‘We found it rolled up in a tube’: Alice Cooper discovers Warhol classic after 40 years
24 July 2017 • Syndicate
The rock star Alice Cooper has found an Andy Warhol masterpiece that could be worth millions “rolled up in a tube” in a storage locker.
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Three men charged over Damien Hirst counterfeits.
20 June 2017 • Mark Westall
Fake ‘limited-edition’ Hirst prints were sold online to dozens of buyers by a New York group that included a man previously imprisoned for a similar scheme
Andy Warhol’s inaugural ‘selfie’ expected to fetch £7m at auction
14 June 2017 • Mark Westall
Print from 1963 based on photo-booth image of artist obsessed with cult of celebrity to be sold at auction for first time
Jeremy Deller behind ‘strong and stable my arse’ posters in London
25 May 2017 • Syndicate
Turner prize-winning artist says he hopes posters are self-explanatory – especially after Theresa May’s social care U-turn
Mat Collishaw restages 1839 photography show in virtual reality
24 April 2017 • Syndicate
Artist says VR will change our outlook as he prepares Somerset House display based on Henry Fox Talbot’s seminal exhibition
Ai Weiwei and Brook Andrew to headline 21st Biennale of Sydney
6 April 2017 • Syndicate
Japanese artistic director Mami Kataoka announces preliminary lineup of 21 artists, including Australians Yasmin Smith and George Tjungurrayi
Fourth plinth shortlist includes winged bull and giant cream blob
19 January 2017 • Mark Westall
Models of five nominated artworks for Trafalgar Square installation go on display at National Gallery in London
Anti-surveillance clothing aims to hide wearers from facial recognition
6 January 2017 • Mark Westall
Hyperface project involves printing patterns on to clothing or textiles that computers interpret as a face, in fightback against intrusive technology
Sandy Nairne portrait at NPG is by American artist Chuck Close
15 December 2016 • Mark Westall
Portrait of former director of National Portrait Gallery will be first big work by Close to enter public collection in UK
Helen Marten wins Turner prize, securing second award in a month
6 December 2016 • Mark Westall
Chair of judges praises 31-year-old artist, who recently won Hepworth prize, for baffling sculptural work which ‘reflects the condition of the world’
Beirut to build new modern art museum
13 October 2016 • Mark Westall
BeMA – Beirut Museum of Art – will feature 124-metre tower, with 1,000 works forming basis of first exhibition in 2020
Frieze London 2016 to feature Julie Verhoeven lavatory intervention
21 September 2016 • Mark Westall
Political work on toilet attendants will be at fair alongside seminal 90s art from Wolfgang Tillmans and Richard Billingham
South Africa’s golden rhino to star in British Museum exhibition
15 August 2016 • Mark Westall
Figures and objects from Mapungubwe, site of the first kingdom in southern Africa, are part of an exploration of 100,000 years of art
Pink Floyd’s psychedelic revolution will rock the V&A
11 August 2016 • Syndicate
Museum to celebrate career of pioneers who transformed live music with their dazzling light shows
Feminist art activists the Guerrilla Girls get first dedicated UK show
22 July 2016 • Syndicate
Whitechapel Gallery has commissioned the anonymous group to scrutinise gender diversity at hundreds of European galleries
Banksy stencils destroyed by construction workers
11 July 2016 • Mark Westall
Removal brings number of artist’s works wrecked in a single inner-city laneway to five in two years
Artist makes statement about gun violence in skies above American cities
22 June 2016 • Syndicate
Australian CJ Hendry’s artwork, an image of a T-shirt in the shape of pistol, was flown over Orlando, Chicago and New York following Sunday’s mass shooting
Where there’s muck: Artangel artist wraps Houses of Parliament in latex
25 May 2016 • Syndicate
Permission for artwork – the largest ever to be installed in Westminster Hall – took six years to obtain, and will showcase 200 years’ worth of dirt and dust
Grayson Perry creates huge phallus to represent bankers’ worldview
19 May 2016 • Syndicate
Artist says latest work, which is covered in banknotes and George Osborne’s image, was inspired by industry’s self-denial about gender bias
World art market stalls for first time in years
12 March 2016 • Mark Westall
Fall of 7% a function of slowing at cheaper end of market with record prices at top end continuing to make headlines
Iggy Pop poses naked for Jeremy Deller exhibition
29 February 2016 • Staff
The Stooges frontman was drawn nude for a show at the Brooklyn Museum, masterminded by Jeremy Deller who said: ‘His body has witnessed much and should be documented’
Serpentine pavilion ‘unzipped’: first look at Bjarke Ingels’ design
25 February 2016 • Mark Westall
The Danish architect offers a sculptural space ‘like a mountain of ice cubes’ stretching across the London gallery’s lawn, to be complemented by four radical summer houses
David Hockney show will be one of Tate Britain’s biggest ever
23 February 2016 • Mark Westall
Extensive retrospective in 2017 will cover six decades of artist’s work from early homoerotic paintings to recent LA pieces
On the trail of the lost bulls: art detectives who track down missing public treasures
1 February 2016 • Mark Westall
Historic England curators have scoured the country for missing artworks, from lost murals to sold-off sculptures, for a major show