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
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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
Death, drugs and survival: DV8 Physical Theatre tells the story of John
6 November 2014 • Mark Westall
Lyttelton, London
Physical theatre group DV8’s new piece explores abuse and intimacy – but an unbalanced narrative dulls the impact
• Death, drugs and survival: DV8 Physical Theatre tells the story of John
Debbie Harry by Chris Stein: a life in pictures
3 November 2014 • Mark Westall
Blondie’s Chris Stein and Debbie Harry talk about a new book of intimate photos taken by Stein during the band’s post-punk glory days
Flying car approaches liftoff as most advanced prototype yet is unveiled
30 October 2014 • Mark Westall
Its almost here ! At last the Flying Car !!
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
Why Kim Kardashian has a stash of BlackBerry phones
28 October 2014 • Mark Westall
A BlackBerry Bold is Kardashian’s ‘heart and soul’ and other phones simply can’t compare, but is she the last of a dying breed?
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
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
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 Fabio Lattanzi Antinori #PostDigitalWeekend @DegreeArt
2 August 2014 • Ben Austin
We speak to Fabio Lattanzi Antinori who is currently showing his digital sculpture ‘The Abyss’ in DegreeArt’s Post Digital –… Read More
Museums put oddball objects on show
21 May 2013 • Mark Westall
First Time Out project will display unusual treasures that curators have retrieved from their stores
Walk Through British Art – review
19 May 2013 • Mark Westall
Tate Britain’s ambitious rehang has been widely hailed as a triumph, but our critic finds the new display congested and frustrating
Gary Hume: ‘I couldn’t hold down a job. That’s why I became an artist’
19 May 2013 • Mark Westall
A fully paid-up member of the rowdy YBA generation in the 90s, the artist made his name with his household gloss-painted life-size door paintings. On the eve of a solo show at Tate Britain, he talks about his agent Jay Jopling, his farm in upstate New York – and why he now confines his excesses to the studio
Derry gets its cultural kicks and a new start from local heroes
19 May 2013 • Mark Westall
All communities are reaping the benefit in the 2013 UK city of culture, as visitors pour in and a new generation of talent flourishes, with a little help from old hitmakers
Medieval master Simone Martini comes to London – the week in art
18 May 2013 • Mark Westall
Martini’s paintings go on show at the National Gallery to celebrate the Barber Institute’s 80th birthday, and Gerhard Richter sets a world record – all in your weekly art roundup