This week’s new exhibitions
26 February 2012 • Mark Westall
Idris Khan | The Stuff That Matters | Conversations | Weighted Words | Joseph Wright Of Derby & Can You Hear Me Now | David Cotterell | Charline von Heyl | Michael Raedecker
Tag: art and design
Andy Warhol’s legacy lives on in the factory of fame
22 February 2012 • Mark Westall
15 minutes of fame? The artist whose radical ideas galvanised the 1960s art world continues to dominate the market and permeate popular culture – 25 years after his death
This week’s new exhibitions
18 February 2012 • Mark Westall
Jeremy Deller | Sarah Browne & Hamish Fulton | Lothar Götz | Van Dyck In Sicily | Daniel Fogarty | Laura Aldridge | The Fourth Plinth | Jane & Louise Wilson
Dutch artist’s works found in British warehouse
16 February 2012 • Mark Westall
Over 400 stolen artworks by celebrated 20th-century expressionist painter Karel Appel discovered by storage firm
Another view on Damien Hirst’s Spot Paintings
14 February 2012 • Mark Westall
I’ve never been asked to paint dots like these on a customer’s walls but it made me think about matching colours I’ve never put together before
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
Yayoi Kusama arrives at Tate Modern with a polka at Damien Hirst
8 February 2012 • Mark Westall
Japanese artist renowned for dot motif has her first big UK retrospective – and a few words of advice for Britart’s spot fan
This week’s new exhibitions
4 February 2012 • Mark Westall
Yayoi Kusama | Jennifer West | The Starry Rubric | Lucian Freud | The Indiscipline Of Painting | The Family In British Art | Michael Shaw | The Near And The Elsewhere
Tate buys timeshare in Christian Marclay’s Clock
1 February 2012 • Mark Westall
24-hour artwork using thousands of movie clips to keep real time is acquired by Tate and two other museums
Lucian Freud portrait of restaurateur goes up for auction
1 February 2012 • Mark Westall
1955 painting of Bernard Walsh, who ran restaurant frequented by Freud and Francis Bacon, has estimate of £1.5m-£2m
Photographers’ Gallery in London to reopen in May after £8.9m facelift
31 January 2012 • Mark Westall
Work by Canadian photographer Edward Burtynsky to feature in initial shows at seven floor West End site
Jeremy Deller: ‘I’m more interested in ideas than money’
30 January 2012 • Mark Westall
Why is the artist spending a week in a cave full of bats with just a large tub of nuts for company?
This week’s new exhibitions
30 January 2012 • Mark Westall
Santiago Sierra | Thomas Demand; Daar | David Shrigley | Will Alsop; John Wood & Paul Harrison | Lydia Gifford | Matthew Darbyshire | Simon Martin | Samantha Donnelly
Robot cleaners and the Museum of Me: Intel’s vision of the future
28 January 2012 • Mark Westall
Intel’s best-known project might be gimmicky, but its new collaboration with the Royal College of Art is full of daring
Gary Hume: the half-an-hour-a-day man
18 January 2012 • Mark Westall
It’s going to be a big year for Gary Hume. Not bad going for an artist whose creative bursts don’t last long.
Francesco Vezzoli plans 24-hour museum to vainglorious decadence
17 January 2012 • Mark Westall
Italian artist has charmed Helen Mirren into a toga for art that is sublime and sometimes debauched celebration of celebrity
David Hockney: a life in art
14 January 2012 • Mark Westall
‘The iPad is like an endless piece of paper that perfectly fitted the feeling I had that painting should be big’
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
Thin line between art and hate: is this the most repellent work of modern art?
13 January 2012 • Mark Westall
The Chapman brothers’ sneering sculpture of Stephen Hawking sickened me in 1995, and still does now. What do you think is the most hateful work of modern art?
Time and Memory: Cecilia Edefalk and Gunnel Wåhlstrand – review
11 January 2012 • Mark Westall
Parasol Unit, London