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Turning Silver Into Gold: Michael Joo And Paul Black In Conversation
Michael Joo was kind enough to talk to Paul Black about the fascinating nature of his practice, and the artist's new exhibition Radiohalo, at...
Museum Blockbusters: A Cat In A Mona Lisa Wig Could Have Done Better
The Noordbrabants Museum exhibition of Hieronymous Bosch – one of my favourite painters of bestial grotesque nastiness – is surely the ‘one of the...
Fake Warhol Fake Rothko: Who Are The Losers Here
The issue of fakes is alluring headline fodder: what is it that is so compelling about forged artworks? Once could say it places greater emphasis on...
Damien Hirst: Another Basement Conversion In Hampstead And Other Tales
I‘ve spent many a year working in Knightsbridge and Belgravia, and the tell-tale signs of a cellar dig out – blocked off scaffolding...
Oscars Row Highlights The Scarcity Of Successful Black Visual Artists
Last week we had Saatchi falsely bending to women artists, this week with the Oscars furore we look at another overlooked section of the population:...
Champagne Life: Let’s Pop A Cork And Celebrate Feminism
There’s something not quite right about the latest show at the Saatchi Gallery. Champagne Life is so named after one of featured artist, Julia...
Beyond The Valley Of Caravaggio And Other Exhibitions To Bytch About
Happy New Year, bytches. Late in 2014 I began salivating over the announcement of the National Gallery’s autumn blockbuster for 2015 featuring...
A Year Of Blatant Art Consumerism Our 12 Days Of Christmas
On the first day of Christmas my true love gave to me:A partridge in an Ai Weiwei Tree This year has been a sort of ‘homecoming’...
Art 2015 Sum-up: Lawsuits, Over Inflated Auctions And Cultural Armageddon
It's been a year of everyone suing everyone else, grappling over intellectual property, and spending too much at the auctions. Only yesterday a...
Christmas Art And Shopping And More F-ing Gift Shopping
I know I bytch a lot about how museums should remain free to enter, and how it's not so bad to accept cash from a giant evil global oil conglomerate...
Assemble: Turner Prize Winners In Conversation With Artlyst – Exclusive Interview
Assemble, the 2015 winners of this years coveted Turner Prize are a collective consisting of 18 members. Their practice crosses fields of design,...
Art Basel Miami The Black Friday Of All Art Fairs
What's the difference between the art fairs of Miami Beach and Black Friday/Cyber Monday? The answer is, both are enormous shopping centres growing...