14 August 2020
Hastings Contemporary mount beautifully curated intimate exhibitions of both British and now international artists. They are currently showing a retrospective exhibition of the Modern...
31 July 2020
Ellora Sutton and Elsie Hayward have been announced as the inaugural winners of the Artlyst Art to Poetry Award
31 July 2020
The artist Heather Phillipson quietly unveiled her fourth plinth commission in Trafalgar Square, yesterday with a lack of fanfare not seen before in past...
30 July 2020
I also visited the auction house to view all the lots, which made up quite an impressive exhibition: from ‘Rembrandt to Richter’ as it...
30 July 2020
Sir Jack and Lady Petchey have gifted the highly publicised birthday sculpture of Princess Anne to UK Youth to celebrate her work with the...
At the moment there is an undeclared contest going on, both within the British art world and also, on a much larger scale, in...
Beginning today under new guidelines that have come into force in England, people will need to wear a face-covering in shopping centres, banks, shops...
On the eve of the re-opening of museums around the UK, from nationals Tate and the V&A to Turner Contemporary and Yorkshire Sculpture Park,...
The YBA artist Artist Marc Quinn who was responsible for iconic contemporary statues such as 'Self' (Blood Head) and Alison Lapper Pregnant which appeared...
Keep Alert! The elusive street artist Banksy has taken to the underground literally by producing a series of sneezing rats warning passengers of the...
14 July 2020
Frieze has announced that their flagship London fair won't take place this year. The announcement came into VIPs this afternoon. See full statement below.
Gilbert & George have quit the Royal Academy over an alleged dispute involving a cancelled show promised before the change over of Administration, last...
The 11th edition of Liverpool Biennial, under the directorship of Fatoş Üstek will take place from 20 March – 6 June 2021. Titled The Stomach and the...
8 July 2020
The National Gallery is re-opening its doors, somewhat in advance of the Tates. The Titian show of mythological paintings made for Philp II of...
The debate about the continuing use of the term ‘Old Master’ has been re-energised by exhibitions shortly to open or reopen, such as ‘Forgotten...
7 July 2020
Christo and Jeanne-Claude's London Mastaba returns to the Serpentine this summer recreated in Augmented Reality by Acute Art in collaboration with the Serpentine Galleries.
6 July 2020
Future of Britain’s museums, galleries, theatres, independent cinemas, heritage sites and music venues will be helped with emergency grants and loans. Funding will also...
A new public art project, Breath is Invisible (7 July – 9 October 2020), will be launched by the MP David Lammy in Notting...
2 July 2020
Tate Britain has announced the ten artists who will each receive one-off £10,000 bursaries in place of this year's Turner Prize: Arika, Liz Johnson...
2 July 2020
Art Derivatives a project by the Italian artist Paolo Cirio that challenges the 'out of control' practices of manipulation of the art market, the...
You saw it here first, Tate, The National Gallery and the Royal Academy have announced plans to reopen in July.
Sir Michael Craig-Martin has created a new work for an iconic site in London’s Oxford Street, which will be launched on Monday 29 June,...
Leonardo’s Last Supper is back on view at the RA. Or at least a copy of it is, made by his pupil Gianpetrino. And...
A 19th-century copy of a painting by the Baroque artist Bartolomé Esteban Murillo’s titled The Immaculate Conception of Los Venerables has been destroyed by...
23 June 2020
Museums and galleries will be allowed to reopen in England from 4 July. Prime Minister Boris Johnson has announced measures easing the coronavirus restrictions...
Hackney Council has announced two public artworks to be unveiled celebrating the Windrush Generation.
19 June 2020
The legendary Marlborough Gallery is to close their NY premises with an announcement about the future of their London flagship pending.
Oriel College in Oxford, the epicenter for recent student protests, has announced that they will remove the controversial statue of the racist/imperialist Cecil Rhodes....
17 June 2020
Giuseppe Penone (born in 1947) has made two generous gifts of 350 drawings to the Centre Pompidou and a similar number works on paper...
On the third anniversary of the tragic fire which took seventy-two lives in the Grenfell tower block in West London, Artlyst thought it a...
As a sculptor who has used Victorian and other found sculptures in my work for some time, the increasingly heated debate on the future...
10 June 2020
Banksy, Bristol's international artist/influencer has suggested a plan which should appeal to both critics of the sudden removal and dumping of the statue of...