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I have just returned from an afternoon at the spectacular Hasting Contemporary which re-opened today after a five-month lockdown period. This...

Ellora Sutton and Elsie Hayward have been announced as the inaugural winners of the Artlyst Art to Poetry Award, a new international ekphrastic...

The artist Heather Phillipson quietly unveiled her fourth plinth commission in Trafalgar Square, yesterday with a lack of fanfare not seen before in...

Last month I wrote an impassioned article for Artlyst about the auction at Sotheby’s of a tiny Rembrandt self-portrait. Last night I followed the...

Sir Jack and Lady Petchey have gifted the highly publicised birthday sculpture of Princess Anne to UK Youth to celebrate her work with the charity....

At the moment there is an undeclared contest going on, both within the British art world and also, on a much larger scale, in the international...

Beginning today under new guidelines that have come into force in England, people will need to wear a face-covering in shopping centres, banks,...

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...

The YBA artist Artist Marc Quinn who was responsible for iconic contemporary statues such as 'Self' (Blood Head) and Alison Lapper Pregnant which...

Keep Alert! The elusive street artist Banksy has taken to the underground literally by producing a series of sneezing rats warning passengers of the...

Frieze has announced that their flagship London fair won't take place this year. The announcement came into VIPs' in-boxes this afternoon. They said...

Gilbert & George have quit the Royal Academy over an alleged dispute involving a cancelled show promised before the change over of...