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Hoxton Artists: Redevelopment Or The Devolution Of Cultural Wealth
A decent studio space is hard enough to acquire in London but now it seems it's also hard to hold on to it. Artists at the Cremer Street Studios...
Cat Paintings: The Mysterious Chat Noir Litters Art History
The mysterious chat noir litters (a pun already? Awesome) art history like so much shed fur; the terribly unsubtle feline companion stealing the...
The Turner Prize: A Limp Shrug Of Non-Spiration
Writing about the increasingly obsolete Turner Prize is the very definition of shooting fish in a barrel. Waldemar Januszczak has already written...
Curator Kelly Large Discusses The Zabludowicz Collection, YBAs And The Establishment
The Zabludowicz Collection is presenting a major exhibition featuring over 30 leading international artists, including eight Turner Prize winners,...
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 landscape. Many...
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 People’, 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...