The latest Serpentine Pavilion hunkers within the grounds of the Serpentine in Kensington Gardens like a dark grain silo transported from the prairies of the USA. But walk inside, and the eye is naturally drawn up to a circle of light. The open central dome frames the...
Black Chapel, designed by Chicago-based artist Theaster Gates is the 21st Serpentine Pavilion. It opened today 10 June 2022. It has been realised with the architectural support of Adjaye Associates with Goldman Sachs supporting the annual project for the eighth...
Re-enchantment, magnification and framing; are some of the approaches utilised in three shows which demonstrate the diversity and vitality of the contemporary art world. Les Lalanne, the late French wife and husband artistic duo, are the dreamers who re-enchant. As...
Artlyst has selected twelve exhibitions taking place in galleries and museums out of London and around the country this Spring 2022. Covering textile art, illustration, sculpture, painting, costume, and design, there is plenty to satisfy all tastes and interests....
The performance artist Leigh Bowery died of AIDS-related illness on New Year's Eve 1994 at only 33 years old. He didn't tell anyone he was sick - except his best friend, Sue Tilley. When she asked him what she should tell people when he died, he said: "Tell them I've...
Presenting the much-coveted Alt Power 100 Artlyst 2021. This is our way of acknowledging our industry's hard work and achievements, as we see it. The committee had a year off in 2020 due to the pandemic, but as most major art exhibitions and events have slowly...
Word on the street has it that Patrick Drahi, the new owner of Sotheby's, is contemplating a public offering (IPO) for the 277-year-old auction company. In 2019 after an attempted hostile takeover by the board, he took the company private. Bloomberg has speculated...
After half a million known opioid-related deaths, mainly in the US, the Sackler family, owners of Perdue Pharma Corporation, have had their name wiped from seven exhibition spaces at The Metropolitan Museum in New York. The museum and the Sackler family jointly...
She’s the oldest artist to have won the Turner Prize (she is now 67). Born in Zanzibar, Lubaina Himid returned with her Lancastrian, textile-designer mother to Maida Vale when little, after her African father died from malaria. They moved in with her aunt, a music...