The Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) has just released a report stating that the sector’s contribution to the economy is up by 3.6 percent year-on-year to almost £250bn, accounting for 14.2 percent of the UK’s Gross Value Added (GVA)
3 December 2017
The week of Miami Beach Art Basel has become a major event for Miami and the global art pack.
29 November 2017
The 30th Anniversary of the London Art Fair 2018 will be marked with a wide range of leading British and international galleries.
19 November 2017
A new show made up of four large-scale tapestries, as well as material related to his full-scale House for Essex (2015), will be unveiled at Firstsite Essex 18 November.
14 November 2017
Paul Carey-Kent presents his recommended London Art exhibitions for November 2017. It is a varied selection containing a number of different mediums and styles.
14 November 2017
Art Awakening Humanity was an afternoon of short talks and meditations organised by St Stephen Walbrook in partnership with Awakened Artists and Watkins Mind Body Spirit Magazine.
11 November 2017
While Touring around Paris attending the 44th edition of FIAC at the Grand Palais, Zoltan Alexander encountered countless art exhibitions throughout the city.
30 October 2017
The winner of the Hix Award 2017 with a cash prize of £10,000 has been won by Sam Bailey, for his painting ‘Smoker 3’.
27 October 2017
The London based International Street Artist Ben Eine has created a video exploring his art practice for Kaspersky Lab.
18 October 2017
Glasgow International Festival of Visual Art has announced details of the programme for its eighth edition, opening on 20 April 2018. Under the new direction of Richard Parry,
16 October 2017
Two-Day Pop-Up Shop Where Every Purchase Is Completed With a Twist, Offers Exclusive Art From Prolific Street Artist Ben Eine. Cybersecurity company Kaspersky Lab encourages shoppers to consider the value of their personal data when purchasing artwork without the need of their wallets
7 September 2017
Pop Art from North Africa will put together for the first time and under the P21 Gallery roof, the artworks of fifteen creative individuals from North Africa who are all inspired by the Pop Art movement.
6 September 2017
In 1974 Michael Craig-Martin exhibited a work entitled An Oak Tree which, through the text alongside a glass of water displayed on a bathroom shelf, claimed that this work is an oak tree in the form of a glass of water. To make this claim Craig-Martin drew on Christian understandings of sacraments which are most fully realised in the Eucharist.
26 August 2017
CARAVAN is the international intercultural and interreligious peacebuilding arts NGO which has brought I AM, an art exhibition showcasing the insights and experiences of Middle Eastern women, to London.
20 August 2017
A new exhibition celebrating the cult of Nature Morte explores how leading artists of the 21st century have reinvigorated the still life.
18 August 2017
Is an indigenous rock painting showing off the number of kills any different to a rebellious teenager taking his girl to their local make-out spot where he declares his love to her spray-painted in crude bright colours the night before?
5 August 2017
Evan Roth has been announced as the Artangel Everywhere commission for a groundbreaking new project which will materialise throughout the world in 2018.
19 July 2017
The “Dark Side of Liberty, an exhibition launched with much fanfare at Liberty’s flagship Regent Street shop has removed a number of artworks and cancelled scheduled performance pieces.
12 July 2017
As a regular attendee of the Venice Biennale, this was my sixth visit, I was fortunate to attend the Vernissage week with an invitation from the Australia Council for which I am eternally grateful. This is a summary of some of the things that I liked that caught my eye. There were many others of equal interest but I’ve pared it down to just a few.
1 July 2017
As the world’s attention focuses on respecting women’s rights, and with a critical need to develop understanding and encourage friendship between the peoples of the Middle East and West, an East-West bridge-building exhibition under the title “I AM” an exhibition of Middle Eastern Women Artists comes to London from Amman, Jordan.
24 June 2017
Michael Pendry light installations were first presented to a larger audience in 2005 for the ‘Lange Nacht der Museen’ (Long… Read More
24 June 2017
Art Basel 2017 is a curated selection of 291 first-rate galleries exhibiting at the fair’s 48th edition in Basel. The gallery list for the Swiss event, taking place from June 15 to June 18, 2017, is a corker.
7 June 2017
Paul Carey-Kent Offers Artlyst his choice of the best London Art Exhibitions to see in June 2017
5 June 2017
Central St Martins BA and MA degree shows kicked off this weekend with a number of multidisciplinary exhibitions stretching across the Kings Cross campus.
29 May 2017
David Bailey is not at all what I expected. He’s imposing without being scary. He’s warm and down to earth. He speaks his mind, unafraid and not at all intimidated by the art establishment.
23 May 2017
Rupert Shrive has a new exhibition that opened last week at London’s Serena Morton’s gallery, entitled ‘Mysterious Arrangement’.
21 May 2017
One of the best ways to keep your finger on the pulse of emerging art trends in London is to attend some of the vital fine art degree shows which open to the public starting this month.
18 May 2017
Dunhuang, an oasis on the ancient Silk Road in northern China, is known for its caves containing some of the world’s finest examples of Buddhist art, created over a period of 1000 years. Millions visit this UNESCO world heritage site each year.
2 May 2017
The Arts Council Collection has unveiled the full list of 45 works by 29 artists that it has acquired for the nation in 2016-2017.
25 April 2017
Paul Carey-Kent Gives us his choices of the best London Art Exhibitions for April 2017
3 April 2017
It’s a week of art fairs in New York. The Armory Show, held in a crowded, bustling convention center on the Hudson River is the biggest of the fairs and indicative of the art markets changing economic landscape.
5 March 2017
Wolfgang Tillmans the Turner Prize-winning artist is presented in a new solo exhibition at Tate Modern. The exhibition concentrates on his practice spreading across different media since 2003.
14 February 2017
