Sir Alan Bowness CBE (11 January 1928 – 1 March 2021) British art historian, art critic, director of the Tate Gallery between 1980 and 1988 has died age 93. Bowness was active as an art critic in the late 1950s and early 1960s, writing for The Observer, Arts (New...
David Hockney, in a very 21st-century manner, has appointed Edith Devaney in the newly created role of Managing Director and Curator of his practice. As such she will help manage the Hockney entities under his direction. He has also appointed her Editor-in-Chief of...
John Lennon's Death 40 Years On Marked Forty years ago today, December 8th 1980, the musician, writer and visual artist John Lennon was shot dead in front of his wife, the Conceptual Artist Yoko Ono, by the entrance of their home in the Dakota building in New York....
Artlyst Fast News: Monolith Found On The Isle of Wight Mirrors US Finds A monolith has appeared over the weekend on the Isle of Wight in the UK. The object, most likely a prank by an artist, is similar to ones that have been spotted in the US and Romania. Many say the...
A long lost painting by LS Lowry which hadn't been seen for 70 years has realised £2.65m at Christie's. The work titled The Mill, Pendlebury, painted in 1943 shows workers on a bank holiday with children playing cricket. It has everything you would want in a Lowry:...
The London Summer Art week which includes Contemporary auctions at both Christie's and Sotheby's, Masterpiece London the art fair recently acquired by Art Basel as well a Olympia and newcomer FairForSaatchi is well on the way. The auction saw global participation and...
Christie’s NY is to offer a rare Amedeo Modigliani limestone sculpture, Tête, carved circa 1911-1912, in its New York Evening Sale of Impressionist and Modern Art, On May 13, The estimate of $30-40 million is in line with the works being among the finest examples of...
Post War and Contemporary Art at Christie’s London saw 41 lots finding buyers with three unsold and if not a record price for David Hockney's Henry Geldzahler and Christopher Scott (1969), a solid over the estimated sale price of £33 million ($43.4 million), with...
The late George Michael, the British singer and songwriter, is to auction off his extensive collection of YBA artworks. Michael was an icon of the imaginative spirit of the 1980s and 1990s. Proceeds from this sale will be used to continue George Michael’s...