Fabrice Hyber: but is it fruit?
27 March 2013 • Mark Westall
Fabrice Hyber has filled the Baltic with vegetable men, mini-weather systems and a salt mountain. Is he just trifling with us?
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Bernadette Corporation: ‘Don’t have sex with each other’
25 March 2013 • Mark Westall
New York art provocateurs Bernadette Corporation tell Jason Farago the key to running a successful collective: dress for work, learn proper manners – and keep your hands to yourself
A comics artist’s view on Lichtenstein: A Retrospective
5 March 2013 • Mark Westall
There’s no doubting Roy Lichtenstein’s technical ability, says comics artist Marc Ellerby, but wasn’t he just piggybacking off other people’s talents?
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
William Turnbull: punk in the genes
26 February 2013 • Mark Westall
William Turnbull was a giant of 20th-century sculpture. His son Alex, of the post-punk band 23 Skidoo, tells Stuart Jeffries what he learned when he set out to make a film about him
Roy Lichtenstein: too cool for school?
18 February 2013 • Mark Westall
Roy Lichtenstein deflated the macho mystique of American art and produced some of the most recognisable work on the planet. But does he go any deeper than surface gloss? Adrian Searle joins the dots at a new Tate Modern retrospective
Illustrator Barbara Nessim: ‘I was just steering my own ship’
5 February 2013 • Mark Westall
She dated Marc Bolan, lived with Gloria Steinem – and captured a country in change. Ahead of a major retrospective, Barbara Nessim talks shoes, salsa and suffering
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
A user’s guide to artspeak
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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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
2013 visual art preview: Manet’s portraits and Lowry reappraised
31 December 2012 • Mark Westall
Plus Steve McQueen gets a major retrospective – but you’ll have to go to Switzerland to see it
Pussy Riot: activists, not pin-ups
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
Pull up a chair: inside the V&A’s brilliant new furniture gallery
29 November 2012 • Mark Westall
The V&A’s vast collection of furniture – from Jonathan Swift’s bureau to Ron Arad’s swervy bookcase – has a new home that is breathing new life into old wood
From Ai Weiwei to Anish Kapoor: the art world’s love affair with pop
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
A Bigger Splash: did performance art change painting?
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
Obama’s art army
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
Seduced By Art: can photography and fine art hang together?
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
From sculpture to scalpel: Barbara Hepworth’s surgical sketches
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
Frieze London 2012: the speed-dating approach to art fairs
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?
Thomas Schütte: men, monsters and self-portraits
25 September 2012 • Mark Westall
Thomas Schütte’s sculptures are on the loose in a London park, while his unsettling portraits hang in a gallery nearby. It’s a great day out – but you wouldn’t want to meet them in a bar
The fake photographs that predate Photoshop
31 August 2012 • Mark Westall
Tiny soldiers, Yorkshire fairies, an unlikely meeting between Lenin and Stalin: nothing you see here is what it seems. Jonathan Jones previews a fascinating exhibition of photo fakery
Have Pussy Riot sparked a new wave of grrl power?
22 August 2012 • Mark Westall
The Pussy Riot trial sparked global protest. Will it mobilise artists, too? Laura Snapes meets music’s angry young women
London 2012: The hidden Olympic legacy
31 July 2012 • Mark Westall
Nick Franglen spent months creating a secret art project in the Olympic zone. The public cannot visit but here’s a private view
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