I Heart Paris In The Autumn: Nico Kos Earle Explores Art In The French Capitol
Presenting works in the Jardin des Tuileries – Domaine National du Louvre, on Place Vendôme, in the Chapelle des Petits-Augustins des Beaux-Arts de Paris
28 October 2023
Photo Feature
Frieze Week Still A Relevant Cultural Sounding Board – Nico Kos-Earle
As London opened its doors to the international art world for Frieze Week, a host of exhibitions and collateral events… Read More
18 October 2023
Contemporary Istanbul 18th Edition 2023 – James Payne
Istanbul is a great city for an art weekend, and what better time than during their art fair.
3 October 2023
Turner Prize 2023: Eastbourne Exhibition Revealed In Pictures – Artlyst Exclusive
The Turner Prize is among contemporary British art’s most prestigious and influential awards. It was established in 1984 to honour a British artist
27 September 2023
Van Gogh In Auvers sur Oise: Visions of Genius – Mariella Guzzoni
With 30 kilos of luggage, just enough to hold his most precious items, Vincent boarded the train heading back North… Read More
2 August 2023
Shattering Boundaries: The Powerful Legacy of Black Women Artists
Black women artists have played a pivotal role in challenging artistic conventions, disrupting narratives, and reclaiming spaces within the art world.
15 July 2023
Mark Godfrey on Alighiero Boetti: Interview of the Month, July 2023 – Paul Carey-Kent
Anyone wanting to understand the innovative art of the Italian conceptualist Alighiero Boetti (1940-94) should head to Ben Brown Fine Arts / Claridge’s ArtSpace
4 July 2023
Surveying New Exhibitions With A Spiritual Twist January 2023 Art Diary – Revd Jonathan Evens
Surveying current and upcoming exhibitions at the turn of the year provides evidence of the breadth and depth of the past and present engagement between art and spirituality.
4 January 2023
Art Vaudeville: Frieze London and Frieze Masters – Nico Kos Earle
Sometimes I wonder if the art fair is a symptom of the internet and our contemporaneous assumption that everything is instantly available at the click of a button
18 October 2022
1-54 Art Fair London: My Six Favourite Exhibits – Lee Sharrock
As 1-54 celebrates its 10th birthday, the first international art fair to focus on modern and contemporary art from Africa and its diaspora
16 October 2022
Spiritual Joseph Beuys Plus More: September Diary – Revd Jonathan Evens
Last year was the centenary of the birth of Joseph Beuys. Centenary exhibitions included ‘The Inventor of Electricity – Joseph Beuys and the Christian Impulse’
3 September 2022
Holiday Snaps – End Of Summer Art Diary – Revd Jonathan Evens
Miguel de Unamuno wrote that, “In Mallorca art becomes reason and reason art.” While Palma is the obvious centre in which to test this maxim…
31 August 2022
Ten Things To Shout About At London’s Masterpiece Art Fair – Nico Kos Earle
Masterpiece is one of London’s unmissable art fairs. This is a melting pot where visitors can view and buy the finest works of art, design, furniture and jewellery
6 July 2022
Steven Campbell Dressing Above Your Station Fashion And Textiles In His Work – Clare Henry
Fashion and Textiles in the Life and Work of the Artist Steven Campbell tells his story using the thread of his dramatic outfits.
23 May 2022
Dreaming With Our Bodies In Ancient Futures – Venice Biennale 2022 – Marie-Louise Jones
The 59th Venice Biennale reconnects sensory awareness with ancestral forms of knowledge
23 May 2022
Martin Parr: Interview of the Month May 2022 – Paul Carey-Kent
Martin Parr is famous worldwide for over 50 years of intensely colourful and wittily affectionate photographic observations of people.
3 May 2022
59th Venice Biennale: Twelve Things To See On-Site – Paul Carter Robinson
I have just returned from the 59th Venice Biennale, which was thrown off course by a year due to the pandemic.
27 April 2022
Glasgow’s Burrell Nearly 40 Years On Gets A New Look – Clare Henry
Back in 1983, on the day the Queen opened the famous Burrell, I reported enthusiastically for the BBC on its unique qualities.
11 April 2022
My Art Diary And Other Thoughts February 2022 – Revd Jonathan Evens
9/11, made Rachel Feinstein want to use religious iconography in her work again. The result is Mirror, her current art exhibition at Gagosian.
9 February 2022
Art Basel Miami Beach 2021 Pull Out Fair Guide – Artlyst
The last Art Basel Miami Beach to take place was in 2019. It was an optimistic time for the international art world
24 November 2021
New York Exhibitions November/December 2021 From Jasper Johns To Alex Katz – Ilka Scobie
Ilka Scobie trawls through the best art exhibitions New York currently has to offer.
22 November 2021
Cristina Iglesias: Hondalea Donostia San Sebastián A Sensory Adventure – Veronica Simpson
Iglesias (b1956) launched her most ambitious – and many say her best – artwork to date in her home town of Donostia-San Sebastián in June 2021
20 November 2021
Fabergé: Lavish Opulent And Magnificently Kitsch – Bring On The Revolution!
Whenever you hear the name Fabergé, you think of opulent, lavish, jewelled, decorated and, let’s face it kitsch, Russian Imperial eggs.
18 November 2021
Frieze And Frieze Masters 2021 Artlyst Chooses Twenty Of The Best
Frieze London was back on course this year, with most dealers putting their best foot forward. You could feel the excitement and ‘antici…pation’
18 October 2021
Banksy Spraycation – East Coast Summer 2021 – How To Find Them
Banksy Spraycation Guide. How To Find Them in Great Yarmouth, Gorleston and Cromer, Norfolk, Lowestoft and Oulton Broad in Suffolk
14 August 2021
London Galleries and Museums: The Lights Are On But No One’s Home – Steve Daszko
Lockdown II – When the first lockdown started in March last year, Tate, like all Art Galleries, suffered financially.
11 January 2021
Six Black Artists Depict Race and Discrimination – MC Llamas
The BLM protests in recent weeks have shown us how relevant issues of race still are. It’s shocking to see that racial discrimination still exists in this day and age. It is our role as cultural influencers to give our attention and support to the fight against systemic racism.
13 June 2020
Black Lives Matter March American Embassy London – Oliver Malin
Unless you’ve been stuck in outer space or Elon Musk has deployed you to test out the feasibility of luxury corporate space travel during the pandemic, you’ll be aware that we are currently experiencing the most significant global Black civil rights movement since 1968.
10 June 2020
Lockdown London A Photo Essay By Oliver Malin
It seems odd to be writing an introduction to a lockdown London photographic series investigating the epicentre of the night, the quiet, airy night, which is the sum total of the stillness that has occurred thanks to the reduction in human footprint around a city, which has been so alive at all times of the day and night since Londinium has cooked up by the Romans.
26 April 2020
Solitude An Essay By Jeremy Cooper
Some of us have spent much of our lives seeking first to explain to self and then to justify to loved others the need to spend most of our time in solitude. It is oddly gratifying now to be ordered by the Prime Minister, whose personality and politics I do not like, to live exactly as I have chosen to for the last twenty years.
6 April 2020
Frieze LA 2020: What The Dealers Said
Frieze LA 2020 attracted 35,000 visitors during its four days at Paramount Pictures Studios, which featured 75 local and international galleries in addition to unique artist commissions as part of Frieze Projects and the Artist Street Fair on the Paramount Pictures Backlot.
17 February 2020
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 town of Margate are opening up a wider dialogue with international artists and also raising questions as to where their work should be seen.
7 February 2020