Arts Council England jobs to be cut
31 October 2012 • Mark Westall
More than 100 jobs will go at funding body, which also faces regional restructuring
Tag: news
ArtReview’s Power 100 list reveals art-world battle for supremacy
18 October 2012 • Mark Westall
Magazine’s survey of most important figures in contemporary art dominated by visionaries – and dealers for super-rich
Shock of the old: Frieze Masters art fair puts contemporary sibling in the shade
11 October 2012 • Mark Westall
Dealers selling art from the ancient world through to year 2000 find new audience – and customers find less stratospheric prices
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
Rothko painting defaced at Tate Modern
8 October 2012 • Mark Westall
Man inscribes words in black ink in corner of 1958 canvas Black on Maroon before quickly leaving room
Grayson Perry to build holiday home ‘shrine’ to Essex everywoman
3 October 2012 • Mark Westall
Turner prize-winning artist wins planning approval for holiday home which pays homage to mythical woman called Julie
Heart-stopping Frieze art fair unveiled
1 October 2012 • Mark Westall
Modern-art institution returns to Regent’s Park with projects to include cooking with vermin and a gallery owner’s cardiac arrest
Frieze fair’s ‘little sister’ narrows gap between young rebels and old masters
24 September 2012 • Mark Westall
Frieze Masters will highlight the links between contemporary works and earlier ideas
Mayfair’s Cork Street art hub under threat from developers
24 September 2012 • Mark Westall
Half of galleries may be forced out as upmarket London art district faces being ‘killed off by the greed of the landlords’
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
Deutsche Börse photography prize won by John Stezaker
4 September 2012 • Mark Westall
Collagist who cuts up other people’s pictures in the name of his art wins prestigious £30,000 award
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
Venice’s Architecture Biennale seeks common ground
29 August 2012 • Mark Westall
Big names aplenty at 13th edition, but director Sir David Chipperfield wants it to engage with world outside walls of church
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
Shunt to create labyrinth in London warehouse
14 August 2012 • Mark Westall
Experimental theatre company’s show The Architects will recreate ancient Greek maze in former south London factory
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
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
Southbank centre transformed by flags, robots and fake trees for festival
2 June 2012 • Mark Westall
Artists adorn labyrinthine London arts complex for Festival of the World, opening in time for jubilee weekend
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
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