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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Violence in art is obsolete.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...
Art Museums Miss Out As Culture Secretary Announces £3m In Grants
Culture Secretary Sajid Javid announced today, while visiting the Canal & River Trust’s Gloucester Waterways Museum that 25 museums across the...
Dominic Hawgood Talks To Artlyst About Modern Belief Systems, Advertising, And Miracles
Artist Dominic Hawgood is a recent graduate of The Royal College of Art, and features in this year's Catlin Guide, a yearly book that presents a...
Has Sam Taylor-Johnson Permanently Obliterated Her Serious Artist Credibility?
From Young British Artist to Old British Bore: many of the YBAs who kick started their careers by putting unashamedly self-obsessed and defiant ...