Lucian Freud’s final work to be shown in 2012 National Portrait Gallery show
26 September 2011 • Mark Westall
Unfinished nude portrait of artist’s assistant David Dawson will feature alongside 100 other works spanning 70-year career
Tag: art and design
This week’s new exhibitions
24 September 2011 • Mark Westall
Pipilotti Rist | Mary Webb: Journeys In Colour | Postmodernism: Style And Subversion | Bloomberg New Contemporaries | Museum Show | Dark Matters | Gabriel Kuri | Eric Bainbridge
Grayson Perry: How I went behind the scenes at the British Museum
19 September 2011 • Mark Westall
Turner prize-winning transvestite potter Grayson Perry long cherished an ambition to show his own art – his own ‘civilisation’, as he calls it – alongside the great ancient civilisations of the world – but little dreamed the British Museum would agree to his proposal…
Degas and the Ballet: Picturing Movement – review
19 September 2011 • Mark Westall
Royal Academy, London
Postmodernism: from the cutting edge to the museum
16 September 2011 • Mark Westall
Fun, bright, clever, but disposable and disturbing, postmodernism was all swagger and stance. But was this pre-digital phenomenon killed off by the internet?
The dark arts of Los Angeles
15 September 2011 • Mark Westall
This autumn, galleries and museums across the Californian city will celebrate its historic art scene. Just don’t expect rainbows
Richard Hamilton, the original pop artist, dies at 89
14 September 2011 • Mark Westall
Driven by intellect and political belief, Hamilton created undying icons of the modern world
This week’s new exhibitions
11 September 2011 • Mark Westall
The World We Live In | Yang Fudong | Mike Kelley | Roni Horn | Gary Rough | Concept As Concrete Form | Norman Dilworth | Richard Woods
Rothko, Hockney and Piero della Francesca – the week in art
9 September 2011 • Mark Westall
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Damien Hirst’s mythical creatures appear at Chatsworth House
9 September 2011 • Mark Westall
Artist’s winged horse and unicorn form part of exhibition of monumental sculpture
Was postmodernism born with Close Encounters of the Third Kind?
5 September 2011 • Mark Westall
The V&A is preparing to celebrate a cultural movement that has baffled some and invigorated others. But did it all begin with Steven Spielberg’s 1977 SF film?
The Artist Rooms collection is transforming our visual culture
1 September 2011 • Mark Westall
From Kiefer in Llandudno to Warhol in Hull, Anthony d’Offay’s roadshow is bringing great modern art to a wider audience
Neon: 100 years of the greatest light show on earth
31 August 2011 • Mark Westall
Peter Conrad celebrates a century of the medium that sells the raffish charms of America and has inspired film-makers and artists, from Hitchcock and Coppola to Bruce Nauman and Tracey Emin
Gillian Wearing: A nose for the truth
31 August 2011 • Mark Westall
People open up to Gillian Wearing. So the artist made a feature film in which members of the public divulge their innermost secrets – with shocking results
David Hockney: the outsider who sees, and paints, the bigger picture
26 August 2011 • Mark Westall
Pop art’s enfant terrible continues to influence modern culture and create memorable images – but from the outside, ignoring London fashions
Street art is dying – and it’s our fault
25 August 2011 • Mark Westall
David Cameron poses in front of it, old folks own books about it … has graffiti’s entry into polite society come at too high a price?
RCA Black and the table that thinks it’s a woman
24 August 2011 • Mark Westall
The Royal College of Art is trying to reinvent itself as a beacon of diversity – with a show of work by its black students. Hannah Pool enters a world of wigs, furniture and whirlwinds
When two tribes meet: collaborations between artists and scientists
22 August 2011 • Mark Westall
Science and art are often considered opposites – so what happens when top practitioners in each field collaborate? The results, finds Stuart Jeffries, can be seismic
This week’s new exhibitions
20 August 2011 • Mark Westall
Norman Cornish | We Have Our Own Concept Of Time And Motion | Ben Nicholson | This Unfolds | Ruth Ewan | This Is Design | Gerard Byrne | Honky Tonk
Trainers and mobile phones: the objects of our disaffection
19 August 2011 • Mark Westall
The recent riots were a venting of consumer spleen – with sports shoes and mobiles the primary targets. But looters made the mistake of confusing wealth with status symbols
The people’s painters: what makes a work of art popular?
19 August 2011 • Mark Westall
Monet, Van Gogh, and Klimt are the favourite artists among virtual art collectors. But before you turn your nose up at these obvious choices, let’s consider their mass appeal
Joan Miró’s art is more alive than ever
15 August 2011 • Mark Westall
Tate Modern’s Joan Miró retrospective shows the artist’s evolution from Catalan landscape painter to a conjuror of dreamy abstracts – don’t miss this scorching show
National Gallery’s cut in warders ‘putting art at risk’
11 August 2011 • Mark Westall
Criticism of security arrangements follows vandalism of two Poussin paintings at the London gallery