12+ hour, 47+ min ago  (749+ words) Artlyst London Museum Smithfield Set To Open In November 2026 Museum of London, rebranded as London Museum, has confirmed it will open at the General Market in Smithfield on 28 November 2026. The date ends a decade of restoration work on the Victorian…...

2+ day, 10+ hour ago  (138+ words) No Life Without Death: A New Exhibition at The Lightbox Museum, Woking Painting By Paul Freud The three Cole-Levi Klimt artists are Paul Freud, Meryl Donoghue and Eva Yates. Freud works across painting, drawing and sculpture, navigating the territory between…...

4+ day, 7+ hour ago  (434+ words) Bowling has been critically underrecognised for much of his career, a situation that has been slowly correcting itself. The Tate retrospective in 2019 was a significant moment. The Foundation represents something more permanent, an institutional infrastructure for the work that doesn't…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (473+ words) Artlyst Barbara Hepworth said it herself, in conversation with her son-in-law, the art historian Alan Bowness: "In a way my colour has been accepted, but never understood." That line sits near the centre of this catalogue, and it earns its…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago  (183+ words) Yinka Shonibare and Thomas Gainsborough: A Conversation at the National Gallery The fabric matters too, and it always has in Shonibare's work. Dutch wax cotton, or ankara, is most commonly associated with West African dress, though its origins are Dutch,…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago  (952+ words) If I can summarise your previous work: typically large-scale horizontal-format paintings depicting life in the East End through multiple figures, painted quickly by pulling together details from your sketched street observations to form narratives, all underpinned by compositional structures lifted…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago  (406+ words) Contemporary Art Influencer Jerry Gogosian Found Dead in S'o Paulo Artlyst Contemporary Art Influencer Jerry Gogosian Found Dead in S'o Paulo Hilde Lynn Helphenstein, the artist and commentator who built one of the art world's most recognisable satirical personas under…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago  (290+ words) Vienna-born, she came to England as a baby in 1938, her family part of the Jewish flight from a city that had turned on its own. She grew up in Worcestershire, studied at Saint Martin's and then the Slade, and spent…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago  (168+ words) Boni's curatorial argument is that the Santander period should be understood as formative rather than merely biographical, a chapter in Carrington's development as an artist rather than simply a record of her suffering. The themes she began exploring in the…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago  (222+ words) Books about overlooked artists or groups of artists tend to fall into one of two spheres. They either become exhaustive catalogues or they narrow their focus so tightly around a handful of canonical figures that the subject's complexity disappears. Queer…...