Andreas Gursky and Richie Hawtin: experiments in sound and vision
14 November 2016 • Mark Westall
The photographer, famous for his huge, detailed panoramas, has joined forces with the techno pioneer for a show that caters to the swiping generation
Tag: Features
From Hotline Bling to Nuit Blanche: how music video directors turned to art
30 October 2016 • Mark Westall
Director X and Floria Sigismondi’s videos for Drake and Rihanna have generated millions of YouTube views, but now the pair have moved into a different arena for an ambitious new project
London exhibition puts US on show as postwar creative superpower
12 October 2016 • Syndicate
British Museum’s American Dream will touch on many of the themes in the turbulent presidential election
Wake up and smell the Manifesta: piles of poo and a look inside Houellebecq’s head
18 June 2016 • Syndicate
The art biennial known for pushing boundaries of taste has outdone itself in Zurich, sculpting a day’s worth of excrement, medically exhibiting the French author and making a Paralympic champion wheelchair on water
Francis Bacon’s painting gloves are going to auction
2 June 2016 • Mark Westall
The paint-splattered gloves are proof that we worship artists’ relics – from Turner’s paintbox to Pollock’s brushes – as traces of genius in their own right
Public house music: Mark Fell on making art in a derelict boozer
28 April 2016 • Syndicate
In the dark days of the 1980s, ravers in Sheffield discovered politics, pirate radio and MDMA. Mark Fell explains why he’s channelling Heidegger for his installation on an infamous Sheffield estate
Vincent van Bot: the robots turning their hand to art
23 April 2016 • Syndicate
Twenty-six robots designed by students across the US will compete in an art contest that offers a glimpse into the creative potentials of artificial intelligence
Artist Roger Hiorns on course to bury Boeing 737 under Birmingham canalside
21 April 2016 • Syndicate
After filling a London council flat with crystals, the Turner prize-nominee is realising his next grand plan for 2017 – and he’s even bought the aeroplane
Olafur Eliasson: ‘It’s not just food being shared, but ideas’
21 April 2016 • Syndicate
Best known for his giant sun at Tate Modern, artist Olafur Eliasson is also passionate about food – chiefly, feeding hungry assistants at his vast Berlin studio. Marina O’Loughlin pulls up a pew
Damien Hirst and Mark Hix: ‘We could do Viagra oysters at the restaurant’
20 April 2016 • Mark Westall
The artist and the restaurateur behind Pharmacy 2 form a comic double act with tales of magic mushrooms, mortuaries, and why ‘food is like art without the evidence’
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
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
Move over, James Bond and Iron Man, here comes my jetpack …
11 January 2016 • Mark Westall
Until now, the idea of flying your own jetpack has been largely fantasy. But 2016 could be the year when it takes off commercially
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
Empty Spanish church transformed into ‘Sistine chapel’ of skateboarding
18 December 2015 • Mark Westall
A group of skateboard enthusiasts and a Madrid street artist convert abandoned church into mural-covered skatepark
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
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
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
Smartphone backlash: the mobile that gives you your life back
22 September 2015 • Mark Westall
The Punkt phone, launched at the London design festival, lets you call and text. It also has nice buttons and is easy to hold. And that’s about it. Would you pay £229 for it?
Lift-off ! My 90-second ride into the future of virtual reality
22 September 2015 • Mark Westall
The man who put the 3D visual magic into Harry Potter has set his sights on the future of everything – from ‘experiential branding’ to training surgeons. Our critic lifts off at the London design festival
#Arthoe: These teens have kickstarted a feminist art movement
20 August 2015 • Staff
The young founders of #arthoe are encouraging people of colour to get creative while reclaiming the word ‘ho’. They talk about hashtag wars, their controversial name – and why it’s more than just a fad
Garma: art and politics come together for a moving Arnhem Land festival
6 August 2015 • Mark Westall
In the historic clan-gathering place, people of all nations enjoy the bunggul sunset dances, clan stories, bark painting and deep soul music