Robert Hughes: the greatest art critic of our time
8 August 2012 • Mark Westall
Rude, hilarious, eloquent, but never petty … the Australian writer, who has died aged 74, made criticism look like literature
Tag: Painting
Group Show “Rock, Paper, Scissors” exhibition at Leila Heller Gallery New York
29 July 2012 • Mark Westall
Hadieh Shafie 20900 Pages 2012 Ink, acrylic and paper with printed & hand written Farsi Text Esheghe “Love” 48 in… Read More
This week’s new exhibitions
23 June 2012 • Mark Westall
Jenny Saville | Mark Wallinger | Diane Arbus | Stanya Kahn | Erwin Wurm | Andrew Kötting & Iain Sinclair
This week’s new exhibitions
16 June 2012 • Mark Westall
Anri Sala | Fiona Crisp | Jini Rawlings | Tony Cragg, David Brooks | Liam Spencer | Bruce Nauman | Joe Hesketh | Yoko Ono
This week’s new exhibitions
11 June 2012 • Mark Westall
Nancy Holt | Isabel Rawsthorne | SNAP 2012 | Richard Rigg | Lynette Wallworth | Lis Rhodes And Antonia Hirsch | Wide Open School, Invisible: Art Of The Unseen | Caroline Achaintre, Sara Barker And Alice Channer
Picasso: the brains behind the brawn
29 May 2012 • Mark Westall
We think of Picasso as a man’s man, a sensualist; but his work is fiercely intellectual. And the British Museum’s exhibition of his Vollard Suite prints proves that he is all about brain work
This week’s new exhibitions
27 May 2012 • Mark Westall
Tracey Emin | ON: A Re-imagining Of Blackpool Illuminations | Henry Moore | Simon Fujiwara | Heatherwick Studio | Zed Nelson, Henry Tonks | Doris Salcedo | Laura Belém
This week’s new exhibitions
23 April 2012 • Mark Westall
Alex Prager | Rob Kennedy | Out Of Focus | Paul Thek | Elizabeth Price | Helen Baker | Scott Myles | The Institute Of Critical Zoologists
This week’s new exhibitions
26 February 2012 • Mark Westall
Idris Khan | The Stuff That Matters | Conversations | Weighted Words | Joseph Wright Of Derby & Can You Hear Me Now | David Cotterell | Charline von Heyl | Michael Raedecker
This week’s new exhibitions
18 February 2012 • Mark Westall
Jeremy Deller | Sarah Browne & Hamish Fulton | Lothar Götz | Van Dyck In Sicily | Daniel Fogarty | Laura Aldridge | The Fourth Plinth | Jane & Louise Wilson
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
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
This week’s new exhibitions
4 February 2012 • Mark Westall
Yayoi Kusama | Jennifer West | The Starry Rubric | Lucian Freud | The Indiscipline Of Painting | The Family In British Art | Michael Shaw | The Near And The Elsewhere
This week’s new exhibitions
30 January 2012 • Mark Westall
Santiago Sierra | Thomas Demand; Daar | David Shrigley | Will Alsop; John Wood & Paul Harrison | Lydia Gifford | Matthew Darbyshire | Simon Martin | Samantha Donnelly
David Hockney: a life in art
14 January 2012 • Mark Westall
‘The iPad is like an endless piece of paper that perfectly fitted the feeling I had that painting should be big’
Time and Memory: Cecilia Edefalk and Gunnel Wåhlstrand – review
11 January 2012 • Mark Westall
Parasol Unit, London
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
This week’s new exhibitions
28 December 2011 • Mark Westall
FCB Cadell | Miracles And Charms | Ford Madox Brown | Magic Worlds | Nice Style: The World’s First Pose Band | Royal Manuscripts | Pieter Brueghel The Younger
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
This week’s new exhibitions
10 December 2011 • Mark Westall
Anish Kapoor | Lygia Pape | Little Black Dress | Graham Sutherland | Painting Show | Dara Birnbaum | You, Me, Something Else | Anselm Kiefer
Scottish National Portrait Gallery – review
4 December 2011 • Mark Westall
Scotland’s National Portrait Gallery, reopened after a dramatic £17.6m overhaul, is a bright and democratic delight