Future of Britain’s museums, galleries, theatres, independent cinemas, heritage sites and music venues will be helped with emergency grants and loans. Funding will also be provided to restart construction work at cultural and heritage sites paused as a result of the pandemic.
6 July 2020
News
A new public art project, Breath is Invisible (7 July – 9 October 2020), will be launched by the MP David Lammy in Notting Hill on Tuesday 7 July with an installation of works by Khadija Saye, the young Gambian-British artist who tragically lost her life in the Grenfell Tower fire in 2017, aged just 24.
6 July 2020
Art News, News
Tate Britain has announced the ten artists who will each receive one-off £10,000 bursaries in place of this year’s Turner Prize: Arika, Liz Johnson Artur, Oreet Ashery, Shawanda Corbett, Jamie Crewe, Sean Edwards, Sidsel Meineche Hansen, Ima-Abasi Okon, Imran Perretta and Alberta Whittle.
2 July 2020
Announcement, Art News, News
Art Derivatives a project by the Italian artist Paolo Cirio that challenges the ‘out of control’ practices of manipulation of the art market, the largest unregulated market after narcotics
2 July 2020
Art Market, Art News
This year the exhibition is back with a diverse collection of artists from around the world. Works can be purchased on the website and delivered directly to your home.
1 July 2020
Art News, Preview
You saw it here first, Tate, The National Gallery and the Royal Academy have announced plans to reopen in July.
30 June 2020
Art News, News
Sir Michael Craig-Martin has created a new work for an iconic site in London’s Oxford Street, which will be launched on Monday 29 June, presented by W1 Curates. The installation, Cornucopia Galactica, will run 24hrs a day until 12 July 2020.
29 June 2020
Art News, News
Important works by the British sculptor Sir Anish Kapoor will go on show across the grounds and historic interiors of Houghton Hall in Norfolk for the exhibition Anish Kapoor at Houghton Hall (12 July – 1 November 2020).
25 June 2020
Art News
Leonardo’s Last Supper is back on view at the RA. Or at least a copy of it is, made by his pupil Gianpetrino. And to celebrate the event, there’s now a website devoted to it – the copy not the original. You can find it Here
24 June 2020
Art News, News
A 19th-century copy of a painting by the Baroque artist Bartolomé Esteban Murillo’s titled The Immaculate Conception of Los Venerables… Read More
23 June 2020
Art News, News
Museums and galleries will be allowed to reopen in England from 4 July. Prime Minister Boris Johnson has announced measures easing the coronavirus restrictions in place since March.
23 June 2020
Announcement, Art News, News
Hackney Council has announced two public artworks to be unveiled celebrating the Windrush Generation.
22 June 2020
Art News, News
The legendary Marlborough Gallery is to close their NY premises with an announcement about the future of their London flagship pending.
19 June 2020
Art Market, Art News, News
Oriel College in Oxford, the epicenter for recent student protests, has announced that they will remove the controversial statue of… Read More
17 June 2020
Art News, News
Giuseppe Penone (born in 1947) has made two generous gifts of 350 drawings to the Centre Pompidou and a similar number works on paper to the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
17 June 2020
Art News
On the third anniversary of the tragic fire which took seventy-two lives in the Grenfell tower block in West London, Artlyst thought it a good time to highlight an excellent project that the Turner Prize-nominated collective Forensic Architecture has put together using mapping technology.
15 June 2020
Art News, News
As a sculptor who has used Victorian and other found sculptures in my work for some time, the increasingly heated debate on the future of public Victorian statues, buildings and street names across the country has resonated with me.
11 June 2020
Art News, News, Opinion
Sotheby’s announced this week that a small, delicate Rembrandt self-portrait is to be auctioned on July 28th, here in London. The painting is unusually intimate, (about 17 x 22cm) and was painted in 1632 when the artist was 26 years old.
11 June 2020
Art Market, Opinion, Preview
Banksy, Bristol’s international artist/influencer has suggested a plan which should appeal to both critics of the sudden removal and dumping of the statue of slave-trader Edward Colston and the protesters.
10 June 2020
Art News
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
Art News, Feature, News
The first of the London mega galleries have announced they are to reopen after a three-month lockdown period. White Cube and Gagosian will open by timed appointment to comply with social distancing measures from next week.
8 June 2020
Announcement, Art Market, Art News
The Tate issued a statement in 2019 to put to rest talk about the gallery founder and namesake Henry Tate’s involvement in slavery.
8 June 2020
Art News
A notorious statue dedicated to a slave trader in Bristol has been torn down and thrown into the harbour during a second day of anti-racism protests across the UK. Following a peaceful demonstration in Bristol
7 June 2020
Art News, News
The elusive Street Artist Banksy has unveiled a new artwork inspired by the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis.
6 June 2020
Art News, News
Art Basel has announced that after an extensive analysis of the current global situation, due to the Coronavirus pandemic they will not be presenting their flagship Basel show this year.
6 June 2020
Art Market, Art News, News
This is long overdue, but under the worrying circumstances that have dominated the news in the past week, I feel it is essential to voice an opinion representing Artlyst.
4 June 2020
News, Opinion
Tate Modern is easily the most popular gallery of modern art in the world… For a location that consists mostly of open spaces, lightly sprinkled with the odd moment of art, that is some achievemen
2 June 2020
Art News, Opinion
Over four decades ago I had one of the most exciting experiences of my life – encountering perhaps the most original and innovative artists of the past sixty years, Christo, who died on Sunday 31 May
2 June 2020
International Artist Spotlight, News
The sad news that the larger than life artist Christo passed away aged 84 was announced on his website on 31 May.
31 May 2020
Announcement, Art News, News, Obituary
The Southbank Centre including the Hayward Gallery may close until April 2021. This is as a result of the economic impact of COVID-19.
28 May 2020
News
“Through Arts We Rise” painted, sprayed and blessed by the world’s foremost street art lettering demi-god, Ben Eine
26 May 2020
Art News
This year the Turner Prize will be replaced by a bursaries scheme In response to the COVID19 pandemic. Tate Britain has announced that it will be awarding one-off bursaries of £10,000 to 10 artists in place of this year’s Turner Prize. The jury will select the ‘Turner Bursaries’ at the end of June.
26 May 2020
Announcement, Art News