Gustav Klimt piece sells for almost £25m at Sotheby’s
26 June 2015 • Staff
Portrait of Gertrud Loew was subject of a 15-minute bidding war at the London auctioneers, as star lot by Kazimir Malevich went for £21.4m
Tag: art and design
British art dealer discovers unknown Monet pastel taped to another work
24 June 2015 • Mark Westall
Art gallery director Jonathan Green found depiction of jetty at Le Havre hidden after he purchased two of Impressionist’s works at auction
What happens to the Serpentine pavilions? Beach cafe, billionaire’s retreat, wedding marquee……
18 June 2015 • Mark Westall
Everyone from Ai Weiwei and Frank Gehry to Zaha Hadid has designed a folly for the Serpentine gallery, but what happens to these starchitect baubles after their summer in the sun?
REVIEW: Barbara Hepworth: a life told in six works
9 June 2015 • Mark Westall
We associate Barbara Hepworth with St Ives and Yorkshire, but often forget she was a driving force in international modern art. On the eve of a major Tate retrospective Tim Adams tells the dramatic story of this fascinating artist through key pieces spanning 40 years
REVIEW: Agnes Martin – beauty and steeliness at Tate Modern
8 June 2015 • Mark Westall
Tate Modern, London
This major Agnes Martin retrospective contains some gems, but overemphasis on her less original work disguises her worth
REVIEW: Julian Opie’s portraits in motion: this is what genius looks like –
7 June 2015 • Staff
He paints with simple black lines and primary colours, and most of his characters don’t even have faces. Yet Julian Opie captures our world in stunning detail
Anish Kapoor’s Versailles ‘vagina’ causes controversy in France
5 June 2015 • Mark Westall
Artist behind Paris’s biggest cultural event of the year has described Dirty Corner as ‘the vagina of the queen’ taking power
Should the public vote for the artist on the new £20 note? No way – they’ve got terrible taste
22 May 2015 • Mark Westall
The Bank of England wants the public to pick an artist to appear on the new £20. Here’s why it’s a gamble that will never pay off
One Large: art project gives black-owned business a boost – $10 at a time
17 May 2015 • Mark Westall
Prompted by gentrification in Pittsburgh, Joy Katz and Cynthia Croot gave 100 artists $10 each – then tracked where the bills were spent across the US
Tate Modern at 15: still delivering the shock of the new
11 May 2015 • Staff
The Bankside museum has transformed modern art from an elite cult into mass entertainment, but is it time to get down to some proper studying?
REVIEW: 56th Venice Biennale – more of a glum trudge than an exhilarating adventure
10 May 2015 • Staff
There’s an awful lot of fretting about the state of the world in the Biennale’s 88 national pavilions, but little power, wit or bravado
Nuts, bolts and art: the man who turned a hardware store into hard cash
29 April 2015 • Mark Westall
Theaster Gates wants to make the world a better place, so he transforms everyday objects – from old basketball courts to the entire contents of the shop he just bought – into art to raise funds for his community projects in rundown Chicago
REVIEW: Deutsche Börse 2015 – shadowy burqas v epic towerblocks
19 April 2015 • Staff
Mikhael Subotzky and Patrick Waterhouse spent six years photographing every door and window of a 54-storey tower in Johannesburg, while Viviane Sassen proves herself a sculptor of light. Set beside heartbreaking portraits of LGBTI South Africans and Russians letting loose on the beach, this year’s shortlist is full of intrigue
REVIEW: Richard Diebenkorn – colour and line under a Californian sun
23 March 2015 • Mark Westall
Sackler Wing, Royal Academy, London
Richard Diebenkorn’s figures may have lacked psychological depth, but his Ocean Park paintings are still endlessly involving, where fields of colour pull you to the horizon
The forgotten masterpieces of African modernism
12 March 2015 • Mark Westall
In the 1960s and 70s, countries across Africa celebrated their independence with astonishingly avant-garde architecture. Oliver Wainwright reports on a fascinating attempt to chronicle this forgotten history
• Afro modernism: Africa’s avant-garde architecture boom – in pictures
Joshua Reynolds: the overlooked master who revolutionised British art
10 March 2015 • Mark Westall
An exhibition coming to London’s Wallace Collection paints the artist in a new light: as a daring Enlightenment portraitist who became the victim of his own boldness
REVIEW: Wellcome Collection exhibition tracks murder from crime scene to courtroom
26 February 2015 • Mark Westall
Glass jars of blow flies, dissecting table and doll’s house-size models on show in Forensics, at newly expanded museum
Hello world: The New Whitworth Art Gallery
13 February 2015 • Mark Westall
Manchester’s Whitworth gallery was never the most welcoming building. But a £15m revamp has breathed new air and light into the venerable institution
Kapoor’s bottomless whirlpool: a sublime spectacle from the magician of modern art
13 February 2015 • Mark Westall
I used to think Anish Kapoor was just another contemporary artist with nothing to say – but his latest installation shows just how daring he really is
Cogs in the machine: how the art market became obsessed with money
11 February 2015 • Mark Westall
With a Richter selling for £30.4m and a Gauguin setting a new record for the most expensive painting ever sold, profit has disgustingly eclipsed creativity in the art world
V&A to buy Cardinal Wolsey’s tomb angel statues
8 February 2015 • Mark Westall
Museum raises £5m for four bronze statues originally designed for tomb of Henry VIII’s disgraced former adviser
Where the internet lives: the artist who snooped on Google’s data farm
5 February 2015 • Staff
Welcome to the end of the information superhighway – a ‘data farm’ in the midwest. When Google refused to let artist John Gerrard photograph it, he hired a chopper and decided to beat them at their own game
Me me meme: artists’ selfies paint the full spectrum of self-obsession
28 January 2015 • Mark Westall
Turner Contemporary, Margate
From a Van Dyck self-portrait to Ian Breakwell’s heartbreaking valediction as he lay dying of cancer, this absorbing show sorts the vain from the glorious
Why Belgium’s plagiarism verdict on Luc Tuymans is beyond parody
23 January 2015 • Mark Westall
One of Europe’s most influential painters has been found guilty of plagiarism. Even if you don’t buy that Luc Tuymans’ painting of a newspaper photo was parodic, it is still a part of his career-long interrogation of all images