Why the art world needs to ditch the rich Russians
12 January 2015 • Mark Westall
As Russian investors snap up an even greater stake in the contemporary art world, Jonathan Jones asks if there can ever be a truly independent art press
Tag: art and design
Exhibit Your Art in London and New York
26 December 2014 • Staff
In 2015, we are taking the Share Your Art series to the next level with exhibitions in London and New York. What themes would you like to tackle?
REVIEW: Jockum Nordström: For the insects and the hounds @DavidZwirner
22 December 2014 • Mark Westall
David Zwirner; National Gallery, London
Sweden’s Jockum Nordström unsettles with work that seems to tap into childhood. And prepare to be surprised by the long-forgotten art of Peder Balke
Lucky PDF, the DIY art agitators
7 December 2014 • Staff
The subversive south London collective staged parties, launched an online channel, and now makes subversive and often participatory art works for the digital generation
Wu-Tang Clan’s one-of-a-kind album may debut @Art Basel Miami Beach
2 December 2014 • Mark Westall
Member RZA has hinted that their unique Once Upon a Time in Shaolin record might get a public airing at the December instalment of the esteemed exhibition
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Albanian Artsis Anri Sala wins Vincent award for contemporary art
24 November 2014 • Mark Westall
Installation artist beats four nominees including British Turner prize winner Gillian Wearing
Georgia O’Keeffe flower painting sells for record-breaking $44.4m
21 November 2014 • Mark Westall
Final bid for Jimson Weed/White Flower No 1 more than doubles the previous highest price paid for a work of art by a woman
David Hockney: ‘When I’m working, I feel like Picasso, I feel I’m 30’
17 November 2014 • Mark Westall
David Hockney last year left Yorkshire and returned to his home in the Hollywood Hills after a series of traumatic events in his personal life. Here the 77-year-old reveals how California has rejuvenated him, before answering questions from Observer readers and cultural figures
Conscience and Conflict: British Artists and the Spanish Civil War review – rousing, revelatory and poignant
16 November 2014 • Mark Westall
Pallant House, Chichester
How did British artists respond to the war that so famously inspired Picasso? This exemplary show is the first devoted to finding out
Michael Williams, Eoin McHugh, Christopher Orr: this week’s new exhibitions
15 November 2014 • Mark Westall
From Michael Williams’s psychedelic canvasses in London to Christopher Orr’s first solo show in Scotland, Skye Sherwin and Robert Clark find out what’s happening in art around the country
Takashi Murakami review: a welcome return to a more disturbing style
13 November 2014 • Mark Westall
His collaborations with Kanye West and Louis Vuitton have made him rich and famous, but the Japanese artist’s new works, inspired by Fukushima, are more than gaudy trinkets for the super rich
Why stars love Polaroid’s retro chic: no risk of embarrassing uploads on the net
9 November 2014 • Mark Westall
Revival for photo format joins other analogue passions endorsed by new celebrity generation
Headset provides ‘3D soundscape’ to help blind people navigate cities
8 November 2014 • Mark Westall
Microsoft’s GPS-enabled navigation headset provides directions and live transport information, and ‘paints a picture of the world through sound’
REVIEW: Transmitting Andy Warhol – white light and black angels in an immersive explosion
8 November 2014 • Mark Westall
Tate Liverpool
The first major Andy Warhol exhibition in the north of England recreates the world of the Factory and the Exploding Plastic Inevitable – and Warhol is revealed in all his compassion and searing insight
Louise Hearman wins 2014 Moran prize, Australia’s richest portrait award
29 October 2014 • Mark Westall
Painter’s portrait of photographer Bill Henson takes $150,000 Moran prize, which attracted more entries than the Archibald
David Armstrong: photographer of outsiders lately embraced by fashion
28 October 2014 • Mark Westall
Armstrong, who has died aged 60, had a contrasting style to his great friend Nan Goldin, but their subjects were intertwined
Art Events for the week from Art Map London
28 October 2014 • Staff
There are loads of art events such as private views, artists talks, and screenings happening around London, usually, but its… Read More
The Top Art Events to visit this week from Art Map London
21 October 2014 • Staff
The Top Art Events to visit this week from Art Map London
FAD Q+A with Dr Paul Coulton #PostDigitalWeekend @DegreeArt
10 August 2014 • Ben Austin
In light of the Post Digital Symposium presented by DegreeArt.com, Imagination Lancaster lecturer of Lancaster University, Dr Paul Coulton shares… Read More
VIDEO: Ben Bengler #POSTDIGITALWEEKEND
9 August 2014 • Ben Austin
Ben Bengler is a creative technologist, interaction designer, researcher and artist.
FAD Q+A with Neil James #PostDigitalWeekend @DegreeArt
9 August 2014 • Ben Austin
Neil James is currently exhibiting his complex glass sculptures in DegreeArt’s Post Digital exhibition. We chat to the sculptor about what Post Digital means to him, and how he creates his unique art works.
FAD Q+A with James Kerr #PostDigitalWeekend @DegreeArt
3 August 2014 • Ben Austin
Taking GIF art to a new level, artist James Kerr speaks to us about the state of Post Digital art, and just what goes into making his hilarious artistic GIFs.
FAD Q+A with Luna Jungeun Lee #PostDigitalWeekend @DegreeArt
3 August 2014 • Ben Austin
Currently exhibiting in DegreeArt’s Post Digital – Are We There Yet? Exhibition, we speak to Luna Jungeun Lee
VIDEO: Melanie Gurney #POSTDIGIAL
2 August 2014 • Ben Austin
Melanie Gurney from Degree Art on Vimeo. Born in Hong Kong in 199, Melanie Gurney graduated with a BA in… Read More