In this week’s Top 10 theme, Artlyst has searched Art History for the 10 best works of art featuring skulls. Skulls have been used as the symbolic representation of death and mortality throughout history, and each civilisation has maintained a fascination with the...
London has three of the most innovative artist-designed Christmas Trees on display this year. The Tate, which has the most substantial track record in commissioning such trees, is reprising an earlier triumph. Shirazeh Houshiary’s Christmas Tree 2016 reimagines her...
Brian Sewell once called for the Tate director Nicholas Serota to be sacked, citing the exhibition Abracadabra as a “prime example of the hocus-pocus and mumbo jumbo by which the false intellectuals of the art world are able to ‘hey presto!’ anything into art”. Serota...
What is an art Scandal? It is a good idea to dissect the word scandal before you apply it to the wonderful world of international art. Art is the largest unregulated market after narcotics so expect scandal to be prevalent! Scandal: noun...
Rich is a non-gender specific term. But what about the fact that the top ten richest artists are all male. After all How many female artists featured in the top 100 auction sales, last year? 83% of the artists in Tate Modern are men, along with 70% of those in the...
What is rich? Here are some definitions taken from the Oxford English Dictionary that may apply to the ten people who top our 1% richest list of successful artists. Rich Definition in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary 1) Having a great deal of money or assets;...
History tells that where there is big money to be made there is always a scammer out there to fake it. Many artists have copied their heroes in order to learn from the process of re-creating a work of art, but to forge a signature on it is where the trouble begins. It...
Welcome to the Top 10 - Art Disasters "A visual experience is vitalising. Whereas to write great poetry, to draw continuously on one's inner life, is not merely exhausting, it is to keep alight a consuming fire". - Sir Kenneth Clark Throughout the centuries art has...
This week's Top 10 takes a look at works of art that have been hated by some but not always by all. Hate is a subjective state of mind, what one individual or group may love, another may vilify. This selection of works may be critically acclaimed but carry very little...