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
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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
Francis Bacon painting, Figure Writing Reflected in Mirror, in Sotheby’s sale
6 April 2012 • Mark Westall
Estimate up to £25m on painting representing lover George Dyer and the artist which has been in private collection since 1977
Ai Weiwei ordered to switch off studio webcams
6 April 2012 • Mark Westall
Chinese activist and artist turns off live feed from cameras he installed in his home, after authorities object
Ten more UK galleries join Google Art Project’s virtual culture tours
3 April 2012 • Mark Westall
Ten British galleries join likes of Palace of Versailles and the White House as online museum grows to 30,000 objects
Read all about it: how Gilbert & George stole the headlines and made art
8 March 2012 • Mark Westall
Urbane artistic pair pilfered 3,712 newspaper bills from outside London shops to create works now on show at White Cube galleries
The Whitney Biennial web occupation
29 February 2012 • Mark Westall
An artful web hoax announced the sacking of the Whitney Biennial’s corporate sponsors and apologised to artists for their exploitation. So whodunnit?
Dutch artist’s works found in British warehouse
16 February 2012 • Mark Westall
Over 400 stolen artworks by celebrated 20th-century expressionist painter Karel Appel discovered by storage firm
Lambeth council lambasted for arts centre sale
14 February 2012 • Mark Westall
Stockwell Studios sold by ‘John Lewis council’ to housing developer after artists spent £70,000 on renovations
Yayoi Kusama arrives at Tate Modern with a polka at Damien Hirst
8 February 2012 • Mark Westall
Japanese artist renowned for dot motif has her first big UK retrospective – and a few words of advice for Britart’s spot fan
Tate buys timeshare in Christian Marclay’s Clock
1 February 2012 • Mark Westall
24-hour artwork using thousands of movie clips to keep real time is acquired by Tate and two other museums
Lucian Freud portrait of restaurateur goes up for auction
1 February 2012 • Mark Westall
1955 painting of Bernard Walsh, who ran restaurant frequented by Freud and Francis Bacon, has estimate of £1.5m-£2m
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
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
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
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