26 December 2014 • Staff
Fifteen years ago a Soho warehouse hosted 50 art events in 50 weeks. Writers, architects and even milliners exhibited alongside both famous, and unknown, artists. As the project is revived for 2015, Nicholas Wroe talks to its curators about capturing the spirit of the times
18 May 2013 • Mark Westall
From Da Vinci to a stuffed walrus to glass models of underwater worlds, a rich selection of objects is about to go display at the Turner Contemporary, as curator Brian Dillon explains
6 April 2013 • Mark Westall
‘I’m not into what I call ‘plop’ art. Just putting things in places for the sake of it. They really need a reason for being there’
9 February 2013 • Mark Westall
Rauschenberg’s works are a visual equivalent of the great American novel, hinting in coded form at his affairs with the artists Jasper Johns and Cy Twombly
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
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
14 January 2012 • Mark Westall
‘The iPad is like an endless piece of paper that perfectly fitted the feeling I had that painting should be big’
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?
