Charlie Schaffer has won the prestigious BP Portrait Award 2019. It was announced last night at the National Portrait Gallery, London. The painting titled 'Imara in her Winter Coat’ is a portrait of the artist's close friend. The first prize portrait was selected from...
The shortlist for the BP Portrait Award 2019 has been announced by the National Portrait Gallery, London. The prize which will be presented on 10 June 2019 is the most prestigious awards in the area of portraiture. The finalists were selected from 2,538 entries from...
Animal Art: A current wave of artists are exploring internationalism and interspecies relationships in order to find ways of relating to the environment and to generate through art possibilities of communication with the natural world. Ideas of decolonialism used to...
The Ashmolean Museum's autumn exhibition Spellbound explores the timeless cross-cultural belief in magic through 180 objects - often strange and chilling - from the ritualistic, to the totemic - including crystal balls and mummified cats - the show also includes three...
Though we have plenty of experience of and access to American art here in Britain, this means chiefly American art from the 20th century. 19th-century American art, where British collections are concerned, tends to mean examples of the work of John Singer Sargent and...
For the first time as a one-off, the 167-year-old SCOTTISH SOCIETY OF ARTISTS has joined forces with the younger VISUAL ARTS SCOTLAND selecting 160 artists from an open submission of 1000 to fill Edinburgh's palatial RSA building. Though based in Scotland, it's open...
The American artist Carolee Schneemann has been awarded the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement at the 57th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia. The resolve was made by La Biennale’s Board of Directors chaired by Paolo Baratta, upon the...
Art critic Paul Carey-Kent has given us his pick of the crop for the London Art Fair 2017. The verdict: "It seemed a little more even - and so a little duller - than usual this year": less dire stuff, less outstanding material. Here are a few things I feel moved to...
Well, I knew you just had to click onto this! Couldn't resist …Right!!! This week Artlyst features some of the greatest paintings (and other works of art) depicting cats and all by famous artists!!! MEEEEOOOOWWWW!!!! During the 19th century, French artists featured...