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UK Museums And Galleries May Reopen From 4 July
Museums and galleries will be allowed to reopen in England from 4 July. Prime Minister Boris Johnson has announced measures easing the coronavirus...
Hackney Council Announce Public Statues Honouring The Windrush Generation
Hackney Council has announced two public artworks to be unveiled celebrating the Windrush Generation. The sculptures commissioned from two artists...
Marlborough To Close NY Gallery – London Next?
The legendary Marlborough Gallery is to close their NY premises with an announcement about the future of their London flagship pending. Gilbert...
Oxford Statue Of Imperialist Cecil Rhodes To Be Removed
Oriel College in Oxford, the epicenter for recent student protests, has announced that they will remove the controversial statue of the...
Giuseppe Penone Donates Drawings To Pompidou And Philadelphia Museum
Giuseppe Penone (born in 1947) has made two generous gifts of 350 drawings to the Centre Pompidou and a similar number works on paper to the...
Forensic Architecture Continue Grenfell Tower Project Awareness
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 good time...
A Sculpture Falls – The Trouble With Problematic Public Statues – Richard Stone
As a sculptor who has used Victorian and other found sculptures in my work for some time, the increasingly heated debate on the future of public...
Banksy: Stolen Bataclan Mural Found In Italy – Colston Statue Update
A mural by Banksy that was stolen last year from the Bataclan music hall in Paris has been found by police in central Italy. The painting, which...
London’s Galleries And Auction Houses To Reopen From 15 June
The Society of London Art Dealers has announced the reopening of many of the major commercial galleries and Auction Rooms from Monday 15 June 2020....
Do Tate Galleries Have A Slavery Past?
The Tate issued a statement in 2019 to put to rest talk about the gallery founder and namesake Henry Tate's involvement in slavery. First off, both...
Protesters Tear Down Statue To Slave Trader In Bristol
A notorious and controversial statue dedicated to a slave trader in Bristol city centre has been torn down and thrown into the harbour by...
Banksy Unveils New Painting Honouring George Floyd’s Memory
Banksy George Floyd Painting: The elusive Street Artist Banksy has unveiled a new artwork inspired by the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis. The...