Since 2007, Monumenta, a major Paris-based arts event, has been commissioning internationally renowned artists to create large-scale installations for the nave of the Grand Palais – a vast building measuring 35 metres high with a glass rooftop that covers 13,500...
As we rapidly approach the New Year, Artlyst has compiled a list of the top ten art exhibitions to look out for in 2014. Most are located right here in London and just a tube ride away. Many are free or available for half price with an Art Fund card, which we highly...
Frank Auerbach: “Rembrandt is a miraculous draftsman of life in motion and one of the first painters who really moved me. He never stopped being important to me.” Following in a tradition of special displays of works by artists inspired by the...
The Ashmolean Museum has announced a major collaboration with the Hall Art Foundation to present a series of exhibitions of contemporary and post-war art drawn from the collections of the Hall Art Foundation and Andrew and Christine Hall. The collaboration will begin...
Sotheby's Paris Contemporary Art sale which took place on 5th June has broken the record for the Highest Contemporary Art Evening Sale Total of the 2013 Paris Summer Auction Season. The Highest Priced Contemporary Work of Art was Jean-Michel Basquiat's Crown...
On The Third Day Of His Diary Ben Austin Discovers Size May Matter To Some But Reputation Trumps Size!So, enter the big guns. The mega money and serious players are fully primed and ready to go trophy hunting. They want the big names, the blue chip stuff, artwork that...
The RA Now auction and exhibition has successfully auctioned off the works of 40 Royal Academicians and a number of international Honorary Royal Academicians who have donated significant pieces to the show. Highlights of the sale include Grayson Perry's unusual pot...
White Cube Hoxton, the prototype for many of London's new breed of gallery, are to shut their doors at number 48 Hoxton Square, after visitor numbers dropped, due to the competition from the other two branches of the gallery. The space opened by Jay Jopling, held its...
Has the Turner Prize winning artist Grayson Perry Created the first nude painting, showing a topless Kate Middleton? It was reported in the highly respected Guardian online today, that the Duchess of Cambridge is one of the subjects portrayed in a new work of art, to...