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Damien Hirst Reveals His Community Spirit By Opening New Public Gallery

Damien Hirst Reveals His Community Spirit By Opening New Public Gallery

by News Desk | Oct 9, 2015 | Features

Imagine, if you will, the following scene (sepia tint optional): a young student Damien Hirst gazing wide eyed at John Hoyland’s brilliantly colourful and zingy Rothko-like abstracts at Leeds Art Gallery. One day, he thinks, I will be as great a painter as he. Fast...

Jeff Koons: Anti-Consumerist Art Or Its Own Subject Matter?

by News Desk | Oct 6, 2015 | Features

In an interview with Austrian daily Der Standard, the most expensive living American artist spoke about his relationship to the art market. Jeff Koons did so after unveiling of his Balloon Venus (Orange) (2008-12) statue at the city’s Natural History museum. In...
Identity Crisis : Does The Turner Prize Justify Its Own Existence

Identity Crisis : Does The Turner Prize Justify Its Own Existence

by News Desk | Oct 2, 2015 | Features

With each year that passes the Turner Prize battles doggedly to justify its own existence. It appears to be suffering some kind of identity crisis stemming from the decreasing relevance its entrants have on capturing the actual zeitgeist of contemporary art. Art can...
Artlyst Podcast: Tim Marlow And Adrian Locke Discuss Ai Weiwei At The RA

Artlyst Podcast: Tim Marlow And Adrian Locke Discuss Ai Weiwei At The RA

by News Desk | Oct 2, 2015 | Features

Artlyst recently attended the press view of the Royal Academy of Arts’ landmark exhibition of the Honorary Royal Academician, Ai Weiwei. Where the chief curators of this outstanding show, Tim Marlow, and Adrian Locke were kind enough to give Artlyst – and...

How Artbytch Met Brian Sewell: Almost A Pastiche Of Himself

by News Desk | Sep 22, 2015 | Features

I met Brian Sewell only once while a student at the Courtauld Institute. As a fellow alumnus, he was attending a special event for alumni aged eighty or more. Stitching on a pleasant smile and wishing him an excellent visit, he quipped in response that the event was...
Ai Weiwei And Anish Kapoor: Far More Effective Than Guernica

Ai Weiwei And Anish Kapoor: Far More Effective Than Guernica

by News Desk | Sep 18, 2015 | Features

What I admire about Thursday’s public march led by Anish Kapoor and Ai Weiwei eight miles across London is its resourcefulness and simplicity in its show of solidarity for the refugee crisis. Art in its usual form of protest is traditionally highly symbolic...
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