Photographers’ Gallery in London to reopen in May after £8.9m facelift
31 January 2012 • Mark Westall
Work by Canadian photographer Edward Burtynsky to feature in initial shows at seven floor West End site
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Francesco Vezzoli plans 24-hour museum to vainglorious decadence
17 January 2012 • Mark Westall
Italian artist has charmed Helen Mirren into a toga for art that is sublime and sometimes debauched celebration of celebrity
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
Art Fund membership up 15% despite downturn
3 January 2012 • Mark Westall
Charity that helps museums and galleries acquire artworks has seen record gain in membership over past year
Call it the Tracey Emin effect: art overcoming austerity outside London
30 December 2011 • Mark Westall
Turner, Hepworth, FirstSite – the success of new galleries is making the case for culture-led regeneration
Tate may not renew BP sponsorship deal after environmental protests
14 December 2011 • Mark Westall
Director of group that covers four galleries around UK says decision is due on partnership deal with BP, expiring next year
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
Anselm Kiefer: ‘Art is difficult, it’s not entertainment’
9 December 2011 • Mark Westall
Celebrated German artist reflects on his work before opening of his biggest UK show, at White Cube gallery in London
Jeremy Deller, Turner prizewinner, to have Hayward Gallery retrospective
7 December 2011 • Mark Westall
The artist who staged an exhibition in his parents’ house will be showing works old and new – plus some failed projects
Turner prize: the beauty lies in its orchestration
6 December 2011 • Mark Westall
Martin Boyce deserves the award for a beautiful and unexpected installation – his art is a sort of elegy to modernist purity
Saatchi’s scathing portrait of the art world: ‘Vulgar, Eurotrashy, masturbatory’
3 December 2011 • Mark Westall
Leading British collector launches surprise attack saying buyers and dealers ‘can’t tell good artists from bad’
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
Leonardo da Vinci amazes at the National Gallery – quietly and calmly
6 November 2011 • Mark Westall
When the exhibition opens on Wednesday, visitors will be able to see the two Madonna of the Rocks face to face
Overzealous cleaner ruins £690,000 artwork that she thought was dirty
4 November 2011 • Mark Westall
She scoured off a layer of paint in a sculpture by late German artist Martin Kippenberger on loan to a museum in Dortmund
RCA Secret: annual exhibition of postcards gets a more political edge
2 November 2011 • Mark Westall
Many of the 2,500 contributions to this year’s fundraising show offer a graphic response to current events
Pablo Picasso exhibition at Tate Britain pays belated homage to Spanish genius
28 October 2011 • Mark Westall
Influence on seven British artists – including Henry Moore, David Hockney and Francis Bacon – to be explored in 2012 show
George Condo retrospective opens at the Hayward Gallery
18 October 2011 • Mark Westall
London show by American artist, who makes the funny serious and the grotesque beautiful, includes nine portraits of the Queen
Frieze art fair founders announce new events in New York and London
8 October 2011 • Mark Westall
The Masters fair in London will sell historic work as well as contemporary art as the duo detects a ‘new taste for the old’
Lucian Freud’s final work to be shown in 2012 National Portrait Gallery show
26 September 2011 • Mark Westall
Unfinished nude portrait of artist’s assistant David Dawson will feature alongside 100 other works spanning 70-year career
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
Damien Hirst’s mythical creatures appear at Chatsworth House
9 September 2011 • Mark Westall
Artist’s winged horse and unicorn form part of exhibition of monumental sculpture
National Gallery’s cut in warders ‘putting art at risk’
11 August 2011 • Mark Westall
Criticism of security arrangements follows vandalism of two Poussin paintings at the London gallery