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
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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?
What is Snapchat? CEO Evan Spiegel explains it all for parents
17 June 2015 • Mark Westall
‘Pictures are being used for talking,’ says social app’s boss, as he tries to help people understand why children are taking ‘a zillion photos’
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
Sorry, Facebook, but the finest art is always about sex and death
22 May 2015 • Mark Westall
The social media site’s ludicrous attempt to ban Gustave Courbet’s masterpiece reveals its ignorance about life itself
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
The tattoos that turn breast cancer surgery scars into works of art
16 May 2015 • Mark Westall
After mastectomy operations, some women are choosing to reclaim their bodies with beautiful and intricate designs
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
How #tattoogate has highlighted a wider problem with wearables
1 May 2015 • Mark Westall
Reports that tattoos prevent the Apple Watch’s heart rate monitor from working are far from being unique to Apple, but as wearables go mainstream so will their failings
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
Environmental artist Aaron McElligott tells how he makes virtual worlds ‘real’
9 April 2015 • Staff
‘There’s still an aim to reach total realism, which isn’t a bad goal’
Iron maiden voyage: world’s largest aircraft looking for investors to give it liftoff
1 April 2015 • Mark Westall
The manufacturer of the Airlander 10 is looking for investors to follow in the footsteps of Iron Maiden frontman Bruce Dickinson and the US military
Twitter launches Periscope live video broadcasting app to rival Meerkat
26 March 2015 • Staff
Social network makes its move into live-streaming video with free app that allows public and private broadcasts from celebrities and regular users alike
Forget smartwatches, smartcars will drive the next revolution
13 March 2015 • Mark Westall
Wearable technology is fleetingly entertaining, but when get into our cars we take our lives in our hands
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
Apple’s larger ‘iPad Pro’ expected in October
6 March 2015 • Mark Westall
Reports indicate larger 12.9in iPad could be released in second half of 2015 with new USB ports aimed at business users