Manet: Portraying Life – review
22 January 2013 • Mark Westall
Manet’s wonderful portraits made everyone a someone. But the Royal Academy’s new exhibition shows that even great artists have their off-days
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2013 visual art preview: Manet’s portraits and Lowry reappraised
31 December 2012 • Mark Westall
Plus Steve McQueen gets a major retrospective – but you’ll have to go to Switzerland to see it
Mike Kelley: the nonconformist’s whole life is here
20 December 2012 • Mark Westall
Magic carpets, Superman, and lewd encounters with barbers: Kelley’s life’s work is on show at this Amsterdam retrospective – and his rancid humour shines through
A Bigger Splash: did performance art change painting?
13 November 2012 • Mark Westall
From bullets bursting paint-filled balloons to Jackson Pollock’s spatter technique, a new exhibition at London’s Tate looks at the relationship between painting and performance art – with more misses than hits
Frieze London 2012: the speed-dating approach to art fairs
11 October 2012 • Mark Westall
Murder mysteries, squirrel dinners, cut-price milk – there’s more jostling for attention at the art fair than ever. But might Adrian Searle just get a date out of it all?
Turner prize 2012 exhibition review: is this the best one yet?
2 October 2012 • Mark Westall
Immerse yourself in Spartacus Chetwynd’s daft performances, Paul Noble’s filthy drawings, Elizabeth Price’s terrifying video and Luke Fowler’s film about schizophrenia
Thomas Schütte: men, monsters and self-portraits
25 September 2012 • Mark Westall
Thomas Schütte’s sculptures are on the loose in a London park, while his unsettling portraits hang in a gallery nearby. It’s a great day out – but you wouldn’t want to meet them in a bar
Yayoi Kusama: a spot of bother
8 February 2012 • Mark Westall
Yayoi Kusama’s dizzying, dotty installations have landed at Tate Modern. Adrian Searle enters her kaleidoscope world
Full circle: the endless attraction of Damien Hirst’s spot paintings
13 January 2012 • Mark Westall
Damien Hirst’s 1,500 career-spanning, geometrically relentless spot paintings are taking over the planet. Adrian Searle longs for a smear, a wobble – or one with no purple in it
Turner prize: the beauty lies in its orchestration
6 December 2011 • Mark Westall
Martin Boyce deserves the award for a beautiful and unexpected installation – his art is a sort of elegy to modernist purity
Leonardo da Vinci at the National Gallery – the greatest show of the year?
9 November 2011 • Mark Westall
The National Gallery’s Leonardo exhibition promises a unique chance to view his finest paintings and drawings. It also offers a glimpse of the artist’s true spirit
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Grayson Perry: The Tomb of the Unknown Craftsman – review
7 October 2011 • Mark Westall
British Museum, London
Pipilotti Rist: big time sensuality
29 September 2011 • Mark Westall
She’s danced topless to the Beatles, made a chandelier from pants and filmed inside the human body. Adrian Searle is hooked on the womanly world of artist Pipilotti Rist
TATE ETC Winners
19 May 2010 • Mark Westall
Five FADwebsite viewers have won a year long subscription to TATE ETC. Magazine. TATE ETC. is Europe’s largest selling art… Read More