14 November 2022
GLASGOW PRINT STUDIO is internationally acclaimed, and its 50th birthday is being celebrated in a major, culturally significant exhibition at the city's main civic...
7 November 2022
Following the wildly successful YouTube art history series, Great Art Explained in 15 Minutes, founded in 2020 by art writer and curator James Payne,...
5 November 2022
Beninese artist Romuald Hazoumè has been making his well-known masks for many years, but 'Carnaval', his show at the October Gallery
1 November 2022
Under an image of Richard Woods' 'Small House' installation at Southwark Cathedral, Fergus Butler Gaillie
24 October 2022
Tate Britain opens a free new exhibition dedicated to celebrated British photographer Bill Brandt (1904-83).
18 October 2022
Sometimes I wonder if the art fair is a symptom of the internet and our contemporaneous assumption that everything is instantly available at the...
16 October 2022
As 1-54 celebrates its 10th birthday, the first international art fair to focus on modern and contemporary art from Africa and its diaspora
28 September 2022
Pyotr Pavlensky was born in 1984 in Leningrad. He studied monumental painting at the Saint Petersburg Stieglitz State Academy of Art and Design.
3 September 2022
Last year was the centenary of the birth of Joseph Beuys. Centenary exhibitions included ‘The Inventor of Electricity - Joseph Beuys and the Christian...
30 August 2022
The work of artist Spencer Tunick defies genres by transforming both landscapes and the human form into powerful artworks.
10 August 2022
Qatar, a country that is no stranger to important contemporary public art, with works by Richard Serra and Damien Hirst, will be Transformed into...
2 August 2022
One of the things about this series is that it provides an opportunity to look back on keynote contemporary works with a degree of...
3 July 2022
It is a work that has deeply influenced the practice of countless artists, in particular fine art photographer Jeffery Becton.
4 May 2022
Away from the political battles of Westminster, Britain’s most famous interrogator has a passion not many people know about… painting. With his latest exhibition...
29 April 2022
Great Art Cities Explained (GACE) follows the successful YouTube art history series Great Art Explained in 15 Minutes, founded last year by art writer...
27 April 2022
I have just returned from the 59th Venice Biennale, which was thrown off course by a year due to the pandemic.
26 April 2022
Writer and PR Consultant Lee Sharrock has selected eight of the best collateral events taking place in Venice during the 59th Biennale.
13 January 2022
Artlyst has compiled a dateline of international Art Fairs scheduled to open in the next twelve months
14 December 2021
Artlyst has selected twelve of the most exciting exhibitions promised for 2022 in London.
26 October 2021
Welcome to this new series of monthly artist interviews by critic Paul Carey-Kent. Paul has written for Art Monthly and Frieze Magazine
1 June 2020
This is a new series by Artist/historian James Payne demystifying great works of art. We will be adding to this page as the content...
Appropriation art or the art of appropriation is the use of pre-existing objects or images with little or no transformation applied to them. Here...
6 June 2022
Paris is always good for an Artlyst road trip, as James Payne discovers as he visits Fondation Louis Vuitton, Cluny Museum and goes on...
8 May 2022
Art Brussels sprouts back to life after two years missed for Covid, from 28 April – 1 May.
9 May 2020
The reality of Covid19 started to appear more on my radar towards the beginning of March. By the time the Armory Show happened with...
4 May 2020
London Gallery Lockdown 4/05/2020: Greta Thunberg would undoubtedly agree with the first statement
15 April 2020
Dearly beloved, we are all unfortunately still gathered here on this unexpected Summer holiday to a destination unknown.
16 January 2020
Here we go again! It’s time for the London Art Fair. Artlyst as 2020 media partners have ten pairs of tickets to give away....
23 July 2019
Pipoca (Paola de Ramos) invited me to participate in an art exhibition and residency at Hirvitalo, Pispala, Tampere, Finland in July 2019, the theme...
13 July 2019
The unassuming Hunterian Gallery in Glasgow, perched next to the University library, houses stunning paintings by the Glasgow Boys (and Girls) and the Scottish...
6 July 2022
Masterpiece is one of London's unmissable art fairs. This is a melting pot where visitors can view and buy the finest works of art,...
3 May 2022
Several exhibitions/installations in Venice during the 59th Biennale re-situate key works or themes from Christianity's historic engagement with the Arts, in some cases overlaying...
The event was a travesty of everything the Colony stood for, organised by people who thought they could recreate a special place.
18 November 2020
Marcus Lyon is an artist whose early work took him to the slums and ghettos of the developing world to explore issues surrounding street...
Just as the new lockdown was being announced, the Sunday Times (UK) was unusually full of stuff about contemporary art. The main colour supplement...
Edward Lucie-Smith has rightly wondered, as 'the contemporary art world goes dark, and as galleries – official spaces and commercial ones – slam shut...
In welcoming Bill Viola’s installations at St Paul’s Cathedral, Mark Oakley noted that: ‘Viola’s art slows down our perceptions in order to deepen them.’
It has been in many ways a somewhat melancholy year for art, here in Britain – or should I say: ‘here in London’? -since...
5 November 2022
Beninese artist Romuald Hazoumè has been making his well-known masks for many years, but 'Carnaval', his show at the October Gallery
30 August 2022
The work of artist Spencer Tunick defies genres by transforming both landscapes and the human form into powerful artworks.
1 August 2022
Charmaine Watkiss is the daughter of Jamaicans who came to post-war Britain in the 1960s when immigration from former colonies was encouraged to help...
28 June 2022
Mali Morris is a popular and notably active member of the Royal Academy of Arts, making her an appropriate choice for the annual commission...
11 June 2022
Belgian sculptor Peter Buggenhout makes slippery, near-formless sculptures that typically repulse with their abject materials, yet draw you in to an uncanny unknowability.
4 May 2022
Away from the political battles of Westminster, Britain’s most famous interrogator has a passion not many people know about… painting. With his latest exhibition...
3 May 2022
Martin Parr is famous worldwide for over 50 years of intensely colourful and wittily affectionate photographic observations of people.
2 April 2022
Forty years ago, David Nash was the first artist to make work on-site for Yorkshire Sculpture Park –invited by the founding director Peter Murray,...
14 March 2017
Turner-prize winning artist Sir Howard Hodgkin sadly died last week at the age of 84. Test your knowledge of him here.
Artlyst is once again media partners with the London Art Fair 2017. Competition: Answer The Following questions and email to info@ artlyst.com subject as,...
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Here’s the Artlyst guide to the Top 10 best Museum exhibitions on in London this Summer, half of which have Free admission.
Throughout the History of Art, there are examples of loving couples in passionate embraces. Here Artlyst presents its top 10 most memorable kisses in...
In 2016 Anish Kapoor acquired exclusive rights to the unique Vanta black pigment, reported to be the blackest shade of black in existence. ...
2016 saw the 100 year anniversary of the first Dada performances at the Cabaret Voltaire in Zurich, Switzerland. So in reverence to this...
Here is the Artlyst for the top 10 international black artists working today, the first of many celebrating diversity in the visual arts!
The feminist art movement emerged in the 1960s with women artists taking an interest in how they differed from their male counterparts. Artlyst has...
Appropriation art or the art of appropriation is the use of pre-existing objects or images with little or no transformation applied to them. Here...
As Winter is upon us and the nights are already closing in, what can be more appropriate than works of art in monochromatic white....
6 December 2020
Nicola Ravenscroft A graduate of Camberwell School of Art, she has owned and run a sculpture gallery and, as an art teacher, has nurtured...
Artbytch looks back on a depressing year with great exhibitions.
The New York based online company ArtList, not to be confused with the popular London based art information website Artlyst is to shutdown. The...
The decision by British voters to leave the European Union has been announced – and commentators have begun the analysis, the post event combing...
It’s alarming to think that Tate Modern opened in 2000, firstly because it makes me feel super old, but also one wonders, what did...
Ok, I admit it. I’ve deliberately avoided the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition every year since I first saw it in 2007, mainly because it’s...
The Artlyst lystical of creative people who dropped out at uni includes some predictable names: John Lennon, Orson Welles, good old Pablo Picasso. What...
I was interested to read that Tate Modern has apparently been working in conjunction with Airbnb to provide the opportunity for renters to have...