David Hockney landscapes to vivify Royal Academy
14 November 2011 • Mark Westall
Gallery hopes A Bigger Picture will be the next blockbuster as it unveils its programme for the next 12 months
Tag: art and design
Paul McCarthy: ‘I had this thing about exposing the interior of the body’
13 November 2011 • Mark Westall
California – where stars are made and dreams come true. But it’s also where, for 40 years, Paul McCarthy has been creating creepy, stomach-churning art. So why does his rags-to-riches story read like a movie plot?
See a selection of Paul McCarthy’s artworks here
This week’s new exhibitions
12 November 2011 • Mark Westall
Mitch Epstein | Paul Noble | Rivane Neuenschwander | Paul McCarthy | A Darkness More Than Night | RCA Secret 2011 | Kith And Kin | Victor Pasmore
Leonardo da Vinci at the National Gallery – the greatest show of the year?
9 November 2011 • Mark Westall
The National Gallery’s Leonardo exhibition promises a unique chance to view his finest paintings and drawings. It also offers a glimpse of the artist’s true spirit
View the paintings from the exhibition
The best of the Leonardo merchandise
Hogarth’s house to reopen after surviving fire – and urban sprawl
9 November 2011 • Mark Westall
Georgian satirist’s Chiswick retreat restored thanks to lottery cash and volunteers from the William Hogarth Trust
Leonardo da Vinci amazes at the National Gallery – quietly and calmly
6 November 2011 • Mark Westall
When the exhibition opens on Wednesday, visitors will be able to see the two Madonna of the Rocks face to face
Overzealous cleaner ruins £690,000 artwork that she thought was dirty
4 November 2011 • Mark Westall
She scoured off a layer of paint in a sculpture by late German artist Martin Kippenberger on loan to a museum in Dortmund
RCA Secret: annual exhibition of postcards gets a more political edge
2 November 2011 • Mark Westall
Many of the 2,500 contributions to this year’s fundraising show offer a graphic response to current events
Building the Revolution: Soviet Art and Architecture 1915-1935 – review
30 October 2011 • Mark Westall
Royal Academy, London
This week’s new exhibitions
30 October 2011 • Mark Westall
Jony Easterby | Building The Revolution | Siobhan Davies Commissions | Kurt Hentschläger | Graham Gussin | Simon Le Ruez | Civic | Cezary Bodzianowski/Savage
Pablo Picasso exhibition at Tate Britain pays belated homage to Spanish genius
28 October 2011 • Mark Westall
Influence on seven British artists – including Henry Moore, David Hockney and Francis Bacon – to be explored in 2012 show
Carsten Höller in New York: all the fun of the fair
26 October 2011 • Mark Westall
Carsten Höller has brought his trademark helterskelters, fairground carousels, and aquaria to New York City
This week’s new exhibitions
23 October 2011 • Mark Westall
Turner Prize 2011 | Private Eye | The Wonders Of The Visible World | William Morris | Klaus Weber | The Indiscipline Of Painting | Richard Long | Edward Burra
What colour should gallery walls be?
21 October 2011 • Mark Westall
The Musée d’Orsay in Paris has joined the Wallace Collection in trying out different background shades. But is anything beyond white just a distraction?
Tacita Dean and the quirky art of being English
19 October 2011 • Mark Westall
There is something very English about Dean’s latest work in Tate’s Turbine Hall, so why do we call her a British artist? You wouldn’t call Dylan Thomas British, would you?
George Condo retrospective opens at the Hayward Gallery
18 October 2011 • Mark Westall
London show by American artist, who makes the funny serious and the grotesque beautiful, includes nine portraits of the Queen
Frieze week 2011: recommendations for the best of the rest
12 October 2011 • Mark Westall
Beyond the fair’s epicentre in London’s Regent’s Park, there are tonnes of art events happening in venues around the capital
Frieze art fair founders announce new events in New York and London
8 October 2011 • Mark Westall
The Masters fair in London will sell historic work as well as contemporary art as the duo detects a ‘new taste for the old’
Frieze, Warhol, Hirst – the week in art (and money)
8 October 2011 • Mark Westall
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Grayson Perry: The Tomb of the Unknown Craftsman – review
7 October 2011 • Mark Westall
British Museum, London
This week’s new exhibitions
2 October 2011 • Mark Westall
Ways Of Looking | Miriam Cahn | Rashid Rana | Camulodunum | Jamie Shovlin | 1395 Days Without Red | Structure & Material | Gerhard Richter: Panorama
Pipilotti Rist: big time sensuality
29 September 2011 • Mark Westall
She’s danced topless to the Beatles, made a chandelier from pants and filmed inside the human body. Adrian Searle is hooked on the womanly world of artist Pipilotti Rist
The immaculate conception of Andy Warhol’s women
28 September 2011 • Mark Westall
First there was Marilyn, then Liz, then Jackie. In 1974, Andy Warhol started painting Bardot. Jonathan Jones on the pop artist’s women