Tag: Exhibitions
Picasso: the brains behind the brawn
29 May 2012 • Mark Westall
We think of Picasso as a man’s man, a sensualist; but his work is fiercely intellectual. And the British Museum’s exhibition of his Vollard Suite prints proves that he is all about brain work
This week’s new exhibitions
27 May 2012 • Mark Westall
Tracey Emin | ON: A Re-imagining Of Blackpool Illuminations | Henry Moore | Simon Fujiwara | Heatherwick Studio | Zed Nelson, Henry Tonks | Doris Salcedo | Laura Belém
Richard Hamilton: the Duchamp-ion of intellectual art
15 May 2012 • Mark Westall
The father of pop art – who is to be the subject of a posthumous exhibition at the National Gallery – also rediscovered and popularised the once-neglected work of Marcel Duchamp
Yael Bartana: And Europe Will Be Stunned; Elizabeth Price: Here – review
14 May 2012 • Mark Westall
Artangel at Hornsey Town Hall, London; Baltic, Gateshead
This week’s new exhibitions
23 April 2012 • Mark Westall
Alex Prager | Rob Kennedy | Out Of Focus | Paul Thek | Elizabeth Price | Helen Baker | Scott Myles | The Institute Of Critical Zoologists
The rise of the Gulf art scene
20 April 2012 • Mark Westall
Big money has turned the Gulf into a showcase for contemporary art. But will censorship stop the scene in its tracks? David Batty reports from Doha
The British Museum’s Hajj takes us on a pilgrimage, not a propaganda journey
20 March 2012 • Mark Westall
The Observer’s Nick Cohen has laid into the British Museum for allowing Saudi Arabia to sponsor its Hajj exhibition. But Hajj has no political agenda; it simply captures the beauty of Islam
This week’s new exhibitions
26 February 2012 • Mark Westall
Idris Khan | The Stuff That Matters | Conversations | Weighted Words | Joseph Wright Of Derby & Can You Hear Me Now | David Cotterell | Charline von Heyl | Michael Raedecker
Andy Warhol’s legacy lives on in the factory of fame
22 February 2012 • Mark Westall
15 minutes of fame? The artist whose radical ideas galvanised the 1960s art world continues to dominate the market and permeate popular culture – 25 years after his death
This week’s new exhibitions
18 February 2012 • Mark Westall
Jeremy Deller | Sarah Browne & Hamish Fulton | Lothar Götz | Van Dyck In Sicily | Daniel Fogarty | Laura Aldridge | The Fourth Plinth | Jane & Louise Wilson
This week’s new exhibitions
4 February 2012 • Mark Westall
Yayoi Kusama | Jennifer West | The Starry Rubric | Lucian Freud | The Indiscipline Of Painting | The Family In British Art | Michael Shaw | The Near And The Elsewhere
This week’s new exhibitions
30 January 2012 • Mark Westall
Santiago Sierra | Thomas Demand; Daar | David Shrigley | Will Alsop; John Wood & Paul Harrison | Lydia Gifford | Matthew Darbyshire | Simon Martin | Samantha Donnelly
Picasso, Cocteau and Chagall paintings to be exhibited at Lightbox in Woking
10 January 2012 • Mark Westall
Lewis Elton’s art collection, now donated to University of Surrey, will go on public display for the first time
This week’s new exhibitions
28 December 2011 • Mark Westall
FCB Cadell | Miracles And Charms | Ford Madox Brown | Magic Worlds | Nice Style: The World’s First Pose Band | Royal Manuscripts | Pieter Brueghel The Younger
This week’s new exhibitions
10 December 2011 • Mark Westall
Anish Kapoor | Lygia Pape | Little Black Dress | Graham Sutherland | Painting Show | Dara Birnbaum | You, Me, Something Else | Anselm Kiefer
This week’s new exhibitions
4 December 2011 • Mark Westall
Gareth Griffith & Misha Shengelia | Bridget Smith | Museum Show Part 2 | United Enemies | The Mystery Of Appearance | The Peripatetic School | Mustafa Hulusi | Scottish National Portrait Gallery
Scottish National Portrait Gallery – review
4 December 2011 • Mark Westall
Scotland’s National Portrait Gallery, reopened after a dramatic £17.6m overhaul, is a bright and democratic delight
Lygia Pape, Scottish photography and the Northern Art prize – the week in art
2 December 2011 • Mark Westall
From a Serpentine celebration of the late Brazilian artist to the reopening of the Scottish National Portrait Gallery, here’s your latest Art Weekly dispatch