Robert Hughes obituary
8 August 2012 • Mark Westall
Australian writer whose TV series The Shock of the New took modern art to a mass audience
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Russians join in call for Pussy Riot trio’s release
2 July 2012 • Mark Westall
Moscow court extends Pussy Riot trio’s detention without setting trial date leading to more public acts of defiance around the world
Richard Long: ‘It was the swinging 60s. To be walking lines in fields was a bit different’
18 June 2012 • Mark Westall
The land artist gives a rare interview, describing his early work, his roots in Bristol and how his legs once let him down
Invisible: Art about the Unseen 1957 – 2012 – review
11 June 2012 • Mark Westall
Hayward Gallery, London
East End art galleries forced to go west as local scene ‘dies’
8 June 2012 • Mark Westall
Vyner Street galleries move to Fitzrovia, saying recession and rising rents have killed off east London’s artistic boom
Sculptor David Nash hews landscape from Kew Gardens’ fallen trees
30 May 2012 • Mark Westall
Water, children and foxes are main problems encountered by artist in residence
Tate given artworks by David Hockney, Lucian Freud and Rachel Whiteread
29 May 2012 • Mark Westall
Mercedes and Ian Stoutzker donate nine works of modern art to fill gaps in Tate’s collection
Francis Bacon’s body turns out to be Lucian Freud’s in self-portrait
27 May 2012 • Mark Westall
Experts at Christie’s conclude 1964 Bacon painting is of two artists not one after studying photos of both men from the time
Liverpool’s seventh Biennial set to be biggest ever
23 May 2012 • Mark Westall
The autumn arts extravaganza will include a makeover of Everton park and the Cunard building opening to the public
Frieze New York review: more glitz, less grit, as art fair moves stateside
4 May 2012 • Mark Westall
It’s all business at the Manhattan edition, and provocations of the type London audiences have come to expect are not in evidence
New York warms to Frieze as fair muscles in on US art market
4 May 2012 • Mark Westall
US debut features a 250,000 sq ft tent devoted to contemporary works on Randall’s island in the East river
London Frieze braves backlash to fly the flag of British culture in Manhattan
29 April 2012 • Mark Westall
The fair faces the threat of protests by the Occupy movement against art commercialisation as it makes its first trip abroad
Tate Modern unveils underground space – the Tanks – devoted to live art
24 April 2012 • Mark Westall
Gallery says two former oil tanks will be filled with performances and debates, starting this summer
Yinka Shonibare’s ship in a bottle goes on permanent display in Greenwich
24 April 2012 • Mark Westall
Artwork that won fans on Trafalgar Square’s fourth plinth is moved to new home after public help raise £362,500
Specialist criminals stole £2m Chinese artefacts from university, say police
12 April 2012 • Mark Westall
Thieves who took 18th-century bowl and sculpture from Durham museum probably only in building two minutes, says detective
Francis Bacon painting, Figure Writing Reflected in Mirror, in Sotheby’s sale
6 April 2012 • Mark Westall
Estimate up to £25m on painting representing lover George Dyer and the artist which has been in private collection since 1977
Ai Weiwei ordered to switch off studio webcams
6 April 2012 • Mark Westall
Chinese activist and artist turns off live feed from cameras he installed in his home, after authorities object
Read all about it: how Gilbert & George stole the headlines and made art
8 March 2012 • Mark Westall
Urbane artistic pair pilfered 3,712 newspaper bills from outside London shops to create works now on show at White Cube galleries
Dutch artist’s works found in British warehouse
16 February 2012 • Mark Westall
Over 400 stolen artworks by celebrated 20th-century expressionist painter Karel Appel discovered by storage firm
Lambeth council lambasted for arts centre sale
14 February 2012 • Mark Westall
Stockwell Studios sold by ‘John Lewis council’ to housing developer after artists spent £70,000 on renovations
Yayoi Kusama arrives at Tate Modern with a polka at Damien Hirst
8 February 2012 • Mark Westall
Japanese artist renowned for dot motif has her first big UK retrospective – and a few words of advice for Britart’s spot fan
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
Lucian Freud portrait of restaurateur goes up for auction
1 February 2012 • Mark Westall
1955 painting of Bernard Walsh, who ran restaurant frequented by Freud and Francis Bacon, has estimate of £1.5m-£2m