Sorry, Facebook, but the finest art is always about sex and death
22 May 2015 • Mark Westall
The social media site’s ludicrous attempt to ban Gustave Courbet’s masterpiece reveals its ignorance about life itself
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Should the public vote for the artist on the new £20 note? No way – they’ve got terrible taste
22 May 2015 • Mark Westall
The Bank of England wants the public to pick an artist to appear on the new £20. Here’s why it’s a gamble that will never pay off
Tate Modern at 15: still delivering the shock of the new
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?
I scream for ice-cream: is this the most nauseating food art ever?
13 April 2015 • Staff
Michael Massaia believes his melted puddles of multicoloured ice-cream are abstract art – but they just make me sick. All that’s missing is a hot pavement and some flies
Don’t be sniffy about oil-rich states, @ArtDubai funds the world’s most radical art
19 March 2015 • Staff
It’s not all super-yachts and spending binges: Art Dubai, which begins this week, is opening doors for some of the most marginalised voices in art
Joshua Reynolds: the overlooked master who revolutionised British art
10 March 2015 • Mark Westall
An exhibition coming to London’s Wallace Collection paints the artist in a new light: as a daring Enlightenment portraitist who became the victim of his own boldness
Kapoor’s bottomless whirlpool: a sublime spectacle from the magician of modern art
13 February 2015 • Mark Westall
I used to think Anish Kapoor was just another contemporary artist with nothing to say – but his latest installation shows just how daring he really is
Cogs in the machine: how the art market became obsessed with money
11 February 2015 • Mark Westall
With a Richter selling for £30.4m and a Gauguin setting a new record for the most expensive painting ever sold, profit has disgustingly eclipsed creativity in the art world
Where the internet lives: the artist who snooped on Google’s data farm
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
The world’s biggest gif? Art’s biggest hype more like
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
Why the art world needs to ditch the rich Russians
12 January 2015 • Mark Westall
As Russian investors snap up an even greater stake in the contemporary art world, Jonathan Jones asks if there can ever be a truly independent art press
Space Jam, Daddies ketchup – and other bizarre inspirations for high art
7 January 2015 • Mark Westall
With his homage to the 90s animated film starring Michael Jordan and Bugs Bunny, LA artist Devin Troy Strother joins the canon of pop art greats who immortalise funny objects
REVIEW: Transmitting Andy Warhol – white light and black angels in an immersive explosion
8 November 2014 • Mark Westall
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The first major Andy Warhol exhibition in the north of England recreates the world of the Factory and the Exploding Plastic Inevitable – and Warhol is revealed in all his compassion and searing insight
Medieval master Simone Martini comes to London – the week in art
18 May 2013 • Mark Westall
Martini’s paintings go on show at the National Gallery to celebrate the Barber Institute’s 80th birthday, and Gerhard Richter sets a world record – all in your weekly art roundup
Barnett Newman’s ‘glimpses of the sublime’ are a bargain at any price
16 May 2013 • Mark Westall
Meaning and dream collide in Barnett Newman’s work: that’s why the abstract expressionist’s Onement VI fetched $43.8m
Madonna sells Fernand Léger’s modern material girls
9 May 2013 • Mark Westall
The singer has sold a painting by Léger to fund girl’s education: the work’s modern beauty is a paean to strong women
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
Mat Collishaw: still sensational
27 April 2013 • Mark Westall
It’s 25 years since Mat Collishaw burst on to the art scene alongide Damien Hirst and Tracey Emin. And his work is still as appalling and as moving as ever
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
Rachel Whiteread and the decaying streets of Palermo – the week in art
19 April 2013 • Mark Westall
John Riddy’s images of a tumultuous Sicilian city land in central London, with the Deutsche Börse Photography prize lining up nearby – all in your weekly artistic dispatch
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