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
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V&A exhibition shows how David Bowie shaped fashion history
18 March 2013 • Mark Westall
The Starman leotards and Ziggy Stardust bodysuit are still dazzling, but tailoring is the real star of this show
Read music critic Alexis Petridis’s verdict on the exhibition
David Bowie heads for No 1 and breaks V&A records
17 March 2013 • Mark Westall
The new album and his museum exhibition are both hits – and tour rumours are growing
Royal Academy stages retrospective of neglected US artist George Bellows
13 March 2013 • Mark Westall
Man praised as one of greatest American painters was more famous than friend Edward Hopper during his life
Berlin Wall’s most iconic paintings under threat from property developers
1 March 2013 • Mark Westall
Berlin’s most famous images, such as Brezhnev and Honecker’s kiss, are on part of the wall set to be demolished for luxury flats
Punk fashion celebrated at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art
12 February 2013 • Mark Westall
Organisers hope exhibition of punk fashion at the Costume Institute has the power to shock – and draw the crowds
Claerwen James: The art of being Clive James’s daughter
9 February 2013 • Mark Westall
Claerwen James’s new show marks her as a cultural force in her own right
Kurt Schwitters: Tate retrospective aims to explode myths about Dadaist
29 January 2013 • Mark Westall
Tate Britain show reveals unknown figurative side to revered German modernist who has influenced generations of artists
DIY billionaire turns dairy into gallery to rival Charles Saatchi’s
27 January 2013 • Mark Westall
Frank Cohen pledges to show ‘art for everyone’ in Bloomsbury venture
Andy Warhol’s unseen early drawings unveiled next week
21 January 2013 • Mark Westall
The 300 drawings from the 1950s show a skilled and sensitive side to the artist – more Egon Schiele than pop art
Roy Strong attacks galleries for safe choice of ‘endless Renoir’ and Bowie
20 January 2013 • Mark Westall
Former head of V&A says choice of new exhibitions is dictated by ‘box office and box ticking’
Barack Obama exhibition offers ‘deconstruction of hope’
18 January 2013 • Mark Westall
Liverpool show reveals British artist Nicola Green’s exploration of the 2008 US presidential campaign
Artangel seeks ideas – the wackier, the better
15 January 2013 • Mark Westall
Arts commissioning body which has backed past Turner prize-winning projects has £1m to divide between up to five projects
Dundee V&A will not open until 2015 at the earliest
14 January 2013 • Mark Westall
Ambitious Scottish outpost of the Victoria & Albert museum has been delayed due to lack of funding
Catlin Guide aims to catalogue Britain’s most intriguing new artists
10 January 2013 • Mark Westall
Annual picks out 40 of the most promising graduates from art schools across the UK – and a quarter of them are painters
Titian painting rediscovered in depths of National Gallery
8 January 2013 • Mark Westall
Portrait of Girolamo Fracastoro, the doctor who named syphilis, adds to gallery’s remarkable collection of works by artist
Hauser & Wirth to open new art gallery in Somerset
17 December 2012 • Mark Westall
Derelict farm will be converted into gallery and arts centre and is expected to attract 40,000 visitors a year
Queen receives gifts from 93 Royal Academy artists
15 December 2012 • Mark Westall
From a David Hockney iPad drawing to a motorbike design by Grayson Perry, 97 works are presented to mark diamond jubilee
Damien Hirst to part company with dealer Larry Gagosian
15 December 2012 • Mark Westall
British artist worth about £215m to stop working with Gagosian gallery after 17 years of ‘fantastic and productive relationship’
Man jailed for two years for vandalising £5m Rothko at Tate Modern
13 December 2012 • Mark Westall
Wlodzimierz Umaniec claimed writing his name and a slogan in black paint was an act of ‘yellowism’ comparable to Duchamp
V&A’s new collection covers 50 years of theatre photography
12 December 2012 • Mark Westall
Douglas H Jeffery’s archive documents more than 30,000 productions, from RSC’s early days to Lord of the Rings musical
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
Russian museum could be prosecuted over Chapman brothers exhibit
9 December 2012 • Mark Westall
St Petersburg prosecutors report 114 complaints that Jake and Dinos Chapman’s End of Fun insults visitors’ religious beliefs
Kraftwerk to bring Catalogue shows to Tate Modern
6 December 2012 • Mark Westall
London gallery’s director says eight gigs in Turbine Hall in February will be ‘true gesamtkunstwerk – a total work of art’