Art In Puglia – Panorama Monopoli – Virginie Puertolas-Syn
I was thrilled to attend the second edition of Panorama in the charming seaside city of Monopoli, which took place from 1st to 4th September in my beloved Puglia, Italy.
15 September 2022
Features
Ten London Art Exhibitions Autumn 2022
London comes into its own in Autumn with the opening of a whole array of exciting exhibitions, fairs and auctions. Artlyst has put together a list of ten art exhibitions presented in our world-class galleries and museums.
31 August 2022
Spencer Tunick: The Naked Facts – Artlyst Interview With Paul Carter Robinson
The work of artist Spencer Tunick defies genres by transforming both landscapes and the human form into powerful artworks.
30 August 2022
Heavenly Visions: Churches As Spaces For Contemporary Art – Revd Jonathan Evens
From early on in their history, churches have regularly been spaces in which art was displayed and valued. That continued in the modern period…
14 August 2022
Qatar Transforms Into An Outdoor Art Gallery Ahead Of FIFA World Cup
Qatar, a country that is no stranger to important contemporary public art, with works by Richard Serra and Damien Hirst, will be Transformed into an Outdoor Art Museum
10 August 2022
Steve McQueen Deadpan 1997 – Significant Works – Sue Hubbard
One of the things about this series is that it provides an opportunity to look back on keynote contemporary works with a degree of hindsight.
2 August 2022
Charmaine Watkiss: Interview of the Month August 2022 – Paul Carey-Kent
Charmaine Watkiss is the daughter of Jamaicans who came to post-war Britain in the 1960s when immigration from former colonies was encouraged to help with the significant labour shortage.
1 August 2022
Art Search: August 2022 Diary – Revd Jonathan Evens
Oldenburg’s show at Judson House in May 1959 was his first solo show and consisted of three-dimensional constructions.
1 August 2022
Ten Things To Shout About At London’s Masterpiece Art Fair – Nico Kos Earle
Masterpiece is one of London’s unmissable art fairs. This is a melting pot where visitors can view and buy the finest works of art, design, furniture and jewellery
6 July 2022
Mali Morris: Interview of the Month, July 2022 – Paul Carey-Kent
Mali Morris is a popular and notably active member of the Royal Academy of Arts, making her an appropriate choice for the annual commission to make flags over Bond Street.
28 June 2022
Yinka Shonibare: Mr And Mrs Andrews Without Their Heads – Significant Works – Sue Hubbard
Mr and Mrs Andrews is arguably Gainsborough’s most famous painting. A young couple poses for their wedding portrait beneath an oak tree. Behind them spreads a bucolic view
24 June 2022
Art Illuminating spirituality June 2022 Diary – Revd Jonathan Evens
The adherence of the Singh Twins to the Indian miniature painting tradition has been a way of asserting their right to choose a visual language
20 June 2022
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.
11 June 2022
Colour And Art History On A Paris Road Trip – James Payne
Paris is always good for an Artlyst road trip, as James Payne discovers as he visits Fondation Louis Vuitton, Cluny Museum and goes on a Picasso walking tour.
6 June 2022
Steven Campbell Dressing Above Your Station Fashion And Textiles In His Work – Clare Henry
Fashion and Textiles in the Life and Work of the Artist Steven Campbell tells his story using the thread of his dramatic outfits.
23 May 2022
Cecilia Alemani’s Powerful Harmonious Venice Biennale – Virginie Puertolas-Syn
I was curious to see how the Curator Cecilia Alemani – one of the few female curators of the Biennale, was going to address the pandemic of the last two years and how this historical moment we all went through was going to be reflected in one of the most important non-commercial Art rendez-vous.
18 May 2022
The Return Of A Post Pandemic Art Brussels – Paul Carey Kent
Art Brussels sprouts back to life after two years missed for Covid, from 28 April – 1 May.
8 May 2022
Andrew Marr Talks Painting Not Politics With Ria Higgins
Away from the political battles of Westminster, Britain’s most famous interrogator has a passion not many people know about… painting. With his latest exhibition in London, he talks to Ria Higgins about where it all started and why he refuses to be known for only one thing.
4 May 2022
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.
3 May 2022
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.
3 May 2022
Cornelia Parker: Cold Dark Matter 1991 – Significant Works – Sue Hubbard
Cornelia Parker exploded a garden shed with the help of the British army. She’d contacted them for advice and was invited to the Army School of Ammunition
28 April 2022
59th Venice Biennale: Twelve Things To See On-Site – Paul Carter Robinson
I have just returned from the 59th Venice Biennale, which was thrown off course by a year due to the pandemic.
27 April 2022
Eight Of The Best Collateral Events – 59th Venice Biennale – Lee Sharrock
Writer and PR Consultant Lee Sharrock has selected eight of the best collateral events taking place in Venice during the 59th Biennale.
26 April 2022
Venice Biennale 2022: Official Collateral Events Guide – Artlyst
This year, the Venice Biennale offers 30 official collateral events that the curators have sanctioned. They will run at the same time as the Biennale.
17 April 2022
59th Venice Biennale One Stop Guide To Artists Curators And Pavilions – Artlyst
The 59th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia, titled ‘The Milk of Dreams’, from Saturday April 23 to Sunday November 27
16 April 2022
Glasgow’s Burrell Nearly 40 Years On Gets A New Look – Clare Henry
Back in 1983, on the day the Queen opened the famous Burrell, I reported enthusiastically for the BBC on its unique qualities.
11 April 2022
David Nash: Interview of the Month April 2022 – Paul Carey-Kent
Forty years ago, David Nash was the first artist to make work on-site for Yorkshire Sculpture Park –invited by the founding director Peter Murray, who has only just retired.
2 April 2022
Anish Kapoor: Svayambh – Significant Works – Sue Hubbard
In the fine elegance of Burlington House, with all its associations of white privilege, Anish Kapoor’s lumbering train conjured images of India’s overcrowded railway system
21 March 2022
London’s West End Galleries The Art Of Upstairs Downstairs – Clive Jennings
The traditional epicentre in Cork Street has moved west to Dover Street and Albemarle Street. Soho has always been home to several galleries.
16 March 2022
Marilyn Stafford Beyond A Jobbing Photographer – Claudia Barbieri Childs
BRIGHTON: Marilyn Stafford thought of herself as a jobbing photographer; she had a living to earn as a single mother.
7 March 2022
Rana Begum: Artist Interview of the Month March 2022 – Paul Carey-Kent
Rana Begum brings her viewers into an interactive world of colour, light and form. Initially, her geometric language could be traced back to cityscapes meeting the patterns of Islamic architecture from her early childhood in Bangladesh.
1 March 2022
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.
16 February 2022