Van Gogh’s true colours were originally even brighter
3 May 2013 • Mark Westall
Research undertaken by the Van Gogh Museum reveals the master’s favourite paints have faded badly since the 1880s
Tag: Museums
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
Tilda Swinton sleeps in glass box for art installation at MoMA
25 March 2013 • Mark Westall
Scottish actor spends more than six hours ‘napping’ in reprisal of performance art piece at New York’s Museum of Modern Art
David Bowie Is becomes the Victoria and Albert’s fastest-selling event ever
19 March 2013 • Mark Westall
Exhibition spanning the artist’s career shows how Ziggy Stardust has cast his influence over everyday life
Read fashion editor Jess Cartner-Morley’s verdict on the exhibition
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
Richard Wright’s stellar art shines next to Rembrandt at the Rijksmuseum
15 March 2013 • Mark Westall
The British artist’s new ceiling paintings featuring a vast network of black stars display a radical vision that fits with Dutch tradition
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
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
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’
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
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
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
Louvre-Lens hopes to bring the glory of art to France’s mining heartland
3 December 2012 • Mark Westall
Nord-Pas de Calais region vilified as uncultured by southerners but locals say interest in museum proves stereotype is wrong
Pull up a chair: inside the V&A’s brilliant new furniture gallery
29 November 2012 • Mark Westall
The V&A’s vast collection of furniture – from Jonathan Swift’s bureau to Ron Arad’s swervy bookcase – has a new home that is breathing new life into old wood
Amy Winehouse painting acquired for National Portrait Gallery
27 November 2012 • Mark Westall
Marlene Dumas painting of singer, Amy Blue, goes on public display at London gallery
Thomas Fearnley exhibition aims to reacquaint UK with ‘supreme talent’
8 October 2012 • Mark Westall
Barber Institute in Birmingham to showcase Norwegian landscape artist once spoken of in same breath as Turner
David Bowie retrospective at the V&A announced
5 September 2012 • Mark Westall
Museum has chosen around 300 items from Bowie’s vast private archive in New York for a major retrospective next spring
It’s crystal clear: memories aren’t what they used to be
4 September 2012 • Mark Westall
Swarovski-sponsored exhibition sees 15 designers using crystal to explore the future of memory in a digital age
David Bowie: the mannequin who fell to earth
20 August 2012 • Mark Westall
The V&A plans to use David Bowie’s exotic costumes to chart his life and times in an exhibition next year
New photography from the Middle East comes to London
30 June 2012 • Mark Westall
An exhibition at the V&A in London this November offers a long-overdue opportunity to admire the sophistication of contemporary Middle Eastern photographic artists
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
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