World art market stalls for first time in years
12 March 2016 • Mark Westall
Fall of 7% a function of slowing at cheaper end of market with record prices at top end continuing to make headlines
Tag: culture
Damien Hirst and Picasso: coming soon to a National Gallery near you?
7 March 2016 • Syndicate
Gabriele Finaldi is right. The Tate shouldn’t have exclusive access to 20th-century art. It’s time to end these closed-minded historical art wars
Where is London’s latest secret art space? Better ask your GP
4 March 2016 • Mark Westall
From Aleah Chapin’s super-sized greying nudes to Eduardo Paolozzi’s tender casts of his own hands, the art on show at the Royal College of General Practitioners is all flesh and blood and bones and sinew
Warhol demonised Nixon. Heartfield took on Hitler. Where is Trump’s artistic mauling?
3 March 2016 • Staff
The best political art is always viciously negative. And the monsterly qualities of Donald Trump are crying out for some hard-hitting mockery. So where are the likes of Chuck Close and Jeff Koons?
Iggy Pop poses naked for Jeremy Deller exhibition
29 February 2016 • Staff
The Stooges frontman was drawn nude for a show at the Brooklyn Museum, masterminded by Jeremy Deller who said: ‘His body has witnessed much and should be documented’
Serpentine pavilion ‘unzipped’: first look at Bjarke Ingels’ design
25 February 2016 • Mark Westall
The Danish architect offers a sculptural space ‘like a mountain of ice cubes’ stretching across the London gallery’s lawn, to be complemented by four radical summer houses
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
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
Tracey Emin’s luxury penis bracelet works like a charm on me
21 January 2016 • Staff
Emin’s latest venture – a designer jewellery line – reveals in miniature her strengths as an artist who always has something new and eloquent to say
Art market in ‘mania phase’ and risks bursting of the bubble, report says
18 January 2016 • Mark Westall
Experts expect a ‘severe correction’, particularly in contemporary and American art, after years of spiralling prices and celebrity and luxury obsession
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
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
BANKSY uses Steve Jobs artwork to highlight refugee crisis
12 December 2015 • Mark Westall
Graffiti on wall of ‘the Jungle’ camp in Calais depicts late Apple founder’s background as son of Syrian migrant
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