A new exhibition reveals how babies and children inspired modernist sculptor Jacob Epstein, and explores his unconventional family life in Bloomsbury. Sir Jacob Epstein (1880-1959), pioneer of modernism and distinguished portrait sculptor, made many portraits of...
Jewish Dealers And The European Art Market c. 1860-1940 - Clare Finn Jewish Dealers and the European Art Market, c. 1860-1940, negotiating cultural modernity, Ed's. Silvia Davoli & Tom Stammers, Bloomsbury Visual Arts, London, New York, Oxford, New...
The painter and writer Julian Bell is heading up a New Year's show in Oxford of some 60 recent works by six British figurative artists exploring the interfaces between image-making and language. Opening January 20, it brings multi-generational perspectives and...
2026 promises an exciting new programme of art exhibitions opening in London. Artlyst has put together a month-by-month guide to steer you through this plethora of exhibitions. 2026 will see solo shows by Modern British and Contemporary greats Lucian Freud, David...
What more fitting venue for this Roger Fry show than the Bloomsbury aquarium at Charleston? The show gives Roger Fry his due as an artist. As generations passed on and time wore on, Roger Fry's name waned. With no major exhibition of Roger Fry's paintings in over 25...
At the first UK exhibition dedicated solely to William Nicholson since 2004, one witnesses his range, incredible artistic scale, and skill. Nicholson was adaptability personified and worked between and in so many media. His painting was close to contemporary European...
Sophie Parkin is pulled into the magical world of seances, spirits and automatic drawing in anticipation of the witching season, Halloween. It's warm for October, for this year's Frieze. However, there's still the usual Eurotrash walking around in dead animals and...
Every October, London enters its most frenzied rhythm, and 2025 appears poised to continue the pattern. From 15–19 October, Regent's Park becomes the gravitational centre of the art world as Frieze London and Frieze Masters open side by side. For a few days, the city...
Andy Friend’s Comrades in Art is a remarkable excavation of a decade when British art and politics collided with an urgency rarely seen before. This is neither a conventional group biography nor a dry academic chronicle. The author has uncovered a tangled network of...