Morbid question one: if Damien Hirst fell into a vat of formaldehyde tomorrow, how would this affect the monetary value of his works? The ultimate art-businessman has, like most on Artlyst’s reel of richest male artists, become so having found a brand-formula which...
Parafin Gallery presents Justin Mortimer, Kult. The British painter's latest London exhibition of recent works. Mortimer's response to the figure via the artist's a psychological mise en scene of necrotic hues and frail bodies, slightly shifts focus as the artist's...
An exhibition dedicated to Lucian Freud's portraits of his first wife Caroline Blackwood, the eldest child of the 4th Marquess of Dufferin and Ava and the brewery heiress Maureen Guinness has been announced by the Ordovas gallery, in Savile...
Berloni Gallery presents its latest exhibition with Ben Woodeson's 'Obstacle'. The viewers journey through this exhibition could be described as a somewhat precarious encounter, met at first glance with a manufactured, collection of Minimalist assemblages, products of...
British painter Justin Mortimer’s latest works are currently on display at Parafin Gallery, London. The artist's painting reflects upon a figurative world in a state of 21st century 'Baconian' disorder, often pushing the boundaries of figuration and landscape...
Art in whatever form – painting, theatre, a child’s potato stamp – is the means by which we express externally an almost infinite range of internal emotions, goals, aspirations, complaints.When it gets it right, it is sublime, and touches many people...
An exhibition of portraits by Alberto Giacometti is to open at the National Portrait Gallery in London this autumn. The first ever exhibition solely to consist of portraits by the artist was announced only hours after a sculpture of the Swiss artist...
A painting from the 1950s by the 20th century master Pablo Picasso entitled Women of Algiers has become the most expensive painting to sell at auction, The painting went under the hammer last night at Christie’s Auctioneers in New York. Selling for a...
The Turner Prize nominated My Bed, 1998, by Tracey Emin will be unveiled as one of the highlights of Tate Britain’s newly rehung displays, opening to the public on 31 March 2015. Emin's bed is one of Britain's most controversial works of...