Richard Hamilton A Meticulous And Prescient Chronicler – London Retrospective
Richard Hamilton is a truly influential figure in the history of British art; considered to be the founder of the… Read More
14 February 2014
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Richard Branson Launches First Flying Art Gallery
Virgin Atlantic Airlines is collaborating with the British artist, Ben Eine, to launch first ever flying commercial art gallery. The… Read More
21 January 2013
Terence Conran Presented Arts Philanthropy Medal By Prince Charles
HRH The Prince of Wales presented Sir Terence Conran with a medal for Arts Philanthropy on 18 December. The medal… Read More
20 December 2012
Is Appropriation Art Finished? Read My Marilyn Monroe Red Lips
The discourse surrounding Appropriation Art has emerged as a nuanced exploration of cultural, societal, and artistic paradigms.
6 January 2024
Frieze Los Angeles 2023 – What The Dealers Had To Say
Frieze Los Angeles has returned for the Largest edition of the Fair Yet, With Strong Sales, International Attendance….
20 February 2023
Cult Film Director John Waters Donates Personal Art Collection To BMA
Cult-film director John Waters famous for his groundbreaking flicks, Pink Flamingos and Hairspray, has donated 372 works of art to the BMA
21 November 2022
Andy Warhol At 90 His Influence Lives On
Happy 90th Birthday Andy Warhol. This is the artist that propelled contemporary art to the breaking-point that we know today.
7 August 2018
Unseen John Virtue Paintings To Be Unveiled At Fortnum’s X Frank 2018
Fortnum & Mason will be continuing their annual artistic collaboration Fortnum’s X Frank 2018 (FXF18), 10th September – 20th October
7 July 2018
Art Basel 2018 Round-Up Reports Buoyant Sales At Core Event
Art Basel Switzerland which is always an important barometer in the art market has reported that some of the world’s premier galleries experienced remarkable sales across all levels of the market.
18 June 2018
Blue Chip Bling Art Features In New Las Vegas Gambling Palace
High value bluechip contemporary art displayed at alternative venues is usually something that excites us here at Artlyst; however,
24 May 2018
Art Consultant Lizanne Merrill Chooses Ten Works At Frieze NY 2018
Frieze New York is always one of the highlights of the international art calendar.
4 May 2018
Dale Lewis And Emma Cousin The Painterly Post Digital Vernacular – Paul Carey-Kent
The story of painting has become, in large part, the story of its response to other media, especially photography.
12 February 2018
Society Running on Empty at White Cube by Edward Lucie-Smith
From the Vapor of Gasoline, the odd title of the new mixed exhibition at White Cube Mason’s Yard comes from a slogan Jean-Michel Basquiat scrawled across one of his paintings. The phrase, so the exhibition list tells one ‘conjures [up] a society running on empty’. That may well be so, but one has to remember that the painting concerned was produced in 1985, more than thirty years ago, at the very height of Basquiat’s success in the New York art world, then much closer to being globally dominant than it is now.
25 September 2017
Harland Miller – Voyage To The End Of Pop Art – Edward Lucie-Smith
Harland Miller’s rather handsome exhibition at White Cube, Mason’s Yard, looks more like the end of something than the beginning of something. There are several reasons why this is so.
10 August 2017
Happy Birthday Andy Warhol 89 – Rest In Peace
Happy Birthday Andy Warhol. This is the artist that propelled contemporary art to the breaking-point that we know today.
6 August 2017
Sotheby’s Contemporary Art Evening Sale Realises Respectable £62.3m Total
Sotheby’s Contemporary Art Evening Sale has realised a very respectable £62.3 million / $79.8 million / €70.4 million total.
29 June 2017
Mario Testino Puts His Personal Art Collection Under The Hammer At Sotheby’s
Mario Testino, is to put his art collection under the hammer at Sotheby’s. As one of the most celebrated photographers of our time, this project will look beyond Testino’s enigmatic images that have shaped contemporary culture and reveal the artist as collector, patron and collaborator.
27 May 2017
Glenn O’Brien NY Art Journalist And Style Guru Dies Aged 70
Glenn O’Brien, the NY art writer and style guru has died age 70.
7 April 2017
Crashproof: The Resilient Art World As Artlyst Saw It In 2016
Oh, what a year 2016 has been! Many of us won’t be sorry to see the end of it, although not to be overly pessimistic, 2017 will certainly have its challenges with both the Brexit economy and the new US President. Yes, the one with the bad haircut! On the Art front there was plenty to keep us entertained, amused and informed and here are the year’s highs and lows:
29 December 2016
Top 10 – Appropriation Artworks
Appropriation art or the art of appropriation is the use of pre-existing objects or images with little or no transformation applied to them. Here is the Artlyst top ten most controversial works of Appropriation Art, and some of the court cases that followed.
26 December 2016
Top 10 – Richest Living Women Artists
Rich is a non-gender specific term. But what about the fact that the top ten richest artists are all male. Welcome to Artlyst’s Top 10 Richest Women Artists. (First published June 2015)
23 December 2016
The Best Exhibitions Of 2016 – Chosen By Paul Black
Paul Black chooses his best exhibitions of 2016 and delves deeper than the blockbusters and often further afield from London.
20 December 2016
The Diminishing Landscape Of The Mid-Range Art Gallery
A few weeks ago Christie’s New York and Stropheus Art Law hosted a panel dialogue entitled “Letting go of Brick-and-Mortar:… Read More
9 October 2016
Appropriation In Art – Part of a Belief System By Edward Lucie- Smith
In recent years the word ‘appropriation’ has become a fashionable, obliquely commendatory term used in discussions of contemporary art. The implication is that… Read More
15 August 2016
Turner Prize 2016 The Artbytch Verdict Is Out And WTF
This week Artbytch looks at the announcement of the shortlisted Turner Prize nominees for 2016.
13 May 2016
Jean-Michel Basquiat Sets £40m World Auction Record At Christie’s
Christies Post-War and Contemporary Art evening sale in New York has realised a total US $318,388,000 / £220,796,117 /€279,086,291. The sell-through rates… Read More
11 May 2016
Instagram’s Democratisation of Photography Is An Art-form Unto itself
From those as successful as Ai Weiwei, to children newly born, it seems that everyone has an Instagram account. That’s… Read More
28 April 2016
Gustav Metzger, Yoko Ono, David Maljkovic – Among Artists At Modern Art Oxford
Modern Art Oxford presents the second exhibition in KALEIDOSCOPE, the Gallery’s year-long programme of unfolding exhibitions to celebrate their 50th… Read More
19 April 2016
ICA London Celebrates 70 Years Of Cutting Edge Excellence
The 70th Anniversary of the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA London) is celebrated to the day today. Edouard Léon Théodore Mesens, Roland… Read More
30 January 2016
Jeff Koons Back In Court: Plagiarism Or Image Sampling?
The American artist Jeff Koons is facing yet another lawsuit over plagiarism. Koons, who is one of the worlds most… Read More
15 December 2015
Gagosian Gallery Beverly Hills Marks Their 20th Anniversary With Special Exhibition
Gagosian Gallery Beverly Hills on North Camden Drive, founded by Larry Gagosian marks their twentieth anniversary by selecting a special… Read More
27 October 2015
Damien Hirst: From Cynical Pharmacy To Saatchi-Style Private Gallery
Regular readers will know of the special reserve of bile I harbour for one Damien Hirst: the businessman peddling ‘art’… Read More
11 September 2015