Van Gogh’s true colours were originally even brighter
3 May 2013 • Mark Westall
Research undertaken by the Van Gogh Museum reveals the master’s favourite paints have faded badly since the 1880s
Tag: Jonathan Jones on art
Andy Warhol lost then found: tender portrait of artist in 1981
25 April 2013 • Mark Westall
British photographer Steve Wood saw the truth about Warhol, writes Jonathan Jones
Pardon? What Modern Toss’s F***yeux tapestry says about Britain today
18 April 2013 • Mark Westall
A world-record attempt to cram as much depravity as possible into one artwork shows how little has changed since the Bayeaux Tapestry
Andy Warhol’s iconic New York anti-films come to London
5 April 2013 • Mark Westall
Warhol’s most famous movies – including Sleep, a five-hour film of his lover dozing – perfectly capture the avant garde New York of the Velvet Underground and the Chelsea hotel
Haroon Mirza’s unsettling TV transmission is ahead of its time
19 March 2013 • Mark Westall
The artist’s late-night broadcast – in which a woman speaks to viewers in 1987 from 2013 – explores a temporal mystery and may have given some viewers uneasy dreams
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
Who’d steal an empty, pretentious Dalí?
21 February 2013 • Mark Westall
The dangerous power of celebrity, so well understood by the Spanish artist, may be behind a fashion PR’s alleged theft
Picasso in Paris: raw works of genius from the artist as a young man
17 February 2013 • Mark Westall
A scintillating new show at London’s Courtauld Gallery follows a coming-of-age Picasso as he dips his paintbrush into the colourful underworld of Montmartre
Paul Cézanne: founding father of modern art
6 February 2013 • Mark Westall
Look closely at the French artist’s abstract, pixellated works and the seeds of modernism come into focus
Marc Quinn’s giant baby sculpture infantilises art
24 January 2013 • Mark Westall
It’s great that Quinn is soppy about his son, but this towering idol confirms him as the father of reductive, attention-seeking art
Sticking it out with the stuckists
16 January 2013 • Mark Westall
The art world bubble is over, giving the ‘anti-conceptualists’ a chance to crow. But they really don’t require our approval
Blue plaques are crucial cultural landmarks
7 January 2013 • Mark Westall
London stands to lose more than plaques when English Heritage stops its memorial scheme – the city’s very identity is at stake
Oiled on canvas: the art of intoxication
31 December 2012 • Mark Westall
From Rembrandt to Degas, learn from the masters about the pleasures and perils of the demon drink this New Year’s Eve
How Leonardo da Vinci’s angels pointed the way to the future
27 December 2012 • Mark Westall
The atheist innovator used religious commissions to test-drive his greatest invention – the flying machine
Rachel Whiteread is Britain’s greatest living artist
16 December 2012 • Mark Westall
Her magnificent sculptures conjure up vanished lives, lost voices and forgotten loves – and sit easily alongside modern masters
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
Antony Gormley: a model of hype?
27 November 2012 • Mark Westall
Could it be that now the artist has fallen off the art world’s fashion hitlist, Gormley’s work can be seen as it is – quotidian and overrated
Light from the Middle East offers a true reflection of a complex region
14 November 2012 • Mark Westall
A new exhibition at London’s V&A offers insights from within cultures that are more often photographed and reported from the outside
A Monet for £27m? The real price of the art boom is its sleaziness
8 November 2012 • Mark Westall
As a Christie’s sale is criticised for not offering enough ‘trophy property’, it’s clear to see what the art world has become
Art: the blood sport for the ultra-wealthy?
20 October 2012 • Mark Westall
The value of this week’s seven stolen masterpieces pales into insignificance against the prices charged, legally, for art today
Dutch art theft: a pick’n’mix of paintings reduced to criminal collateral
16 October 2012 • Mark Westall
A beguiling Freud, a dazzling Matisse, a modest De Haan: will these stolen paintings see the light again?
Tate Modern’s rehang cannot diminish the majesty of Mark Rothko
23 August 2012 • Mark Westall
The space reserved for the painter’s mural-sized masterpieces might be modest, but his dark vision still blazes bright
Kiss and tell: street artists imitate Gustav Klimt’s erotic art
22 August 2012 • Mark Westall
A crew of nine leading lights from the street art scene are making new works inspired by the great, sensual Austrian – and Mode 2’s response is characteristically provocative
Crazy golftime for Hitler: should we salute the Chapman brothers’ statue?
15 August 2012 • Mark Westall
A model of Hitler on a crazy golf course at Grundy Art Gallery has been called ‘tasteless’ by a Jewish organisation. But shouldn’t artists have the right to offend?