Trying to get hold of Rachel Whiteread to talk about her new exhibition at Tate Britain, her largest to date is rather like attempting to gain an audience at the White House.
11 September 2017
Art News, Interviews, Reviews
Sir Antony Gormley, the Turner Prize winning artist and creator of the Angel Of The North Sculpture in Gateshead is to curate the 2017 Koestler Awards exhibition of art by offenders, secure patients, and immigration removal centre detainees.
30 July 2017
Art News
One of the highlights of the London contemporary art calendar is the Goldsmiths 2017 MFA degree exhibition.
18 July 2017
Features
The Art Fund has announced the five museums which have been selected as finalists for Art Fund Museum of the Year 2017, the most prestigious prize for museums in the UK.
28 April 2017
Announcement, Art News, News
The clocks have gone forward heralding British Summer Time and the Easter holidays are approaching. So if you are thinking of leaving London for a short break, here is a select list of 10 exhibitions to see around Britain.
27 March 2017
Features
JW Anderson curates ‘Disobedient Bodies’ The Hepworth Wakefield latest ambitious exhibition which merges fashion with roots firmly placed in fine art. Anderson is one of the world’s most innovative and critically acclaimed contemporary fashion designers. His exhibit responds to the Wakefield’s impressive collection of modern British art. This is the first in a new series of exhibitions at the award-winning gallery, curated by key figures from creative fields outside the visual arts, from fashion and music to film and literature.
19 March 2017
Preview
The British Council has announced their 2017 partnership with England, Scotland, and Wales in presenting three exhibitions at the 57th International Venice Biennale Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia.
10 February 2017
Art News
Hull’s year as UK City of Culture is already off to a strong start, with January seeing the reopening of the Ferens Art Gallery and the launch of the new Humber Street Gallery with its first exhibition: COUM Transmissions. Since winning the title in 2013, the city has enjoyed a £1 billion boost in investment and unprecedented visitor numbers.
7 February 2017
News, Photo Features, Preview
London is a great city for art! Paul Carey-Kent regularly produces some of the best recommendations for London Art Exhibitions on a rolling basis.
27 January 2017
Reviews
The feminist art movement emerged in the 1960s with women artists taking an interest in how they differed from their male counterparts. Artlyst has put together its top 10 feminist artists.
27 December 2016
Features, Top 10
Rich is a non-gender specific term. But what about the fact that the top ten richest artists are all male. Welcome to Artlyst’s Top 10 Richest Women Artists. (First published June 2015)
23 December 2016
Features, Top 10
The Irish-born British artist Michael Craig-Martin has been awarded his Knighthood by Prince William (The Duke Of Cambridge .
7 December 2016
Art News, News
Since its heyday in the 1990s, when it helped to establish the reputation of the last really significant art movement in Britain – or perhaps anywhere else – that of the so-called YBAs or Younger British Artists – the Turner Prize has been in decline.
27 September 2016
Reviews
The reopening of the Ferens Art Gallery following a £4.5 million facelift, the Turner Prize, an exhibition of Francis Bacon’s Screaming Popes, Spencer Tunick’s nudes, works by… Read More
22 September 2016
Art News, News
The Colony Room: Masterpieces from Pallant House Gallery, is a major new exhibition, chronicling the life and times of the legendary… Read More
19 September 2016
Art News, News
Now in its sixth year, Sculpture in the City, the City of London’s annual public art programme, launches tomorrow with the… Read More
27 June 2016
Art News, News
Michael Craig-Martin, a truly influential artist, has been awarded a Knighthood, in the Queen’s birthday honours list. As the ultimate… Read More
11 June 2016
Art News, News
Oh no, not another bloody Listicle! When I first got into writing drivel for advertising, using a numbered list format was frowned upon.
1 June 2016
Art News, News
Damien Hirst’s reincarnated restaurant Pharmacy2, located in the Newport Street gallery in Vauxhall, the artist’s new permanent space for his collection, will… Read More
15 February 2016
Art News, News
Emma Hart has won the sixth Max Mara Art Prize for Women at a ceremony at the Whitechapel Gallery, London, on 3 February… Read More
3 February 2016
Art News, News
Happy New Year, bytches. Late in 2014 I began salivating over the announcement of the National Gallery’s autumn blockbuster for… Read More
8 January 2016
Artbytch, Features
A new scheme launched by The Contemporary Art Society (CAS), aims to address the lack of important works of Contemporary… Read More
11 December 2015
Art News, News
This week, Art Basel stages one of the largest art shows for Modern and Contemporary works of art in Miami… Read More
2 December 2015
Art News, News
The Turner Prize nominated painter who studied Fine Art at the south London university in the 1980s is giving the money to… Read More
30 November 2015
Art News, News
‘We are asleep. Our life is like a dream. But in our better hours we wake up just enough to… Read More
24 November 2015
Art News, News
The first Swiss exhibition of its kind exploring forms of pleasure in contemporary creation, Nirvana. Strange Forms of Pleasure is now on view… Read More
24 November 2015
Art News, News
With less than a week to go before the Venice Biennale draws to a close (ending 22 November) here is… Read More
17 November 2015
Art News, News
Welcome to the fifth birthday edition of the Artlyst Alternative Power 100. This is a list of merit awarded, by… Read More
2 November 2015
Art News, News
Sotheby’s Frieze week sales in London will be led by one of the greatest works of post-war Italian art ever… Read More
25 September 2015
Art Market, News
Regular readers will know of the special reserve of bile I harbour for one Damien Hirst: the businessman peddling ‘art’… Read More
11 September 2015
Artbytch, Features
Fiona Rae was among the generation of artists who rose to prominence after studying at Goldsmiths in the mid-1980s. In… Read More
9 September 2015
Art News, News
In the land of the exalted Madonna, Massimiliano Gioni presents a subversive, eclectic and extraordinary portrait of “The Great Mother.” Like the brilliant 2013… Read More
28 August 2015
Reviews