21 February 2012 • Mark Westall
the shortlist of artists taking part in The Catlin Prize 2012 include: Gabriella Boyd, Poppy Bisdee, Jonny Briggs, Max Dovey, Ali Kazim, Adeline de Monseignat,, Soheila Sokhanvari and Julia Vogl.
18 July 2010 • Mark Westall
What art offers that design and architecture don’t, is some kind of ’comment’, ’critique’ – messages, to use a simple word – about our society and how it should be.
22 June 2010 • Mark Westall
The current art establishment is a mirror image of the Victorian art establishment, replacing tradition with novelty, pomposity with pretentiousness, sentiment with vacuity, and craft with junk.
23 May 2010 • Mark Westall
And I wonder where one finds the enthusiasm for such relentless repetition of what is ostensibly based on the ‘new’, but is disappointingly the same.
17 May 2010 • Mark Westall
JANET LEE Series Editor, The Culture Show, BBC2 First, considering art of the present, we are in a curious period… Read More
14 May 2010 • Mark Westall
Clip from Ben Lewis’s Great Art Bubble to buy the film follow the LINK
13 May 2010 • Mark Westall
For an upcoming episode, focusing on the relationship between art and science, BBC2’s The Culture Show is producing a feature… Read More
10 May 2010 • Mark Westall
FUTURE OF ART TEXT 5 CEDAR LEWISOHN Programmer, Tate Media The futures bright. The futures orange, or so the advert… Read More
7 May 2010 • Mark Westall
Tobias Rehberger for Art Safari “You can see the entire Art Safari Tobias Rehberger Bubble Car Feature on Art Safari… Read More
20 April 2010 • Mark Westall
For the next few weeks Ben Lewis will be Guest editing FADwebsite. We will be seeing some of his old… Read More
14 April 2010 • Staff
In 2003, when I made this documentary, Matthew Barney had just completed the Cremaster Cycle (1994-2002), the Sistine Chapel of… Read More
14 April 2010 • Staff
Continued essay and 2nd part of video from this post. In their form these works shared the utilitarian aesthetic of… Read More
10 April 2010 • Mark Westall
JOSH BAER Art market reporter and analyst, Baerfaxt Report Every decade of the 20th century had a dominant or important… Read More
10 April 2010 • Mark Westall
There are few harsher adjectives in the art critic’s lexicon than ’decorative’. There’s a certain kind of art that is… Read More
9 April 2010 • Mark Westall
Ben Lewis in his capacity as Guest editor asked some of his friends what was the future of art.
This week we start with Hans Ulrich Obrist…
13 May 2009 • Mark Westall
Jeff Koons Baroque Egg with bow sold for $5,458,500 last night in 2007 one of his six hanging hearts sold… Read More
