The Grayson Perry show that just opened at the Serpentine Gallery offers both a very new version of now-obligatory populism in the promotion of contemporary visual art and at the same time, a sly critique of it. "Here’s art that makes a whole series of relevant...
Paul Carey-Kent offers Artlyst his choice of the best London Art Exhibitions to see in June 2017 Sara Barker: a weak spot in the Earth @ The Approach To 25 June: http://theapproach.co.uk Hour-watching silver and exact water is in water within within within 2017 -...
The American artist Dan Colen (b. 1979, New Jersey) is to be represented by Dominique Lévy and Brett Gorvy. This marks a conjoining of galleries which also exhibit the artist's work. In the past Gagosian and Massimo de Carlo, Milan had an exclusive deal with the...
Central St Martins BA and MA degree shows kicked off this weekend with a number of multidisciplinary exhibitions stretching across the Kings Cross campus. The MA was a bit more colourful and fun this year with a heavy emphasis on Performance and Installation Art with...
The American artist Wayne Thiebaud has always had the capacity to create serial images that make us think of the likeness between art and life. It renders him philosophical, thought-provoking and inquisitive. Rather than a de facto “realist”, we might better conceive...
David Bailey is not at all what I expected. He’s imposing without being scary. He’s warm and down to earth. He speaks his mind, unafraid and not at all intimidated by the art establishment. He is knowledgeable and references all the right things. And I escaped being...
The first ever solo exhibition of the iconic 60s pop artist Larry Smart (1945-2006) including his iconic Hendrix and Lennon silkscreen prints launches to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Summer of Love 1967-2017. Larry Smart RETRO-spective is the first ever solo...
One of the best ways to keep your finger on the pulse of emerging art trends in London is to attend some of the vital degree shows which open to the public starting this month. May launches the London degree show season where Visual Arts students are given...
1. German Pavilion: Anne Imhof Anne Imhof’s performance installation at the German Pavilion has a lot of hype and deservedly so. ‘Faust’ has strong themes of power, control and submission throughout. Caged dogs and loud music plays from the pavilion; Berlin styled...