Jeremy Deller flies flag for Thomas More’s Utopia, 500 years later
26 January 2016 • Staff
Giant smiley marks launch of year-long celebration of radical book, to take in everything from street art to fashion
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Michael Craig-Martin review – a malevolent graveyard of tech
26 November 2015 • Mark Westall
Serpentine gallery, London
Whether he’s painting tape cassettes, Xbox controllers or iPhones, Craig-Martin’s odd, lurid objects don’t just show us the days we’ve lost – they glower back at us
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
JMW Turner: gallery to retrace artist’s London-Margate steamboat journey
27 October 2015 • Mark Westall
Turner Contemporary will bring to life trip painter often made to visit mistress – and to paint – to mark gallery’s fifth anniversary
Tate Modern highlights pop art by women ignored by sexist establishment
15 September 2015 • Mark Westall
Many of the works overlooked in the 1960s and 70s will be seen in public for the first time when they go on display in London
REVIEW: Chocolate with your Bacon? Tate Britain offers feast for the senses
26 August 2015 • Mark Westall
London gallery opens ‘sensorium’ to explore whether taste, touch, smell and sound change the way people experience art
Artist to fill Covent Garden market with 100,000 balloons
18 August 2015 • Mark Westall
Charles Pétillon’s glowing pop-up installation will stretch over 50 metres across ceiling of market building
Tracey Emin’s plan to demolish listed London building dismays East Enders
27 July 2015 • Mark Westall
Artist, who has spoken of importance of Spitalfields’ heritage, draws fierce criticism over plan for five-floor Sir David Chipperfield-designed home
Funding cuts could spell end of free museums and galleries
24 July 2015 • Mark Westall
Museums Association warns that entrance fees could be introduced as York Art Gallery considers £7.50 charge when it reopens after £8m redevelopment
Anthony Caro in Yorkshire review – sculpture that can take your breath away
20 July 2015 • Mark Westall
His monumental forms make you dance, his table-top works are in drag – and his shapes are so simple you can’t believe he dared. As a vast two-site retrospective proves, Caro’s best work remains audacious, alluring and disarming
Royal Academy turns to crowdfunding to bring Ai Weiwei’s trees to London
15 July 2015 • Mark Westall
RA hopes to raise £100,000 through Kickstarter for installation made by artist from trees that have died in mountains of southern China
Rob Ryan: ‘My art isn’t very edgy, but I’m not that kind of artist’
10 July 2015 • Mark Westall
Retrospective at Yorkshire Sculpture Park may mark turning point in career as artist known for paper cuttings moves on to painting and photography
Gustav Klimt piece sells for almost £25m at Sotheby’s
26 June 2015 • Staff
Portrait of Gertrud Loew was subject of a 15-minute bidding war at the London auctioneers, as star lot by Kazimir Malevich went for £21.4m
REVIEW: Julian Opie’s portraits in motion: this is what genius looks like –
7 June 2015 • Staff
He paints with simple black lines and primary colours, and most of his characters don’t even have faces. Yet Julian Opie captures our world in stunning detail
Anish Kapoor’s Versailles ‘vagina’ causes controversy in France
5 June 2015 • Mark Westall
Artist behind Paris’s biggest cultural event of the year has described Dirty Corner as ‘the vagina of the queen’ taking power
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?
Iron maiden voyage: world’s largest aircraft looking for investors to give it liftoff
1 April 2015 • Mark Westall
The manufacturer of the Airlander 10 is looking for investors to follow in the footsteps of Iron Maiden frontman Bruce Dickinson and the US military
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
VIDEO: Cockroach robots? Not nightmare fantasy but science lab reality
5 March 2015 • Mark Westall
Texas engineers attach miniature computer wired into nervous system of live cockroaches for remote control and aim to gather video information in places such as broken sewers
REVIEW: Leon Golub: Bite your Tongue – so terrific, the paintings roar off the walls
4 March 2015 • Mark Westall
Serpentine gallery, London
Late Chicago-born artist has never had the retrospective he deserves in US – perhaps galleries are afraid, for his work is as shocking as it is powerful
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
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
Me me meme: artists’ selfies paint the full spectrum of self-obsession
28 January 2015 • Mark Westall
Turner Contemporary, Margate
From a Van Dyck self-portrait to Ian Breakwell’s heartbreaking valediction as he lay dying of cancer, this absorbing show sorts the vain from the glorious
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