Banksy Mural At Royal Courts Of Justice Covered Within Hours
A new Banksy mural has surfaced this weekend on the walls of the Royal Courts of Justice. It depicts a figure in a judicial wig and robes…
8 September 2025
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Trump Eyes Federal Control of New York’s 9/11 Memorial And Museum
President Trump is weighing the possibility of bringing the National September 11 Memorial & Museum under federal control….
7 September 2025
John Moores Painting Prize: Ally Fallon Becomes Youngest Ever Winner
The Walker Art Gallery has announced Manchester-based artist Ally Fallon as the winner of the John Moores Painting Prize 2025.
7 September 2025
David Chipperfield: Grade II listing For First Building
An important piece of UK architectural history has just been accepted into the national Building register: Sir David Chipperfield’s first building…
5 September 2025
Stirling Prize Shortlist 2025 Artlyst Asks AI To Predict The Winner
The Stirling Prize shortlist 2025 is out – six projects competing for Britain’s most prestigious architectural award. The line-up balances the old and the new
4 September 2025
National Trust Secures Two Reynolds Masterpieces For Waddesdon Manor
The National Trust has permanently acquired two significant works by Sir Joshua Reynolds (1723–1792) through the UK government’s Acceptance in Lieu scheme….
2 September 2025
Disputed Vermeer Guitar Player Confronts Signed Original At Kenwood House
For the first time in three centuries, Johannes Vermeer’s The Guitar Player has been placed alongside its long-disputed double
2 September 2025
Banksy’s Piranha Tank Bites Back in London Museum Relaunch
A Banksy outdoor installation awaits its next appearance: a prime spot in the newly refurbished London Museum in Smithfield…
31 August 2025
Barbara Hepworth Sculpture Saved For The Nation By Public Donations
A sculpture by Barbara Hepworth of tremendous aesthetic and historical importance has been saved for the nation following a successful public appeal….
19 August 2025
Anish Kapoor Climate Protest Painting Installed On Active Shell Oil Platform
A monumental new work by the Turner Prize-winning artist Anish Kapoor has been installed on an active Shell gas platform…
14 August 2025
Ekow Eshun To Curate British Art Show 10 In 2026
Hayward Gallery Touring has tapped curator and writer Ekow Eshun to steer the British Art Show 10, opening September 2026
7 August 2025
Doris Saatchi: The Silent Force Behind Britain’s Art Revolution Dies Aged 88
To speak of British art’s transformation in the 1980s without acknowledging Doris Saatchi is to tell half the story. Born Doris Lockhart in 1947, the Glasgow-raised….
6 August 2025
Pearlman Foundation Donates Modern Masterpieces to MoMA, LACMA, and Brooklyn Museum
The Henry and Rose Pearlman Foundation has announced the dispersal of its entire collection to three major institutions: New York’s Museum of Modern Art, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and the Brooklyn Museum….
4 August 2025
Seized Picasso and Basquiat Works Hit U.S. Government Auction Block
A trove of blue-chip artworks—once owned by fugitive financier Jho Low and Wolf of Wall Street producer Joey McFarland—has surfaced in an unlikely venue: an online auction run by the U.S. Marshals Service.
31 July 2025
Met Trustee Wesley LePatner Among New York Shooting Victims
Wesley LePatner, a Blackstone executive and newly elected Metropolitan Museum of Art trustee, was killed in Monday’s shocking shooting at 345 Park Avenue…
29 July 2025
U.S. Withdraws From UNESCO As ‘Woke’ Culture Wars Go Global
The United States has formally notified UNESCO of its intention to withdraw from the United Nations’ cultural arm by December 2026, reigniting a decade-long dispute over the organisation’s political direction….
24 July 2025
Caravaggio’s Provocative Cupid Makes UK Debut At Wallace Collection
For the first time on British soil, Caravaggio’s Victorious Cupid (1601-02) prepares to unsettle London audiences this November. On loan from Berlin’s Gemäldegalerie, this life-sized depiction of a winged, grinning adolescent…
24 July 2025
Bridget Riley Donates Major New Work To Tate Britain’s Collection
Bridget Riley’s Concerto I (2024) enters the Tate collection—a gift from the artist herself. The painting debuts alongside Fall (1963) in a focused display running through June 2026, tracing six decades of Riley’s optical alchemy….
21 July 2025
Bayeux Tapestry: UK Return Reignites Regional Heritage Wars
After over 958 years in exile, the Bayeux Tapestry’s impending UK return has reignited old battles – not with swords this time, but with policy papers…
14 July 2025
MIMA To Host Turner Prize 2026: A Cultural Coup For Middlesbrough
The Turner Prize is coming to Teesside. Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art (MIMA) will stage the prestigious contemporary art award in autumn 2026…
14 July 2025
Rory Pilgrim: Find Miracles A Sonic Soundwork Arrives At Waterloo Station
The Underground takes on a different timbre this month as Find Miracles, a new sound work by Turner Prize-nominated artist Rory Pilgrim…
14 July 2025
Sir Brian Clarke Visionary of Contemporary Stained Glass Dies Aged 72
Artlyst Obituary | 7 July 2025: Sir Brian Clarke, whose restless experimentation and a driving ambition updated stained glass from an ecclesiastical craft into a powerful contemporary art form….
9 July 2025
Moira Cameron Wins Annual NPG Portrait Award 2025
Moira Cameron has been awarded first prize in the 2025 Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer Portrait Award for her contemplative and boldly executed self-portrait, A Life Lived….
8 July 2025
Bayeux Tapestry: France Agrees To Historic Loan To British Museum
The British Museum has secured the long-anticipated loan of the Bayeux Tapestry, marking its first return to British soil in nearly a millennium….
8 July 2025
Peter Phillips British Pop Art Trailblazer Dies Aged 86
Peter Phillips, a founding figure of British Pop Art whose vibrant, iconoclastic canvases helped define a new visual language for Post-War Britain, has died at the age of 86…
3 July 2025
Mark Wallinger: Terminal 1 Installation At Glastonbury Confronts Border-State
Turner Prize winner Mark Wallinger, politically explosive terrain, has returned with Jungle Gym, a starkly conceived structure at Glastonbury’s Terminal 1 stage…
30 June 2025
You Gotta Roll With It: Elizabeth Peyton’s Gallagher Portrait Squeaks By At Sotheby’s
Elizabeth Peyton’s Liam + Noel (Gallagher), one of her most significant portraits of the Oasis brothers, squeaked by at Sotheby’s recent June sale….
25 June 2025
El Greco Belonging To Russian Billionaire Dmitry Rybolovlev In Legal Restitution Fight
The fate of El Greco’s Saint Sebastian (c. 1610-14) hangs in limbo as Romania escalates its legal battle to reclaim the masterpiece, alleging it was looted…
24 June 2025
Lord Norman Foster Chosen To Design Queen Elizabeth II Memorial
The late Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh, will be united in stone and light in Lord Norman Foster’s winning design….
24 June 2025
LACMA Acquires Jeff Koons’ Living Sculpture Split-Rocker
The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) has secured a major addition to its public art program with the acquisition of Jeff Koons’ Split-Rocker (2000)
24 June 2025
Antoni Gaudí Casa Batlló: Historic Facade Revealed Following €3.5m Restoration
After more than a century, Antoni Gaudí’s original design for Casa Batlló’s rear facade and a private courtyard has been meticulously restored to its 1906 splendour.
20 June 2025
Rubens Oil Sketch: DCMS Export Ban Aims To Save Masterpiece For The Nation
A rare oil sketch by Peter Paul Rubens, Cimon Falling in Love with Efigenia (c. 1616–17), now faces an export bar in a bid to retain the work for the UK….
17 June 2025