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Blight Or Beauty: Steve Messam’s Red PaperBridge Unveiled In Lake District
Does art add anything to places of natural beauty? It seems to be popular at the moment for site specific art to interact with the...
Curator Kelly Large Talks To Artlyst About The Zabludowicz Collection, Appropriation, And The Body
The Zabludowicz Collection presents a major exhibition featuring over 30 leading international artists, including eight Turner Prize winners, to...
Political Art: The Lifeblood Of Society Has Haemorrhaged
Does fine art still have political teeth? Remember, if you will, such historical examples as Delacroix’s ‘Victory Leading the...
The Turin Shroud: From Cathedral To White Cube?
The Turin Shroud, one of Christianity's most celebrated and hotly-debated relics, is back on display to the public for the first time in half a...
Art Interventions In The Natural World: An Outmoded Act Of Vanity?
After the recent arrest of Marco Evaristti in Iceland, when local landowners accused him of vandalism after the Danish-Chilean artist dyed the...
Art Forgery: Overinflated Prices And The Buffoonery Of Collectors
Given the range of names appearing in Artlyst’s forged artist's countdown, you would be forgiven for thinking that the measure of an artist who has...
Curator Amanda Geitner Talks To Artlyst About Francis Bacon And A Very Personal Patronage
The Sainsbury Centre For Visual Arts presents 'Francis Bacon and the Masters', the latest exhibition bringing together over twenty-five major works...
Francis Bacon: Sketching And The Skeleton In The Cupboard
I remember viewing the exhibition 'Francis Bacon: Working on Paper', at Tate Britain in February 1999 with some scepticism. Bacon claimed that he...
Is The Mona Lisa Nothing More Than A Cultural Black Hole?
“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....
Artnapping: Should Museums Pay The Ransom Or Lose The Art?
In 2013 Van Buuren Museum, Brussels, suffered a robbery in which several works of art were stolen from its collection; including 'The Thinker'...
Thierry Morel Talks To Artlyst About Francis Bacon, Influence, And Memory
Francis Bacon and the Masters is the latest exhibition of works by the late-great British painter, bringing together over twenty-five major works by...
Interview With Artist Lucas Reiner by John Wisniewski Artlyst Exclusive
1) When did you begin drawing and painting, Lucas?My mother was an artist and so drawing and painting were always encouraged when I was young....