Richard Wright’s stellar art shines next to Rembrandt at the Rijksmuseum
15 March 2013 • Mark Westall
The British artist’s new ceiling paintings featuring a vast network of black stars display a radical vision that fits with Dutch tradition
Tag: Installation
Artist Bruce Nauman’s carnage-littered carousel will blow your mind
31 January 2013 • Mark Westall
Brutal yet beautiful, a new exhibition at Hauser & Wirth in London gives Nauman’s artworks a psychoanalytic twist
Ai Weiwei Bike Installation
22 January 2013 • Mark Westall
The bikes form a cohesive structure, which can be viewed from afar or within, with visitors looking up at all the frames and wheels.
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
Mike Kelley: the nonconformist’s whole life is here
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
PREVIEW: Bruce Nauman / mindfuck Curated by Philip Larratt-Smith
17 December 2012 • Mark Westall
The exhibition’s title, ‘mindfuck’, is a slang term that may be used as both a noun and verb, situation and action. It can mean to brainwash or manipulate someone, or describe a distressing situation or incomprehensible event.
The Turner prize has regained its style and importance
3 December 2012 • Mark Westall
This year’s nominees provide a powerful dose of what the avant garde is up to in 2012. If there’s any justice then Luke Fowler or Elizabeth Price will win
Charlotte Broomfield-Payne Get Your Art On FAD #29
17 September 2012 • Mark Westall
Through installation and performance ‘Fountain’ is the result of having used questionable subject matter as an exploration into the extent of how ethical codes and moral beliefs impact the way we might instinctively perceive controversial content in art.
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
Group Show “Rock, Paper, Scissors” exhibition at Leila Heller Gallery New York
29 July 2012 • Mark Westall
Hadieh Shafie 20900 Pages 2012 Ink, acrylic and paper with printed & hand written Farsi Text Esheghe “Love” 48 in… Read More
This week’s new exhibitions
16 June 2012 • Mark Westall
Anri Sala | Fiona Crisp | Jini Rawlings | Tony Cragg, David Brooks | Liam Spencer | Bruce Nauman | Joe Hesketh | Yoko Ono
This week’s new exhibitions
11 June 2012 • Mark Westall
Nancy Holt | Isabel Rawsthorne | SNAP 2012 | Richard Rigg | Lynette Wallworth | Lis Rhodes And Antonia Hirsch | Wide Open School, Invisible: Art Of The Unseen | Caroline Achaintre, Sara Barker And Alice Channer
This week’s new exhibitions
27 May 2012 • Mark Westall
Tracey Emin | ON: A Re-imagining Of Blackpool Illuminations | Henry Moore | Simon Fujiwara | Heatherwick Studio | Zed Nelson, Henry Tonks | Doris Salcedo | Laura Belém
This week’s new exhibitions
23 April 2012 • Mark Westall
Alex Prager | Rob Kennedy | Out Of Focus | Paul Thek | Elizabeth Price | Helen Baker | Scott Myles | The Institute Of Critical Zoologists
This week’s new exhibitions
26 February 2012 • Mark Westall
Idris Khan | The Stuff That Matters | Conversations | Weighted Words | Joseph Wright Of Derby & Can You Hear Me Now | David Cotterell | Charline von Heyl | Michael Raedecker
This week’s new exhibitions
4 February 2012 • Mark Westall
Yayoi Kusama | Jennifer West | The Starry Rubric | Lucian Freud | The Indiscipline Of Painting | The Family In British Art | Michael Shaw | The Near And The Elsewhere
This week’s new exhibitions
30 January 2012 • Mark Westall
Santiago Sierra | Thomas Demand; Daar | David Shrigley | Will Alsop; John Wood & Paul Harrison | Lydia Gifford | Matthew Darbyshire | Simon Martin | Samantha Donnelly
This week’s new exhibitions
28 December 2011 • Mark Westall
FCB Cadell | Miracles And Charms | Ford Madox Brown | Magic Worlds | Nice Style: The World’s First Pose Band | Royal Manuscripts | Pieter Brueghel The Younger
This week’s new exhibitions
10 December 2011 • Mark Westall
Anish Kapoor | Lygia Pape | Little Black Dress | Graham Sutherland | Painting Show | Dara Birnbaum | You, Me, Something Else | Anselm Kiefer
Jeremy Deller, Turner prizewinner, to have Hayward Gallery retrospective
7 December 2011 • Mark Westall
The artist who staged an exhibition in his parents’ house will be showing works old and new – plus some failed projects
Lygia Pape, Scottish photography and the Northern Art prize – the week in art
2 December 2011 • Mark Westall
From a Serpentine celebration of the late Brazilian artist to the reopening of the Scottish National Portrait Gallery, here’s your latest Art Weekly dispatch
Paul McCarthy: ‘I had this thing about exposing the interior of the body’
13 November 2011 • Mark Westall
California – where stars are made and dreams come true. But it’s also where, for 40 years, Paul McCarthy has been creating creepy, stomach-churning art. So why does his rags-to-riches story read like a movie plot?
See a selection of Paul McCarthy’s artworks here
This week’s new exhibitions
12 November 2011 • Mark Westall
Mitch Epstein | Paul Noble | Rivane Neuenschwander | Paul McCarthy | A Darkness More Than Night | RCA Secret 2011 | Kith And Kin | Victor Pasmore