London Galleries and Museums: The Lights Are On But No One’s Home – Steve Daszko
Lockdown II – When the first lockdown started in March last year, Tate, like all Art Galleries, suffered financially.
11 January 2021
Photo Feature
Six Black Artists Depict Race and Discrimination – MC Llamas
The BLM protests in recent weeks have shown us how relevant issues of race still are. It’s shocking to see that racial discrimination still exists in this day and age. It is our role as cultural influencers to give our attention and support to the fight against systemic racism.
13 June 2020
Black Lives Matter March American Embassy London – Oliver Malin
Unless you’ve been stuck in outer space or Elon Musk has deployed you to test out the feasibility of luxury corporate space travel during the pandemic, you’ll be aware that we are currently experiencing the most significant global Black civil rights movement since 1968.
10 June 2020
Lockdown London A Photo Essay By Oliver Malin
It seems odd to be writing an introduction to a lockdown London photographic series investigating the epicentre of the night, the quiet, airy night, which is the sum total of the stillness that has occurred thanks to the reduction in human footprint around a city, which has been so alive at all times of the day and night since Londinium has cooked up by the Romans.
26 April 2020
Solitude An Essay By Jeremy Cooper
Some of us have spent much of our lives seeking first to explain to self and then to justify to loved others the need to spend most of our time in solitude. It is oddly gratifying now to be ordered by the Prime Minister, whose personality and politics I do not like, to live exactly as I have chosen to for the last twenty years.
6 April 2020
Frieze LA 2020: What The Dealers Said
Frieze LA 2020 attracted 35,000 visitors during its four days at Paramount Pictures Studios, which featured 75 local and international galleries in addition to unique artist commissions as part of Frieze Projects and the Artist Street Fair on the Paramount Pictures Backlot.
17 February 2020
Margate – Art In Ex Toilets And Family Homes – James Payne
With smaller Galleries being squeezed out of the market more and more, it makes sense to look towards ad hoc spaces. Inventive curators are turning away from the traditional White Cube and exploring the DIY and the domestic aesthetic. Two spaces in the tiny coastal town of Margate are opening up a wider dialogue with international artists and also raising questions as to where their work should be seen.
7 February 2020
Photographing The Colony Room Club – Clancy Gebler Davies
It wouldn’t be possible to take these pictures now – not least because the fabled Dean Street member’s Club (the Colony Room Club) is now someone’s living room
29 January 2020
International Art Fair Guide 2020 – Artlyst’s Global Companion
Welcome to the Artlyst printable pull-out International Art Fair Guide 2020. This is our curated choice of the events not to miss in the Contemporary Art calendar.
4 January 2020
Victor Willing: Two New UK Exhibitions Celebrate His Life And Career
Two new exhibitions of work by the highly regarded painter Victor Willing (1928-1988) are currently on display at Hastings Contemporary and the Turps Gallery in S.E. London. The retrospective in Hastings is the first significant show of his work since his untimely death from multiple sclerosis in 1988.
12 November 2019
MICAS Launches International Art Weekend In Valletta Malta
Visiting Valletta Malta is an intoxicating experience for adventurous travellers to the island. It is located just south of Sicily (136 miles) and around 700 miles off the coast of Libya. The weather in mid-October is a consistent 25c a welcoming climate to enjoy art and cultural sites, all in abundance.
19 October 2019
My Frieze Week 2019 – Zoltan Alexander
From Botticelli to Tillmans. 160 of the world’s leading galleries at Frieze, 130 at Frieze Masters, over 1000 international artists. No sign of the Brexit-uncertainty and escalating political instability. No sign that Britain is in the midst of an economic and political crisis. Dealers did good business.
10 October 2019
Tom of Finland: Drawing Beautiful Men Proud To Love Each Other – Rebecca Larkin
The exhibition Let’s Go Camping with Tom of Finland at Cross Lane Projects celebrates the work and influence of the iconic queer artist and comics creator ahead of the 100th anniversary of his birth.
10 October 2019
Weaver Beaver: Frieze London 2019 – My 10 – Paul Carter Robinson
Frieze London is in full throttle with day two of the previews underway at the time of writing. I spent the first day walking around with curator Lee Cavaliere and artist-writer Michael Petry. Each year there is an outstanding trend which clearly manifests and this year it is weaving. Here are my top ten picks from the Fair, in no order.
3 October 2019
Banksy Opens Croydon Pop Up Shop
A shop by the Street Artist Banksy has appeared overnight at an empty retail premises in Croydon.
1 October 2019
London Frieze Week Pull Out Guide 2019 – Artlyst
Welcome to this year’s Artlyst Frieze Week 2019 printable pull-out Guide. This is our curated choice of the events not to miss during the busiest week in the London Contemporary Art calendar.
25 September 2019
Bahrain Pavilion Shines At The 2019 La Biennale Paris
Le Biennial de Paris is an unusual anomaly of a fair. For one thing, it isn’t actually a biennial as it takes place every year, not every other.
17 September 2019
Summer Art Chronicles: Arles, Puglia and Milan – Virginie Puertolas-Syn
I love summer not only because of the weather but although because it is a great time to venture to new territories to discover and to encounter new talents, new ideas.
11 September 2019
Passaggiatina 2019: Mefiti’s Year – Jude Cowan Montague
For three years, artists Chris Simpson and Jude Cowan Montague have been curating a two-week residency during the second two… Read More
7 September 2019
What a Small Museum Can Do That a Big One Can’t Three Exhibits ICA Philadelphia – Isa Freeling
Visiting The Institute of Contemporary Art at the University of Pennsylvania reminded me of how important and sometimes more impactful smaller museums are.
4 August 2019
Art, Faith, Church Patronage and Modernity – Rev Jonathan Evens
Two recent publications explore the place that religious Art occupied in 20th century Britain. Paul Liss writes in ‘Art, Faith… Read More
25 July 2019
Flying Into Art Basel 2019 – Paul Carey-Kent Reports
Paul Carey- Kent is in Basel for the worlds weightiest art fair Here are his top picks from the week the art world focused on its own form of sustainability.
15 June 2019
RA Summer Exhibition Returns To Form Under Jock McFadyen
This year the RA Summer Exhibition has returned to form with a talented lineup of artists chosen by an inexhaustible group of jurors. The 251st edition received over 16,000 entries. Around 1200 works, in a range of media, goes on display, next week. The majority of these artworks are offered for sale, allowing visitors to purchase original work by upcoming and established artists.
3 June 2019
John Bellany Alan Davie Spiritual Joy and Magic – Revd Jonathan Evens
In 1983 John Bellany painted a double portrait depicting himself alongside Alan Davie. These two influential artists are Scotland’s best-known post-war artists. Cradle of Magic at Newport Street Gallery sets the work of each alongside the other and begins with a portrait of Davie by Bellany which hangs beside a self-portrait of Bellany from the time of his hospitalisation at Addenbrooke’s Hospital.
2 June 2019
PhotoLondon First Timers – Zoltan Alexander
The much acclaimed 5th edition of PhotoLondon at Somerset House closed just a few days ago with record sales and… Read More
30 May 2019
Guggenheim Bilbao Dazzles With Summer Blockbuster Exhibitions
Last week I travelled South to the Guggenheim Bilbao for perhaps the strongest Summer line-up of art exhibitions, anywhere on the planet.
29 May 2019
Whitney Biennial 2019 Open-Ended and Hopeful – Ilka Scobie
The Whitney Biennial 2019 is America’s oldest survey of contemporary art. Now in its 79th edition, this year’s event opened as the stock market began to sink.
20 May 2019
ARCOlisboa Lisbon: F*** Art! Lets Dance! – Ben Austin Diary
FUCK ART! LET’S DANCE! Got your attention with a bit of comic vulgarity? Good. Not an easy thing to do, what with so many people to email/message and cool/funny/political/cat things (anyone?) to post, then in turn to like/heart.
20 May 2019
Photo London 2019 The Capitals Most Coherent Photography Fair – Kerim Aytac
This week Photo London returns for its fifth edition, and it’s the strongest iteration yet. No longer just a fair, over the course of the last few years it has become a major cultural event spurring numerous satellite events around the city and has made the month of May
16 May 2019
Venice Biennale Collateral Exhibitions Provide Calm and Quality
It was a relief to step away from the hustle and bustle of the Giardini and Arsenale, the main venues for the 58th Venice Biennale, to visit exhibitions elsewhere.
14 May 2019
Venice Biennale 58: From Climate Change To Automatonics – Paul Carter Robinson
Over the years, the Giardini and the Arsenale, the two official locations for the Venice Biennale have become interchangeable in terms of weightiness. Some years the Arsenale outshines the Giardini and in others, the grandeur of 20th-century pavilions in the Giardini wins hands down. This year it is certainly the year for the Arsenale and beyond.
13 May 2019
Stanley Kubrick Framing Perfection – Design Museum – Zoltan Alexander
Kubrick’s renaissance is undoubtedly in full swing. The Design Museum opened last week one of the most compelling exhibitions of the year “Stanley Kubrick: The Exhibition”.
2 May 2019