Damien Hirst: Verity Switches On The Ilfracombe Christmas Lights
Hundreds of people gathered last night at Ilfrcombe harbour, to witness the official switch on of the newly-installed spot lights… Read More
25 November 2012
Cultural Olympiad
Cultural Olympiad Celebrates Success With 20 Million Visitors
The London 2012 Festival have released audience figures to the end of August 2012. Figures for the remaining period of… Read More
14 September 2012
London Bus Stops Turned Art Galleries For Olympic Games
London Bus Stops Turned Art Galleries For Olympic Games
3 August 2012
London Art Events Not To Miss During The Cultural Olympiad
ArtLyst has composed a guide to the very best art exhibitions and events designed as part of the 2012 Cultural… Read More
31 July 2012
Frieze Projects East Opens For Cultural Olympiad
Frieze Projects East has opened a series of new public art projects commissioned by the London 2012 Festival and CREATE…. Read More
24 July 2012
Cultural Olympiad Launches With First Rate Visual Art Lineup
The London 2012 Festival opens with a bang and a bounce as Turner Prize winning artist Jeremy Deller exhibits his… Read More
19 June 2012
Myriad Of Projects Outlined For 2012 Cultural Olympiad
This morning, (15 May) the Museum of London hosted the Press Launch to announce the myriad of projects happening this… Read More
15 May 2012
Why Modern Art Is Not Shocking Enough
Our newest columnist Rosy Wiseman asks what Contemporary Art could learn from Maurice Sendak… A crop of careful art has… Read More
10 May 2012
Visual Art Rivals Music For Supremacy In London 2012 Festival Programme
Thomas Keane takes a look at the visual art highlights announced today for the London 2012 Festival – the summer… Read More
26 April 2012
Tate Modern Opens New Live Gallery In July
As part of the London 2012 Festival and the culmination of the Cultural Olympiad, Tate Modern continues to push the… Read More
23 April 2012
Contentious Olafur Eliasson Olympics Proposal Rejected
Despite the huge success of his Tate Turbine Hall Weather Project, Olympics organisers have rejected an application by Scandinavian… Read More
11 April 2012
Olympics Photography Exhibition Celebrating Multicultural London
The Photographers’ Gallery to launch major outdoor photography exhibition as part of the London 2012 Festival The World in London is… Read More
3 April 2012
Frieze Given Olympics Cash For Public Art
Olympics commissions Frieze – purveyor of one of the world’s most important art fairs – to fill London with public… Read More
23 February 2012
Neville Gabie Gives Seurat Bathers Olympic Makeover
Neville Gabie re-creates Seurat’s Bathers At Asnières on banks of the Olympic Park The Olympic Park’s artist in residence, Neville… Read More
26 January 2012
Olympic Project Brings Art To Bus Stops
Bus Tops commissions nine artists to display digital work on the top of bus stops Bus stops are to become… Read More
11 January 2012
Cultural Olympiad Young Artists World Event
Applications from music, dance, theatre and spoken word to film, visual art and fashion and from artists aged between 18… Read More
17 August 2011