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
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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
Jean-Michel Basquiat’s Burroughs triptych to be sold at London auction
23 January 2013 • Mark Westall
Work by US artist, who died aged 27 in 1988, is tribute to his favourite writer and is valued at between £4.25m and £6.25m
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’
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
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
Gilbert & George works to be used in Jean Abreu dance show
7 January 2013 • Mark Westall
Brazilian choreographer and performer will use 25 images as visual backdrop in Blood show touring UK
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’
Turner prize winner Elizabeth Price warns against marginalisation of arts
5 December 2012 • Mark Westall
Price criticises introduction of Ebacc and withdrawal of state funding for humanities and arts at universities
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
Christo plans sculpture of oil drums to tower above sands of Abu Dhabi
25 November 2012 • Mark Westall
The artist who bundled up the Reichstag plans to create the world’s biggest and most expensive sculpture in Abu Dhabi
Salvador Dalí retrospective has Paris art fans reaching for record books
20 November 2012 • Mark Westall
Biggest Dalí show in 30 years expected to be latest in series of blockbuster exhibitions in French capital
Royal College of Art celebrates 175 years of cultivating talent
16 November 2012 • Mark Westall
The Perfect Place to Grow exhibition showcases achievements of students and staff including Moore, Hepworth, Dyson and Emin