This week’s new exhibitions
27 May 2012 • Mark Westall
Tracey Emin | ON: A Re-imagining Of Blackpool Illuminations | Henry Moore | Simon Fujiwara | Heatherwick Studio | Zed Nelson, Henry Tonks | Doris Salcedo | Laura Belém
Tag: art and design
Francis Bacon’s body turns out to be Lucian Freud’s in self-portrait
27 May 2012 • Mark Westall
Experts at Christie’s conclude 1964 Bacon painting is of two artists not one after studying photos of both men from the time
Liverpool’s seventh Biennial set to be biggest ever
23 May 2012 • Mark Westall
The autumn arts extravaganza will include a makeover of Everton park and the Cunard building opening to the public
Photographers’ Gallery extension – review
20 May 2012 • Mark Westall
Irish architects O’Donnell and Tuomey have made a success of a physically and financially constrained project
Richard Hamilton: the Duchamp-ion of intellectual art
15 May 2012 • Mark Westall
The father of pop art – who is to be the subject of a posthumous exhibition at the National Gallery – also rediscovered and popularised the once-neglected work of Marcel Duchamp
Yael Bartana: And Europe Will Be Stunned; Elizabeth Price: Here – review
14 May 2012 • Mark Westall
Artangel at Hornsey Town Hall, London; Baltic, Gateshead
Frieze New York review: more glitz, less grit, as art fair moves stateside
4 May 2012 • Mark Westall
It’s all business at the Manhattan edition, and provocations of the type London audiences have come to expect are not in evidence
New York warms to Frieze as fair muscles in on US art market
4 May 2012 • Mark Westall
US debut features a 250,000 sq ft tent devoted to contemporary works on Randall’s island in the East river
London Frieze braves backlash to fly the flag of British culture in Manhattan
29 April 2012 • Mark Westall
The fair faces the threat of protests by the Occupy movement against art commercialisation as it makes its first trip abroad
Tate Modern unveils underground space – the Tanks – devoted to live art
24 April 2012 • Mark Westall
Gallery says two former oil tanks will be filled with performances and debates, starting this summer
Yinka Shonibare’s ship in a bottle goes on permanent display in Greenwich
24 April 2012 • Mark Westall
Artwork that won fans on Trafalgar Square’s fourth plinth is moved to new home after public help raise £362,500
This week’s new exhibitions
23 April 2012 • Mark Westall
Alex Prager | Rob Kennedy | Out Of Focus | Paul Thek | Elizabeth Price | Helen Baker | Scott Myles | The Institute Of Critical Zoologists
Stan Douglas: Midcentury Studio; Alex Prager: Compulsion – review
23 April 2012 • Mark Westall
Victoria Miro, London; Michael Hoppen, London
The rise of the Gulf art scene
20 April 2012 • Mark Westall
Big money has turned the Gulf into a showcase for contemporary art. But will censorship stop the scene in its tracks? David Batty reports from Doha
Bauhaus: a blueprint for the future
13 April 2012 • Mark Westall
On the eve of a Barbican retrospective, Rowan Moore explores the enduring appeal and influence of the Bauhaus school
Specialist criminals stole £2m Chinese artefacts from university, say police
12 April 2012 • Mark Westall
Thieves who took 18th-century bowl and sculpture from Durham museum probably only in building two minutes, says detective
Francis Bacon painting, Figure Writing Reflected in Mirror, in Sotheby’s sale
6 April 2012 • Mark Westall
Estimate up to £25m on painting representing lover George Dyer and the artist which has been in private collection since 1977
Ai Weiwei ordered to switch off studio webcams
6 April 2012 • Mark Westall
Chinese activist and artist turns off live feed from cameras he installed in his home, after authorities object
‘I’d like 11 and a half tons of resin, please’: the artisans behind the artists
4 April 2012 • Mark Westall
What’s it like to make giant monuments for Rachel Whiteread? Or to paint spots for Damien Hirst? The people behind some of Britain’s best known art share their highs – and lows
Ten more UK galleries join Google Art Project’s virtual culture tours
3 April 2012 • Mark Westall
Ten British galleries join likes of Palace of Versailles and the White House as online museum grows to 30,000 objects
The British Museum’s Hajj takes us on a pilgrimage, not a propaganda journey
20 March 2012 • Mark Westall
The Observer’s Nick Cohen has laid into the British Museum for allowing Saudi Arabia to sponsor its Hajj exhibition. But Hajj has no political agenda; it simply captures the beauty of Islam
Read all about it: how Gilbert & George stole the headlines and made art
8 March 2012 • Mark Westall
Urbane artistic pair pilfered 3,712 newspaper bills from outside London shops to create works now on show at White Cube galleries