David Hockney show will be one of Tate Britain’s biggest ever
23 February 2016 • Mark Westall
Extensive retrospective in 2017 will cover six decades of artist’s work from early homoerotic paintings to recent LA pieces
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Melbourne art fair cancelled after withdrawal of three major galleries
19 February 2016 • Staff
Melbourne Art Foundation chair says the board, whose decision to cancel was unanimous, had no intention of putting on an ‘affordable, mediocre’ fair
Hieronymus Bosch – a heavenly host of delights on the road to hell
15 February 2016 • Mark Westall
Noordbrabants Museum, Den Bosch, Netherlands
An astonishing homecoming for this madly inventive artist sets the grotesque against a deep but compassionate melancholy that burns into your soul
On the trail of the lost bulls: art detectives who track down missing public treasures
1 February 2016 • Mark Westall
Historic England curators have scoured the country for missing artworks, from lost murals to sold-off sculptures, for a major show
Jeremy Deller flies flag for Thomas More’s Utopia, 500 years later
26 January 2016 • Staff
Giant smiley marks launch of year-long celebration of radical book, to take in everything from street art to fashion
The ‘wearable dwelling’ – a coat for refugees that turns into a tent
21 January 2016 • Mark Westall
Royal College of Art students have designed a multipurpose garment for refugees, made from the insulated material used by marathon runners
Move over, James Bond and Iron Man, here comes my jetpack …
11 January 2016 • Mark Westall
Until now, the idea of flying your own jetpack has been largely fantasy. But 2016 could be the year when it takes off commercially
Curator of ‘show of the decade’ Goya exhibition prepares for poignant farewell
6 January 2016 • Mark Westall
Celebrated portrait exhibition is in its final week but a feature-length film will leave Xavier Bray with a permanent record of his ‘obsession’
How 2015 may have marked the end of the art market’s boom years
31 December 2015 • Mark Westall
New records were set at auction, but overall the art market cooled as the frenzy around young artists subsided and collectors in Russia and Brazil felt the pinch
Los Angeles’ resurgence as America’s cultural capital
21 December 2015 • Mark Westall
With new prestige museums, high-profile art events and a proliferation of bands, record stores and hangout spaces, the city’s cultural life is booming
Empty Spanish church transformed into ‘Sistine chapel’ of skateboarding
18 December 2015 • Mark Westall
A group of skateboard enthusiasts and a Madrid street artist convert abandoned church into mural-covered skatepark
Jeff Koons: master of parody or great American con man?
16 December 2015 • Mark Westall
The Koons mystery deepens as another charge of plagiarism has been lobbed at the artist. But the latest claims are truly shocking
US pop artist Ed Ruscha donates collection of prints to Tate
15 December 2015 • Mark Westall
Tate director Nicholas Serota calls 18 print editions and impression of all future prints a ‘wonderful Christmas present’ to nation
Shia LaBeouf: ‘Why do I do performance art? Why does a goat jump?’
14 December 2015 • Mark Westall
Shia LaBeouf’s artworks have been dismissed as stunts and ripoffs – but he doesn’t care. The Hollywood star and his collective explain why they’re in Liverpool taking calls from the public
Five of the best art exhibitions for Christmas 2015
9 December 2015 • Mark Westall
Wonder at Botticini’s Paradise, see Turner’s bracing vistas in Edinburgh, and explore the roots of the European winter festival at the V&A
REVIEW: Art Basel Miami Beach – art and commerce collide by the sea
6 December 2015 • Mark Westall
It’s the western hemisphere’s biggest and most ostentatious art fair, and if you can get past the bling there are gems to be seen, many hailing from Latin America
Anish and Antony to the rescue! Can the sculptors gentrify Afghanistan?
2 December 2015 • Mark Westall
A merciless graphic novel imagines what would happen if Anish Kapoor and Antony Gormley were dropped on Afghanistan. Its creator explains his hallucinatory romp
Climate change activists stage tattoo protest against BP at Tate Britain
29 November 2015 • Mark Westall
Thirty-five protesters occupy 1840s room at London gallery two days before UN climate change talks open in Paris
Michael Craig-Martin review – a malevolent graveyard of tech
26 November 2015 • Mark Westall
Serpentine gallery, London
Whether he’s painting tape cassettes, Xbox controllers or iPhones, Craig-Martin’s odd, lurid objects don’t just show us the days we’ve lost – they glower back at us
Jeff Koons on his Gazing Ball Paintings: ‘It’s not about copying’
11 November 2015 • Mark Westall
The artist’s new show presents repainted versions of masterpieces, from Titian’s Venus and Mars to the Mona Lisa, with a shiny blue sphere placed in front of each
Council rejects plans to turn London car park into 800 artists’ studios
11 November 2015 • Mark Westall
Southwark opts for rival proposal from Mayfair-based property developer that includes only 50 artists’ spaces in Peckham multistorey
V&A brings Japanese craftsmanship back to life for gallery reopening
2 November 2015 • Mark Westall
From 700-year-old swords and 19th-century ‘living doll’ to Hello Kitty cooker, army of conservators have painstaking revived museum collection
JMW Turner: gallery to retrace artist’s London-Margate steamboat journey
27 October 2015 • Mark Westall
Turner Contemporary will bring to life trip painter often made to visit mistress – and to paint – to mark gallery’s fifth anniversary
Ai Weiwei says internet is like a modern church after flood of Lego offers
26 October 2015 • Mark Westall
Chinese artist thanks online community for offering to donate toy bricks for artwork following Lego’s refusal to supply them