Meet Sajid Javid MP Britain’s New Culture Secretary
Prime minister David Cameron has wasted no time in announcing the appointment of Sajid Javid MP as Culture Secretary. He… Read More
9 April 2014
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Richard Serra Unveils Major Desert Sculpture In Western Qatar
The Qatar Museums Authority is has announced the unveiling of a major landscape commission, East-West/West-East, by American artist Richard Serra… Read More
9 April 2014
Culture Secretary Maria Miller Resigns After Back Bench Pressure
The culture Secretary Maria Miller has resigned. She said she is “devastated” that she has let her constituents down. Amid… Read More
9 April 2014
Damien Hirst Hires Ghostwriter To Pen Autobiography
For the sake of consistency, YBA Damien Hirst who has been heavily criticised for not making his own art work,… Read More
8 April 2014
The Artists Scrapbook Explored In New ICA London Exhibition
The ICA in London explores the medium of a scrapbook in a new exhibition. The scrapbook has been used as… Read More
8 April 2014
Art Collector Cornelius Gurlitt To Return Claimed Stolen Degenerate Masterpieces
Cornelius Gurlitt, the elderly son of a Nazi era art dealer has come to a co-operative agreement with German authorities to resolve
8 April 2014
Bridget Riley Unveils New Mural Art At St Mary’s Hospital London
The British artist Bridget Riley, best known for her colourful ‘OP Art’ paintings and prints has created a 56m-long mural… Read More
8 April 2014
Alan Davie RA Seminal Scottish Painter And Printmaker Dies Age 93
Alan Davie the seminal Scottish painter and printmaker has died aged 93. Born in Grangemouth, near Falkirk on 28 September 1920
7 April 2014
Mary Ellen Mark To Be Honoured At Sony World Photography Awards
The American photographer Mary Ellen Mark is this year’s recipient of the 2014 Sony World Photography Awards’ Outstanding Contribution to… Read More
7 April 2014
Will Culture Secretary Maria Miller Be Resigning This Week?
How do you solve a problem like Maria? The buzz in Parliament last week was not about David Cameron’s tax… Read More
7 April 2014
Leee Black Childers Chronicler Of Drag Queens And Punks Dies
Leee Black Childers, the photographer who captured a generation of New York underground culture, in the 1970s, has died in Los Angeles.
7 April 2014
Charles Esche Sao Paulo Biennial 31 Curator Receives Award In New York
Charles Esche, curator of the 31st Sao Paulo Biennial, which will take place from September 6 to December 7, 2014,… Read More
6 April 2014
Gustav Klimt Nazi Restitution And The Blockbuster Hollywood Film
A new film covering the subject of Nazi looted art is about to go into pre-production in Hollywood. This time… Read More
6 April 2014
Dennis Oppenheim: Systems of Information Rather Than Abstract Gestures
“I have never been able to be what they call a signature artist,” he said in one of his final… Read More
6 April 2014
Jasper Conran Curates The Private Photos Of Cecil Beaton At Wilton House
Wilton House will pay tribute to the life and work of the photographer, writer and Oscar-winning designer Cecil Beaton (1904-1980)… Read More
5 April 2014
Beyeler Foundation Curator Implicated In Knoedler Rothko Forgery Case
A highly regarded Swiss curator from the Beyeler Foundation in Basel, Switzerland has been implicated in the lawsuit and scandal… Read More
5 April 2014
George W Bush A President’s Personal Diplomacy With A Paint Brush
Former President George W. Bush is at it again, and by this I mean he is on a mission, proud… Read More
5 April 2014
Danceteria Nightclub Video Lounge Recreated In NYU Installation Exhibition
Thirty-Four Years after the pioneering creation of the Video Lounge, which merged art and video art with the punk club scene in New York
4 April 2014
Jean Nouvel Triptyques Exhibition To Be Mounted At Gagosian London
Jean Nouvel will present Triptyques, his latest designs for a series of limited-edition mirrors at Gagosian London. Like many of… Read More
4 April 2014
Spencer Finch Explores Margate’s Coastal Light In New Turner Contemporary Exhibition
American Artist Spencer Finch’s first solo exhibition in an English public gallery in over 5 years brings together new and… Read More
4 April 2014
Artlyst London Launches Sister Website In Sao Paulo Brazil
Artlyst London is proud to announce the launch of our new sister website Artlyst Brazil. With the help and partnership… Read More
4 April 2014
Masterpieces From The Estate of Canadian Collector Edgar M. Bronfman To Be Auctioned
Christie’s Auctioneers has announced the sale of Property from the Estate of Edgar M. Bronfman, the distinguished businessman, philanthropist, and… Read More
3 April 2014
Live Art By 14 Celebrated Artists Presented During Art Basel
Curators Klaus Biesenbach, Director of MoMA PS1, Chief Curator at Large at The Museum of Modern Art, and Hans Ulrich… Read More
3 April 2014
Gauguin And Bonnard Stolen From Regents Park Home In 1970 Recovered
Twenty five million pounds worth of stolen London art by Paul Gauguin and Pierre Bonnard has been recovered, after hanging… Read More
3 April 2014
Silent British Film Masterpiece By George Pearson Rediscovered In Holland
The rediscovery of a lost masterpiece of British silent cinema, George Pearson’s Love, Life and Laughter(1923), starring Betty Balfour, Britain’s… Read More
2 April 2014
Piet Mondrian’s Unique Relationship With Colour Explored In New Turner Contemporary Exhibition
A new exhibition at the Turner Contemporary explores Mondrian (1872-1944) and Colour. The survey is the first to explore practice,… Read More
2 April 2014
Otto Dix: The Trenches And Beyond New De La Warr Pavilion Exhibition
Remembering World War One’s centenary, which began with the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand on June 28 1914, The De La… Read More
2 April 2014
Performance Artist To Live Inside Bear Carcass For 13 Days
The French performance artist Abraham Pointcheval has announced that he will be locked in a bear carcass for 13 days… Read More
2 April 2014
Top International Artists Feature In Stockholm’s Art Of Not Making Exhibition
The Art of Not Making is the title of an acclaimed book published last year by artist/author Michael Petry, who asks; “What does a work of Art
2 April 2014
Global Artists Explore War And Conflict In New London Exhibition
A powerful group of works comprise the Contemporary Art Society’s latest thought-provoking display, CONFLICT: Art and War. The display presents… Read More
2 April 2014
Zabludowicz Collection Announces Second Part Of 2014 Invites Programme
The Zabludowicz Collection has just announce the second part of the 2014 Invites programme. Two distinctive artists and an art… Read More
1 April 2014
Anselm Kiefer Wrestles The Darkness Of German History In New Retrospective
The first major UK retrospective of the highly acclaimed German artist Anselm Kiefer’s is coming to the Royal Academy in… Read More
1 April 2014