London Gallery Weekend 2024 Recommendations – Artlyst Guide
Prepare for a whirlwind art extravaganza as London Gallery Weekend rolls into town! This year’s edition boasts 130 participating galleries
29 May 2024
Contemporary Art
Foreigners Everywhere: My Mad Dash At The 60th Biennale di Venezia – Clayton Calvert
Collectors and art world cognoscenti clamoured for first access to Stranieri Ovunque (Foreigners Everywhere) at the 60th edition of the Biennale di Venezia
6 May 2024
Frieze London And Frieze Masters 2023 The Best And Some Of The Worst – Sue Hubbard
Frieze London arrived in Regent’s Park two decades ago. In the ‘noughties’, it hit the London art scene running, bringing a new razzmatazz to the selling of art.
13 October 2023
Angela Flowers Leading British Art Gallerist Dies Aged 90
Angela Flowers, a leading British art gallerist and businesswoman developing contemporary art in the United Kingdom has died.
12 August 2023
Ten Things To Shout About At Art Brussels 2023 – Paul Carter Robinson
One of the most rewarding things I get to do as an art journalist is to run around and choose my favourite works on offer.
22 April 2023
Spotlight On Hong Kong Art Week 2023 – Artlyst
Hong Kong Art Week/Month has heralded the return of visual culture to the Asia-Pacific market hub.
26 March 2023
Haroon Mirza: Interview of the Month, March 2023 – Paul Carey-Kent
Haroon Mirza’s exhibition of new work consists of installations that play ingeniously between sound, light and electric current
9 March 2023
British Modern And Contemporary Art Sales Steady At London Art Fair
Now in its 35th year, London Art Fair continues to play a pivotal role in bringing British Modern and Contemporary Art to market.
26 January 2023
Art Vaudeville: Frieze London and Frieze Masters – Nico Kos Earle
Sometimes I wonder if the art fair is a symptom of the internet and our contemporaneous assumption that everything is instantly available at the click of a button
18 October 2022
Glimpses Of Art Announce Inaugural London Exhibition
Glimpses of Art, a brand new hybrid art agency, has announced its inaugural exhibition in London titled ‘Glimpses – We Are What We See.’
1 September 2022
Heavenly Visions: Churches As Spaces For Contemporary Art – Revd Jonathan Evens
From early on in their history, churches have regularly been spaces in which art was displayed and valued. That continued in the modern period…
14 August 2022
In Around Oxford Art Galleries – March 2022 – Nico Kos Earle
Through the window of Meakin + Parsons Gallery opposite, sunbeams illuminated a quad of brightly coloured works on paper.
16 March 2022
NYC Gallery Scene Round-Up February 2022 – Ilka Scobie
Omicron’s on the decline, the snow is grey and slushy, and the city unveils eclectic and exciting art.
3 February 2022
London Art Fair Announces Full Scale April Event At Business Design Centre Islington
After a year’s hiatus, we are all excited at the prospect of the UK’s first major art event of 2022. The London Art Fair (LAF)connects collectors from UK-based and international galleries
4 January 2022
And On An Art Note: End Of Year Diary 2021 – Revd Jonathan Evens
I was taken back to the roots of my love for the visual arts on a visit to galleries around Cork Street just before Christmas.
27 December 2021
Tate Modern To Mount Lubaina Himid’s Largest Solo Exhibition
Lubaina Himid has created powerful and poetic work for over four decades. It has made her an increasingly influential figure in contemporary art
27 October 2021
DESERT X 2021 Postponed – National Gallery’s Top 20 Online Paintings – Studio Voltaire Set Autumn Reopen Date
DESERT X 2021 Postponed – National Gallery’s Top 20 Online Paintings – Studio Voltaire Set Autumn Reopen Date
6 February 2021
Lavish Sir Anish Kapoor Exhibition Set To Open At Houghton Hall Norfolk
Important works by the British sculptor Sir Anish Kapoor will go on show across the grounds and historic interiors of Houghton Hall in Norfolk for the exhibition Anish Kapoor at Houghton Hall (12 July – 1 November 2020).
25 June 2020
Art And Corona What happens Afterwards – Edward Lucie-Smith
As the contemporary art world goes dark, and as galleries – official spaces and commercial ones – slam shut their doors, one inevitably starts to wonder what the art world will be like once all this is over—the British art world, and also the global one.
22 March 2020
What I Don’t Like About The Contemporary Art Scene – Edward Lucie-Smith
A New Year, a new decade – I’ve been thinking about all the things I currently don’t like about the contemporary art scene here in Britain. Most of all, I don’t like its pervasive self-righteousness, the ever-increasing assumption that ‘official art’ has all the answers.
1 January 2020
Second Riga International Biennial of Contemporary Art – Artists Announced
The second Riga International Biennial of Contemporary Art (RIBOCA) has been announced. This major new biennial in Latvia lists participants for the event entitled ‘and suddenly it all blossoms’.
11 December 2019
London Art Fair: First UP For The 2020 Art Season
London Art Fair is the UK’s oldest established Contemporary art fair. It returns from 22-26 January 2020, bringing museum-quality modern and contemporary art to the capital.
2 December 2019
Bahrain Launches Newest Dedicated Art Space
The Art Space is an art gallery, creative hub and cafe rooted in the Bahrain Bay Wharf, a new location for art and luxury overlooking landmarks such as the Four Seasons Hotel, Bahrain Financial Harbour and the World Trade Center.
4 November 2019
FIAC Paris 46th Edition A Grand Palais Happening – What’s On
As everyone must know by now, FIAC one of Europe’s most important fairs opened for the VIP preview today at the Grand Palais in Paris.
16 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
FairforSaatchi: New Art Fair Announced For June’s Masterpiece Corridor
A brand new fair focusing on Contemporary and Modern art has been announced for London during the Masterpiece/Olympia corridor.
17 June 2019
Waterloo Festival Launches At St. John’s Waterloo – Revd Jonathan Evens
Churches hosting exhibitions and artists is a fantastic development says Almuth Tebbenhoff, co-curator of The London Group’s outdoor exhibition ‘Coming Good: Come Hell or High Water’ for The Waterloo Festival.
9 June 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
Gallery Weekend Berlin 2019 A Quick Guide
Gallery Weekend Berlin is a one-stop city-break for contemporary art in Germany.
25 April 2019
Hong Kong: Art Basel to Chungking Mansion – Virginie Puertolas-Syn
There is no doubt Hong Kong is becoming one of the leading destinations for art lovers, collectors, curators and art professionals in general.
10 April 2019
Frieze LA Week Art, Mud And Rain – Paul Carter Robinson
Day One Frieze LA: Rain! Some things are just out of our control. This was torrential rain sheets of water like you see in the tropics.
16 February 2019
Has Frieze Become More About Instagram and Less About Art?
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