The iconic British artist Michael Craig-Martin will present an exhibition of painting, sculpture and prints at The Gallery at Windsor, Vero Beach, Florida, opening 29 January 2019.
13 November 2018
I have various reasons for being interested in Edward Burne-Jones. Some are purely personal. For example, I happen to live in the area of West London where Burne-Jones spent thirty years of his adult life.
25 October 2018
The Turner Prize-winning artist Lubaina Himid and The octogenarian artist Rose Wylie have been given OBEs in the Queens Birthday List.
9 June 2018
One Hundred years after the suffragette movement which culminated in women gaining the right to vote, it feels like this may finally be the year for Women and with International Women’s Day this week, let’s celebrate. So what about artists labelled GIRLS – and even worse, “Glasgow Girls?
5 March 2018
A Leonardo da Vinci painting depicting Christ has become the world’s most expensive work of art sold at auction. The rediscovered masterpiece by the Renaissance master sold for a historic $450,312,500, superseding the previous world record for the most expensive work of art at auction.
16 November 2017
The Cezanne portrait show at the National Portrait Gallery follows hot on the heels of the show of portraits by Soutine currently on view at the Courtauld.
26 October 2017
Twenty years in the planning, the Oscar Wilde Temple gloriously debuted in New York City’s Church of the Village. The artist duo David McDermott and Peter McGough have transformed the Russell Chapel into an opulent Victorian fantasy that replicates the sensual Aesthetic Movement championed by Wilde.
15 September 2017
At first glance, the late Victorian grandee who works is now in a show at Leighton House, and today’s culture hero Damien Hirst, leader of the YBA revolution of the 1990s, would seem to have little in common.
28 August 2017
The Hepworth Wakefield is presenting an exhibition of 25 works personally selected by Tim Sayer MBE
8 August 2017
Tim Sayer and Annemarie Norton, whose personal collection, built up over the last five decades was generously donated to the Hepworth Wakefield last year were on stage to see The Hepworth Wakefield win this year’s Art Fund Museum of The Year £100,000 prize.
7 July 2017
The Hepworth Wakefield has won this year’s Museum of The Year Award. The gallery located in West Yorkshire has beaten Tate Modern, the Lapworth Museum of Geology in Birmingham, Sir John Soane’s Museum in London and the National Heritage Centre for Horseracing and Sporting Art in Suffolk. The Art Fund aims to reward an institution that has shown “exceptional imagination, innovation, and achievement across the preceding 12 months”.
6 July 2017
Dame Julia Peyton-Jones the former co-director of the Serpentine Gallery in London, for over 25 years, has been appointed Senior Global Director of Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac. Peyton-Jones will take on her ambassadorial and curatorial role on 1 September 2017, and will be based in London, where the gallery opened a new space in Mayfair earlier this year.
25 June 2017
The Royal Academy of Arts has announced the election of the internationally renowned architect Sir David Adjaye and artist Gilbert & George as new Royal Academicians.
17 March 2017
Julia Peyton-Jones, the former director of the Serpentine Gallery has become a mother for the first time at 64. In October 2015 she announced her departure from the gallery after 25 years of service to work independently in contemporary architecture, and art as well as travel, and return to art making, which she gave up 30 years ago to become a curator.
19 January 2017
In light of current world events, Artlyst thought it poignant to point out that with change comes cultural diversity, which in turn empowers the evolution of art. Here is our list of the top 10 refugee artists.
24 December 2016
The Irish-born British artist Michael Craig-Martin has been awarded his Knighthood by Prince William (The Duke Of Cambridge .
7 December 2016
Claudio Rasano has won the Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize 2016. His portrait of a Johannesburg schoolboy, on exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery, has taken the prestigious £15,000 award.
17 November 2016
The Paul Hamlyn Foundation has announced the recipients of the 22nd annual Awards for Artists, the largest individual awards made to visual artists and composers in the UK.
14 November 2016
The Royal Academy of Arts has elected Olafur Eliasson and Jenny Holzer as honorary RAs for 2016. The have also elected Sonia Boyce as… Read More
14 April 2016
Phyllida Barlow the sculptor best known for large scale installations, has been selected to create a key solo show for the British Pavilion… Read More
4 March 2016
Creating Figurative Works some where between Jenny Saville and Lucian Freud, Rizvan Rahman has been building up an impressive body of paintings… Read More
3 February 2016
Phyllida Barlow will be the fortieth artist to join the ARTIST ROOMS collection the collection at The National Galleries of Scotland (NGS)… Read More
15 January 2016
The internationally renowned photographer Annie Leibovitz has launched her latest exhibition ‘WOMEN: New Portraits’ in London. This is a global tour of new photographs… Read More
14 January 2016
Sir Anish Kapoor, the Turner Prize winning artist has unveiled his candle design for 70 candles for 70 years project… Read More
27 January 2015
In the lead up to the 30th Anniversary of the Turner Prize, presented at Tate Britain from 30th September to… Read More
11 September 2014
This autumn, ‘Walk On’: From Richard Long to Janet Cardiff – 40 Years of Art Walking’ ends its major tour… Read More
20 August 2014
Tracey Emin’s Turner Prize nominated ‘My Bed’ installation has sold at Christie’s, London salesroom tonight for £2.5m (including commission), a… Read More
2 July 2014
Steve McQueen, the Turner Prize winning director of 12 Years a Slave, which was awarded the Oscar for best picture… Read More
3 March 2014
The Turner Prize winning artist Steve McQueen’s has won the People’s Choice award for his film 12 Years a Slave,… Read More
16 September 2013
A 60th Birthday celebration exhibition at Art First honours the artist Eileen Cooper who was elected a Royal Academician in… Read More
10 September 2013
Following in the footsteps of Anish Kapoor, Stella McCartney and Jimmy Choo, the degree shows at University Of The Arts… Read More
5 June 2013
Michael Hoppen unveils the treasures of his extraordinary private photography collection in the gallery’s largest public exhibition to date. To… Read More
10 December 2012
