Three men charged over Damien Hirst counterfeits.
20 June 2017 • Mark Westall
Fake ‘limited-edition’ Hirst prints were sold online to dozens of buyers by a New York group that included a man previously imprisoned for a similar scheme
Tag: culture
Hermann Nitsch: I show everything that is … I don’t know what is bad or good
18 June 2017 • Syndicate
Austrian artist, whose bloody installation for Dark Mofo has sparked protests and controversy, says he has never been interested in provocation
Andy Warhol’s inaugural ‘selfie’ expected to fetch £7m at auction
14 June 2017 • Mark Westall
Print from 1963 based on photo-booth image of artist obsessed with cult of celebrity to be sold at auction for first time
How down-at-heel Lisbon became the new capital of cool
5 June 2017 • Syndicate
Four years ago, Portugal’s capital felt like a ‘city on its knees’. Now it is being touted as hip, cheap and innovative. But is the socialist government failing Lisbon’s poor in its rush to revitalise?
Judy Chicago on the Beatles: ‘They represent things we have lost – hope and freedom’
1 June 2017 • Syndicate
For Sgt Pepper’s 50th anniversary, the great psychedelic visionary of feminist art has created a giant mop-top mural inspired by Fixing a Hole – a song that sums up what she has spent her entire career doing
Jeremy Deller behind ‘strong and stable my arse’ posters in London
25 May 2017 • Syndicate
Turner prize-winning artist says he hopes posters are self-explanatory – especially after Theresa May’s social care U-turn
Giacometti review – master of all things thin
22 May 2017 • Mark Westall
Tate Modern, London
Fight your way through the spindly hordes at this huge, overcrowded Giacometti show and you’ll find a tender, protean artist who is still uniquely strange
Venice Biennale: slaps, drenchings and Dobermans on the prowl
16 May 2017 • Syndicate
The main show is a woolly walk through hand-wringing hippydom and flowerpot trainers. But elsewhere, the biennale bares its teeth in works of danger and daring
Crapumenta ! … Anger in Athens as the blue lambs of Documenta hit town
14 May 2017 • Syndicate
The Greek capital has been invaded by talking frogs, dyed lambs and marble tents. But many locals are furious at the ‘colonial attitudes’ of the German art extravaganza
REVIEW: Phyllida Barlow – Venice invaded by loo rolls and brilliant buffoonery
9 May 2017 • Syndicate
British Pavilion, Venice Biennale
The 73-year-old sculptor’s most significant show yet is a crowded game of associations, where skeletal megaphones spar with concrete clods. But is there space for us to play too?
Turner prize 2017: a cosmopolitan rebuff to Brexit provincialism
4 May 2017 • Syndicate
Amid all the rule changes, Lubaina Himid is surely the favourite to win British art’s most important prize this year
REVIEW: Picasso: Minotaurs and Matadors – sex and death in the bullring
29 April 2017 • Syndicate
Gagosian, London
The macho man of Spanish painting was obsessed with bulls. For him they were symbols of mythic power, but also impotence and mortality
God, sex or evolution – why did humans start making art?
25 April 2017 • Syndicate
A new Australian exhibition suggests art was first made to attract mates, signal dangers or mimic nature. But this reduces a mysterious impulse to a biological drive
Mat Collishaw restages 1839 photography show in virtual reality
24 April 2017 • Syndicate
Artist says VR will change our outlook as he prepares Somerset House display based on Henry Fox Talbot’s seminal exhibition
Don’t look now: the artists who turn their backs on the world
21 April 2017 • Syndicate
Stanley Brouwn had books about his work pulped, Cady Noland plagues anyone trying to sell or show hers … even in this oversharing, celebrity-driven age, some artists refuse to play to the gallery
REVIEW: Damien Hirst: Treasures from the Wreck of the Unbelievable – beautiful and monstrous
17 April 2017 • Syndicate
Punta della Dogana and Palazzo Grassi, Venice
Filling two museums with ancient ‘treasure’, Hirst’s spectacular mix of storytelling, invention and humour is art for a post-truth world
Magic black: Air-Ink, the art supplies made from vehicle pollution
10 April 2017 • Mark Westall
Inventor Anirudh Sharma is capturing carbon from car exhausts to turn it into ink. And he’s got his eye on London’s black cabs next
REVIEW: Damien Hirst: Treasures from the Wreck of the Unbelievable
8 April 2017 • Syndicate
Palazzo Grassi and Punta della Dogana, Venice
Artist has once again found the underwater grotto in his mind where monsters live, making a fool out of all of us who lost faith
Ai Weiwei and Brook Andrew to headline 21st Biennale of Sydney
6 April 2017 • Syndicate
Japanese artistic director Mami Kataoka announces preliminary lineup of 21 artists, including Australians Yasmin Smith and George Tjungurrayi
Queer British Art 1861-1967 review – strange, sexy, heartwrenching
4 April 2017 • Syndicate
From Man Ray’s portrait of Virginia Woolf to Orton’s library book collages and Noël Coward’s dressing gown, this vital survey is bursting with fascinating stories
Feminism doesn’t need more female statues – it needs political action
29 March 2017 • Mark Westall
Bulgarian artist Erka has rightly protested against Sofia’s total lack of statues of women by erecting her own pop-up versions. But permanent statues don’t advance feminism – they trap people in the past
Yuval Noah Harari: ‘Homo sapiens as we know them will disappear in a century or so’
24 March 2017 • Mark Westall
The visionary historian, author of two dazzling bestsellers on the state of mankind, takes questions from Lucy Prebble, Arianna Huffington, Esther Rantzen and a selection of our readers
Whitney Biennial 2017: Trump’s shadow looms over politically charged show
20 March 2017 • Mark Westall
A particularly biting set of pieces, including a Statue of Liberty holding up an unlit torch, help to symbolize an arts community raging against the president