2022 press highlights

19 December 2022

Delve into some long reads and look back at key moments for the gallery and our artists in 2022, with exhibition reviews and interview highlights from the year including: Anish Kapoor's 12 page profile in The New Yorker; Garrett Bradley’s first London exhibition featured as Frieze Magazine's October cover, and selected as one of Frieze's 'Top 10 shows of the year'; Hugh Hayden's New York Times profile; Marina Abramović's cover feature for Elephant Magazine; Stanley Whitney's Wall Street Journal profile and preview of his Venice show; Lee Ufan's interview in the Financial Times to launch his new Arles Foundation; an interview with Olga de Amaral in Vogue; and Hélio Oiticica's installation selected as one of ARTnews’s 'defining artworks of 2022'.

This year also saw the announcement of Lisson's new Los Angeles gallery with an interview with Alex Logsdail in the Financial Times, and the opening of Lisson Beijing, with press in many leading Chinese outlets.

Major Profiles and Interviews

Alex Logsdail in Financial Times: 'Lisson Gallery joins the LA art-world influx'

Hi Art China interviews Lisson Gallery Director David Tung and artist Li Ran for 'Reasons behind Lisson Gallery Beijing – the 55 Years Old Blue-chip Gallery'

Cover story: Frieze Magazine profiles Garrett Bradley

The New Yorker Profile: Anish Kapoor, 'the wildly successful sculptor, whose works incorporate everything from reflective steel to goopy wax, has turned an enormous palazzo in Venice into a showcase for his work.'

Lee Ufan in the Financial Times: ‘I wanted to start a conversation between the living and the dead’

The Independent interviews Richard Long: ‘Every walk is about a different idea’: Richard Long on the art of seeing the world

Wall Street Journal Profile: 'Artist Stanley Whitney’s Triumphant Return'

'Wael Shawky Enters the Realm of Myth' - The New York Times T Magazine

Cover story: Marina Abramović in Elephant Magazine: 'Digging the Dirt with Marina Abramović'

Olga de Amaral Interview in Vogue: 'In London, a Spotlight on the Dreamlike Vision of Artist Olga de Amaral'

Hugh Hayden profiled in The New York Times: 'Surrealist Sculptor Addresses the Education Debate'

'I’ve drunk from every river on Dartmoor: Richard Long on changing the face of art' in The Guardian

In the studio with Christopher Le Brun – Apollo Magazine

Haroon Mirza: 'The question I’m asking is, what kind of species are we?' - The Art Newspaper

Rachel Spence interviews Ai Weiwei for the Financial Times: 'La Commedia Umana, a tribute to ultimate freedom’

'Shock Waves & Wet Concrete': An Interview with Lucy Raven in Art in America

Sky Arts premieres new film on Anish Kapoor by Waldemar Januszczak

'A brush with... John Akomfrah' - The Art Newspaper

'Nathalie Djurberg & Hans Berg: A Winding Path Through a Muddy Forest' in The Art Newspaper China

Anish Kapoor in FT How to Spend It: Anish Kapoor’s 'mad, mad project'

Interview Magazine meets Hugh Hayden

Bernard Piffaretti in conversation with Raphael Rubinstein in The Brooklyn Rail

'Anish Kapoor's Art: Color Connotations' in Robb Report Lifestyle China

Reviews and round-ups

Masaomi Yasunaga: Looking Afar / 遠くを見る reviewed in The Brooklyn Rail

The Times review Anish Kapoor in Venice: 'An engrossing takeover that’s profound as well as fun'

The Top Ten Shows in the UK and Ireland in 2022: Garrett Bradley at Lisson Gallery

'Abstraction seemed a dust bowl, but Sean Scully made it bloom again': Sean Scully at The Philadelphia Museum of Art reviewed in The Washington Post

‘Leon Polk Smith: 1945-1962' Review: The Shape of Abstraction in The Wall Street Journal

The Defining Artworks of 2022: Hélio Oiticica's 'Subterranean Tropicália Projects: PN15' (1971/2022

Carmen Herrera obituaries in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Artforum, NBC News, ARTnews, Hyperallergic and many more

Remembering Dan Graham: in The Guardian, Artforum, Frieze, Art Review, The Art Newspaper, Apollo and many more

Rodney Graham obituaries in The New York Times, The Guardian, Artforum, Frieze, The Art Newspaper, ARTnews and more