Christopher Le Brun Tranquil And Elegant – Lisson Gallery – Edward Lucie-Smith
I went to see Christopher Le Brun’s new exhibition, a solo at one of the branches of the Lisson Gallery.
30 July 2018
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Art Basel 2018 Everything Guide – All you need To Know
Art Basel 2018 which launches 14-17 June offers a Premier line-up of galleries at Art Basel’s 2018 edition in Basel Switzerland.
11 June 2018
Sydney Biennale 10 Of The Best – Martin Brown
On a recent trip back to visit my home country Australia, I had the opportunity to visit the recently opened… Read More
9 May 2018
Long-list Announced: John Moores 60th Anniversary Painting Prize 2018
The Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool has announced the 60 artists whose paintings will feature in the John Moores Painting Prize 2018 exhibition, marking 60 years of the UK’s longest-established painting prize.
25 April 2018
Gillian Ayres My Fiercely independent Friend – Sue Hubbard
Yesterday the art world not only lost one of its finest and most loved abstract painters, but I lost a great friend.
12 April 2018
Female Midas Depicts Alternative Golden Perspective Through Visual Art
“I feel privileged to be identified as the female Midas, but my purpose is to be influential to create change; to instil an alternative golden perspective in the minds of people with my touch.
8 April 2018
Highlights From Brussels including BRAFA and Christo by Gallerist James Payne
Gallerist James Payne from PayneShurvell visited Brussels recently during BRAFA and has selected his highlights from the fair. Art fairs… Read More
7 February 2018
Richard Long Knighted In New Year’s Honours List 2018
Richard Long, the four-times Turner Prize nominee and one-time winner (1989) has been knighted in the Queens New Year’s honours list.
29 December 2017
ParisPhoto 2017 Ebbs And Flows – by Zoltan Alexander
The Grand Palais always starts with the Mini Palais, the hidden corner café-bar-restaurant filled with friends, collectors, art lovers and the media.
23 November 2017
Louvre Abu Dhabi Launches With Spectacular Week-long Series Of Celebrations
The highly-anticipated Louvre Abu Dhabi has opened to a select group of dignitaries and press for a preview look at one of the worlds most prestigious new museum spaces.
7 November 2017
Tacita Dean Three Prong Exhibition To Spread Across Major London Galleries
The artist Tacita Dean will present three major London public gallery exhibitions at the National Portrait Gallery, Royal Academy of Arts, and National Gallery, in May 2018. It will be an unprecedented collaboration between the galleries and this well-known artist.
14 September 2017
Paul Cary -Kent Chooses His Must See Exhibitions For September 2017
Up Now in London – Paul Carey-Kent chooses the best of the Autumn season’s start.
13 September 2017
Nature Morte: Contemporary Still life Explored At Guildhall Art Gallery
A new exhibition celebrating the cult of Nature Morte explores how leading artists of the 21st century have reinvigorated the still life.
18 August 2017
Art Awakening Humanity Alexander de Cadenet Interviewed By Revd Jonathan Evens
Alexander de Cadenet’s series of bronze and silver sculptures featuring ‘consumables’ contain a deeper spiritual message. This includes his ‘Life-Burger’ hamburger sculptures… Read More
30 July 2017
Qatar Boycott: Will It Marginalise The Region’s Cultural Renaissance?
Last October I was in Doha the capital of Qatar which seemed like a well-oiled machine when it came to Art, Education, and Culture.
15 June 2017
Christie’s Secures David Rockefeller Collection For Highest Estimated Auction Sale
Christie’s Auctioneers have secured the estate of David Rockefeller, the youngest son of American philanthropist John D. Rockefeller, Jr. and art patron Abby Aldrich Rockefeller.
7 June 2017
Art Basel Plus Satellite Fair Guide 2017 What To See
Art Basel 2017 is a curated selection of 291 first-rate galleries exhibiting at the fair’s 48th edition in Basel. The gallery list for the Swiss event, taking place from June 15 to June 18, 2017, is a corker.
7 June 2017
Vulgarity Rules A-List Contemporary Art Non-Existent At Riviera amfAR AIDS Gala
A – lister actors Leonardo DiCaprio, Dustin Hoffman, Nicole Kidman and Will Smith turned out for the amfAR AIDS benefit that is the social highlight of the Cannes film festival. The event held annually at the Eden Roc Hotel, Cap d’Antibes on the French Riviera saw celebrities and benefactors paying up to $500,000 for a table. But where was the Contemporary art on the auction block?
30 May 2017
Early Chinese Buddhist Art from Dunhuang Cave Recreated In London
Dunhuang, an oasis on the ancient Silk Road in northern China, is known for its caves containing some of the world’s finest examples of Buddhist art, created over a period of 1000 years. Millions visit this UNESCO world heritage site each year.
2 May 2017
Fourth Plinth Commission “Good For A Disposable Laugh” – Edward Lucie-Smith
The next two occupants of the so-called Fourth Plinth Commission in Trafalgar Square have just been announced and, true to form, the British visual arts establishment has laboured and given birth to a mouse. Or, to be fair, to two mice, one of them just slightly larger than the other. I speak not in terms of size, but in those of probable effect.
24 March 2017
Rachel Whiteread Village Installation Given Permanent Home At V&A MOC
Rachel Whiteread’s celebrated artwork Place (Village) (2006-2008) will go on permanent display at the V&A Museum of Childhood
18 March 2017
Mersad Berber: Pera Museum Launches An Opulent Allegory of Bosnia
Mersad Berber (1940 – 2012) is one of the greatest and the most significant representatives of Bosnian – Herzegovinian and Yugoslav art in the second half of the 20th century
25 February 2017
London Art Exhibitions February 2017 Chosen By Paul Carey-Kent
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
Hannah Rose Thomas Unveils Refugee Crisis Portraits From Jordan
Hannah Rose Thomas’ intimate portraits seek to humanise the individuals forced to flee their homes, whose personal stories are otherwise shrouded by statistics.
8 January 2017
Top 10 – Artists That Died In Poverty
The term “starving artist,” is a stereotype! Yet many well-known artists did die in poverty – here is Artlyst’s top 10 artists that died in poverty.
23 December 2016
Top 10 – Monochrome: Works of Art in Black and White
A new exhibition at the National Gallery is a celebration of monochrome and in particular painting in black and white. Artlyst has curated its own selection.
21 December 2016
Is Figurative Painting An Essential Form Of Art Making? By Edward Lucie-Smith
Painter’s Painters at the Saatchi Gallery picks up the theme of figurative painting as a still essential and central form of art making and tries to give it a new spin.
10 December 2016
London Art Exhibitions Chosen By Paul Carey-Kent December 2016
Paul Carey- Kent chooses his pick for December 2016 through the new year.
5 December 2016
Jimmy Cauty Delivers A Post-Brexit, Post-Trump Disaster-Scape. Merry Christmas
A shipping container covered in graffiti sits among the dreaming spires of Oxford, and my partner hears a rather haughty voice remark ‘…Well I don’t think it’s appropriate for the setting of the university, …and not very Christmassy!’,
5 December 2016
Jimmy Cauty: The Aftermath Dislocation Principle, Riot Tour Travels To Oxford
The Aftermath Dislocation Principle (ADP) the latest work from artist Jimmy Cauty, housed in a 40 ft shipping container is a monumental post-riot landscape in miniature – arriving in Oxford between the 25th and 27th November before it continues its country-wide tour of ‘riot sites’ until Christmas Day.
17 November 2016
Above And Beyond Caravaggio: Just How Far Beyond By Edward Lucie -Smith
The new Beyond Caravaggio show in the sepulchral depths of the new wing of the National Gallery deserves to draw a large and enthusiastic public and will in all probability do so.
13 October 2016
Ai Weiwei First Major Italian Retrospective Unveiled
Italy’s first major retrospective dedicated to the Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei opens 23 September at Palazzo Strozzi in Florence. Curated by… Read More
21 September 2016