BP Portrait Awards: A Non Starter Slippery As An Oil Slick
The genre ‘portraiture’ is as open ended as the limitless expanses of landscape, history painting, still lifes, and abstract: yet… Read More
18 June 2015
The genre ‘portraiture’ is as open ended as the limitless expanses of landscape, history painting, still lifes, and abstract: yet… Read More
18 June 2015
One of the highlights this year’s Royal Academy Summer Show 2015 is Grayson Perry’s Julie and Rob tapestry, a large… Read More
15 June 2015
The Queens Birthday Honours list has again snubbed the Visual Arts. This is the second time since 2015 began, with… Read More
14 June 2015
CHARLIE SMITH London is presenting Dominic Shepherd in the artist’s latest exhibition ‘Bare Foot Prophet’, where Shepherd responds to the… Read More
12 June 2015
Morbid question one: if Damien Hirst fell into a vat of formaldehyde tomorrow, how would this affect the monetary value… Read More
12 June 2015
The Turner Prize nominated artist Roger Hiorns plans to bury a jumbo jet for a site-specific installation near Birmingham. Meanwhile the… Read More
11 June 2015
Spot the difference (sorry.. actually not sorry) between Yayoi Kusama and Agnes Martin, the darling of minimalism, whose retrospective at Tate Modern… Read More
5 June 2015
Modern Art Oxford is presenting ‘Origins of the Species (Part 2)’ an expansive exhibition of works by the acclaimed US… Read More
2 June 2015
British painter Justin Mortimer’s latest works are currently on display at Parafin Gallery, London. The artist’s painting reflects upon a… Read More
1 June 2015
Art in whatever form – painting, theatre, a child’s potato stamp – is the means by which we express externally… Read More
29 May 2015
A decent studio space is hard enough to acquire in London but now it seems it’s also hard to hold… Read More
29 May 2015
The mysterious chat noir litters (a pun already? Awesome) art history like so much shed fur; the terribly unsubtle feline companion… Read More
23 May 2015
Writing about the increasingly obsolete Turner Prize is the very definition of shooting fish in a barrel. Waldemar Januszczak has… Read More
14 May 2015
The Zabludowicz Collection is presenting a major exhibition featuring over 30 leading international artists, including eight Turner Prize winners, to… Read More
14 May 2015
Does art add anything to places of natural beauty? It seems to be popular at the moment for site specific… Read More
10 May 2015
The Zabludowicz Collection presents a major exhibition featuring over 30 leading international artists, including eight Turner Prize winners, to celebrate… Read More
9 May 2015
Does fine art still have political teeth? Remember, if you will, such historical examples as Delacroix’s ‘Victory Leading the People’,… Read More
8 May 2015
The Turin Shroud, one of Christianity’s most celebrated and hotly-debated relics, is back on display to the public for the… Read More
4 May 2015
After the recent arrest of Marco Evaristti in Iceland, when local landowners accused him of vandalism after the Danish-Chilean artist… Read More
3 May 2015
Given the range of names appearing in Artlyst’s forged artist’s countdown, you would be forgiven for thinking that the measure… Read More
1 May 2015
The Sainsbury Centre For Visual Arts presents ‘Francis Bacon and the Masters’, the latest exhibition bringing together over twenty-five major… Read More
1 May 2015
I remember viewing the exhibition ‘Francis Bacon: Working on Paper’, at Tate Britain in February 1999 with some scepticism. Bacon… Read More
24 April 2015
“Ars longa, vita brevis” should be uttered (and was, repeatedly, ad nauseum by my moustachioed diploma fine art tutor) with a heavy dose of irony.
24 April 2015
In 2013 Van Buuren Museum, Brussels, suffered a robbery in which several works of art were stolen from its collection;… Read More
22 April 2015
Francis Bacon and the Masters is the latest exhibition of works by the late-great British painter, bringing together over twenty-five… Read More
22 April 2015
1) When did you begin drawing and painting, Lucas? My mother was an artist and so drawing and painting were… Read More
20 April 2015
Last week Madonna got up on the Tonight Show, hosted by Jimmy Fallon, in a staged and contrived act and… Read More
19 April 2015
Artlyst recently created a list of the most offensive works of art; so what is the difference between this and… Read More
17 April 2015
Artlyst is not normally one for conspiracy theories, but we have noticed an alarming trend with the seeming exodus of… Read More
10 April 2015
Do I detect a pattern here? There is an exodus afoot amongst the highest echelons of museum management; in the past twelve months… Read More
10 April 2015
Modern Art Oxford presents ‘Upward Mobility’ a major new site-specific installation by Debora Delmar Corp. This is the adopted name… Read More
9 April 2015
Religious or not, we are all familiar with the spirit of giving, new life and general goodwill associated with decorating… Read More
2 April 2015