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Jun 28, 2024 | artlyst.com

The original watercolour illustration for the cover of the first Harry Potter book has fetched $1.9 million.

May 14, 2024 | artlyst.com | Edward Smith

In recent years the word ‘appropriation’ has become a fashionable, obliquely commendatory term used in discussions of contemporary art. The implication is that making use of a borrowed image is somehow a radically original thing to do. The less you change that image, the better.

May 14, 2024 | artlyst.com | Paul Carey-Kent

Art critic Paul Carey-Kent gives Artlyst his recommendations for London Art Exhibitions around the Capital for July 2016. There are still a number of great things to see before the August drought.

May 10, 2024 | artlyst.com | Women Artists

Women artists are taking centre stage in the UK’s exhibition scene this summer. Exciting shows include Turner Prize nominees Heather Philippson and Claudette Johnson, international artists Beatriz Milhazes and Sylvia Snowden, and 20th-century trailblazers Louise Bourgeois, Leonora Carrington, and photographer Franki Raffles. Scotland can see the fantastic “Women in Revolt” show, previously exhibited at Tate Britain.

Dec 2, 2023 | artlyst.com | Dominic Johnson

Martin O’Brien talks to art historian & writer Dominic Johnson ahead of Fading Out Of Dead Air – Transmissions for the Necropolis 14 December Whitechapel Gallery: Visit Dominic Johnson: How would you describe your work? Martin O’Brien: My work comes from a lineage of practices dealing with bodies and time. Most of my work is durational performance: a process-based performance that uses actions over prolonged periods where audiences come and go as they want.