Hacked George W Bush paintings help us inch (slightly) towards empathy
8 February 2013 • Mark Westall
Amateur art by the former president obtained in hacked emails reveal a curiosity about the world – or, at least, his bathroom
Tag: art and design
Paul Cézanne: founding father of modern art
6 February 2013 • Mark Westall
Look closely at the French artist’s abstract, pixellated works and the seeds of modernism come into focus
Illustrator Barbara Nessim: ‘I was just steering my own ship’
5 February 2013 • Mark Westall
She dated Marc Bolan, lived with Gloria Steinem – and captured a country in change. Ahead of a major retrospective, Barbara Nessim talks shoes, salsa and suffering
Eliot Porter: In the Realm of Nature by Paul Martineau – review
3 February 2013 • Mark Westall
The late photographer Eliot Porter has left a stunning record of the shrinking American wilderness
Extraordinary Stories About Ordinary Things – review
3 February 2013 • Mark Westall
An exhibition of objects amassed by the Design Museum over 24 years shows it has yet to shake off a bad postwar hangover. Perhaps a trip to Milan is in order…
Double exposure: the two faces of Viviane Sassen’s photography
2 February 2013 • Mark Westall
The worlds of fashion and fine art are often mutually exclusive – Sassen’s variety of approach enables her to straddle both
Artist Bruce Nauman’s carnage-littered carousel will blow your mind
31 January 2013 • Mark Westall
Brutal yet beautiful, a new exhibition at Hauser & Wirth in London gives Nauman’s artworks a psychoanalytic twist
How the Hayward Gallery’s Light Show monkeys with your eyeballs
30 January 2013 • Mark Westall
This dazzling, frazzling light show takes visitors to the moon – and beyond. It’s a bit like being punched in the face, warns Adrian Searle
Kurt Schwitters: Tate retrospective aims to explode myths about Dadaist
29 January 2013 • Mark Westall
Tate Britain show reveals unknown figurative side to revered German modernist who has influenced generations of artists
A user’s guide to artspeak
28 January 2013 • Mark Westall
Why do so many galleries use such pompous, overblown prose to describe their exhibits? Well, there’s now a name for it: International Art English. And you have to speak it to get on. Andy Beckett enters the world of waffle
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DIY billionaire turns dairy into gallery to rival Charles Saatchi’s
27 January 2013 • Mark Westall
Frank Cohen pledges to show ‘art for everyone’ in Bloomsbury venture
Marc Quinn’s giant baby sculpture infantilises art
24 January 2013 • Mark Westall
It’s great that Quinn is soppy about his son, but this towering idol confirms him as the father of reductive, attention-seeking art
Jean-Michel Basquiat’s Burroughs triptych to be sold at London auction
23 January 2013 • Mark Westall
Work by US artist, who died aged 27 in 1988, is tribute to his favourite writer and is valued at between £4.25m and £6.25m
Cake, children and cocktails: legacy hopes of 1,000 men in pottery exhibit
23 January 2013 • Mark Westall
Sir John Soane’s Museum installation by Clare Twomey to enshrine in individual bowls personal eulogies of the male public
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
Andy Warhol’s unseen early drawings unveiled next week
21 January 2013 • Mark Westall
The 300 drawings from the 1950s show a skilled and sensitive side to the artist – more Egon Schiele than pop art
Roy Strong attacks galleries for safe choice of ‘endless Renoir’ and Bowie
20 January 2013 • Mark Westall
Former head of V&A says choice of new exhibitions is dictated by ‘box office and box ticking’
Gerard Byrne: A state of neutral pleasure – review
20 January 2013 • Mark Westall
Whitechapel Gallery, London
Kurt Schwitters: the pop art pioneer who brought order to chaos
19 January 2013 • Mark Westall
Exiled from his home in Germany and at odds with the art scene of 1940s London, Kurt Schwitters’ initial experience of Britain was not the stuff of fairytales. But his story had a happy ending
Barack Obama exhibition offers ‘deconstruction of hope’
18 January 2013 • Mark Westall
Liverpool show reveals British artist Nicola Green’s exploration of the 2008 US presidential campaign
Sticking it out with the stuckists
16 January 2013 • Mark Westall
The art world bubble is over, giving the ‘anti-conceptualists’ a chance to crow. But they really don’t require our approval
Artangel seeks ideas – the wackier, the better
15 January 2013 • Mark Westall
Arts commissioning body which has backed past Turner prize-winning projects has £1m to divide between up to five projects
Manet’s portraits: the artist on the knife-edge of photography
14 January 2013 • Mark Westall
With his snatched street scenes and glimpses of private moments, Manet’s portraits are snapshots seen through the gaze of the artist, as a new exhibition at London’s Royal Academy reveals