Artyfacts is an online art and cultural bi-monthly journal for the London area. Our purpose is to inform its readers of non-mainstream art and cultural events such as exhibitions and independent picture-house movies, and to discover new artists whose output is ‘off the beaten track’.

Sparkling, summer gems...
Current Exhibitions

Devotion by Design: Italian Altarpieces before 1500 The curators have assembled a selection of their finest altarpieces into an enticing display, reminding us that they were originally made for churches...Mary Phelan

Glamour Of The Gods: Hollywood Portraits is a revelation for the Hello generation, accustomed to seeing shots of knickerless heiresses arriving at nightclubs and restaurants. In this vanished, tightly-controlled era, the candid shot was a no-no... Mary Phelan

Forests, Rocks, Torrents: Norwegian and Swiss Landscapes from the Lunde Collection There are over fifty sparkling images to be seen in this summer charmer at the National Gallery's Sunley Rooms. It is open until September 18 and is not to be missed. Mary Phelan

United Artists of Italy: Photographic Portraits The exhibition shows a cross-section of Italian photography spanning more than thirty years, revealing the extraordinary skills of the photographers while at the same time paying homage to the subjects, the great artists... Nehrain Khalifa

Eyewitness: Hungarian Photography in the 20th Century is what it says on the brochure, a glorious, heady celebration of Brassai, Capa, Moholy-Nagy and many others. All life is there; peace, war, luxury and terrible, terrible poverty...
Mary Phelan

Toulouse Lautrec and Jane Avril; Beyond the Moulin Rouge is one of those shows that can be described as a big, sparkling and glistening gem that hypnotises the viewer. As the spectator continues from painting to painting they will be confronted by the relationship between two uncompromising, unconventional and exceptional artists.... Nehrain Khalifa

Vorticism: Manifesto For A Modern World Vorticism was an essentially British movement, though with definite transatlantic influences, both Wyndham Lewis and Ezra Pound being US-born... Mary Phelan

Joan Miró: The Ladder of Escape We are made aware of the interconnectedness of life, of cause and effect, the microcosm and the macrocosm. This theme of connectedness runs throughout the exhibition, a kind of poetry binding its various parts together... Mary Phelan

Watercolour Open until August 21, this exhibition is a vehicle for not alone the watercolours of the usual suspects; Turner, Rossetti, Burne-Jones, and so on, but many, many more artists from all ages, with shocks and surprises at every turn.
Mary Phelan

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