Masterpiece's inimitable strength is its ability to transcend the traditional pigeonholing of art into cultures” Philip Hewat-Jaboor, Chairman of Masterpiece. With friend, Paul Freud, we took a golf car at the entrance of Chelsea Bridge Road to drive to the 9th...
Tate St Ives has won the Art Fund Museum of the Year 2018 award. This is the largest and most prestigious museum prize in the world. Anne Barlow, Director of Tate St Ives, was presented with the £100,000 prize by artist Isaac Julien and the ‘world’s best teacher’...
Art Basel Switzerland which is always an important barometer in the art market has reported that some of the world’s premier galleries experienced remarkable sales across all levels of the market. The fair in Basel closed on Sunday, June 17, 2018, amid reports of...
The Royal Academy’s radical extension of its premises including some splendid new RA exhibition spaces and an imposing new lecture-theatre excites me, but also generates some doubts and mixed feelings. The first thing to say is that the conversion and extension have...
Art Fund has announced their shortlist of five UK museums selected as finalists for Art Fund Museum of the Year 2018, the world’s largest and most prestigious prize for museums. The museums shortlisted are: Brooklands Museum, Weybridge, Ferens Art Gallery, Hull,...
When I landed in Hong Kong a few days before the VIP opening of Art Basel HK, I could feel this year will be special. I have been attending all Art Basel fairs in Hong Kong, but there was definitely a buzz and an excitement in the air this year with 248 premier...
The National Gallery’s splendid new show, Monet & Architecture, caps a very rich Spring 2018 season of exhibitions in London, arriving as it does hot on the heels of the Charles I show at the Royal Academy and the Picasso 1932 show at Tate Modern. The only thing...
Although Artlyst essentially focuses on contemporary art reviews, gallery listings and not o operas, one has to admit that music and art cannot be looked at in an isolated manner, nor be segregated from other art forms. There is a certain energy that comes out of when...
The contemporary art world seems an increasingly strange place to be. It’s a realm where many of the people you meet – not so much the artists themselves, but the commentators, the organisers, the would-be movers-and-shakers – seem hubristically sure of themselves,...