Canaletto: Venice Ascension Day Painting Achieves Record £31.9m At Christie’s
Canaletto’s luminous Venice, the Return of the Bucintoro on Ascension Day, has sold for a record price of £31.9 million… Read More
2 July 2025
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National Gallery To Put Rembrandt, Manet and Canaletto On UK Tour
Three iconic works from the National Gallery Collection – Manet’s The Execution of Maximilian, Canaletto’s A Regatta on the Grand… Read More
11 March 2013
Canaletto View Of London Goes Under The Hammer In Vienna
An historic painting showing the New Horse Guards from St James’s Park by the Venetian painter Canaletto is to be… Read More
3 August 2012
Visit Three Stately Homes Paired With Contemporary Sculpture – Sara Faith
This Summer, three of the UK’s most enchanting stately homes – Houghton Hall in Norfolk, Castle Howard in Yorkshire, and Compton Verney in Warwickshire – are hosting major sculpture shows.
7 May 2024
Frieze Week London 2023 Ultimate Pull-Out Guide – Artlyst
Our 2023 printable events guide is the go-to Frieze and Frieze week collateral crib sheet. We will be updating information daily.
26 September 2023
Venice: City of Pictures By Martin Gayford
Venice was a major centre of art in the Renaissance: the city where the medium of oil on canvas became the norm.
14 September 2023
Tate Britain Rehangs Worlds Greatest British Art Collection
Tate Britain opens a complete rehang of the world’s greatest collection of British art, the first time in ten years that the gallery’s free displays have been presented anew.
23 May 2023
Great Art Cities Explained YouTube Series Venice Biennale Special
Great Art Cities Explained (GACE) follows the successful YouTube art history series Great Art Explained in 15 Minutes, founded last year by art writer and curator James Payne.
29 April 2022
Great Art Cities Explained New Art And Travel Video Series Launched
Following the wildly successful YouTube art history series Great Art Explained in 15 Minutes, founded last year by art writer and curator James Payne, a new art and travel series has launched. Great Art Cities Explained, a collaboration from PayneShurvell gallery owners, James Payne and Joanne Shurvell, will run concurrently on the same channel.
19 November 2021
Jeff Koons – Philip Guston 2022 – Manifesta Cancelled – Artlyst News In Brief
Welcome to Artlyst’s brand new ‘news feature’. We hope this rolling brief will keep you informed and up to date with all of the daily breaking art news.
30 October 2020
Queen’s Private Art Collection Goes On Public Display
The collection from the Picture Gallery at Buckingham Palace, widely acknowledged to be the highlight of the Royal art collection will be brought together in a gallery exhibition for the first time. Sixty-five paintings that usually hang in the Queen’s private gallery in Buckingham Palace are set to go on public display at the Queen’s Gallery.
17 August 2020
Cruise Ships Finally Banned From Historic Venetian Canals
Following the collision between the MSC Opera, a 275m (900ft) long ocean liner, and a small tourist boat, during the opening weeks of the Venice Biennale, ships weighing more than 1,000 tonnes will be banned and rerouted away from the waterways in Venice’s historic quarter, from September.
8 August 2019
Banksy Sets Up Anti Cruise Ship Market Stall In Venice
Banksy has created a new collateral event in Venice for the Biennale.
24 May 2019
Bellotto Masterpiece Saved For The Nation Goes On Display At National Gallery
Bellotto masterpiece, ‘The Fortress of Königstein from the North’, which was due to be exported from Britain, has been saved for the nation and goes on display in Trafalgar Square today (Tuesday 22 August 2017).
22 August 2017
Hull UK City of Culture Off To A Strong Start
Hull’s year as UK City of Culture is already off to a strong start, with January seeing the reopening of the Ferens Art Gallery and the launch of the new Humber Street Gallery with its first exhibition: COUM Transmissions. Since winning the title in 2013, the city has enjoyed a £1 billion boost in investment and unprecedented visitor numbers.
7 February 2017
Hull City Of Culture: Rembrandt To Turner Prize Highlights Announced
The reopening of the Ferens Art Gallery following a £4.5 million facelift, the Turner Prize, an exhibition of Francis Bacon’s Screaming Popes, Spencer Tunick’s nudes, works by… Read More
22 September 2016
The Inexorable Rise Of A Hybrid Creature Called The Curatist
Are there many top dancers who can’t dance? Are there many top actors who can’t act? Are there many top film directors… Read More
23 July 2016
Exclusive Photo Feature: Jenny Saville Drawing At The Ashmolean Museum
The Ashmolean Museum, Oxford is currently presenting the exhibition Titian to Canaletto: Drawing in Venice, this new show explores how… Read More
19 October 2015
YBA Jenny Saville Responds To Venetian Art At Ashmolean Museum
The Ashmolean Museum, Oxford will present Titian to Canaletto: Drawing in Venice, a new exhibition allowing the viewer to discover… Read More
14 October 2015
Ferens Art Gallery in Hull Gets A Facelift For 2017 Turner Prize
The Ferens Art Gallery in Hull has announced it will shut its doors for a revamp in time to host the Turner Prize… Read More
8 July 2015
LAPADA To Partner With Ashmolean Museum For Upcoming Autumn Fair
The London based Association of Art & Antiques Dealers LAPADA is to partner with the University of Oxford’s award-winning Ashmolean… Read More
4 July 2015
New Director of the National Gallery Named As Gabriele Finaldi
The appointment of the new Director of London’s National Gallery was confirmed by Prime Minister David Cameron this morning. Dr… Read More
18 March 2015
Etchings Created By Queen Victoria And Prince Albert For London Original Print Fair
Queen Victoria and Prince Albert were passionate patrons of the arts. But what might surprise a number of people is… Read More
8 February 2015
Sotheby’s Old Masters Sale Estimated At $106 Million
Sotheby’s Old Masters Sale on 28/29 January has an overall estimate of $73.9 to 106 million, or £48.6 million to… Read More
28 January 2015
Royal Print Collection To Be Featured At London Original Print Fair
To mark the 30th anniversary of the London Original Print Fair (LOPF), a loan exhibition of 30 Print Highlights from… Read More
8 December 2014
Privately Owned Turner Masterpiece Under The Hammer At Sotheby’s
Sotheby’s London 3rd December 2014 Evening sale of ‘Old Master & British Paintings’ is set to be a major highlight… Read More
2 December 2014
Exceptional Van Dyck Under The Hammer At Christie’s
Christie’s auction on Tuesday 2nd December 2014 will be ‘Old Master & British Paintings Evening Sale’, in London; will feature… Read More
16 November 2014
Threadneedle Prize 2013 Shortlist For Representational Painting And Sculpture Announced
A special effects artist who has fashioned an ‘urban burka’ from a pair of running trainers, a former artist in… Read More
15 August 2013
Artists Paint Queen’s Diamond Jubilee From Millennium Bridge
The Millennium Bridge, officially known as the London Millennium Footbridge was closed today in order to allow artists to paint… Read More
3 June 2012
Andy Warhol And His NY Factory Comes To Hull
The Ferens Gallery is mounting a major exhibition of Andy Warhol, one of the most influential and infamous artists to… Read More
30 May 2012
GUARDI MASTERPIECE GOES ON DISPLAY AT THE COURTAULD
A magnificent view of Venice’s Rialto Bridge, a masterpiece by the great Venetian painter Francesco Guardi (1712-1793), has gone on… Read More
8 April 2012
Priceless Art Stolen With iPhone
An elderly art-dealer is the victim of a brutal art heist during which the thieves were instructed what to steal… Read More
20 January 2012