the Contemporary art on the auction block?
30 May 2017
Biennale di Venezia 57 The Nico Kos Earle Diary
The 57th Biennale di Venezia – was curated by the recently appointed director of the Centre Pompidou, Paris, Christine Macel. Optimistically titled VIVA ARTE VIVA, this Olympian presentation of art proposes “an alternative to individualism and indifference.
29 May 2017
Central St Martins Colourful And Diverse Degree Shows 2017
Central St Martins BA and MA degree shows kicked off this weekend with a number of multidisciplinary exhibitions stretching across the Kings Cross campus.
29 May 2017
Mark Dean Projects Stations of the Cross Videos On Henry Moore Altar
Over the Easter period, St Stephen Walbrook, was involved in Stations 2017, a two-part artwork based on the Stations of the Cross and the Stations of the Resurrection.
28 May 2017
Richard Deacon: Accidents Will Happen – Major New Exhibition Middelheim Museum Antwerp
Sometimes the best art is born out of a mistake. It is this type of accidental trial and error that keeps the Turner Prize winning artist Richard Deacon on his toes, as a practitioner of fresh ideas and innovations.
25 May 2017
David Bailey Talks Art, Photography And Sumatran Tigers – Artlyst Exclusive Interview
David Bailey is not at all what I expected. He’s imposing without being scary. He’s warm and down to earth. He speaks his mind, unafraid and not at all intimidated by the art establishment.
23 May 2017
Artist Rupert Shrive Interviewed By Darren Coffield – Artist To Artist Series
Rupert Shrive has a new exhibition that opened last week at London’s Serena Morton’s gallery, entitled ‘Mysterious Arrangement’.
21 May 2017