Late bronzes attributed to the British-Mexican surrealist artist Leonora Carrington have sharply divided scholars, collectors, and her heirs into two camps of opinion regarding her final works…
30 October 2024
Leonora Carrington spent much of her childhood feeling out of place and not at home. As an adult and as an artist, she created replacement hybrid families by interacting with a wide range of artistic friends.
30 October 2024
Newlands House Gallery in Petworth, Sussex, unveils a compelling exhibition highlighting Leonora Carrington’s (1917-2011)
11 July 2024
Leonora Carrington (1917-2011) was brought up in Lancashire but through the extraordinary turn of events in her life, she met Surrealist… Read More
31 March 2015
Leonora Carrington 6 April 1917 – 25 May 2011 was a British-born Mexican artist, painter, sculptor, writer, alchemist, visionary
26 May 2011
Here is the Artlyst pick of out-of-London exhibitions on view this winter.
26 November 2024
100 years of Surrealism is celebrated with an epic exhibition at the Pompidou Centre in Paris………….
15 November 2024
I begin the November Art Diary with exhibitions by artists with whom I have some former connections, starting with some I have interviewed, such as Michael Petry, Sean Scully and Genesis Tramaine.
4 November 2024
I begin the October Art Diary with several monographs, which are also linked to launch exhibitions.
2 October 2024
London’s art scene goes into hyperdrive every October, and this year promises to be no exception. From 9 October to the 13th, Frieze Week takes over London’s Regent’s Park…
1 October 2024
The return of Frieze Sculpture in Regent’s Park from September 18 to October 27, 2024, always feels like the start of a new art season…
22 July 2024
The July Art Diary includes exhibitions at Fitzrovia Chapel, Ingleby, The Gallery of Everything, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Cristea Roberts Gallery, The Parsonage Gallery, Wellhouse Gallery
2 July 2024
Women artists are taking centre stage in the UK’s exhibition scene this summer.
2 July 2024
December’s art diary begins with books that would make interesting gifts this Christmas before focusing on our usual eclectic mix of exhibition
4 December 2023
For my November Art Diary, I highlight exhibitions in Cambridge, Venice, Hastings, Lisbon, St David’s, Cookham and Colchester
1 November 2023
Returning to NYC after a prolonged absence, I was dazzled by the vitality of current museum and gallery shows. Here are a few of the treasures autumn has unveiled.
22 October 2023
Marcel Duchamp’s “Fountain” has long stood as a defining moment in the annals of modern art history, a urinal.
17 October 2023
I was curious to see how the Curator Cecilia Alemani – one of the few female curators of the Biennale, was going to address the pandemic of the last two years and how this historical moment we all went through was going to be reflected in one of the most important non-commercial Art rendez-vous.
18 May 2022
The Venice Biennale sparks surreal conversations between past and present in ‘Milk of Dreams’, curated by Cecilia Alemani
2 May 2022
The 59th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia, titled ‘The Milk of Dreams’, from Saturday April 23 to Sunday November 27
16 April 2022
Surrealism: Beyond Borders presents an expansive and hugely varied retelling of the story of Surrealism that challenges the Paris-centric traditional art history tale of its flourishing.
1 March 2022
Updated: Artists Alexandra Sukhareva and Kirill Savchenkov and curator Raimundas Malašauskas have pulled out of the Russian Pavilion at the… Read More
28 February 2022
Cross Lane Projects in Kendal reopens this Summer with an exhibition by Mark Woods. Curated by Vanya Balogh, the exhibition features objects, vignettes & photographs of elaborate artefacts housed in a purposely designed environment that aims to enhance viewers’ disorientation and surprise.
13 July 2021
La Biennale di Venezia Announce Title and Theme – Monumental Kokoschka Triptych On Display At Relaunched Courtauld – QUEERCIRCLE New LGBTQ+ Community Space
9 June 2021
Jude Cowan Montague explores Seaside Modern: Art and Life on the Beach at Hastings Contemporary.
3 June 2021
As a new young arts writer, I once went to Eileen Agar’s flat in Kensington. I honestly didn’t know who she was at that time. The flat was quite conventional, except for a few collages on the walls and her famous Bouillabaisse hat – constructed of cork and decorated with a large orange plastic flower, a blue plastic star, assorted shells, glass beads and starfish – sitting on a stand.
24 May 2021
We’ve just welcomed in not only a new year but a new decade. So let’s look forward to the exciting exhibitions that will be on offer in London during 2020.
2 January 2020
The New Year revels are over. It’s January, and the art world is back to work. The first sign of this stirring is the London Art Fair 2019 that returns to the capital from 16-20 January.
17 January 2019
The winner of the UK’s most popular acquisition in 2018 is an Anglo-Saxon gold pendant, found in Winfarthing, Norfolk and purchased by Norwich Castle Museum and Art Gallery.
18 December 2018
The London Art Fair 2019 (LAF) returns to the capital from 16-20 January to obliterate the winter blues and give us a boost of vitamin D.
17 December 2018
If you’re planning on heading out of London this summer, Artlyst has put together a list of twelve exhibitions to see around the UK. The main event over the summer has to be the Liverpool Biennial but Artlyst is covering this deserving spectacle elsewhere. However, while in Liverpool don’t miss Tate Liverpool’s powerful comparison study of Egon Schiele and Francesca Woodman and the 60th anniversary John Moores Painting Prize at the Walker Art Gallery. Elsewhere around Britain shows not to miss include the Patrick Heron retrospective at Tate St Ives, Elisabeth Frink at Abbot Hall in Cumbria, Yves Klein at Blenheim Palace and Antony Gormley at Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge.
20 July 2018
Three very different books that somehow reflect different facets of the same situation.
19 March 2018
