If you’re planning on leaving the metropolis for your staycation, Artlyst has put together a selection of the best UK shows outside of London. The main event over the summer has to be the Liverpool Biennial. Across the city there are events and newly...
“Just don’t be dull and fucking boring, that’s the golden rule.” said; Muriel Belcher, owner of London's demimonde Colony Room Club. She would use that now infamous phrase when interviewing prospective members. Unlike...
Christie’s Post-War and Contemporary Art Evening Auction received strong bidding in the room and on phones to achieve high sell through rates of 92% by lot and 98% by value with 50% of works selling over estimate and 30% within estimate. The top three...
The Hepworth Wakefield is presenting Stanley Spencer: Of Angels and Dirt – the first UK major survey exhibition in 15 years of work by one of Britain’s best loved painters. It has been 125 years since Spencer’s...
These books are worth noticing together (even though one of them is in fact a reissue) because of the things they tell one about how the British contemporary art world, as we now know it, came to be the way it is. In many ways one book reflects the...
Gregor Muir (b.1964) has been appointed Director of Collection, International Art at Tate. He succeeds Frances Morris, now Director, Tate Modern, who held the position from 2006. In this senior role, Gregor will lead the development of Tate's collection of...
Modern Art Oxford is currently presenting works by Cork-born artist Dorothy Cross, as part of KALEIDOSCOPE: Mystics and Rationalists, the Gallery's year-long programme of unfolding exhibitions to celebrate their 50th anniversary. The show Features Karla Black, Daniel...
There are increasing signs of conflict between the two wings of the avant-garde – currently so-called – in the visual arts. I say ‘so-called’ because in fact neither wing has a firm claim to this much-coveted description. On the one hand there is the increasingly...
Christie’s are offering an unusually comprehensive pair of sales of Modern British and Irish art at the end of this month – an Evening Sale for the supposedly posher lots on June 20th, followed by a Day Sale on June 21st. Viewings are...