Princess Perfect?
7 November 2013 • Mark Westall
Trumbles images of idealist females does deconstruct the Western beauty conventions, yes, but they also highlight society’s issue with stereotyping.
Tag: art and design
Review: Sarah Lucas: SITUATION
4 November 2013 • Mark Westall
Racy imagery, tongue-in-cheek euphemisms, feminist interpretations and breath-taking sexualistion of everyday objects in Lucas’ work, is all brought together in a stunning retrospective of her entire collection, enabling “Situation” to bring something to the table for every visitor.
Walk Through British Art – review
19 May 2013 • Mark Westall
Tate Britain’s ambitious rehang has been widely hailed as a triumph, but our critic finds the new display congested and frustrating
Gary Hume: ‘I couldn’t hold down a job. That’s why I became an artist’
19 May 2013 • Mark Westall
A fully paid-up member of the rowdy YBA generation in the 90s, the artist made his name with his household gloss-painted life-size door paintings. On the eve of a solo show at Tate Britain, he talks about his agent Jay Jopling, his farm in upstate New York – and why he now confines his excesses to the studio
Medieval master Simone Martini comes to London – the week in art
18 May 2013 • Mark Westall
Martini’s paintings go on show at the National Gallery to celebrate the Barber Institute’s 80th birthday, and Gerhard Richter sets a world record – all in your weekly art roundup
Anish Kapoor in Berlin: ‘in short, Britain’s fucked’
18 May 2013 • Mark Westall
The doyen of British sculpture gives the Guardian an exclusive preview of his major new exhibition in the German capital
Things get curiouser and curiouser at the Turner Contemporary
18 May 2013 • Mark Westall
From Da Vinci to a stuffed walrus to glass models of underwater worlds, a rich selection of objects is about to go display at the Turner Contemporary, as curator Brian Dillon explains
Barnett Newman’s ‘glimpses of the sublime’ are a bargain at any price
16 May 2013 • Mark Westall
Meaning and dream collide in Barnett Newman’s work: that’s why the abstract expressionist’s Onement VI fetched $43.8m
Gavin Turk, visual artist – portrait of the artist
10 May 2013 • Mark Westall
‘What have I sacrificed? A white Transit van. I had it crushed into a cube and turned into art’
Madonna sells Fernand Léger’s modern material girls
9 May 2013 • Mark Westall
The singer has sold a painting by Léger to fund girl’s education: the work’s modern beauty is a paean to strong women
Despite artworld hype Eddie Peake still has a way to climb
9 May 2013 • Mark Westall
It might have cartoon giraffes and marble staffies, but his show at Southend’s Focal Point Gallery is much duller than his experiments with naked five-a-side
Van Gogh’s true colours were originally even brighter
3 May 2013 • Mark Westall
Research undertaken by the Van Gogh Museum reveals the master’s favourite paints have faded badly since the 1880s
Peter Doig: a free spirit captured in Scottish National Gallery’s retrospective
1 May 2013 • Mark Westall
Strange and poetic figurative art of the Trinidad-based painter Peter Doig will be showcased in exhibition of 120 works
Michael Landy: patron saint of destruction
29 April 2013 • Mark Westall
Decapitations, tooth-pullings, chargrillings … the lurid deaths of saints in paintings were what caught Michael Landy’s eye when he took over as artist-in-residence at the National Gallery. Charlotte Higgins visits his studio to play with his mechanised martyrs
Fiona Rae; New Order: British Art Today – review
28 April 2013 • Mark Westall
Towner Gallery, Eastbourne; Saatchi Gallery, London
Mystery of missing art of Pauline Boty
28 April 2013 • Mark Westall
Boty was a central figure in Swinging London in the 1960s. As a new show aims to restore her forgotten reputation, the hunt for her lost paintings goes on
Mat Collishaw: still sensational
27 April 2013 • Mark Westall
It’s 25 years since Mat Collishaw burst on to the art scene alongide Damien Hirst and Tracey Emin. And his work is still as appalling and as moving as ever
Andrea Gjestvang wins L’Iris d’Or at Sony world photography awards
27 April 2013 • Mark Westall
Norwegian photographer, 32, holds off competition with poignant portraits of Anders Behring Breivik massacre survivors
Andy Warhol lost then found: tender portrait of artist in 1981
25 April 2013 • Mark Westall
British photographer Steve Wood saw the truth about Warhol, writes Jonathan Jones
Two studies of family go head to head for BP Portrait award
23 April 2013 • Mark Westall
Only two works out of 1,969 have been shortlisted for the prestigious annual award judged at the National Portrait Gallery
Rachel Whiteread and the decaying streets of Palermo – the week in art
19 April 2013 • Mark Westall
John Riddy’s images of a tumultuous Sicilian city land in central London, with the Deutsche Börse Photography prize lining up nearby – all in your weekly artistic dispatch