Michael Pendry New Installation Lights Up St Martin In The Fields
Michael Pendry light installations were first presented to a larger audience in 2005 for the ‘Lange Nacht der Museen’ (Long… Read More
24 June 2017
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Art Basel 48 A Curated Selection Of Twelve By Virginie Puertolas-Syn
Curator and Gallerist Virginie Puertolas-Syn chooses twelve of the best stands at Art Basel 2017. Art Basel is a curated selection of 291 first-rate galleries exhibiting at the fair’s 48th edition in Basel.
18 June 2017
London Gallerist Zavier Ellis Chooses Six Works At VOLTA 13
London gallerist Zavier Ellis of Charlie Smith chooses six of the best works appearing at VOLTA, Basel’s art fair for new international art.
17 June 2017
Kiev In Focus A Contemporary Art Profile – Edward Lucie Smith
A trip to Kiev – no, call it ‘Kviv’, which is the correct form in the Ukrainian language – revealed a bustling, energetic contemporary art world, but little in the way of public collections.
12 June 2017
RA Summer Exhibition 2017 Twelve Highlights by Sara Faith
Artlyst’s highlights of the Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition 2017.
12 June 2017
Art Basel Plus Satellite Fair Guide 2017 What To See
Art Basel 2017 is a curated selection of 291 first-rate galleries exhibiting at the fair’s 48th edition in Basel. The gallery list for the Swiss event, taking place from June 15 to June 18, 2017, is a corker.
7 June 2017
Jamaican Art – Intuitive Outsiders But With That Old Time Religion
Jamaican art has never been as experimental as that to be found in – say – Cuba, its neighboring island in the Greater Antilles. Cuban art reached out to the Modernist Movement almost as soon as it began. And Cuba has always had links to what was going on in the mainland nations of Latin America. Art in Jamaica, linked to the UK, remained consistently more conservative.
6 June 2017
Antarctic Biennale Breaking Barriers At the 57th Venice Biennale
The Antarctic Biennale is a bespoke cultural event, different from any other. It is a creative journey, expanding the parameters of what art can be today.
5 June 2017
Sgt Pepper Reimagined At 50 Liverpool Creates A Festival To Remember
Sgt Pepper At 50 is the 50th anniversary of the original album by The Beatles and through this festival has become a newly ‘re-imagined album’ of artworks, theater, music and dance pieces.
3 June 2017
Biennale di Venezia 57 The Nico Kos Earle Diary
The 57th Biennale di Venezia – was curated by the recently appointed director of the Centre Pompidou, Paris, Christine Macel. Optimistically titled VIVA ARTE VIVA, this Olympian presentation of art proposes “an alternative to individualism and indifference.
29 May 2017
Central St Martins Colourful And Diverse Degree Shows 2017
Central St Martins BA and MA degree shows kicked off this weekend with a number of multidisciplinary exhibitions stretching across the Kings Cross campus.
29 May 2017
Mark Dean Projects Stations of the Cross Videos On Henry Moore Altar
Over the Easter period, St Stephen Walbrook, was involved in Stations 2017, a two-part artwork based on the Stations of the Cross and the Stations of the Resurrection.
28 May 2017
Richard Deacon: Accidents Will Happen – Major New Exhibition Middelheim Museum Antwerp
Sometimes the best art is born out of a mistake. It is this type of accidental trial and error that keeps the Turner Prize winning artist Richard Deacon on his toes, as a practitioner of fresh ideas and innovations.
25 May 2017
Artist Rupert Shrive Interviewed By Darren Coffield – Artist To Artist Series
Rupert Shrive has a new exhibition that opened last week at London’s Serena Morton’s gallery, entitled ‘Mysterious Arrangement’.
21 May 2017
London Degree Shows 2017 Guide – All Schools Should Be Art Schools
One of the best ways to keep your finger on the pulse of emerging art trends in London is to attend some of the vital fine art degree shows which open to the public starting this month.
18 May 2017
Chris Levine Immersive Light And Photography – Interview By Paul Carter Robinson
In this exclusive interview artist Chris Levine discusses his work as immersive and by extension transformative, often focused on a collective experience that enhances awareness of the present moment and our connectedness to one another.
16 May 2017
Frieze New York 2017 Lizanne Merrill Chooses Her Top Six Booths
Whether you reach the luxurious tent that is Frieze by waterway or highway, the art fair’s weekend home on Randall’s Island is as accessible as the art itself.
7 May 2017
UAL Explores Treasures of Language Art and Culture At British Museum
As a leading provider of creative education, University of the Arts London has thought carefully about its modern language courses and designed a programme that explores the fascinating relationships between language, art and culture.
6 May 2017
What The UK And Ireland Are Showing At The 2017 Venice Biennale
Artlyst is off to Venice for a week of immersive art overkill. There is so much to see and do to the… Read More
5 May 2017
Samuel Palmer Etchings Explored At The London Original Print Fair
Palmer and Me, a documentary charting the responses of 17 contemporary artists to the etchings of Samuel Palmer is the latest in an ongoing collaboration between renowned film-maker Mike Southon and Eames Fine Art.
3 May 2017
Rachel Megawhat Interviewed By Darren Coffield – Artist To Artist Series
The British photographer Rachel Megawhat is well known for her controversial subject matter photographing religious extremists, hate preachers and even shadowing the former leader of UKIP, Nigel Farage, during the recent Brexit elections.
19 April 2017
Tate Britain Comes Out – Queer British Art 1861–1967 By Simon Tarrant
Imagine in 1988 the public furore if the Tate had hosted an exhibition of queer British art – marking the 21st anniversary of the 1967 Sexual Offences Act, which decriminalised private homosexual acts between men over 21 in England and Wales.
17 April 2017
PARIS IS MAD ABOUT AFRICAN ART By Christian Sulger-Buel
The weekend of the 1st-2nd April revolved around a major Paris fair, ART PARIS. The whole artistic community in France, Europe and Africa indulged its passion for Contemporary African Art and as a result fell in love with Africa.
10 April 2017
Michael Petry Interviews Guy Reid In Our Latest Artist To Artist Exclusive
Michael Petry talks to Guy Reid in our latest interview in the Artist to Artist series. Reid is currently showing at MOCA London. The exhibition runs until 29th April.
10 April 2017
Stations of the Cross Video Works Exhibited At St Stephen Walbrook
St Stephen Walbrook, an important church in the City of London designed by Christopher Wren in 1672, accommodates the first classical dome… Read More
9 April 2017
Art Basel Hong Kong 2017 A Journey By Virginie Puertolas-Syn
There is such a contrast between Maastricht and Hong Kong. Two different cities, continents, cultures and art fairs.It is this contrast that I embrace and cherish travelling from one fair to the other just a few days apart.
9 April 2017
TEFAF 2017 The Journey Virginie Puertolas-Syn Picks Six Of The Best
Coming to TEFAF 2017 is a journey, but it is worth it. The fair is a feast for the art lovers eyes.
2 April 2017
Geraldine Swayne: People On The Verge Of Action – Interview By Darren Coffield
In our latest in the series of Artist To Artist Darren Coffield interviews the portrait artist Geraldine Swayne who has a new show at London’s Fine Art Society.
30 March 2017
Marc Quinn Unveils His Most Intimate Exhibition At Sir John Soane’s Museum
The new Marc Quinn exhibition at the Sir John Soane’s Museum is a rare treat. It merges contemporary art with one of the finest house museum settings in the world.
28 March 2017
10 Exhibitions To See Outside of London This Easter 2017
The clocks have gone forward heralding British Summer Time and the Easter holidays are approaching. So if you are thinking of leaving London for a short break, here is a select list of 10 exhibitions to see around Britain.
27 March 2017
Artist To Artist: Hedley Roberts Interviewed By Darren Coffield – Artlyst Exclusive
In this new series of interviews between artists, Hedley Roberts is interviewed by Darren Coffield. Hedley currently has a new exhibition “Other Portraits” NEW ART PROJECTS London Thu 09 Mar 2017 – Sat 29 Apr 2017
20 March 2017
Refugee Artists Learning from The Lives Of Others – Revd Jonathan Evens
The Lives of Others is two exhibitions of work by German refugee artists at Ben Uri Gallery and Museum from 29 March – 18 June 2017, while Chaim Stephenson: Between Myth and Reality at St Martin-in-the-Fields (to Wednesday 10 May) showcases work by an artist with a lifelong concern for people driven from their homes.
19 March 2017