Fiona Rae; New Order: British Art Today – review
28 April 2013 • Mark Westall
Towner Gallery, Eastbourne; Saatchi Gallery, London
Tag: Exhibitions
Mystery of missing art of Pauline Boty
28 April 2013 • Mark Westall
Boty was a central figure in Swinging London in the 1960s. As a new show aims to restore her forgotten reputation, the hunt for her lost paintings goes on
Andy Warhol lost then found: tender portrait of artist in 1981
25 April 2013 • Mark Westall
British photographer Steve Wood saw the truth about Warhol, writes Jonathan Jones
Deutsche Börse Photography prize show: mashups and moon walkers
18 April 2013 • Mark Westall
The Deutsche Börse Photography prize show draws on Google, space travel and Bertolt Brecht – but one artist stands head and shoulders above the rest
Rachel Whiteread still casts a spell
12 April 2013 • Mark Westall
With her new London exhibition featuring casts of the common garden shed, the artworld veteran makes us slow down our thoughts and attend to the world’s smallest details
Ilya and Emilia Kabakov: The Happiest Man; Two Mountains – review
9 April 2013 • Mark Westall
Ambika P3; Sprovieri Gallery, London
Southern Fried: One Night Stand’s fried chicken shop
21 March 2013 • Mark Westall
Calling themselves One Night Stand, the collective’s aim is to communicate with their audience through site specific work by installing it in completely unconventional locations, challenging the way we respond to art. These interventionist exhibitions take place over twenty four hours at a time around various parts of London, contributing to the collective’s name.
V&A exhibition shows how David Bowie shaped fashion history
18 March 2013 • Mark Westall
The Starman leotards and Ziggy Stardust bodysuit are still dazzling, but tailoring is the real star of this show
Read music critic Alexis Petridis’s verdict on the exhibition
Royal Academy stages retrospective of neglected US artist George Bellows
13 March 2013 • Mark Westall
Man praised as one of greatest American painters was more famous than friend Edward Hopper during his life
How Yinka Shonibare’s sculpture park exhibition shoots to thrill
4 March 2013 • Mark Westall
Yorkshire Sculpture Park, normally a haven of tranquillity, has been invaded by armed foxes and headless gunmen. Be mesmerised by the hilarious world of Yinka Shonibare
Picasso in Paris: raw works of genius from the artist as a young man
17 February 2013 • Mark Westall
A scintillating new show at London’s Courtauld Gallery follows a coming-of-age Picasso as he dips his paintbrush into the colourful underworld of Montmartre
Robert Rauschenberg: love and loss in America
9 February 2013 • Mark Westall
Rauschenberg’s works are a visual equivalent of the great American novel, hinting in coded form at his affairs with the artists Jasper Johns and Cy Twombly
Artist Bruce Nauman’s carnage-littered carousel will blow your mind
31 January 2013 • Mark Westall
Brutal yet beautiful, a new exhibition at Hauser & Wirth in London gives Nauman’s artworks a psychoanalytic twist
How the Hayward Gallery’s Light Show monkeys with your eyeballs
30 January 2013 • Mark Westall
This dazzling, frazzling light show takes visitors to the moon – and beyond. It’s a bit like being punched in the face, warns Adrian Searle
Cake, children and cocktails: legacy hopes of 1,000 men in pottery exhibit
23 January 2013 • Mark Westall
Sir John Soane’s Museum installation by Clare Twomey to enshrine in individual bowls personal eulogies of the male public
Manet: Portraying Life – review
22 January 2013 • Mark Westall
Manet’s wonderful portraits made everyone a someone. But the Royal Academy’s new exhibition shows that even great artists have their off-days
Roy Strong attacks galleries for safe choice of ‘endless Renoir’ and Bowie
20 January 2013 • Mark Westall
Former head of V&A says choice of new exhibitions is dictated by ‘box office and box ticking’
Gerard Byrne: A state of neutral pleasure – review
20 January 2013 • Mark Westall
Whitechapel Gallery, London
Manet’s portraits: the artist on the knife-edge of photography
14 January 2013 • Mark Westall
With his snatched street scenes and glimpses of private moments, Manet’s portraits are snapshots seen through the gaze of the artist, as a new exhibition at London’s Royal Academy reveals
Kate Middleton’s first portrait and the View from the Shard – the week in art
11 January 2013 • Mark Westall
The Duchess of Cambridge gets her first official portrait and Renzo Piano’s colossus opens its doors, plus the face of Easter Island and the future of toys – all in your art dispatch