Founded in 1999, Modus Operandi, an independent arts unit with a track record of curating and producing high-quality art in the public realm, recently celebrated its 21st birthday. To mark this milestone, the company selected 21 projects at random, spanning the years...
There are three keys to the work of Arthur Jafa. The first is Black potention, an awareness that for Jafa derives from the act of cutting and pasting in collage. Since childhood, Jafa has cut pictures out of books and magazines, pasting them into new contexts in his...
Damien Hirst Releases 10k NFT Drawings With HENI Damien Hirst is producing his own NFTs (or non-fungible tokens) plus a cryptocurrency. He is accepting the cryptocurrencies Ether or Bitcoin for payment. Hirst recently released a new edition of Cherry Blossom Giclée...
Stuart Semple is one of the most energetic artist, curator, and inventors living in the UK today. Over the last two decades, he has built up a diverse and challenging body of work across multiple disciplines. His mantra that, "Art is neither an object nor an activity...
Duggie Fields, who died yesterday, was one of the new figurative painters that defined Britain in the 1970s and 80s. His work was internationally influential, especially his graphic sensibility. His fashion sense was second to none. He emerged in the early seventies...
Sir Alan Bowness CBE (11 January 1928 – 1 March 2021) British art historian, art critic, director of the Tate Gallery between 1980 and 1988 has died age 93. Bowness was active as an art critic in the late 1950s and early 1960s, writing for The Observer, Arts (New...
Blackpentecostal Breath: The Aesthetics of Possibility is proving to be a profoundly influential as well as innovative book. Its author Ashon T. Crawley – academic and artist – features in two exhibitions (one current, one upcoming) which explore themes taken from the...
What’s up for art here in London, once the pandemic is finally over? Will we all be able to go back to the state of things as they were, in the jolly days before the plague? Right now everything is still shut up tight. Avant-gardism and populism were beginning to fall...
Artlyst International News Brief: Camille Pissarro: Disputed Nazi Restitution Case Continues - Shai Baitel Appointed First Art Director Of MAM Shanghai - Louvre Abu Dhabi Explores Abstraction and Calligraphy As A Universal Language The University of Oklahoma which...