Manifesta 12 is Europe's Nomadic Biennial Within a rough and ready Manifesta 12, there are few things that stand out head and shoulders above the rest. Many are interventions scattered within the palazzos and offices throughout the city. Locations are often in...
Rachel Howard (b. 1969 in County Durham) is a rising star in the British art world, which is currently badly in need of new names. "These works belong to a tradition that has been ongoing in art since the Abstract Expressionists" - ELS Though she isn’t exactly a...
Hugh Mendes has created his most controversial image to date, for a group show at CHARLIE SMITH LONDON. Mendes is known internationally for his realistic depictions, inspired by Obituaries which appear in the Guardian/Observer Newspapers. "As he is Mr 'Fake News' I...
Artlyst has produced a helpful guide to the closing times of the major London museums and galleries. The majority of commercial galleries will be closed for the whole holiday period so check first if you intend to visit. However, the museums and public galleries stay...
Having been downgraded by the early 20th century Modernists, portraiture is now, a hundred years later, making a significant comeback. However, the means through which it does this is now more usually photography than it is painting or sculpture. So much so that we...
The Cezanne portrait show at the National Portrait Gallery follows hot on the heels of the show of portraits by Soutine currently on view at the Courtauld. In many ways these two shows are apparently much more conventional than other current London exhibitions, such...
“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars” Oscar Wilde Twenty years in the planning, the Oscar Wilde Temple gloriously debuted in New York City’s Church of the Village. The artist duo David McDermott and Peter McGough have transformed the...
The American artist Dan Colen (b.1979), will be presented in a focused exhibition opening in October 2017 at the Newport Street Gallery. This will be Colen’s first major London solo show and spans more than fifteen years of his work and will feature new works,...
Whether you reach the luxurious tent that is Frieze by waterway or highway, the art fair’s weekend home on Randall’s Island is as accessible as the art itself. Now in its sixth year, the 2017 fair is a feel good art fest where ‘pretty’ and ‘pleasing’ is no longer a...