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
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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?
From Shakespeare to Sunflowers: masters take over the week in art
11 August 2012 • Mark Westall
From the birth of modern culture to Van Gogh’s classic work. Plus a Picasso fiasco in Edinburgh airport and a child saves a Manet – all in today’s weekly art dispatch
Robert Hughes: the greatest art critic of our time
8 August 2012 • Mark Westall
Rude, hilarious, eloquent, but never petty … the Australian writer, who has died aged 74, made criticism look like literature
Will you ring Creed’s bell to mark the start of the Olympics?
26 July 2012 • Mark Westall
Artist Martin Creed has asked us all to ring a bell on the first day of the Olympics. Creed believes in public art of the collective, but what does it really mean if we all ring a bell at once?
Let’s hear it for Bruce Nauman, sculptor of sound
30 June 2012 • Mark Westall
In his new sound art installation, Days, at the ICA, Nauman sculpts the space with voices, giving sound a physicality that will open your ears to a whole new world of noise
Invisible: Art about the Unseen 1957 – 2012 – review
11 June 2012 • Mark Westall
Hayward Gallery, London
Picasso: the brains behind the brawn
29 May 2012 • Mark Westall
We think of Picasso as a man’s man, a sensualist; but his work is fiercely intellectual. And the British Museum’s exhibition of his Vollard Suite prints proves that he is all about brain work
Richard Hamilton: the Duchamp-ion of intellectual art
15 May 2012 • Mark Westall
The father of pop art – who is to be the subject of a posthumous exhibition at the National Gallery – also rediscovered and popularised the once-neglected work of Marcel Duchamp
The British Museum’s Hajj takes us on a pilgrimage, not a propaganda journey
20 March 2012 • Mark Westall
The Observer’s Nick Cohen has laid into the British Museum for allowing Saudi Arabia to sponsor its Hajj exhibition. But Hajj has no political agenda; it simply captures the beauty of Islam
Thin line between art and hate: is this the most repellent work of modern art?
13 January 2012 • Mark Westall
The Chapman brothers’ sneering sculpture of Stephen Hawking sickened me in 1995, and still does now. What do you think is the most hateful work of modern art?
Martin Scorsese and Tacita Dean go back to the future of film
6 January 2012 • Mark Westall
Scorsese’s Hugo, shot in 3D, is an excited paean to film history using modern techniques. But Dean’s much darker Film, at Tate Modern, mourns the passing of celluloid
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
What colour should gallery walls be?
21 October 2011 • Mark Westall
The Musée d’Orsay in Paris has joined the Wallace Collection in trying out different background shades. But is anything beyond white just a distraction?
Tacita Dean and the quirky art of being English
19 October 2011 • Mark Westall
There is something very English about Dean’s latest work in Tate’s Turbine Hall, so why do we call her a British artist? You wouldn’t call Dylan Thomas British, would you?
Frieze, Warhol, Hirst – the week in art (and money)
8 October 2011 • Mark Westall
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How Steve Jobs made the world more beautiful
7 October 2011 • Mark Westall
The Apple aesthetic has transformed how we see our lives – and the future
The immaculate conception of Andy Warhol’s women
28 September 2011 • Mark Westall
First there was Marilyn, then Liz, then Jackie. In 1974, Andy Warhol started painting Bardot. Jonathan Jones on the pop artist’s women
The dark arts of Los Angeles
15 September 2011 • Mark Westall
This autumn, galleries and museums across the Californian city will celebrate its historic art scene. Just don’t expect rainbows
Richard Hamilton, the original pop artist, dies at 89
14 September 2011 • Mark Westall
Driven by intellect and political belief, Hamilton created undying icons of the modern world