The last time we saw Wallace Chan’s work was in the Docklands in London when he showed ten of his large-scale titanium and iron sculptures in an exhibition titled “A Dialogue Between Materials and Time, Titans XIV”. Chan’s work is very much about space and materials...
Even if you don’t know Robert Indiana’s name, you know his most popular work, LOVE. Cited as the most known artwork in the world, it is, in fact so famous that many people may not even realise it’s an artwork at all. few images have been co-opted by so many diverse...
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...
James Payne has been to Paris to see Christo's wrapping of L'Arc de Triomphe. Napoléon's monument to himself has been turned into a memento mori for our times, and Le petit caporal would not have approved. It takes a lot to amaze the famously blasé Parisians, but the...
James Payne reviews the new film "The Lost Leonardo" directed by Andreas Koefed and encounters a thrilling journey through the murky world of art. This is a story about money. About a painting bought for a thousand dollars from a shady auction house in 2005 and sold...
James Payne explores the curious uncanny and taboo world of Mark Woods in his exhibition Absorption at Cross Lane Projects, Kendal. Woods uses kaleidoscopes, mirrors and trickery to confound our senses. When we think of the Lake District, we think of British classics...
Yorkshire Sculpture Park is open again for business, and it is so good to revisit it. The great news is many of its temporary shows have been extended, like Joana Vasconcelos' Beyond (till January 2022). Recently the stunning ‘399 Days', by Rachel Kneebone, once at...
James Payne embraces the end of silence after months of lockdown in two new exhibitions: Ryoji Ikeda at 180 The Strand and Matthew Barney at the Hayward Gallery. After months of peace and quiet, no noisy roads, no loud restaurants, no dark and dingy music venues and...
Anka Dabrowska, a Warsaw born queer woman artist living and working in London, spoke to Artlyst on the eve of an exciting new project in the seaside town of Margate. Anka is a storyteller. She is a collector of the hidden tales she finds in the detritus others leave...