An Ideal Soup: Exhibition opening
10 April 2012 • Mark Westall
The ‘soup’ is an eclectic body of work, an exhibition combining sculpture, painting, photography and mixed media.
Tag: Art News
Art News is where you can find all the cool art stuff: exhibitions, and events we have found globally. Interviews and thought pieces all chosen by FAD magazine.
Francis Bacon painting, Figure Writing Reflected in Mirror, in Sotheby’s sale
6 April 2012 • Mark Westall
Estimate up to £25m on painting representing lover George Dyer and the artist which has been in private collection since 1977
‘I’d like 11 and a half tons of resin, please’: the artisans behind the artists
4 April 2012 • Mark Westall
What’s it like to make giant monuments for Rachel Whiteread? Or to paint spots for Damien Hirst? The people behind some of Britain’s best known art share their highs – and lows
Read all about it: how Gilbert & George stole the headlines and made art
8 March 2012 • Mark Westall
Urbane artistic pair pilfered 3,712 newspaper bills from outside London shops to create works now on show at White Cube galleries
The Whitney Biennial web occupation
29 February 2012 • Mark Westall
An artful web hoax announced the sacking of the Whitney Biennial’s corporate sponsors and apologised to artists for their exploitation. So whodunnit?
This week’s new exhibitions
26 February 2012 • Mark Westall
Idris Khan | The Stuff That Matters | Conversations | Weighted Words | Joseph Wright Of Derby & Can You Hear Me Now | David Cotterell | Charline von Heyl | Michael Raedecker
Andy Warhol’s legacy lives on in the factory of fame
22 February 2012 • Mark Westall
15 minutes of fame? The artist whose radical ideas galvanised the 1960s art world continues to dominate the market and permeate popular culture – 25 years after his death
This week’s new exhibitions
18 February 2012 • Mark Westall
Jeremy Deller | Sarah Browne & Hamish Fulton | Lothar Götz | Van Dyck In Sicily | Daniel Fogarty | Laura Aldridge | The Fourth Plinth | Jane & Louise Wilson
Dutch artist’s works found in British warehouse
16 February 2012 • Mark Westall
Over 400 stolen artworks by celebrated 20th-century expressionist painter Karel Appel discovered by storage firm
Another view on Damien Hirst’s Spot Paintings
14 February 2012 • Mark Westall
I’ve never been asked to paint dots like these on a customer’s walls but it made me think about matching colours I’ve never put together before
Yayoi Kusama: a spot of bother
8 February 2012 • Mark Westall
Yayoi Kusama’s dizzying, dotty installations have landed at Tate Modern. Adrian Searle enters her kaleidoscope world
Yayoi Kusama arrives at Tate Modern with a polka at Damien Hirst
8 February 2012 • Mark Westall
Japanese artist renowned for dot motif has her first big UK retrospective – and a few words of advice for Britart’s spot fan
This week’s new exhibitions
4 February 2012 • Mark Westall
Yayoi Kusama | Jennifer West | The Starry Rubric | Lucian Freud | The Indiscipline Of Painting | The Family In British Art | Michael Shaw | The Near And The Elsewhere
Tate buys timeshare in Christian Marclay’s Clock
1 February 2012 • Mark Westall
24-hour artwork using thousands of movie clips to keep real time is acquired by Tate and two other museums
Lucian Freud portrait of restaurateur goes up for auction
1 February 2012 • Mark Westall
1955 painting of Bernard Walsh, who ran restaurant frequented by Freud and Francis Bacon, has estimate of £1.5m-£2m
Jeremy Deller: ‘I’m more interested in ideas than money’
30 January 2012 • Mark Westall
Why is the artist spending a week in a cave full of bats with just a large tub of nuts for company?
This week’s new exhibitions
30 January 2012 • Mark Westall
Santiago Sierra | Thomas Demand; Daar | David Shrigley | Will Alsop; John Wood & Paul Harrison | Lydia Gifford | Matthew Darbyshire | Simon Martin | Samantha Donnelly
Gary Hume: the half-an-hour-a-day man
18 January 2012 • Mark Westall
It’s going to be a big year for Gary Hume. Not bad going for an artist whose creative bursts don’t last long.
Francesco Vezzoli plans 24-hour museum to vainglorious decadence
17 January 2012 • Mark Westall
Italian artist has charmed Helen Mirren into a toga for art that is sublime and sometimes debauched celebration of celebrity
David Hockney: a life in art
14 January 2012 • Mark Westall
‘The iPad is like an endless piece of paper that perfectly fitted the feeling I had that painting should be big’