Art Basel Cancels 2020 Flagship Fair

Art Basel Cancels 2020 Flagship Fair

Art Basel has announced that after an extensive analysis of the current global situation, due to the Coronavirus pandemic they will not be presenting their flagship Basel show this year. The fair was scheduled to take place at Messe Basel from September 17 to...
Black Art Matters – Paul Carter Robinson

Black Art Matters – Paul Carter Robinson

This is long overdue, but under the worrying circumstances that have dominated the news in the past week, I feel it is essential to voice an opinion representing Artlyst, otherwise, we are complacent and irrelevant. This opinion piece is not meant to grandstand or...
Museum Futures Post Lockdown – Edward Lucie-Smith

Museum Futures Post Lockdown – Edward Lucie-Smith

The Blessed Waldy – yes, it was he – appeared not once but twice in the Sunday Times last weekend. One-piece, in the Culture section, about a virtual exhibition of kimonos at the V&A Museum, did not detain me long. What it demonstrated was the...
Christo A Personal Recollection By Marina Vaizey

Christo A Personal Recollection By Marina Vaizey

Over four decades ago I had one of the most exciting experiences of my life – encountering perhaps the most original and innovative artists of the past sixty years, Christo, who died on Sunday 31 May, and his wife Jeanne-Claude, who was revealed some years later in...
Christo Artist Who Wrapped The Reichstag Dies Age 84

Christo Artist Who Wrapped The Reichstag Dies Age 84

The sad news that the larger than life artist Christo passed away aged 84 was announced on his website on 31 May. Christo Vladimirov Javacheff and Jeanne-Claude Denat de Guillebon were a married couple who created environmental works of art and were intertwined...
London’s Hayward Gallery Set To Reopen 1st August

London’s Hayward Gallery Set To Reopen 1st August

Update: the Hayward Gallery will now reopen on the 1st August. Originally the Southbank Centre including the Hayward Gallery announced that they may close the gallery until April 2021. This was the result of the economic impact of COVID-19. The complex had drained...