Last week Christopher Le Brun announced he was stepping down as President of the Royal Academy and this week Tim Marlow the highly regarded Artistic Director of the Royal Academy of Arts has revealed he will also be leaving to become Chief Executive and Director of...
Tate Modern has unveiled a monumental 13-metre-high fountain created by the American artist Kara Walker. Walker is best known for her thought-provoking investigations of race, sexuality and violence through the history of slavery, Walker has now created one of the...
Recently the Guardian newspaper here in Britain offered yet another of those 'best of' lists to which both the print press and websites of various kinds are now addicted. In this case, what it listed was 'the best art of the 21st century'. It contained a lot of...
Welcome to this year's Artlyst Frieze Week 2019 printable pull-out Guide. This is our curated choice of the events not to miss during the busiest week in the London Contemporary Art calendar. "From the absurd to the sublime London Frieze week" - Artlyst This events...
Bloomberg New Contemporaries which has recently opened their 2019 edition at Leeds Art Gallery is a must-see exhibition for those trying to keep their finger on the pulse of the emerging art emanating from the UK's top art colleges. This year marks the 70th...
The HIX Award, the annual art prize set up by the restaurateur and author Mark Hix, have joined up with Hauser & Wirth as this year's main sponsor. This year's shortlisted artists, all whom will feature in a group exhibition at HIX ART, opening September 14,...
Summer is over, but there is much to look forward to this Autumn. Autumn in London means Frieze week with Frieze London and Frieze Masters (3-6 October) bringing the best of international art past and present to the marquees in Regent's Park. Look out for the Artlyst...
As already stated on this site, Leon Kossoff’s death on July 4 marked pretty much the end of an epoch. Of the for artists who led the so-called School of London – Bacon, Freud, Kossoff and Auerbach – only Auerbach now survives. In one way his paintings are now...
Summer has finally arrived in the UK so if you're planning on heading outside of London, Artlyst has put together a list of twelve exhibitions to see around the UK. Don't miss the Keith Haring extravaganza at Tate Liverpool; major sculpture exhibitions at Yorkshire...