Musicians prepare to battle like Bruce Lee at Institute of Contemporary Arts
19 October 2015 • Mark Westall
Experimental installation Enter the Dragon combines music and martial arts in project inspired by iconic mirror scene in 1973 Hollywood film
Tag: art and design
REVIEW: Damien Hirst’s Newport Street Gallery is a grown-up gem that shows he’s sobered with age
8 October 2015 • Mark Westall
Caruso St John architects have conjured an immaculate new home for the art prankster’s collection in an unlikely south London setting – and there’s not a diamond skull or formaldehyde animal in sight
Smartphone backlash: the mobile that gives you your life back
22 September 2015 • Mark Westall
The Punkt phone, launched at the London design festival, lets you call and text. It also has nice buttons and is easy to hold. And that’s about it. Would you pay £229 for it?
Tate Modern highlights pop art by women ignored by sexist establishment
15 September 2015 • Mark Westall
Many of the works overlooked in the 1960s and 70s will be seen in public for the first time when they go on display in London
Botticelli Reimagined exhibition coming to V&A after opening in Berlin
27 August 2015 • Mark Westall
London show will feature modern artwork, fashion, film and music inspired by the Renaissance artist, as well as large collection of original Botticelli paintings
REVIEW: Chocolate with your Bacon? Tate Britain offers feast for the senses
26 August 2015 • Mark Westall
London gallery opens ‘sensorium’ to explore whether taste, touch, smell and sound change the way people experience art
The Art Fund charity launches a line of luxury holidays
22 August 2015 • Staff
Secret doors will open, champagne will flow and VIP access to the art world will be afforded the wealthy. But it’s a curious departure for a charity that champions free museum admission
#Arthoe: These teens have kickstarted a feminist art movement
20 August 2015 • Staff
The young founders of #arthoe are encouraging people of colour to get creative while reclaiming the word ‘ho’. They talk about hashtag wars, their controversial name – and why it’s more than just a fad
Banksy fans flock to Weston-super-Mare after Dismaland show rumours
19 August 2015 • Mark Westall
Street artist may be preparing pop-up exhibition in seaside town
Artist to fill Covent Garden market with 100,000 balloons
18 August 2015 • Mark Westall
Charles Pétillon’s glowing pop-up installation will stretch over 50 metres across ceiling of market building
Anish Kapoor is right to be livid about China stealing his big Bean sculpture
14 August 2015 • Mark Westall
A city in Zinjiang has a new public artwork that’s suspiciously similar to Kapoor’s Bean in Chicago – and the sculptor is incensed, though this is just the latest act of copycat culture in China. Are people in the west too precious about intellectual property rights?
Why Kim Kardashian’s pregnancy selfie would turn Titian on
12 August 2015 • Mark Westall
Kardashian’s selfie is a hymn to the female body that harks back to the liberating portrayals of ample women in Renaissance and baroque art – and proves that ours is the most misogynist age in history
Garma: art and politics come together for a moving Arnhem Land festival
6 August 2015 • Mark Westall
In the historic clan-gathering place, people of all nations enjoy the bunggul sunset dances, clan stories, bark painting and deep soul music
UK denies Ai Weiwei full business visa based on disputed ‘criminal’ history
30 July 2015 • Mark Westall
British embassy officials say celebrated Chinese artist failed to declare his record on application – but supporters say he was never actually charged with a crime
Tracey Emin’s plan to demolish listed London building dismays East Enders
27 July 2015 • Mark Westall
Artist, who has spoken of importance of Spitalfields’ heritage, draws fierce criticism over plan for five-floor Sir David Chipperfield-designed home
Funding cuts could spell end of free museums and galleries
24 July 2015 • Mark Westall
Museums Association warns that entrance fees could be introduced as York Art Gallery considers £7.50 charge when it reopens after £8m redevelopment
Anthony Caro in Yorkshire review – sculpture that can take your breath away
20 July 2015 • Mark Westall
His monumental forms make you dance, his table-top works are in drag – and his shapes are so simple you can’t believe he dared. As a vast two-site retrospective proves, Caro’s best work remains audacious, alluring and disarming
David Hockney does LA again, but differently: ‘I stay in, I smoke, I feel OK’
17 July 2015 • Mark Westall
The 78-year-old British artist is back in Los Angeles with an exhibit that explores the intersection of art and technology, but he says his fast-and-loose days are behind him: ‘I don’t go out much anymore because I’m too deaf, really’
Royal Academy turns to crowdfunding to bring Ai Weiwei’s trees to London
15 July 2015 • Mark Westall
RA hopes to raise £100,000 through Kickstarter for installation made by artist from trees that have died in mountains of southern China
Rob Ryan: ‘My art isn’t very edgy, but I’m not that kind of artist’
10 July 2015 • Mark Westall
Retrospective at Yorkshire Sculpture Park may mark turning point in career as artist known for paper cuttings moves on to painting and photography
Evolution of sneakers explored at Brooklyn Museum exhibition
9 July 2015 • Mark Westall
The cultural impact of designs such as the Air Jordan and Rick Owen’s high-end efforts chart how the footwear went from casual runaround to chic statement
Andy Warhol and Ai Weiwei come together in Melbourne – with cats
6 July 2015 • Staff
National Gallery of Victoria will bring together 300 works by the poster boys of the American and Chinese centuries, plus a kids’ show about cats
Marina Abramovic reveals plans for her funeral, ‘the artist’s last piece’
1 July 2015 • Mark Westall
Performance artist, 67, wants three bodies – one real, two fake – buried in the cities she has lived in the longest, and singer Antony Hegarty to perform
Jackson Pollock, Ben Rivers, John Waters: this week’s new exhibitions
26 June 2015 • Mark Westall
Jackson Pollock | Ben Rivers | Taking Flight | Phyllida Barlow | In Search Of The Miraculous | John Waters | Station To Station