The chancellor George Osborne has announced in his budget that Museums and galleries are to get tax relief to help cover the costs of developing temporary or touring exhibitions. He also stated that museum VAT refunds will be extended to all museums and...
An exhibition by Angela de la Cruz, together with two new public art commissions on Hoxton Street, in the heart of East London, will be the inaugural show at the newly renovated PEER gallery. Angela de la Cruz’s presentation will feature her...
Tate Modern and The Southbank Centre both suffered large falls in visitor numbers in 2015 with 18% and 19% drops respectively. Tate Modern's 4.7 million visitors was the lowest for 10 years, however figures are expected to improve this year following...
Not long after the National Gallery’s opening of Delacroix and the Rise of Modern Art, here is another exhibition showing an iconic artist’s influence on subsequent generations. However, unlike the Delacroix, with Botticelli Reimagined at the...
The musician, actor and visual artist David Bowie has died in New York, age 69. He was recently the subject of a comprehensive retrospective exhibition at the V&A museum in Kensington. The show travelled and was a great insight into Bowie’s early years and his...
Artlyst looks back on the innovators who passed away in 2015. These are the people who have made an outstanding contribution to our industry, in the many layers of the art world, whether it be as a painter, sculptor, designer, photographer, art critic,...
The New Years Honours list has again been very thin on the ground for the Visual Arts, but on the upshot women in the arts have faired well. The List for 2015 has not reflected the contribution the Visual Arts sector has undertaken, despite considerable...
On the first day of Christmas my true love gave to me:A partridge in an Ai Weiwei Tree This year has been a sort of ‘homecoming’ for Ai Weiwei: with his passport returned galleries all around the UK welcomed his return with a flurry of activity,...
It has been another fabulous year for Art Basel Miami Beach with strong sales and a record number of visitors to the Miami Convention Centre event, as well as Untitled, Art Miami, NADA and Pulse. The fairs which opened early in the week saw the...