Double exposure: the two faces of Viviane Sassen’s photography
2 February 2013 • Mark Westall
The worlds of fashion and fine art are often mutually exclusive – Sassen’s variety of approach enables her to straddle both
2 February 2013 • Mark Westall
The worlds of fashion and fine art are often mutually exclusive – Sassen’s variety of approach enables her to straddle both
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
29 January 2013 • Mark Westall
Tate Britain show reveals unknown figurative side to revered German modernist who has influenced generations of artists
28 January 2013 • Mark Westall
Why do so many galleries use such pompous, overblown prose to describe their exhibits? Well, there’s now a name for it: International Art English. And you have to speak it to get on. Andy Beckett enters the world of waffle
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19 January 2013 • Mark Westall
Exiled from his home in Germany and at odds with the art scene of 1940s London, Kurt Schwitters’ initial experience of Britain was not the stuff of fairytales. But his story had a happy ending
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
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
8 January 2013 • Mark Westall
As his new show opens at the ICA, one of fashion’s most successful and extreme photographers talks about his father, German guilt and making Kate Moss cry
31 December 2012 • Mark Westall
Plus Steve McQueen gets a major retrospective – but you’ll have to go to Switzerland to see it
21 December 2012 • Mark Westall
Clever, committed and courageous, Pussy Riot are the only band that mattered in 2012. They have used their year in the spotlight to expose injustice
20 December 2012 • Mark Westall
Magic carpets, Superman, and lewd encounters with barbers: Kelley’s life’s work is on show at this Amsterdam retrospective – and his rancid humour shines through
11 December 2012 • Mark Westall
Inventor and pioneering photographer left ‘unique’ collection of images, experiment notes and correspondences
9 December 2012 • Mark Westall
The artist Mariko Mori brings together ancient and modern – with a little stardust thrown in
7 December 2012 • Mark Westall
Cinema at London’s Serpentine, Jim Shaw’s imagination and Kevin Harman’s subversive portraiture – all in your weekly art dispatch
3 December 2012 • Mark Westall
Nord-Pas de Calais region vilified as uncultured by southerners but locals say interest in museum proves stereotype is wrong
15 November 2012 • Mark Westall
Top British artists are going Gangnam Style in support of Ai Weiwei. Alex Needham on what happens when artists dabble in pop music
13 November 2012 • Mark Westall
From bullets bursting paint-filled balloons to Jackson Pollock’s spatter technique, a new exhibition at London’s Tate looks at the relationship between painting and performance art – with more misses than hits
6 November 2012 • Mark Westall
From Laurie Anderson to Cindy Sherman to Richard Serra, the giants of US art are backing Obama. But then, writes Jonathan Jones as he takes a cultural tour of Washington DC, America’s artists have always leaned left
31 October 2012 • Mark Westall
A new exhibition at London’s National Gallery hopes to prompt a conversation between photos and their feted inspiration. Does it work? Jonathan Jones has his doubts
25 October 2012 • Mark Westall
At the end of the 1940s, finding marble in short supply, sculptor Barbara Hepworth took her sketchpad into hospitals. The results are full of drama and passion
20 October 2012 • Mark Westall
From the earliest days of photography, practitioners took their inspiration from paintings. But as a new exhibition at London’s National Gallery shows, the link went both ways
17 October 2012 • Mark Westall
Exhibition called Dancing Around Duchamp celebrates legacy of an influential artist with paintings, dance, theatre and film
11 October 2012 • Mark Westall
Murder mysteries, squirrel dinners, cut-price milk – there’s more jostling for attention at the art fair than ever. But might Adrian Searle just get a date out of it all?
5 October 2012 • Mark Westall
Despite the hostile climate, a determined few are tackling issues such as capitalism in Mecca and the impact of Islam on peace