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Neo-Conceptualist Jenny Holzer Contributes To HIV Memorial App
The Neo-conceptual artist Jenny Holzer, who is commonly known for her LED light pieces that utilise the rhetoric of modern information systems to...
Ellsworth Kelly One Of America’s Greatest Abstract Painters Dies Aged 92
Ellsworth Kelly, one of the last remaining of the 20th-century abstract artists, who helped to shape American painting has died age 92. His death...
Alice Theobald, And ATOMIK Architecture Co-Author Works At BALTIC
BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead and Ryder Architecture present the second in a series of new commissions exploring the relationship...
Picasso Murals Top Europa Nostra Endangered Heritage List
Europa Nostra, the European heritage organisation has placed a building housing murals by Pablo Picasso on their under threat priority list. The...
Basquiat Masterpiece Sold At Christie’s For £25m Remains Uncollected By Buyer
The sale of a £25m/$37.1 m painting by Jean-Michel Basquiat at Christie’s, New York, on 13 May this year has led to...
Art Laughter And Tears: Artlyst’s Top 20 News Stories Of 2015
The end of 2015 is in sight, as we reflect on yet another year of ups and downs on the London and international art scene; the laughter, the tears,...
Jesse Hlebo Curates Group Exhibition Sometimes People Die At Edel Assanti
Edel Assanti is to present the group exhibition People Die Sometimes, curated by Jesse Hlebo, and featuring the artists Ryan Foerster, Yulan Grant,...
Psychedelic Artist Peter Max In Multi-Million Family Dispute Over Paintings
The psychedelic painter Peter Max is caught in a battle between his second wife and his son. Mary Max has claimed that her stepson...
Ai Weiwei: A Prolific Year For The Chinese Dissident Artist In Pictures
It has been a particularly busy year for the acclaimed dissident Chinese artist Ai Weiwei. Artlyst even joined Ai and Anish Kapoor when the artists...
Heman Chong: An Arm, A Leg, And Other Stories At South London Gallery
A million blacked out business cards covering the floor set the scene for this exhibition which explores ideas of exchange, and the role of rules...
Wildenstein Tax Evasion Trial Expected In New Year
Prominent figures from the Wildenstein art dealing dynasty are expected to go on trial in France for tax evasion and money laundering in the new...
Pontormo Masterpiece Acquires Temporary Export Ban By Culture Minister Ed Vaizey
The Culture Minister Ed Vaizey has put a temporary export bar on 'Portrait of a Young Man in a Red Cap' by Pontormo to provide the opportunity...