Diasporan Identities: Life Between Islands Caribbean British Art – Tate Britain – Revd Jonathan Evens
Stirring it up or creolisation is taken by this exhibition as a defining characteristic of British Caribbean artists.
5 December 2021
Stirring it up or creolisation is taken by this exhibition as a defining characteristic of British Caribbean artists.
5 December 2021
Array Collective, has won the Turner Prize 2021. It was announced this evening at a ceremony at Coventry Cathedra
1 December 2021
Artlyst has put together a month by month selection to guide you through the best of the shows on offer Autumn 2021.
30 August 2021
As Museums and Galleries plan their reopenings after the current Covid restrictions and the public plan their Summer staycations, Artlyst has put together a selection of exhibitions throughout the country to get you through the season.
5 May 2021
Creative Folkestone has announced the new dates for the fifth Folkestone Triennial, The Plot, from 22 July – 2 November 2021.
11 March 2021
UPDATED
Well, the exhibitions schedule for 2020 didn’t quite go as planned. But here is an idea of what exhibitions to expect in 2021.
2 January 2021
Museums, galleries and historic houses across the UK are facing a crisis due to the impact of Covid-19, with six in ten (60%) surveyed worried about their survival.
23 November 2020
“I am re-writing a Black Queer and Trans visual history of South Africa for the world to know of our existence, resistance and persistence” -Zanele Muholi
1 November 2020
The Frieze London 2020 platform for modern and contemporary art has announced the opening of both Frieze and Frieze Masters.
8 October 2020
Frieze will be launching their annual sculpture garden in ten days despite the fair’s move online due to the COVID19 pandemic.
24 September 2020
This is long overdue, but under the worrying circumstances that have dominated the news in the past week, I feel it is essential to voice an opinion representing Artlyst.
4 June 2020
The Royal College of Art (RCA), which has consistently topped the tables as ‘best art school in the world’ has launched GenerationRCA, an ambitious five-year campaign/programme
28 January 2019
I’ve been looking again at Georgina Adam’s recently published book, The Dark Side of the Boom (Lund Humphries). It ranges over a wide variety of contemporary art world topics and is quite largely concerned with recent art world misdeeds – that is, with the commercial rather than the official sector of art world activity, insofar as these can be fully separated from one another.
3 January 2019
Looking forward to the art year ahead of us – 2019 – there are certain things one notices immediately, in the announcements so far made by various official and semi-official institutions based here in Britain and more specifically in plans announced by galleries here in London.
31 December 2018
The winner of the UK’s most popular acquisition in 2018 is an Anglo-Saxon gold pendant, found in Winfarthing, Norfolk and purchased by Norwich Castle Museum and Art Gallery.
18 December 2018
The Alt Power 100 Artlyst 2018, now in its 8th edition is a celebration of artists and art professionals who have made a difference in 2018.
30 October 2018
The Frieze Tate Fund founded in 2003 and now in its third year as Endeavor has enabled £150,000 to be made available to purchase artworks for Tate. The acquired works by emerging and leading international artists are exhibited in London, Liverpool and St Ives.
3 October 2018
There can be no doubt that the Turner Prize is pretty much of a sick puppy right now.
28 August 2018
At a time when London’s big art museums are going all out to be populist, they also seem to be witnessing a fairly general fall in attendances.
9 August 2018
The winner of the John Moores Painting Prize 2018 was announced on Thursday 12 July in Liverpool. The artist, Jacqui Hallum with her painting King and Queen of Wands (2017), took the top prize.
14 July 2018
Art Basel Switzerland which is always an important barometer in the art market has reported that some of the world’s premier galleries experienced remarkable sales across all levels of the market.
18 June 2018
Art Basel 2018 which launches 14-17 June offers a Premier line-up of galleries at Art Basel’s 2018 edition in Basel Switzerland.
11 June 2018
Over 100 artists, including Tracey Emin, Jeremy Deller, Antony Gormley, Lubaina Himid, Anish Kapoor, Grayson Perry, Sam Taylor Johnson, Mark Wallinger and Rachel Whiteread, have written to The Guardian to protest against the decline of art in schools.
8 May 2018
The Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool has announced the 60 artists whose paintings will feature in the John Moores Painting Prize 2018 exhibition, marking 60 years of the UK’s longest-established painting prize.
25 April 2018
The UK’s largest national loan collection of modern and contemporary art, the Arts Council Collection, has unveiled the full list of 47 works by 25 artists that it has acquired for the nation in 2017-18.
4 April 2018
Helen Legg currently Director of Spike Island, Bristol, has been appointed the new Director of Tate Liverpool.
20 March 2018
The contemporary art world seems an increasingly strange place to be.
21 February 2018
There was a time when the London Art Fair was the glitziest thing in the capital’s art world calendar.
20 January 2018
Artlyst chooses six of the best from the 2018 London Art Fair. The London Art Fair is the capital’s longest running Contemporary and Modern art fair. Now in its 30th year, the event presents leading British and international galleries alongside specially curated spaces, Art Projects and Photo50.
19 January 2018
Kevin Brennan, the shadow arts minister, has revealed that there is an ‘Institutional’ male bias in the government’s art collection. He pointed out that only a quarter of works acquired by the government in the last five years are by female artists.
7 January 2018
The British contemporary art world is apparently in a healthy state at the moment.
31 December 2017
It has been a challenging year in the art world with record auction prices and soaring fair costs.
29 December 2017