As a regular attendee of the Venice Biennale, this was my sixth visit, I was fortunate to attend the Vernissage week with an invitation from the Australia Council for which I am eternally grateful. This is a summary of some of the things that I liked that caught my eye. There were many others of equal interest but I’ve pared it down to just a few.
1 July 2017
Anne Imhof’s Performance piece constructed below glass floors floating above the German pavilion with caged dogs Win the 57th Venice Biennale, Golden Lions.
14 May 2017
Hauser & Wirth New York have opened a new exhibition of wearable art objects commissioned from fifteen well-known artists.
25 April 2017
Barkley Hendricks the well known African American painter and photographer who evoked the spirit of everyday Black people, in his life-size portraits has died age 72.
23 April 2017
51% Remember Her – 100 Women Artists Exhibition: Heading down the Barking Road to E13 may not seem like the most obvious place to locate a large exhibition of art on International Women’s day. The venue being the splendid Memorial Community Church that contains a tower with a belfry and a grand balcony. Apart from the tower, which has functioned previously as a gallery, such architecture creates a challenge for a curator but also engenders an alternative experience with work constantly revealing itself in unexpected places.
22 March 2017
Black artist in the USA during the Civil Rights movement are to be explored in a new exhibition at Tate Modern. This summer the museum will present Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power.
17 March 2017
2017 marks Bluecoat’s tercentenary, making it the oldest building in Liverpool city centre and the UK’s first arts centre: quite an achievement.
1 March 2017
Sixteen artists and sixteen writers take on W.G. Sebald’s seminal novel The Rings of Saturn for The Arca Project presented by Payne Shurvell at their new Suffolk space. Here, one of the curators, Michael Hall, describes how the project came about.
15 February 2017
In 2016 Anish Kapoor acquired exclusive rights to the unique Vanta black pigment, reported to be the blackest shade of black in existence. So this week Artlyst celebrates the Top 10 black paintings.
30 December 2016
Rich is a non-gender specific term. But what about the fact that the top ten richest artists are all male. Welcome to Artlyst’s Top 10 Richest Women Artists. (First published June 2015)
23 December 2016
Turner Contemporary puts making and materiality centre stage in a new exhibition. Entangled: Threads & Making is a major exhibition of sculpture, installation, tapestry, textiles and jewellery from the early 20th century to the present day.
22 December 2016
A new exhibition at the National Gallery is a celebration of monochrome and in particular painting in black and white. Artlyst has curated its own selection.
21 December 2016
Paul Black chooses his best exhibitions of 2016 and delves deeper than the blockbusters and often further afield from London.
20 December 2016
The Paul Hamlyn Foundation has announced the recipients of the 22nd annual Awards for Artists, the largest individual awards made to visual artists and composers in the UK.
14 November 2016
A new exhibition at the Ordovas Gallery in London will explore Artists and Lovers. The show will trace a number of the greatest… Read More
15 September 2016
Rendering the Unthinkable: Artists Respond to 9/11 is a new exhibition which opens September 12, at the 9/11 Memorial and… Read More
4 September 2016
A major new exhibition bringing together some of the most important neon artworks from the 1960s to the present day is… Read More
9 August 2016
The big campaign to give more recognition to women artist is gathering pace at Tate Modern, with a solo show by… Read More
14 June 2016
Sotheby’s evening sale of Contemporary Art in New York has achieved a staggering $242,194,000 £167,689,576.22 The result included several record… Read More
12 May 2016
Sotheby’s will present at auction three outstanding works by L.S. Lowry,this June. One of Britain’s best-loved artists, from the collection… Read More
6 May 2016
The Northern Ireland artist Basil Blackshaw has died aged 83. Blackshaw was regarded as one of the most signifiant painters of his period and one of the most important painters from Ireland.
3 May 2016
Modern Art Oxford presents the second exhibition in KALEIDOSCOPE, the Gallery’s year-long programme of unfolding exhibitions to celebrate their 50th… Read More
19 April 2016
Paul Black recently attended the Serpentine Sackler Gallery, which is currently presenting the first major exhibition of work by Kerstin… Read More
14 March 2016
The argument as to whether an artist can own the copyright to a colour or pigment has escalated this week with… Read More
4 March 2016
Michael Joo was kind enough to talk to Paul Black about the fascinating nature of his practice, and the artist’s… Read More
24 February 2016
Artlyst has recently attended the new exhibition of works by Andy Warhol from the Hall Collection, curated by Norman Rosenthal,… Read More
17 February 2016
Paul Black has attended the new exhibition by New York-based artist Michael Joo, Radiohalo is a major solo exhibition of… Read More
15 February 2016
Artlyst has attended the latest exhibition at Modern Art Oxford, The Indivisible Present, the first exhibition in KALEIDOSCOPE, a yearlong… Read More
10 February 2016
Artlyst has Joined Saad Qureshi, as the artist opened his studio at OVADA in Oxford for an informal exhibition of… Read More
24 January 2016
Hauser & Wirth London is currently presenting the work of nine artists in ‘Maisons Fragiles’, a group exhibition which explores… Read More
14 January 2016
Artlyst has taken the Tate Boat, braving the Thames on a rainy January day to visit both Tate Modern’s Turbine… Read More
8 January 2016
A large-scale multimedia installation by the Turner Prize winning artist Susan Philipsz will be on show at the Smithsonian’s Hirshhorn Museum… Read More
23 December 2015
