Leonardo da Vinci amazes at the National Gallery – quietly and calmly
6 November 2011 • Mark Westall
When the exhibition opens on Wednesday, visitors will be able to see the two Madonna of the Rocks face to face
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Overzealous cleaner ruins £690,000 artwork that she thought was dirty
4 November 2011 • Mark Westall
She scoured off a layer of paint in a sculpture by late German artist Martin Kippenberger on loan to a museum in Dortmund
RCA Secret: annual exhibition of postcards gets a more political edge
2 November 2011 • Mark Westall
Many of the 2,500 contributions to this year’s fundraising show offer a graphic response to current events
Pablo Picasso exhibition at Tate Britain pays belated homage to Spanish genius
28 October 2011 • Mark Westall
Influence on seven British artists – including Henry Moore, David Hockney and Francis Bacon – to be explored in 2012 show
Frieze art fair founders announce new events in New York and London
8 October 2011 • Mark Westall
The Masters fair in London will sell historic work as well as contemporary art as the duo detects a ‘new taste for the old’
Lucian Freud’s final work to be shown in 2012 National Portrait Gallery show
26 September 2011 • Mark Westall
Unfinished nude portrait of artist’s assistant David Dawson will feature alongside 100 other works spanning 70-year career
Richard Hamilton, the original pop artist, dies at 89
14 September 2011 • Mark Westall
Driven by intellect and political belief, Hamilton created undying icons of the modern world
Damien Hirst’s mythical creatures appear at Chatsworth House
9 September 2011 • Mark Westall
Artist’s winged horse and unicorn form part of exhibition of monumental sculpture
National Gallery’s cut in warders ‘putting art at risk’
11 August 2011 • Mark Westall
Criticism of security arrangements follows vandalism of two Poussin paintings at the London gallery
Artist Ai Weiwei released on bail by Chinese police
23 June 2011 • Mark Westall
Ai tells the Guardian that he is in good health and back with his family after more than two months in detention
Debutante turned surrealist Leonora Carrington dies at 94
26 May 2011 • Mark Westall
Lancashire-born artist, a painter associated with host of 2oth century greats, dies in Mexico hospital
Ai Weiwei in ‘good physical health but mentally conflicted’
17 May 2011 • Mark Westall
Chinese authorities allow wife, Lu Qing, to visit artist and activist who had not been seen since arrest at Beijing airport on 3 April
Race to save digital art from the rapid pace of technological change
12 May 2011 • Mark Westall
Pioneers of computer art are in danger of becoming the lost generation of our cultural heritage because scientists are unable to preserve their work
Berlin Wall artists sue city in copyright controversy
3 May 2011 • Mark Westall
Renovation of Berlin’s East Side Gallery to mark 20th anniversary of the fall of the wall leads to compensation claims