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Identity Crisis : Does The Turner Prize Justify Its Own Existence
With each year that passes the Turner Prize battles doggedly to justify its own existence. It appears to be suffering some kind of identity crisis...
Artlyst Podcast: Tim Marlow And Adrian Locke Discuss Ai Weiwei At The RA
Artlyst recently attended the press view of the Royal Academy of Arts' landmark exhibition of the Honorary Royal Academician, Ai Weiwei. Where the...
How Artbytch Met Brian Sewell: Almost A Pastiche Of Himself
I met Brian Sewell only once while a student at the Courtauld Institute. As a fellow alumnus, he was attending a special event for alumni aged...
Ai Weiwei And Anish Kapoor: Far More Effective Than Guernica
What I admire about Thursday's public march led by Anish Kapoor and Ai Weiwei eight miles across London is its resourcefulness and simplicity in its...
Artlyst Podcast: Fig-2 Curator Fatos Ustek Discusses Artist Melanie Manchot
Fatos Ustek, Art Fund Curator at fig-2, has spoken to Artlyst about the latest installation as part of fig-2's structure of fifty successive...
Damien Hirst: From Cynical Pharmacy To Saatchi-Style Private Gallery
Regular readers will know of the special reserve of bile I harbour for one Damien Hirst: the businessman peddling 'art' in a beyond-cynical way that...
Art Under Austerity – Contemporary Art Abides Amidst The Greek Economic Crisis
In his 1965 novel The Magus, John Fowles describes the way in which so many Greeks “wished to leave Greece never to return, yet never learnt to...
Artlyst Podcast: Curator Ciara Moloney Discusses Forgotten Austrian Artist Kiki Kogelnik
Modern Art Oxford presents the first solo exhibition in the UK of acclaimed Austrian artist Kiki Kogelnik (1935-1997). Working in New York in the...
Dismaland: Wince-Inducing Yet Lacking Banksy’s Usual Cutting Satire?
It emerged in July that Disneyland Paris is allegedly charging German and British tourists up to 15% more than French visitors to the park. Behind...
Artlyst Podcast: Penelope Curtis And Curator Chris Stephens Discuss Barbara Hepworth
Tate Britain is currently presenting the first major Barbara Hepworth exhibition in London for almost fifty years. Barbara Hepworth (1903–75) is...
Artlyst Podcast: James Turrell Discusses Light And How We Feel With Our Eyes
American artist James Turrell is currently presenting a site-specific light work at Houghton Hall, Norfolk, the piece is the culmination to the...
Artlyst Podcast: James Turrell Discusses The Grand English Home And The Nature Of Light
American artist James Turrell is currently presenting a site-specific light work at Houghton Hall, Norfolk, as the culmination to the exhibition...