As part of his video series, Great Artworks Explained, James Payne tackles The Garden of Earthly Delights by Hieronymus Bosch. Hieronymus Bosch painted The Garden of Earthly Delights at a pivotal moment in European history. Explorers were discovering new exotic lands,...
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Lynette Yiadom-Boakye Lets The Paint Tell The Story – James Payne
Fly In League With The Night, at Tate Britain, covers Lynette Yiadom-Boakye's work from her graduation in 2003 to the present day, with some paintings made during lockdown. I hadn't seen much of Yiadom-Boakye's work before and went into the show with no expectations....
Anish Kapoor Bringing Heaven To Earth – Houghton Hall – James Payne
Anish Kapoor is a magician, says Lord Cholmondeley in his introduction to this exhibition. His ancestral seat, Houghton Hall is presenting the largest ever exhibition of outdoor sculptures by Kapoor, including stone pieces he has been making for 25 years but never...
Great Artworks Explained A New Video Series By James Payne
This is a new series by Artist/historian James Payne demystifying great works of art. We will be adding to this page as the content is produced. Subscribe To Great Artworks Explained Here Sometimes, a Landscape painting is anything but a painting of a landscape. This...
Margate – Art In Ex Toilets And Family Homes – James Payne
With smaller Galleries being squeezed out of the market more and more, it makes sense to look towards ad hoc spaces. Inventive curators are turning away from the traditional White Cube and exploring the DIY and the domestic aesthetic. Two spaces in the tiny coastal...
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 are a great way to see a huge range of international work in a short amount of time, discover artists you didn’t know, and see what...
Ana Milenkovic First London Solo Show Announced By PayneShurvell Gallery
Ana Milenkovic works across a wide range of media to create art that evokes surprising, provoking and multi-layered meanings. In the open-ended scenes and narratives of her paintings, objects lose their integrity and turn into containers...
Alt Power 100 Artlyst 2025- 2026 Art In Our Time
When Artlyst first started its Alt Power 100 Artlyst fifteen years ago, we were aiming at an audience fed up with the gratuitous love fest that other Power 100 lists produced. This list rewarded the commercial while ignoring the hard work of curators, museum...
Critics’ Choice: Best UK Art Exhibitions 2025 – Artlyst
Looking back at 2025, the standout UK Art Exhibitions show that there wasn’t a single aesthetic or tidy narrative linking everything together. This selection wasn’t created to reward an institution’s agenda. The strongest shows didn’t need to follow a curator’s...