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Artlyst Podcast: Justin Mortimer On Skidding Paint And New Directions
Parafin Gallery, London is currently displaying the latest works by British painter Justin Mortimer. The artist's painting reflects upon a...
Richard Prince: Instagram Art – Is Appropriation Art Appropriate?
The famed American artist Richard Prince is in the news again for his particular practice of appropriation, and as usual questions of copyright...
BP Portrait Awards: A Non Starter Slippery As An Oil Slick
The genre ‘portraiture’ is as open ended as the limitless expanses of landscape, history painting, still lifes, and abstract: yet while on paper the...
Artlyst Podcast: Grayson Perry Discusses Julie Cope The Feminine Heart Of Essex
One of the highlights this year's Royal Academy Summer Show 2015 is Grayson Perry's Julie and Rob tapestry, a large work which is conceptually...
Visual Arts Overlooked On Queen’s Birthday Honours list 2015
The Queens Birthday Honours list has again snubbed the Visual Arts. This is the second time since 2015 began, with the New Years Honours List thin...
Podcast: Dominic Shepherd In Conversation With Zavier Ellis And Dr Gavin Parkinson
CHARLIE SMITH London is presenting Dominic Shepherd in the artist's latest exhibition 'Bare Foot Prophet', where Shepherd responds to the progress...
Damien Hirst: Worlds Richest Artist Still Laughing His Way To The Bank
Morbid question one: if Damien Hirst fell into a vat of formaldehyde tomorrow, how would this affect the monetary value of his works? The ultimate...
Roger Hiorns In Race To Bury Boeing Aircraft Before Swiss Rival
The Turner Prize nominated artist Roger Hiorns plans to bury a jumbo jet for a site-specific installation near Birmingham. Meanwhile the Swiss...
Minimalism: A Relatively Empty Vessel For Lifestyle Obsessed Non-Art Lovers
Spot the difference (sorry.. actually not sorry) between Yayoi Kusama and Agnes Martin, the darling of minimalism, whose retrospective at Tate...
Lynn Hershman Leeson Discusses Her Prophetic Oeuvre, Cindy Sherman, And Media Manipulation
Modern Art Oxford is presenting 'Origins of the Species (Part 2)' an expansive exhibition of works by the acclaimed US artist Lynn Hershman Leeson....
Justin Mortimer Discusses His Latest Work, And The Serendipitous Magic Of Painting
British painter Justin Mortimer’s latest works are currently on display at Parafin Gallery, London. The artist's painting reflects upon a figurative...
Bad Art vs Naive Art With All The Pop Cultural References
Art in whatever form – painting, theatre, a child’s potato stamp – is the means by which we express externally an almost infinite range of internal...
