Barack Obama exhibition offers ‘deconstruction of hope’
18 January 2013 • Mark Westall
Liverpool show reveals British artist Nicola Green’s exploration of the 2008 US presidential campaign
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Sticking it out with the stuckists
16 January 2013 • Mark Westall
The art world bubble is over, giving the ‘anti-conceptualists’ a chance to crow. But they really don’t require our approval
Artangel seeks ideas – the wackier, the better
15 January 2013 • Mark Westall
Arts commissioning body which has backed past Turner prize-winning projects has £1m to divide between up to five projects
Manet’s portraits: the artist on the knife-edge of photography
14 January 2013 • Mark Westall
With his snatched street scenes and glimpses of private moments, Manet’s portraits are snapshots seen through the gaze of the artist, as a new exhibition at London’s Royal Academy reveals
Dundee V&A will not open until 2015 at the earliest
14 January 2013 • Mark Westall
Ambitious Scottish outpost of the Victoria & Albert museum has been delayed due to lack of funding
Kate Middleton’s first portrait and the View from the Shard – the week in art
11 January 2013 • Mark Westall
The Duchess of Cambridge gets her first official portrait and Renzo Piano’s colossus opens its doors, plus the face of Easter Island and the future of toys – all in your art dispatch
Catlin Guide aims to catalogue Britain’s most intriguing new artists
10 January 2013 • Mark Westall
Annual picks out 40 of the most promising graduates from art schools across the UK – and a quarter of them are painters
Juergen Teller: fame laid bare
8 January 2013 • Mark Westall
As his new show opens at the ICA, one of fashion’s most successful and extreme photographers talks about his father, German guilt and making Kate Moss cry
Titian painting rediscovered in depths of National Gallery
8 January 2013 • Mark Westall
Portrait of Girolamo Fracastoro, the doctor who named syphilis, adds to gallery’s remarkable collection of works by artist
Blue plaques are crucial cultural landmarks
7 January 2013 • Mark Westall
London stands to lose more than plaques when English Heritage stops its memorial scheme – the city’s very identity is at stake
Gilbert & George works to be used in Jean Abreu dance show
7 January 2013 • Mark Westall
Brazilian choreographer and performer will use 25 images as visual backdrop in Blood show touring UK
2013 visual art preview: Manet’s portraits and Lowry reappraised
31 December 2012 • Mark Westall
Plus Steve McQueen gets a major retrospective – but you’ll have to go to Switzerland to see it
Oiled on canvas: the art of intoxication
31 December 2012 • Mark Westall
From Rembrandt to Degas, learn from the masters about the pleasures and perils of the demon drink this New Year’s Eve
How Leonardo da Vinci’s angels pointed the way to the future
27 December 2012 • Mark Westall
The atheist innovator used religious commissions to test-drive his greatest invention – the flying machine
From Death to Death and Other Small Tales: Masterpieces from the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art and the D Daskalopoulos Collection – review
23 December 2012 • Mark Westall
Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh
Pussy Riot: activists, not pin-ups
21 December 2012 • Mark Westall
Clever, committed and courageous, Pussy Riot are the only band that mattered in 2012. They have used their year in the spotlight to expose injustice
Mike Kelley: the nonconformist’s whole life is here
20 December 2012 • Mark Westall
Magic carpets, Superman, and lewd encounters with barbers: Kelley’s life’s work is on show at this Amsterdam retrospective – and his rancid humour shines through
Hauser & Wirth to open new art gallery in Somerset
17 December 2012 • Mark Westall
Derelict farm will be converted into gallery and arts centre and is expected to attract 40,000 visitors a year
Rachel Whiteread is Britain’s greatest living artist
16 December 2012 • Mark Westall
Her magnificent sculptures conjure up vanished lives, lost voices and forgotten loves – and sit easily alongside modern masters
Queen receives gifts from 93 Royal Academy artists
15 December 2012 • Mark Westall
From a David Hockney iPad drawing to a motorbike design by Grayson Perry, 97 works are presented to mark diamond jubilee
Damien Hirst to part company with dealer Larry Gagosian
15 December 2012 • Mark Westall
British artist worth about £215m to stop working with Gagosian gallery after 17 years of ‘fantastic and productive relationship’
Man jailed for two years for vandalising £5m Rothko at Tate Modern
13 December 2012 • Mark Westall
Wlodzimierz Umaniec claimed writing his name and a slogan in black paint was an act of ‘yellowism’ comparable to Duchamp
V&A’s new collection covers 50 years of theatre photography
12 December 2012 • Mark Westall
Douglas H Jeffery’s archive documents more than 30,000 productions, from RSC’s early days to Lord of the Rings musical
Bodleian Library launches £2.2m bid to stop Fox Talbot archive going overseas
11 December 2012 • Mark Westall
Inventor and pioneering photographer left ‘unique’ collection of images, experiment notes and correspondences