20+ hour, 41+ min ago  (619+ words) The Secrets of Painting: The Hidden Art Of The Masterpiece From Prehistory To Today'Artlyst Most art books start with why. Why did they paint it, what did it mean, what was the cultural context, who was the patron? Lachlan Goudie…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago  (112+ words) Q: When is a door not a door? A: When it is ajar Gavin Turk The Escapologist Ben Brown Fine Arts GAVIN TURK THE ESCAPOLOGIST 11 March " 22 May 2026 Private view: Tuesday 10 March 6-8 pm Ben Brown Fine Arts 12 Brook's Mews, London W1K 4DG Please Consider Supporting…...

1+ mon, 3+ day ago  (106+ words) Sean Scully " The Nature of ArtLisson Gallery 67 Lisson St, 67 Lisson Street London NW1 5DA18feb(feb 18)10:43 am09may(may 9)10:43 am Tuesday " Saturday: 11:00am " 6:00pm Lisson Gallery 67 Lisson St 67 Lisson Street London NW1 5DA Please Consider Supporting Us. Your contribution'whatever the size'helps us keep publishing stories that probe, question, celebrate,…...

1+ mon, 5+ day ago  (390+ words) Obviously, spurred on by the sketchbook donations and by the inspiring working documents that Freud had around his house and studio, the show came to be. In some parts, it is good, and in others, just bad. There is no…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (574+ words) The soaring installation reimagines the site's analogue heritage through kaleidoscopic colour, illuminated form, and a bespoke soundtrack inspired by community-led music culture. Its acid-bright palette and luminous surfaces reference the nightlife of the 1980s and 1990s'a formative era that shaped genres…...

2+ mon, 3+ day ago  (178+ words) Artist David Hockney has called plans to bring the Bayeux Tapestry to the UK later this year "madness, warning that the journey alone poses an unnecessary danger to the work. The Bayeux Tapestry narrates the events leading up to the…...

2+ mon, 5+ day ago  (213+ words) A hundred years after her birth, Beryl Cook is undergoing a significant reassessment. During her lifetime, she was wildly popular and quietly dismissed in the same breath, loved by the public, pushed aside by the London art scene. Often sighted…...

2+ mon, 2+ week ago  (176+ words) Soane office, Royal Academy Lecture Drawing of the work of Sir John Vanbrugh, "Goose-Pie House, London: Whitehall, perspective, SM 75/4/4 As part of Constable 250, "Constable: Walking the landscape (11 July " 4 October 2026) will bring unprecedented key loans from the National Gallery, Tate, V…...

2+ mon, 2+ week ago  (233+ words) That is the list'a tight cluster of senior administrators, curators and heritage professionals. Three figures loosely connected to the art world, if one stretches the definition'Hunt, Eshun, Pointon'and none who actually make the work that fills the galleries these institutions…...

3+ mon, 1+ week ago  (110+ words) 7 December 2025 " Share " " " He studied at Manchester Polytechnic in the early 1970s, a period that honed his instinct for social documentation and cemented his interest in class, ritual, and the tiny humiliations and joys that accumulate in daily life. His great theme,…...