National Portrait Gallery To Reopen With Sir Paul McCartney Photo Exhibition
Sir Paul’s private and personal photos will be displayed for the first time when the National Portrait Gallery reopens to visitors
30 March 2023
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Michael Snow Canadian Sculptor And Experimental Filmmaker Dies Aged 94
Michael Snow Canadian artist who worked in various media, including film, installation, sculpture, photography, and music, has died aged 94
6 January 2023
Rencontres Photographiques d’Arles Returns – Virginie Puertolas-Syn
I was thrilled to return to Arles in Provence, France, for Les Rencontres Photographiques after a 3-year break due to the pandemic.
12 September 2022
Carolee Schneemann: Feminism Performance Body Politics And Painting – Barbican
Carolee Schneemann: Body Politics is the first survey in the UK of the work of American artist Carolee Schneemann (1939-2019) and the first major exhibition since she died in 2019.
7 September 2022
Kohei Yoshiyuki Photographer Who Explored Voyeurism And Surveillance Dies Age 76
Kohei Yoshiyuki (Japan, b. 1946-2022) ignited furious debate about photography’s relationship with voyeurism and surveillance.
2 February 2022
Zanele Muholi Explores A Black Queer And Trans South Africa – Sue Hubbard
“I am re-writing a Black Queer and Trans visual history of South Africa for the world to know of our existence, resistance and persistence” -Zanele Muholi
1 November 2020
Phenomenal Women: Portraits of UK Black Female Professors
A unique free outdoor exhibition celebrating Black British academics.
Gordon Parks: Part Two
Alison Jacques Gallery presents the second of two exhibitions of the work of American photographer Gordon Parks (1912-2006) in collaboration with The Gordon Parks Foundation.
Tuesday - Saturday: 11 am - 5 pm
Grenfell Victim Khadija Saye Featured In New Public Art Project
A new public art project, Breath is Invisible (7 July – 9 October 2020), will be launched by the MP David Lammy in Notting Hill on Tuesday 7 July with an installation of works by Khadija Saye, the young Gambian-British artist who tragically lost her life in the Grenfell Tower fire in 2017, aged just 24.
6 July 2020
Wim Wenders An Exclusive Artlyst Interview
Renowned as one of the most important film directors of our time, Wim Wenders (b.1945, Dusseldorf) developed, in parallel, an extensive photographic oeuvre. It is partly to escape the frenetic environment of the film industry that he first turned to photography.
25 June 2020
Photo Basel Virtual Edition
Photo Basel launches its very first virtual edition. 38 selected galleries show you more than 850 artworks – entirely virtual in their virtual viewing rooms
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Terry O’Neill The Photographer Who Defined A Generation Remembered – Chalkie Davies
The world-renowned photographer Terry O’Neill has passed away following a long battle with prostate cancer; He was 81 years old.
17 November 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
The Erotic Garden Of Shen Wei – Zoltan Alexander
Sensual bodies, erotic flowers, urban settings. That would give a somewhat accurate description of New York-based Chinese artist, Shen Wei’s work. His style is elusive, soothing and sensual.
18 May 2019
Peru In Focus: Strata Of A Landscape Opens At Casa De América
Coinciding with ARCOmadrid more than 100 works by over 30 contemporary Peruvian artists go on show for the most ambitious survey of Peruvian photography in Europe. Hailing from the collection of Jan Mulder
17 March 2019
David Bailey: The Sixties
Gagosian presents selected photographs by iconic portrait photographer David Bailey.
Tuesday–Saturday 10–6
Don McCullin
Tate Britain presents a comprehensive retrospective of the legendary British photographer Don McCullin
Monday to Sunday 10.00–18.00
Peter Fraser: Mathematics
Photographer Peter Fraser presents his most recent body of work Mathematics. Reflecting on the idea that time, space, and everything within it, can be described mathematically, Fraser brings together a series of photographs of seemingly disparate and unrelated objects and encounters – including still lives, landscapes and portraiture.
Tuesday to Sunday: 10.00am – 6.00pm Wednesdays: 10.00am – 9.00pm
Body Politics: James Ostrer Meets Paul Carter Robinson At Gazelli Art House
James Ostrer’s work often tests the limits of the body politics in the ever evolving analysis of the western body, sexuality, and society.
18 June 2018
Charles March Photography Palazzo Borghese Rome – Edward Lucie-Smith
I’m just back from the opening of Charles March photography show at Palazzo Borghese in Rome. His work, often on a very large scale, is well suited to the grandeur of Italian palace rooms.
1 June 2018
Under The Spell Of Villa Noailles – By Zoltan Alexander
Last week, thousands celebrated the 33rd International Festival of Fashion, Photography and Accessory Design in Hyères, in the South of France. Celebrities were pouring in and the media was overwhelmed with their images.
23 May 2018
Out Of The Frame – Photo London 2018 – Edward Lucie-Smith
Photo London 2018 is, as usual, an overwhelmingly large event.
16 May 2018
New Ramones Photography Book By Manager Danny Fields Published
Danny Fields became the manager of the pioneering Punk band The Ramones within fifteen minutes of seeing them on stage at CBGB.
22 April 2018
London’s Latest Must-See Photography Exhibitions
There are some thought-provoking and informative photography exhibitions on show in London at the moment. Ranging from the Barbican’s Another Kind of Life: Photography on the Margins which explores subjects on the edge of society to the four artists shortlisted for the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize 2018 at the Photographers’ gallery. Also just opened is the Victorian Giants: The Birth of Art Photography which shows together Oscar Rejlander (1813–75), Lewis Carroll (1832–98), Julia Margaret Cameron (1815–79) and Lady Clementina Hawarden (1822-65). Here is a selection of what’s on offer.
28 February 2018
Another Kind of Life: Photography on the Margins
Touching on themes of gender and sexuality, drugs and addiction, youth culture and minorities of all kinds, the show features the work of 20 photographers from the 1950s to the present day.
Sat–Wed: 10am–6pm Thu–Fri: 10am–10pm (last entry at 9pm)
Shape of Light 100 Years of Photography and Abstract Art
An exhibition looking at how photographers responded and contributed to the invention of abstract art
Sun-Thurs 10-6 Sat-Sun 10-10
New Private Fotografiska Photography Museum To Open In London’s White Chapel District
A new Photography Museum is to open in London’s East End near the White Chapel Gallery. Swedish photography curator Fotografiska’s first gallery outside Stockholm has agreed on a deal to move into property developer Derwent’s new buildings in the area. The building was used as one of the venues for Art Night which took place in July.
14 August 2017
A Handful of Dust
A Handful of Dust is a speculative history of the 20th century, featuring works by over 30 artists and photographers including Marcel Duchamp, Man Ray and Gerhard Richter.
Tues/Wed 11am–6pm Thursday 11am–9pm Friday/Sat/Sun 11am–6pm
David Bailey Talks Art, Photography And Sumatran Tigers – Artlyst Exclusive Interview
David Bailey is not at all what I expected. He’s imposing without being scary. He’s warm and down to earth. He speaks his mind, unafraid and not at all intimidated by the art establishment.
23 May 2017
Photo London 2017 Everything You Need To Know About The Fair
Photo London opens their third edition to the public this week. The fair was created to give London an international photography event befitting the city’s status as a global cultural capital. Founded in 2015, it has already established itself as a world-class photography Fair and as a catalyst for London’s dynamic photography community.
16 May 2017
You Are Looking at Something That Never Occurred
This group exhibition brings together artists who use photography as a tool with which to question the boundaries between past and present, the factual and fictional, making these notions feel less solid and more elusive.
Thursday – Sunday 12–6pm
Film Director Ken Russell’s 1950’s Teddy Girls And Boys Photos Exhibited
Fifty photographs of Teddy Girls and Boys, taken by groundbreaking film director, Ken Russell (1927-2011) go on display at Oxford’s North Wall Arts Centre in February.
7 December 2016