The four artists shortlisted for the 40th edition of the Turner Prize 2024, Pio Abad, Claudette Johnson, Jasleen Kaur and Delaine le Bas, are a motley crew.
30 September 2024
Feature, Opinion, Photo Features
Until now, I have avoided writing about Tracey Emin in this series of ‘Significant Works’. It just seemed too obvious. She rose to fame on the crest of the YBA wave in the 1980s.
13 August 2024
Art Criticism, Feature, Opinion
The echoes of colonialism reverberate in UK museums shaping not just the artefacts on display but the very essence of these institutions.
19 October 2023
Art News, News, Opinion
Marcel Duchamp’s “Fountain” has long stood as a defining moment in the annals of modern art history, a urinal.
17 October 2023
Feature, Opinion
In 2020, I wrote an article: ‘The Trouble with Problematic Public Statues’, sparked by the felling of slave trader Edward Colston’s effigy in Bristol.
11 October 2023
Art News, News, Opinion
In the ever-changing landscape of museums, the traditional role of the curator (a much-overused term), which was once perceived as a guardian of collections…
7 October 2023
Art News, Opinion
It is among the most intriguing mysteries surrounding the art and imagination of Joseph Mallord William Turner: the secret he insisted was waiting to be discovered in one of his greatest paintings.
6 June 2023
Feature, Features, Opinion
Should an artist’s behaviour and beliefs be considered separate from their art? This complex and controversial issue has been debated in the art world for many years.
10 May 2023
Art News, News, Opinion
A total fiasco is taking place in Paisley. The Art Galleries are gone, replaced by 60 digital displays, a café, picnic areas and a museum.
24 April 2023
Art News, News, Opinion
2023 begins In Essex with a focus on female experience and perceptions of life changes, embodiment, and the world around them.
12 February 2023
Art News, Features, Opinion
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
Features, Opinion, Photo Feature
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
Art Criticism, Feature, Opinion
The Government Art Collection has been going for over 120 years, through Government and private investment.
9 August 2021
Art News, News, Opinion
The event was a travesty of everything the Colony stood for, organised by people who thought they could recreate a special place.
24 June 2021
Features, Opinion
The Turner Prize continues to be in trouble. The competition has an aim: to single out the best new artists living and working in Britain
21 May 2021
Art Criticism, Art News, Opinion
Billy Childish has been around a long time. He is not only an artist but a poet and a composer of music.
10 December 2020
Art Criticism, Opinion, Reviews
Marcus Lyon is an artist whose early work took him to the slums and ghettos of the developing world to explore issues surrounding street children and child labour.
18 November 2020
Features, Interviews, Opinion
It’s been quite a year for statues. Normally no more than street furniture that no one bothers to look at – old white men standing on plinths in all weathers extolling some arcane ‘victory’ of the Empire
12 November 2020
Art Criticism, Artbytch, Feature, Opinion
Just as the new lockdown was being announced, the Sunday Times (UK) was unusually full of stuff about contemporary art. The main colour supplement led with a piece about Tracey Emin
4 November 2020
Features, Opinion
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
Edward Lucie-Smith has rightly wondered, as ‘the contemporary art world goes dark, and as galleries – official spaces and commercial ones – slam shut their doors,’ ‘what the art world will be like once all this is over.’ However, the immediate wondering is simply, what do we do now?
28 March 2020
Features, Opinion
On my way to Tate Modern in the rain, last night, I smiled, thinking just how much Susan Hiller would… Read More
1 October 2019
Art Market, Features, Opinion
When someone attacked Michelangelo’s Pieta with a hammer in the 1970s, the sculpture was severely damaged. It was restored and put back on display at the Vatican. A few years later a paranoid schizophrenic slashed Rembrandt’s masterpiece ‘The Night Watch’ putting a gaping hole in the canvas with a bread knife, at the Rijksmuseum.
8 August 2019
Art Market, Art News, Opinion
Dame Jillian Sackler, third wife of the late Arthur Sackler has defended her branch of the family’s philanthropic donations with a statement to the Washington Post, outlining that her side of the family has never participated in the manufacture of OxyContin or benefited from money generated by Purdue Pharma, which is wholly owned by the other side of the Sackler family.
15 April 2019
News, Opinion
In welcoming Bill Viola’s installations at St Paul’s Cathedral, Mark Oakley noted that: ‘Viola’s art slows down our perceptions in order to deepen them.’
13 January 2019
Art News, Opinion
I’ve been looking again at Georgina Adam’s recently published book, The Dark Side of the Boom (Lund Humphries). It ranges over a wide variety of contemporary art world topics and is quite largely concerned with recent art world misdeeds – that is, with the commercial rather than the official sector of art world activity, insofar as these can be fully separated from one another.
3 January 2019
Art News, Opinion
It has been in many ways a somewhat melancholy year for art, here in Britain – or should I say: ‘here in London’? -since pretty well all the shows I will mention here took place in a capital city that seems to be drifting steadily away from the rest of Britain.
20 December 2018
Features, Opinion
I’m what you could call a seasoned Frieze regular. I may have missed the first London fair but I was… Read More
4 October 2018
Art Market, Art News, News, Opinion
There can be no doubt that the Turner Prize is pretty much of a sick puppy right now.
28 August 2018
News, Opinion
Nobody, I think, could be keener than I am to see women obtain more recognition for their creative contribution to the visual arts.
20 August 2018
Opinion
At a time when London’s big art museums are going all out to be populist, they also seem to be witnessing a fairly general fall in attendances.
9 August 2018
Art News, Opinion
High value bluechip contemporary art displayed at alternative venues is usually something that excites us here at Artlyst; however,
24 May 2018
Opinion