Everything Damien Hirst does is controversial, from the initial shock of the new - the sensation of the YBAs - through his use of assistants, his choice of materials, the ethics of his use of animals, the plagiarism claims, the claims and counterclaims of 'bad art,'...
The Art dealer Ivor Braka is being sued by artists' resale rights groups for not paying royalties to living artists or their estates. The Artists' Collecting Society (ACS) and the Design and Artists Copyright Society (DACS) have challenged the dealer in a rare court...
Whenever you hear the name Fabergé, you think of opulent, lavish, jewelled, decorated, and, let’s face it, kitsch, Russian Imperial eggs. Fabergé in London: Romance to Revolution opened on the 20 November 2021 at the V&A London. It is set to run until 8 May;...
The landscape of the London art world is constantly evolving and changing. Twenty-five years ago, the Portobello area of West London was the place to seek out cool young artists, then Shoreditch, Spitalfields and all points east were 'art washed'; then Fitzrovia...
The organisers of the Venice Biennale have confirmed that the Ukraine pavilion will go ahead as planned this April. It was thought that the Russian invasion would make it logistically impossible for the pavilion to proceed. Last month, Pavlo Makov, the Artist chosen...
The artist’s studio is a timeless, complex space. A place where artists go to work, to think, providing both inspiration and comfort, as well as an actual physical place to go to create and experiment. This vast exhibition, laid out over a dozen rooms of varying...
The Whitechapel Gallery is presenting a 100-year survey of the studio through artists and image-makers from around the world. Whether it be an abandoned factory, an attic or a kitchen table, it is the artist's studio where the great art of our time is conceived and...
Artlyst has selected twelve of the most exciting exhibitions promised for 2022 in London. Some like the Francis Bacon and Milton Avery at the Royal Academy and the Raphael at the National Gallery have been postponed from before the pandemic, others like the Van Gogh...
Yvonne Robinson has been a significant figure in the art world for over 70 years. A friend of David Sylvester, Bacon, Freud, Pontus Hulton, Tinguely, Augustus John, Paolozzi, Turnbull, and latterly archivist to her great friend Niki de St Phalle, she has a knack of...