Tate Announces Record Year With Over 8.4m Visitors
Tate has announced that it had more visitors in 2016/17 than in any previous year.
12 July 2017
Tate has announced that it had more visitors in 2016/17 than in any previous year.
12 July 2017
Tim Sayer and Annemarie Norton, whose personal collection, built up over the last five decades was generously donated to the Hepworth Wakefield last year were on stage to see The Hepworth Wakefield win this year’s Art Fund Museum of The Year £100,000 prize.
7 July 2017
The Hepworth Wakefield has won this year’s Museum of The Year Award. The gallery located in West Yorkshire has beaten Tate Modern, the Lapworth Museum of Geology in Birmingham, Sir John Soane’s Museum in London and the National Heritage Centre for Horseracing and Sporting Art in Suffolk. The Art Fund aims to reward an institution that has shown “exceptional imagination, innovation, and achievement across the preceding 12 months”.
6 July 2017
The Vauxhall Art Car Boot Fair has moved to Vauxhall for the latest edition of this annual London art extravaganza.
27 June 2017
Clifford Chance is again celebrating Gay Pride with an international series of exhibitions showcasing the work of some of the best… Read More
19 June 2017
Jean-Michel Basquiat’s ‘Untitled’ painting from 1982, a monumental canvas that has rarely been seen since it last appeared on the market in May 1984, is the centrepiece of Sotheby’s Contemporary Art sale in New York on the 18 May.
20 April 2017
Imagine in 1988 the public furore if the Tate had hosted an exhibition of queer British art – marking the 21st anniversary of the 1967 Sexual Offences Act, which decriminalised private homosexual acts between men over 21 in England and Wales.
17 April 2017
The auction was led by a record for pioneer of ‘light art’ Chris Levine as his strikingly modern portrait of Queen Elizabeth II tripled its pre-sale estimate to sell for £187,500 (£50,000-80,000).
6 April 2017
The hosannas are already ringing out for Tate Britain’s new show Queer British Art, 1861-1967.
5 April 2017
The National Gallery will unveil a new tapestry by the Turner Prize-winning artist Chris Ofili. Titled the Caged Bird’s Song, the exhibition marks the first time the artist has worked in the medium of tapestry and will include a series of preparatory works on paper in an installation conceived by the artist for the Gallery’s Sunley Room.
24 March 2017
The Royal College Of Art Tops 2017 QS Best In World List in the Art & Design category.
10 March 2017
The English painter Sir Howard Hodgkin has died in London aged 84. Howard was born 6 August in 1932 in Hammersmith, London.
9 March 2017
UK Museums are working on a series of nationwide exhibitions to mark the 50th anniversary of the Sexual Offences Act, the legislation that partially decriminalised male homosexuality in England and Wales in 1967.
8 February 2017
London in 2017 will play host to a number of truly exciting exhibitions. Here is a sample of what will be on offer.
31 December 2016
Serota should be awarded the Turner prize, “for furthering so many worthless careers”. This is one of the many put-downs by the late art critic Brian Sewell. Here’s what Brian has to say about some of the other biggest names in Modern and Contemporary art.
24 December 2016
Artlyst’s list of the richest living artists. (First published June 2015).
23 December 2016
Well, I knew you just had to click onto this! Couldn’t resist …Right!!! This week Artlyst features some of the… Read More
23 December 2016
Oscar Wilde’s prized full-length portrait by Robert Harper Pennington which took pride of place in his marital home is to return to the UK, this spring when Tate Britain will host the first exhibition dedicated to queer British art.
13 December 2016
Painter’s Painters at the Saatchi Gallery picks up the theme of figurative painting as a still essential and central form of art making and tries to give it a new spin.
10 December 2016
Art Basel Miami is the world’s largest and perhaps the most important art event in the world. It opened yesterday and takes place at the Miami Beach Convention Centre, all this week
6 December 2016
Paris Photo came to a close for the 20th edition this week, critically acclaimed by collectors, cultural institutions, and photographers from all over the world.
17 November 2016
Donal Moloney’s Cave Floor is this year’s winner of the visitor’s prize where museum goers to the John Moores Painting Prize have the chance to select their favourite.
6 November 2016
Artlyst’s Alt Power 100 2016 list is revealed with all the top slots taken by women for the first time.
19 October 2016
There’s just time to see the collection of the late Brian Sewell, coming up for auction at Christie’s saleroom in London… Read More
19 September 2016
The former US President George W. Bush is to publish a book of his work. Portraits of Courage will be published by Crown… Read More
17 September 2016
Artlyst is pleased to present our curated guide to the best London exhibitions premiering this autumn. A number of exciting… Read More
27 August 2016
The Nunnery Gallery will host LUXE’s production of Picasso’s rarely produced play Desire Caught by the Tail in two exclusive… Read More
24 August 2016
At The Hepworth Wakefield, large light-filled gallery spaces more familiar with the wieldy steel sculpture of Anthony Caro or the… Read More
28 July 2016
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
The prestigious £25,000 John Moores art prize 2016 has been awarded to the artist Michael Simpson for his painting ’Squint (19) ‘ 2015. It was announced at… Read More
7 July 2016
These books are worth noticing together (even though one of them is in fact a reissue) because of the things they… Read More
20 June 2016
A selection of drawings from the unseen sketchbooks of Lucian Freud, together with a newly-discovered self-portrait by the artist, have… Read More
15 June 2016