Antony Gormley Awarded New Percent For Art Commission By MIT
The Turner Prize winning artist Sir Antony Gormley has been awarded a new Percent-for-Art commission for MIT in Boston, USA. Gormley’s proposed… Read More
30 December 2015
News
Mikhail Karikis Presents Multi-Part Project At Carroll/Fletcher
Mikhail Karikis’s Children of Unquiet (2013-2015) is a multi-part project encompassing video, photography, sound installation, and performance, centred around a… Read More
29 December 2015
Neo-Conceptualist Jenny Holzer Contributes To HIV Memorial App
The Neo-conceptual artist Jenny Holzer, who is commonly known for her LED light pieces that utilise the rhetoric of modern… Read More
28 December 2015
Ellsworth Kelly One Of America’s Greatest Abstract Painters Dies Aged 92
Ellsworth Kelly, one of the last remaining of the 20th-century abstract artists, who helped to shape American painting has died age 92.
28 December 2015
Alice Theobald, And ATOMIK Architecture Co-Author Works At BALTIC
BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead and Ryder Architecture present the second in a series of new commissions exploring the… Read More
27 December 2015
Picasso Murals Top Europa Nostra Endangered Heritage List
Europa Nostra, the European heritage organisation has placed a building housing murals by Pablo Picasso on their under threat priority list.
27 December 2015
Basquiat Masterpiece Sold At Christie’s For £25m Remains Uncollected By Buyer
The sale of a £25m/$37.1 m painting by Jean-Michel Basquiat at Christie’s, New York, on 13 May this year has led… Read More
26 December 2015
Art Laughter And Tears: Artlyst’s Top 20 News Stories Of 2015
The end of 2015 is in sight, as we reflect on yet another year of ups and downs on the… Read More
26 December 2015
Jesse Hlebo Curates Group Exhibition Sometimes People Die At Edel Assanti
Edel Assanti is to present the group exhibition People Die Sometimes, curated by Jesse Hlebo, and featuring the artists Ryan… Read More
25 December 2015
Psychedelic Artist Peter Max In Multi-Million Family Dispute Over Paintings
The psychedelic painter Peter Max is caught in a battle between his second wife and his son. Mary Max has claimed that… Read More
25 December 2015
Ai Weiwei: A Prolific Year For The Chinese Dissident Artist In Pictures
It has been a particularly busy year for the acclaimed dissident Chinese artist Ai Weiwei. Artlyst even joined Ai and… Read More
24 December 2015
Heman Chong: An Arm, A Leg, And Other Stories At South London Gallery
A million blacked out business cards covering the floor set the scene for this exhibition which explores ideas of exchange,… Read More
24 December 2015
Wildenstein Tax Evasion Trial Expected In New Year
Prominent figures from the Wildenstein art dealing dynasty are expected to go on trial in France for tax evasion and money laundering
24 December 2015
Pontormo Masterpiece Acquires Temporary Export Ban By Culture Minister Ed Vaizey
The Culture Minister Ed Vaizey has put a temporary export bar on ‘Portrait of a Young Man in a Red… Read More
24 December 2015
Marita Fraser And Nancy Milner: Sculpture, And Collage At Rook And Raven
Drawing on Itten’s treatise, The Elements of Colour, Rook & Raven bring together the works of Marita Fraser and Nancy… Read More
23 December 2015
Lord Vishnu Is Explored in Metropolitan Museum New York Exhibition
Encountering Vishnu: The Lion Avatar in Indian Temple Drama” is a new exhibition at the Met in New York which… Read More
23 December 2015
Susan Philipsz Explores Composer Banned By Nazis Then Blacklisted By Hollywood
A large-scale multimedia installation by the Turner Prize winning artist Susan Philipsz will be on show at the Smithsonian’s Hirshhorn Museum… Read More
23 December 2015
Cornelius Gurlitt Of Sound Mind When Bequeathing Collection To Bern Museum
Cornelius Gurlitt, the now infamous art dealer, who hoarded Nazi looted masterpieces, discovered in 2012, was of sound mind when he… Read More
22 December 2015
Hanaa Malallah’s Visceral Reality Of War To Open At DOLPH London
Hanaa Malallah responds to the DOLPH brief by expanding on her own experience of conflict and re-settlement. Displaced by the… Read More
22 December 2015
Ai Weiwei Lawyer Pu Zhiqiang Receives Suspended Sentence For Picking Quarrels
Pu Zhiqiang the best known human rights lawyer in China has been found guilty of “inciting ethnic hatred” and “picking… Read More
22 December 2015
Syrian Artist Incarcerated In Detention Centre Becomes Unofficial War Artist
Sami, a Syrian artist incarcerated in a detention centre has become an unofficial ‘War Artist’. Art has been used as a medium to record… Read More
21 December 2015
Korean Artist Park Seo-Bo To Open At White Cube Mason’s Yard
White Cube Mason’s Yard will present an exhibition of paintings by Korean artist Park Seo-Bo, the first solo exhibition of… Read More
21 December 2015
Drawing Room Curates Group Show Line At Lisson Gallery For 2016
Drawing is both physical entity and intellectual proposition in ‘Line’, Lisson Gallery’s group exhibition, guest-curated by Drawing Room. Fifteen international… Read More
21 December 2015
Hieronymus Bosch Battle: Garden Of Earthly Delights To Remain With Prado
After a long and drawn out battle with a new national museum; four iconic paintings by Hieronymus Bosch and other… Read More
20 December 2015
B. Wurtz: The Art Of Recycling Pushes Duchampian Boundaries At The Baltic
The BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art in Gateshead is currently presenting the first gallery survey of American artist B. Wurtz. Declared… Read More
20 December 2015
Zavier Ellis And Griffin Gallery Announce Young Gods 2016
Griffin Gallery and CHARLIE SMITH LONDON have announced their continued collaboration with the presentation of ‘Young Gods’. Curated by Zavier… Read More
19 December 2015
Tate Explores Conceptual Art in 1960s and 1970s Britain
Conceptual Art in Britain 1964 -1979 will show how artists working in Britain transformed the nature of art. This exhibition will… Read More
19 December 2015
Mark Wallinger Pairs With Van Dyck In Dulwich Picture Gallery Display
The Dulwich Picture Gallery starts a new year of discoveries centred around its Dutch and Flemish Collection with I Am Van Dyck (12 January… Read More
18 December 2015
Photo Feature: Agathe De Bailliencourt’s Temporal Paintings At Blain|Southern London
Artlyst has attended Blain|Southern London, which is currently presenting new paintings by French artist Agathe de Bailliencourt in her first… Read More
18 December 2015
Dan Flavin: Major Exhibition Announced For Ikon Gallery
Ikon Gallery Birmingham has announced a major exhibition of fluorescent light works by Dan Flavin (1933-1996), one of the most… Read More
18 December 2015
Is Seung Ah Paik The Best Emerging Figurative Painter In The UK Today?
“As self-portraits these works are concerned not with self-image but with self-embodiment and how painting can materially express the experience… Read More
18 December 2015
Yinka Shonibare To Host Shape Arts’ Annual Open Exhibition
Shape Arts’ annual open exhibition will be hosted by its patron, Yinka Shonibare MBE, at his Guest Projects space in… Read More
17 December 2015