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Professionals Scrutinise The Art World’s Shady Dealings
Regulation is needed in the global art market because it is vulnerable to money laundering, tax evasion, trading on inside information and price...
Zavier Ellis Explores Young Gods, Modernism, And Jigsaws
Young artist/curator Zavier Ellis runs the highly regarded CHARLIE SMITH London, which is renowned for identifying some of London’s best new art...
Kitsch Happens: Utilitarian Objects Rather Than Works Of Art?
This spring twelve Jack Vettriano paintings are expected to fetch up to £1.2m when auctioned at Bonham’s. Previously the personal effects of this...
Zavier Ellis Talks To Artlyst About Young Gods, Narratives, And Toothpaste
Zavier Ellis is a young artist/curator who runs the highly regarded CHARLIE SMITH London, a gallery with a history of identifying some of London’s...
Labour Policy For The Arts As Bad As Conservatives Tweet Reveals
Labour has come under fire after a message was tweeted by the party confirming that it would uphold the £180m slashed from the Arts Council budget...
Art Replicants: Why Is The Dulwich Picture Gallery Full Of Fakery?
Following last week’s musings on intellectual property, the Dulwich Picture Gallery has recently announced that as part of its exhibition programme...
BBC Broadcasts Cover Of Charlie Hebdo Depicting Cartoon Of Prophet Muhammad
This Article Does Not contain An image Of The Prophet Muhammad. The BBC's Newsnight which was broadcast after the 10 o'clock news last night,...
Is Image Appropriation Just Plagiarism Of Intellectual Property
Jeff Koons is facing a second lawsuit over alleged plagiarism of intellectual property in two weeks; first regarding the sculpture ‘Naked’...
Visual Arts Snubbed In 2015 New Year Honours List
It is truly astounding that not one noted British visual artist has been presented with an order of chivalry in this year's New Year Honours List....
Adolf Hitler vs Winston Churchill Who Was The Better Artist?
With the former US President George W. Bush admitted that he may not be "a great painter" - yet still exhibiting more than 24 portraits of world...
ArtBytch Round-Up The Best And Worst London Art 2014
The highs and lows of art in 2014: early on the Whitechapel Gallery scored a big hit with deco-haired Hannah Höch’s impressively hard-hitting...
Jeremy Deller Explores Warhol, Morris And The Factory
In 1986 a young Jeremy Deller took up an invitation from Andy Warhol to hang out at the artist's eponymous Factory. Deller was an art history...