17 July 2015 • Mark Westall
The 78-year-old British artist is back in Los Angeles with an exhibit that explores the intersection of art and technology, but he says his fast-and-loose days are behind him: ‘I don’t go out much anymore because I’m too deaf, really’
10 July 2015 • Mark Westall
Retrospective at Yorkshire Sculpture Park may mark turning point in career as artist known for paper cuttings moves on to painting and photography
18 June 2015 • Mark Westall
Everyone from Ai Weiwei and Frank Gehry to Zaha Hadid has designed a folly for the Serpentine gallery, but what happens to these starchitect baubles after their summer in the sun?
9 June 2015 • Mark Westall
We associate Barbara Hepworth with St Ives and Yorkshire, but often forget she was a driving force in international modern art. On the eve of a major Tate retrospective Tim Adams tells the dramatic story of this fascinating artist through key pieces spanning 40 years
11 May 2015 • Staff
The Bankside museum has transformed modern art from an elite cult into mass entertainment, but is it time to get down to some proper studying?
19 April 2015 • Staff
Mikhael Subotzky and Patrick Waterhouse spent six years photographing every door and window of a 54-storey tower in Johannesburg, while Viviane Sassen proves herself a sculptor of light. Set beside heartbreaking portraits of LGBTI South Africans and Russians letting loose on the beach, this year’s shortlist is full of intrigue
9 April 2015 • Staff
‘There’s still an aim to reach total realism, which isn’t a bad goal’
12 March 2015 • Mark Westall
In the 1960s and 70s, countries across Africa celebrated their independence with astonishingly avant-garde architecture. Oliver Wainwright reports on a fascinating attempt to chronicle this forgotten history
• Afro modernism: Africa’s avant-garde architecture boom – in pictures
13 February 2015 • Mark Westall
Manchester’s Whitworth gallery was never the most welcoming building. But a £15m revamp has breathed new air and light into the venerable institution
5 February 2015 • Staff
Welcome to the end of the information superhighway – a ‘data farm’ in the midwest. When Google refused to let artist John Gerrard photograph it, he hired a chopper and decided to beat them at their own game
27 January 2015 • Mark Westall
We may be able to see it from space, but the world’s largest gif is really just an advertising stunt. We still need a real artist to create the first digital masterpiece
8 January 2015 • Mark Westall
Constantinos Miltiadis’s project combines inteligloves and Kinect sensors to an Oculus Rift-style headset to provide the ultimate in impressive digital experiences
9 December 2014 • Mark Westall
Eventually 3D-printed cars could be designed with their local environment in mind, such as extreme cold weather or the desert
7 December 2014 • Staff
The subversive south London collective staged parties, launched an online channel, and now makes subversive and often participatory art works for the digital generation
17 November 2014 • Mark Westall
David Hockney last year left Yorkshire and returned to his home in the Hollywood Hills after a series of traumatic events in his personal life. Here the 77-year-old reveals how California has rejuvenated him, before answering questions from Observer readers and cultural figures
3 November 2014 • Mark Westall
Blondie’s Chris Stein and Debbie Harry talk about a new book of intimate photos taken by Stein during the band’s post-punk glory days
19 December 2011 • Mark Westall
When the artist and human rights activist Ai Weiwei was arrested by the Chinese government in April and held in secret for 81 days, he became an international cause célèbre
8 October 2011 • Mark Westall
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7 October 2011 • Mark Westall
The Apple aesthetic has transformed how we see our lives – and the future
29 September 2011 • Mark Westall
She’s danced topless to the Beatles, made a chandelier from pants and filmed inside the human body. Adrian Searle is hooked on the womanly world of artist Pipilotti Rist
19 September 2011 • Mark Westall
Turner prize-winning transvestite potter Grayson Perry long cherished an ambition to show his own art – his own ‘civilisation’, as he calls it – alongside the great ancient civilisations of the world – but little dreamed the British Museum would agree to his proposal…
16 September 2011 • Mark Westall
Fun, bright, clever, but disposable and disturbing, postmodernism was all swagger and stance. But was this pre-digital phenomenon killed off by the internet?
9 September 2011 • Mark Westall
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31 August 2011 • Mark Westall
Peter Conrad celebrates a century of the medium that sells the raffish charms of America and has inspired film-makers and artists, from Hitchcock and Coppola to Bruce Nauman and Tracey Emin
