The London Jesuit Centre and Farm Street Church currently have a marvellous exhibition of icons by Dr Irina Bradley, one of the leading iconographers in the UK. With 75 works on show, this a substantive overview of Bradley’s work and includes a new icon of St Magnus...
‘Here, as in Heaven’ is the title of Ndidi Emefiele’s current exhibition, a body of work representing the artist’s philosophical attempt to understand the tragic death of her sister. These paintings represent a significant shift from the playful conjuring with the...
Two recent publications explore the place that religious Art occupied in 20th century Britain. Paul Liss writes in ‘Art, Faith and Modernity’ of the under-researched nature of religious Art in 20th-century British visual culture which has meant that those artists who...
Looking back at 2025, the standout UK Art Exhibitions show that there wasn’t a single aesthetic or tidy narrative linking everything together. This selection wasn’t created to reward an institution’s agenda. The strongest shows didn’t need to follow a curator’s...
Here is the Artlyst pick of out-of-London exhibitions on view this winter. There is renewed interest in the Bloomsbury Group and its circle with solo presentations of works by Vanessa Bell and Dora Carrington. Other solo shows include Chila Kumari Singh Burman,...
‘Lunar Lullabies’ is an exemplary exhibition that showcases inspiration, design, community engagement, and accessibility. It uses the opportunity of a locally significant anniversary to fashion an exhibition of wider interest and significance while also involving a...
The author of the biography Winslow Homer: American Passage, Bill Cross, is an independent scholar and a consultant to art and history museums. He is an author who tells stories of Americans whose works are known but whose lives are not. In 2019, he curated Homer at...
In Bruce Bernard: Portraits of Friends and in a noted John Deakin photograph of Michael Andrews, Frank Auerbach, Francis Bacon and Lucian Freud in Soho in 1963, we see the group conviviality which underpinned the angst typically depicted in the work of these...
The most vandalised artwork in modern history, 'Piss Christ', 1987, by the American artist Andres Serrano, is celebrating its 35th anniversary. On this occasion, the artwork will be immortalised on the Ethereum blockchain to guard against future destruction. The...