Women Artists Shatter The Glass Ceiling – But At What Cost?
I should stand up for fellow art bitches and applaud this week’s lyst of the most wealthy female artists: were… Read More
26 June 2015
I should stand up for fellow art bitches and applaud this week’s lyst of the most wealthy female artists: were… Read More
26 June 2015
Hans Haacke is a leading figure in the contemporary art world. His work crosses boundaries of Conceptual, Minimal, Pop and… Read More
25 June 2015
At the age of 20, the Turner Prize winning artist Jeremy Deller took up an invitation from Andy Warhol to… Read More
24 June 2015
Gagosian Gallery Davies Street is currently showing Richard Prince: New Portraits, a collection of appropriated images pulled from unsuspecting Instagramers… Read More
22 June 2015
Parafin Gallery, London is currently displaying the latest works by British painter Justin Mortimer. The artist’s painting reflects upon a… Read More
20 June 2015
The famed American artist Richard Prince is in the news again for his particular practice of appropriation, and as usual… Read More
19 June 2015
The genre ‘portraiture’ is as open ended as the limitless expanses of landscape, history painting, still lifes, and abstract: yet… Read More
18 June 2015
One of the highlights this year’s Royal Academy Summer Show 2015 is Grayson Perry’s Julie and Rob tapestry, a large… Read More
15 June 2015
The Queens Birthday Honours list has again snubbed the Visual Arts. This is the second time since 2015 began, with… Read More
14 June 2015
CHARLIE SMITH London is presenting Dominic Shepherd in the artist’s latest exhibition ‘Bare Foot Prophet’, where Shepherd responds to the… Read More
12 June 2015
Morbid question one: if Damien Hirst fell into a vat of formaldehyde tomorrow, how would this affect the monetary value… Read More
12 June 2015
The Turner Prize nominated artist Roger Hiorns plans to bury a jumbo jet for a site-specific installation near Birmingham. Meanwhile the… Read More
11 June 2015
Spot the difference (sorry.. actually not sorry) between Yayoi Kusama and Agnes Martin, the darling of minimalism, whose retrospective at Tate Modern… Read More
5 June 2015
Modern Art Oxford is presenting ‘Origins of the Species (Part 2)’ an expansive exhibition of works by the acclaimed US… Read More
2 June 2015
British painter Justin Mortimer’s latest works are currently on display at Parafin Gallery, London. The artist’s painting reflects upon a… Read More
1 June 2015
Art in whatever form – painting, theatre, a child’s potato stamp – is the means by which we express externally… Read More
29 May 2015
A decent studio space is hard enough to acquire in London but now it seems it’s also hard to hold… Read More
29 May 2015
The mysterious chat noir litters (a pun already? Awesome) art history like so much shed fur; the terribly unsubtle feline companion… Read More
23 May 2015
Writing about the increasingly obsolete Turner Prize is the very definition of shooting fish in a barrel. Waldemar Januszczak has… Read More
14 May 2015
The Zabludowicz Collection is presenting a major exhibition featuring over 30 leading international artists, including eight Turner Prize winners, to… Read More
14 May 2015
Does art add anything to places of natural beauty? It seems to be popular at the moment for site specific… Read More
10 May 2015
The Zabludowicz Collection presents a major exhibition featuring over 30 leading international artists, including eight Turner Prize winners, to celebrate… Read More
9 May 2015
Does fine art still have political teeth? Remember, if you will, such historical examples as Delacroix’s ‘Victory Leading the People’,… Read More
8 May 2015
The Turin Shroud, one of Christianity’s most celebrated and hotly-debated relics, is back on display to the public for the… Read More
4 May 2015
After the recent arrest of Marco Evaristti in Iceland, when local landowners accused him of vandalism after the Danish-Chilean artist… Read More
3 May 2015
Given the range of names appearing in Artlyst’s forged artist’s countdown, you would be forgiven for thinking that the measure… Read More
1 May 2015
The Sainsbury Centre For Visual Arts presents ‘Francis Bacon and the Masters’, the latest exhibition bringing together over twenty-five major… Read More
1 May 2015
I remember viewing the exhibition ‘Francis Bacon: Working on Paper’, at Tate Britain in February 1999 with some scepticism. Bacon… Read More
24 April 2015
“Ars longa, vita brevis” should be uttered (and was, repeatedly, ad nauseum by my moustachioed diploma fine art tutor) with a heavy dose of irony.
24 April 2015
In 2013 Van Buuren Museum, Brussels, suffered a robbery in which several works of art were stolen from its collection;… Read More
22 April 2015
Francis Bacon and the Masters is the latest exhibition of works by the late-great British painter, bringing together over twenty-five… Read More
22 April 2015
1) When did you begin drawing and painting, Lucas? My mother was an artist and so drawing and painting were… Read More
20 April 2015