31 January 2018
Singapore Art Week: The Last Word – Paul Carter Robinson
Singapore is a vibrant hub at the best of times, but it doubles up as a key global centre for contemporary art, as the world focuses on Singapore Art Week.
19 January 2018
London Art Fair 2018 Artlyst Chooses Six Of The Best
Artlyst chooses six of the best from the 2018 London Art Fair. The London Art Fair is the capital’s longest running Contemporary and Modern art fair. Now in its 30th year, the event presents leading British and international galleries alongside specially curated spaces, Art Projects and Photo50.
21 October 2017
Juan Muñoz: Masterwork Double Bind Returns At PLANTA After Sixteen Years
The monumental installation Double Bind by the late Spanish artist Juan Muñoz was first seen in spectacular form in 2001
21 August 2017
Exhibition Autumn Preview 2017: An Artlyst Guide On What To See In London
The Artlyst exhibition guide to what’s on in London this Autumn.
29 June 2017
I love Christine Macel’s Venice Biennale By Virginie Puertolas-Syn
Much has been said about the Biennale. It is daring indeed from Christine Macel, the French curator from Pompidou appointed the curator of the Venice Biennale 2017, to extract herself from the actual political and social turmoil the world is facing.
18 June 2017
Art Basel 48 A Curated Selection Of Twelve By Virginie Puertolas-Syn
Curator and Gallerist Virginie Puertolas-Syn chooses twelve of the best stands at Art Basel 2017. Art Basel is a curated selection of 291 first-rate galleries exhibiting at the fair’s 48th edition in Basel.
17 June 2017
London Gallerist Zavier Ellis Chooses Six Works At VOLTA 13
London gallerist Zavier Ellis of Charlie Smith chooses six of the best works appearing at VOLTA, Basel’s art fair for new international art.
7 February 2017
Hull UK City of Culture Off To A Strong Start
Hull’s year as UK City of Culture is already off to a strong start, with January seeing the reopening of the Ferens Art Gallery and the launch of the new Humber Street Gallery with its first exhibition: COUM Transmissions. Since winning the title in 2013, the city has enjoyed a £1 billion boost in investment and unprecedented visitor numbers.
6 February 2017
David Hockney Unveils His First British Retrospective Exhibition At Tate Britain
David Hockney unveils his first retrospective at Tate Britain opening to the public 9th February.
2 February 2017
American Abstract Expressionism Triumphs At The Guggenheim Bilbao
It is rare that I feel an exhibition is important enough to review twice on Artlyst but in the case of the Abstract Expressionist exhibition that was unveiled at the Royal Academy, earlier this year.
3 January 2017
360 Degree Tour of the Abstract Expressionism at Royal Academy
In case you missed the Royal Academy of Arts Autumn blockbuster exhibition Abstract Expressionism or you want to re-live it, here is a 360 degree tour of the show.
26 December 2016
Artists Rebranding The Christmas Tree Tradition By Revd Jonathan Evens
London has three of the most innovative artist-designed Christmas Trees on display this year.
19 December 2016
A Long Way From Pinochet: Homoerotic Art In Santiago’s National Museum
I’m just back from a week in Santiago, the capital of Chile. The third time I’ve been there, but the first two were just before Pinochet stepped down as President in 1990, and just after – that’s quite a while ago now.
6 December 2016
Satellite, Design Miami and Basel Miami Day Five Miami Art Week 2016
Now in its second year, SATELLITE is a rough and ready newcomer, to Miami Art Week. It is the antithesis of the main Basel fair, exhibiting emerging art in its basic form, i.e. no frames or much wall art.
6 December 2016
Art Miami and Context Exhausting Day Four Miami Art Week
It wasn’t easy to get up this morning after the Moschino party at the Delano but after three large coffees and the prospect of visiting Art Miami and Context I set out to the Miami Beach Convention Centre to pick up the free shuttle bus to the Design District and Wynwoods area of Miami. It […]
6 December 2016
Art Basel Explored – Artlyst Survives Day Two of Miami Art Week
Art Basel Miami is the world’s largest and perhaps the most important art event in the world. It opened yesterday and takes place at the Miami Beach Convention Centre, all this week
6 December 2016
Miami Art Week Day One Untitled and Sun Xun Pavilion Launch
Art week in Miami 2016 got underway full throttle with the opening of Untitled, Art Miami/Context, Scope and a number of private parties to cause a liver transplant. We attended Untitled which is perhaps the best of the satellite offerings.
18 November 2016
London gets state of the art Design Museum
The Design Museum unveiled its new building to the press yesterday ahead of its public opening on 24 November 2016. Housed in a landmark grade II listed modernist building from the 1960s on Kensington High Street, formerly the home of the Commonwealth Institute, the building has been sensitively retuned by John Pawson, the culmination of a five-year construction process costing £83m.
9 October 2016
Paul Carey Kent Picks His Frieze Favourites For The 2016 Fair
An average year seems the general verdict on Frieze. Everyone picks up on the Focus section of young gallery projects, so I’ve concentrated on the main fair with works from some of the best stands. Most worthwhile art is transformative in some way, but many of my favourite works at this year’s Frieze (to Sunday 9 […]
6 October 2016
Frieze And Frieze Masters Artlyst Chooses Their Top 20 Artworks 2016
Visitors to London during Frieze week will no doubt be in for art over-kill this year, with thousands of artworks, on hundreds of stands, housed in two ginormous plastic tents, in opposite parts of Regents Park London. Each year Artlyst runs around like a headless chicken in order to choose their favourite pieces. Here are the offerings in no specific […]
18 September 2016
Berlin Art Week’s Distinctive Feel September 2016 By Ben Austin
Ok, so it isn’t Basel, or even Frieze for that matter, but ABC provides something a bit different from the mega fairs, on a smaller scale and dedicated solo presentation, the vast majority of the galleries are German and they all have that distinctive feel, of being clinical and exact in presentation and execution, perhaps […]