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London Art Exhibitions Autumn/Winter 2021/22 – Month By Month Guide
As Autumn approaches, a new season of exhibitions are planned for London's museums and galleries. Artlyst has put together a month by month...
Chuck Close: A Calligraphy Of Squares Remembered – Clare Henry
When I first went to visit Chuck Close in his studio in 2004, I was in awe of him. But he was easy to talk with so that soon wore off. I had seen...
Banksy Spraycation – East Coast Summer 2021 – How To Find Them
The elusive Street Artist Banksy has confirmed (via his Instagram site) that ten pieces of art on the east coast of England are by him. The public...
Rachel Whiteread: House 1993 Significant Works – Sue Hubbard
In Grove Road, Mile End, there’s a plaque on the north side of the railway bridge that commemorates the first flying bomb to fall on London on 13th...
Yorkshire Sculpture Park Where Time Slows Down – James Payne
Yorkshire Sculpture Park is open again for business, and it is so good to revisit it. The great news is many of its temporary shows have been...
Rosie Gibbens: Interview of the Month August 2021 – Paul Carey-Kent
The entertaining and thought-provoking solo exhibition, ‘Soft Girls’, by Rosie Gibbens, is at the Zabludowicz Collection, London, until 15 August....
More Out Of London Summer Exhibitions 2021 – Artlyst Recommends
Have you planned your summer staycation away from London? Artlyst has put together a selection of exhibitions throughout the country to satisfy your...
Frida Kahlo: A Question Of Ethnicity – Edward Lucie-Smith
A recent Opinion piece on the website Hyperallegenic fiercely condemned Frida Kahlo, long one of the patron saints of contemporary feminist art....
Spencer Finch: Interview of the Month July 2021 – Paul Carey-Kent
In his current exhibition at Lisson Gallery ('Only the hand that erases writes the true thing', to 31 July), Spencer Finch presents new works which...
Paula Rego: The Policeman’s Daughter 1987 Significant Works – Sue Hubbard
In an era when modernism was dictating that painting should abandon all connection to narrative, Paula Rego defiantly continued to tell stories,...
Marie Raymond And Post-War Avant Garde Painting In Paris
'It seems obvious,' writes Robert Fleck in Marie Raymond/Yves Klein, 'that we will not understand the extent of Yves Klein's adventure and his...
Ena Swansea: Interview of the Month June 2021 – Paul Carey-Kent
Welcome to the first of a new series of monthly artist interviews by critic Paul Carey-Kent. There’s an aura of mystery to Ena Swansea. Her big,...