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Hans Haacke In Conversation About His Recent Fourth Plinth Commission
Hans Haacke is a leading figure in the contemporary art world. His work crosses boundaries of Conceptual, Minimal, Pop and site specific Land Art....
Gustave Courbet Case: Facebook Revises Rules Over Banned Content
Facebook has unveiled a revised and extended version of its “community standards” - the rule book through which the company governs what is...
Artlyst Tours Kirstie MacLeod’s First UK Solo Exhibition At Rook & Raven
Rook & Raven is currently presenting 'Punctured Perspectives', the first UK solo show of British artist Kirstie MacLeod. The artist is known for...
Artists Behaving Badly Infant Terrible Or Simply Self-indulgent Twats
There is an extremely thin line between embodying the tortured soul artiste, the infant terrible, and simply behaving like a self-indulgent twat to...
Is Damien Hirst Recruiting Photo-realist Painters To Boost His Flagging Paintings?
Damien Hirst's company Science UK LTD, has placed an advert for photo-realist painters. The ad, posted on the Jobs section of the Guardian, lists...
Tom Butler Talks To Artlyst About Inhabitants, Séances, And Concealment
CHARLIE SMITH LONDON is currently exhibiting the work of artist Tom Butler, with his second one person show at the gallery. The artist's practice...
Alex Katz On Black Backgrounds and His Relationship With Poetry
Artlyst met up with the American Artist Alex Katz, on the eve of the opening of his latest show 'Black Paintings,' at the Timothy Taylor Gallery, in...
Etchings: A Peculiar Mid-point Between The Grand Officialness Of Painting
Etchings occupy a peculiar mid-point between the grand ‘officialness’ of the painting medium, historically seen as noble – whether oil, watercolour,...
New UK Public Artworks Under Threat After The Demise Of The Paolozzi Arches
After the recent revelation that the iconic Eduardo Paolozzi mosaic arches at Tottenham Court Road station, were not destroyed by Transport for...
Eduardo Paolozzi Mosaic Arches Were Not Destroyed By TFL, But Stored
After the recent seeming destruction of the iconic Eduardo Paolozzi mosaic arches at Tottenham Court Road station, by Transport for London - an act...
Alex Katz In Conversation: On Process, Monochrome and Nude Models
Artlyst had the pleasure of joining the American Artist Alex Katz, on the eve of the opening of his latest show 'Black Paintings,' at the Timothy...
Does Violence In Art Still Have The Power To Shock?
Violence in art is obsolete. Today, what artwork depicting violence still has the power to shock? What purpose does violence in art have when we...