Pardon? What Modern Toss’s F***yeux tapestry says about Britain today
18 April 2013 • Mark Westall
A world-record attempt to cram as much depravity as possible into one artwork shows how little has changed since the Bayeaux Tapestry
Tag: art and design
Deutsche Börse Photography prize show: mashups and moon walkers
18 April 2013 • Mark Westall
The Deutsche Börse Photography prize show draws on Google, space travel and Bertolt Brecht – but one artist stands head and shoulders above the rest
The cake that looks like a Mondrian painting
17 April 2013 • Mark Westall
Could these sweets, inspired by great artists, be the perfect thing to round off a stylish dinner party?
Bedwyr Williams: why I’m taking a space observatory to Venice
15 April 2013 • Mark Westall
As a child he was mocked for his love of model railways. Now Welsh artist Bedwyr Williams is at the Venice Biennale with his tribute to amateur astronomists. Stuart Jeffries meets a champion of the hobbyist
Artists to hold own party conference to discuss cuts and education
14 April 2013 • Mark Westall
After day’s events come to a close at Scarborough Spa, there will be an all-night party, followed by breakfast on the beach
4D-printing: from self-assembling chairs to cancer-fighting robots
13 April 2013 • Mark Westall
The future is here. Project Cyborg will revolutionise the way designers think by training materials to build themselves – and adapt to their surroundings
Rachel Whiteread still casts a spell
12 April 2013 • Mark Westall
With her new London exhibition featuring casts of the common garden shed, the artworld veteran makes us slow down our thoughts and attend to the world’s smallest details
Rare John Keats portrait comes to auction
10 April 2013 • Mark Westall
Miniature showing an unfamiliar view of the poet, probably painted from life, to go on sale next month
Ilya and Emilia Kabakov: The Happiest Man; Two Mountains – review
9 April 2013 • Mark Westall
Ambika P3; Sprovieri Gallery, London
Le Corbusier’s Cité Radieuse rooftop gym transformed into art space
8 April 2013 • Mark Westall
French designer Ora-Ïto is converting the famous Marseille roof terrace into a haven for contemporary art
Portrait of Francis Bacon’s violent lover to be auctioned at Sotheby’s
8 April 2013 • Mark Westall
Francis Bacon’s powerful painting of Peter Lacy just months after his death will go up for auction on May 14
Rachel Whiteread: a life in art
6 April 2013 • Mark Westall
‘I’m not into what I call ‘plop’ art. Just putting things in places for the sake of it. They really need a reason for being there’
Andy Warhol’s iconic New York anti-films come to London
5 April 2013 • Mark Westall
Warhol’s most famous movies – including Sleep, a five-hour film of his lover dozing – perfectly capture the avant garde New York of the Velvet Underground and the Chelsea hotel
Madonna sells Fernand Léger painting to raise money for girls’ education
4 April 2013 • Mark Westall
Sotheby’s announces auction of Cubist work to support projects in Afghanistan and Pakistan
Tate removes Graham Ovenden prints after indecency conviction
4 April 2013 • Mark Westall
Ovenden was found guilty of six charges of indecency with a child and one of indecent assault at Truro crown court
Cult artist Marcel Dzama: ‘I try not to censor myself’
3 April 2013 • Mark Westall
When Hollywood stars like Jim Carrey and Nicolas Cage started buying Marcel Dzama’s work, what did the Canadian artist do? Apply for a job at Walmart. He didn’t get it
British Museum snaps up historic scroll depicting birth of modern Japan
2 April 2013 • Mark Westall
Hand-painted scroll, which depicts arrival of US fleet in 1854, pokes fun at American etiquette during expedition to Japan
Fabrice Hyber: but is it fruit?
27 March 2013 • Mark Westall
Fabrice Hyber has filled the Baltic with vegetable men, mini-weather systems and a salt mountain. Is he just trifling with us?
Bernadette Corporation: ‘Don’t have sex with each other’
25 March 2013 • Mark Westall
New York art provocateurs Bernadette Corporation tell Jason Farago the key to running a successful collective: dress for work, learn proper manners – and keep your hands to yourself
Tilda Swinton sleeps in glass box for art installation at MoMA
25 March 2013 • Mark Westall
Scottish actor spends more than six hours ‘napping’ in reprisal of performance art piece at New York’s Museum of Modern Art
The 10 best … photographic self-portraits
24 March 2013 • Mark Westall
From Andy Warhol in drag and Giles Duley’s ‘broken statue’, to John Coplans’s back and Gillian Wearing as her father
Anish Kapoor and Antony Gormley donate works for Labour auction
22 March 2013 • Mark Westall
Actor Sir Patrick Stewart and author Sarah Waters also offer prizes at party’s first annual arts dinner
David Bowie Is becomes the Victoria and Albert’s fastest-selling event ever
19 March 2013 • Mark Westall
Exhibition spanning the artist’s career shows how Ziggy Stardust has cast his influence over everyday life
Read fashion editor Jess Cartner-Morley’s verdict on the exhibition
Haroon Mirza’s unsettling TV transmission is ahead of its time
19 March 2013 • Mark Westall
The artist’s late-night broadcast – in which a woman speaks to viewers in 1987 from 2013 – explores a temporal mystery and may have given some viewers uneasy dreams