Picasso, Cocteau and Chagall paintings to be exhibited at Lightbox in Woking
10 January 2012 • Mark Westall
Lewis Elton’s art collection, now donated to University of Surrey, will go on public display for the first time
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Lucian Freud etchings to go on sale
6 January 2012 • Mark Westall
Forty-five prints, each estimated to fetch up to £70,000, will be auctioned next month
Martin Scorsese and Tacita Dean go back to the future of film
6 January 2012 • Mark Westall
Scorsese’s Hugo, shot in 3D, is an excited paean to film history using modern techniques. But Dean’s much darker Film, at Tate Modern, mourns the passing of celluloid
Art Fund membership up 15% despite downturn
3 January 2012 • Mark Westall
Charity that helps museums and galleries acquire artworks has seen record gain in membership over past year
Call it the Tracey Emin effect: art overcoming austerity outside London
30 December 2011 • Mark Westall
Turner, Hepworth, FirstSite – the success of new galleries is making the case for culture-led regeneration
This week’s new exhibitions
28 December 2011 • Mark Westall
FCB Cadell | Miracles And Charms | Ford Madox Brown | Magic Worlds | Nice Style: The World’s First Pose Band | Royal Manuscripts | Pieter Brueghel The Younger
Ai Weiwei: ‘Younger people can be more hurt. I have my own beliefs’
19 December 2011 • Mark Westall
When the artist and human rights activist Ai Weiwei was arrested by the Chinese government in April and held in secret for 81 days, he became an international cause célèbre
Tate may not renew BP sponsorship deal after environmental protests
14 December 2011 • Mark Westall
Director of group that covers four galleries around UK says decision is due on partnership deal with BP, expiring next year
Monet water lily paintings to make UK debut at Tate Liverpool
13 December 2011 • Mark Westall
An exhibition of Monet, Turner and Twombly at Tate Liverpool will include two water lilies paintings never seen in the UK
This week’s new exhibitions
10 December 2011 • Mark Westall
Anish Kapoor | Lygia Pape | Little Black Dress | Graham Sutherland | Painting Show | Dara Birnbaum | You, Me, Something Else | Anselm Kiefer
Anselm Kiefer: ‘Art is difficult, it’s not entertainment’
9 December 2011 • Mark Westall
Celebrated German artist reflects on his work before opening of his biggest UK show, at White Cube gallery in London
Jeremy Deller, Turner prizewinner, to have Hayward Gallery retrospective
7 December 2011 • Mark Westall
The artist who staged an exhibition in his parents’ house will be showing works old and new – plus some failed projects
Books for giving: art
6 December 2011 • Mark Westall
An exhaustive history of art proves more than a handful, Hockney is chatty but dotty – and genius springs from the man who gave us the shower scene in Psycho
Turner prize: the beauty lies in its orchestration
6 December 2011 • Mark Westall
Martin Boyce deserves the award for a beautiful and unexpected installation – his art is a sort of elegy to modernist purity
This week’s new exhibitions
4 December 2011 • Mark Westall
Gareth Griffith & Misha Shengelia | Bridget Smith | Museum Show Part 2 | United Enemies | The Mystery Of Appearance | The Peripatetic School | Mustafa Hulusi | Scottish National Portrait Gallery
Scottish National Portrait Gallery – review
4 December 2011 • Mark Westall
Scotland’s National Portrait Gallery, reopened after a dramatic £17.6m overhaul, is a bright and democratic delight
Saatchi’s scathing portrait of the art world: ‘Vulgar, Eurotrashy, masturbatory’
3 December 2011 • Mark Westall
Leading British collector launches surprise attack saying buyers and dealers ‘can’t tell good artists from bad’
Lygia Pape, Scottish photography and the Northern Art prize – the week in art
2 December 2011 • Mark Westall
From a Serpentine celebration of the late Brazilian artist to the reopening of the Scottish National Portrait Gallery, here’s your latest Art Weekly dispatch
Gesamtkunstwerk: New Art From Germany – review
28 November 2011 • Mark Westall
Saatchi Gallery, London
This week’s new exhibitions
28 November 2011 • Mark Westall
Ryan McGinley | Northern Art Prize | Paloma Varga Weisz | Between Dimensions | Allora & Calzadilla | John Myers And Stuart Whipps | Paul Lee/Kimber Smith | Bohemians In Exile
Painting Canada: Tom Thomson and the Group of Seven – review
24 November 2011 • Mark Westall
Dulwich Picture Gallery, London