London exhibition puts US on show as postwar creative superpower
12 October 2016 • Syndicate
British Museum’s American Dream will touch on many of the themes in the turbulent presidential election
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Artist Roger Hiorns on course to bury Boeing 737 under Birmingham canalside
21 April 2016 • Syndicate
After filling a London council flat with crystals, the Turner prize-nominee is realising his next grand plan for 2017 – and he’s even bought the aeroplane
World art market stalls for first time in years
12 March 2016 • Mark Westall
Fall of 7% a function of slowing at cheaper end of market with record prices at top end continuing to make headlines
Where is London’s latest secret art space? Better ask your GP
4 March 2016 • Mark Westall
From Aleah Chapin’s super-sized greying nudes to Eduardo Paolozzi’s tender casts of his own hands, the art on show at the Royal College of General Practitioners is all flesh and blood and bones and sinew
The magnificent Musée Rodin reopens in Paris – with a chocolate surprise
8 November 2015 • Mark Westall
It was a ruin when he lived there, then nearly ruined by millions of trampling tourists after his death. Now the Musée Rodin has been playfully vamped up – and it’s even got a giant chocolate tribute to France’s most famous sculptor
V&A brings Japanese craftsmanship back to life for gallery reopening
2 November 2015 • Mark Westall
From 700-year-old swords and 19th-century ‘living doll’ to Hello Kitty cooker, army of conservators have painstaking revived museum collection
Rarely seen painting of Wellington set for National Portrait Gallery exhibition
27 February 2015 • Mark Westall
Portrait by Sir Thomas Lawrence was commissioned by society hostess Lady Jersey in 1829 and left unfinished following the artist’s death
King John’s teeth and thumb bone to feature in Magna Carta exhibition
26 February 2015 • Mark Westall
British Library to display royal relics in show commemorating 800-year anniversary of sealing of Magna Carta
REVIEW: Wellcome Collection exhibition tracks murder from crime scene to courtroom
26 February 2015 • Mark Westall
Glass jars of blow flies, dissecting table and doll’s house-size models on show in Forensics, at newly expanded museum
V&A to buy Cardinal Wolsey’s tomb angel statues
8 February 2015 • Mark Westall
Museum raises £5m for four bronze statues originally designed for tomb of Henry VIII’s disgraced former adviser
Artist Richard Long to stage first show in his native Bristol in 15 years
14 January 2015 • Mark Westall
Exhibition Time and Space, opening in July at Arnolfini, includes a drawing made in mud collected from the Avon river
Museums put oddball objects on show
21 May 2013 • Mark Westall
First Time Out project will display unusual treasures that curators have retrieved from their stores
British Museum snaps up historic scroll depicting birth of modern Japan
2 April 2013 • Mark Westall
Hand-painted scroll, which depicts arrival of US fleet in 1854, pokes fun at American etiquette during expedition to Japan
Self-portrait bequeathed to National Trust is identified as lost Rembrandt
18 March 2013 • Mark Westall
Painting of artist, worth up to £20m, was thought to be later copy
Cake, children and cocktails: legacy hopes of 1,000 men in pottery exhibit
23 January 2013 • Mark Westall
Sir John Soane’s Museum installation by Clare Twomey to enshrine in individual bowls personal eulogies of the male public
Bodleian Library launches £2.2m bid to stop Fox Talbot archive going overseas
11 December 2012 • Mark Westall
Inventor and pioneering photographer left ‘unique’ collection of images, experiment notes and correspondences
Phone box covered in crystals is a ‘celebration of modern Britishness’
15 June 2012 • Mark Westall
Pop artist Sir Peter Blake gives iconic phone box a bling makeover with 400,000 Swarovski crystals
Southbank centre transformed by flags, robots and fake trees for festival
2 June 2012 • Mark Westall
Artists adorn labyrinthine London arts complex for Festival of the World, opening in time for jubilee weekend
Tate buys timeshare in Christian Marclay’s Clock
1 February 2012 • Mark Westall
24-hour artwork using thousands of movie clips to keep real time is acquired by Tate and two other museums
Picasso, Cocteau and Chagall paintings to be exhibited at Lightbox in Woking
10 January 2012 • Mark Westall
Lewis Elton’s art collection, now donated to University of Surrey, will go on public display for the first time
Lucian Freud etchings to go on sale
6 January 2012 • Mark Westall
Forty-five prints, each estimated to fetch up to £70,000, will be auctioned next month
Monet water lily paintings to make UK debut at Tate Liverpool
13 December 2011 • Mark Westall
An exhibition of Monet, Turner and Twombly at Tate Liverpool will include two water lilies paintings never seen in the UK
David Hockney landscapes to vivify Royal Academy
14 November 2011 • Mark Westall
Gallery hopes A Bigger Picture will be the next blockbuster as it unveils its programme for the next 12 months
Hogarth’s house to reopen after surviving fire – and urban sprawl
9 November 2011 • Mark Westall
Georgian satirist’s Chiswick retreat restored thanks to lottery cash and volunteers from the William Hogarth Trust