29 November 2015 • Mark Westall
This is Charlie Godet Thomas’s first London solo exhibition. Bridging sculpture, photography and painting and exploring the intersection between language and materiality,
20 November 2015 • Mark Westall
He’s best known as an illustrator, but Jeffers also paints portraits – though you have to get access to a secret ceremony to see them, and after a few fleeting moments he dips them in paint so they are concealed forever
9 November 2015 • Tabish Khan
Protests, opulence, Play-Doh, lying in the grass and nightmarish female figures
27 October 2015 • Mark Westall
Turner Contemporary will bring to life trip painter often made to visit mistress – and to paint – to mark gallery’s fifth anniversary
15 October 2015 • Eric Thorp
The ever growing influence of digitised imagery in painting is beckoning in a new era of abstraction.
28 September 2015 • Tabish Khan
A glass baby, pastel, opulence, chairs, tulips and dark paintings
22 August 2015 • Staff
Secret doors will open, champagne will flow and VIP access to the art world will be afforded the wealthy. But it’s a curious departure for a charity that champions free museum admission
12 August 2015 • Mark Westall
Kardashian’s selfie is a hymn to the female body that harks back to the liberating portrayals of ample women in Renaissance and baroque art – and proves that ours is the most misogynist age in history
2 August 2015 • Tabish Khan
This week’s top 5 includes bold colours, magical realism, an alien sex club, face painting and Stonehenge
12 July 2015 • Tabish Khan
This week’s top 5 features a hoarder’s squat, coloured smoke, contemporary vanitas painting, haunting photographs and vibrant street art
10 July 2015 • daniel barnes
High up in the Hollywood Hills, an Englishman is grappling with his demons. After nearly a decade in Bridlington, David Hockney has moved back to Los Angeles, following the tragic death of his young assistant Dominic Elliott.
8 July 2015 • Tabish Khan
The Biennale was brilliant, but what could be better?
28 June 2015 • Tabish Khan
This week’s top 5 includes Greek nudes, social media, architecture, graceful curves and bronze.
26 June 2015 • Staff
Portrait of Gertrud Loew was subject of a 15-minute bidding war at the London auctioneers, as star lot by Kazimir Malevich went for £21.4m
24 June 2015 • Mark Westall
Art gallery director Jonathan Green found depiction of jetty at Le Havre hidden after he purchased two of Impressionist’s works at auction
21 June 2015 • Tabish Khan
This week’s top 5 features DeLoreans, Ebola, sand, Nigeria, crocodiles and a cave bear
12 June 2015 • Mark Westall
A Bexhill-on-Sea retrospective of mind-bending curve paintings shows why Riley is Britain’s most significant modern artist
7 June 2015 • Staff
He paints with simple black lines and primary colours, and most of his characters don’t even have faces. Yet Julian Opie captures our world in stunning detail
31 May 2015 • Tabish Khan
A pound coin, taxidermy, a theme park, pendulums, calligraphy and a carnival of painting.
22 May 2015 • Mark Westall
The social media site’s ludicrous attempt to ban Gustave Courbet’s masterpiece reveals its ignorance about life itself
15 May 2015 • Mark Westall
Leaving the hustle and bustle of the genteel streets of Marylebone and stepping into Payne Shurvell’s exhibition of ethereal paintings by Scottish Artist Louise Cattrell, is like being transported into a parallel universe of calm and beauty.
13 May 2015 • Lee Sharrock
Arriving in Venice for the vernissage days whilst elections were in full swing, I was surprised to be confronted by a politically charged Biennale. Colonialism, Capitalism, Socialism, contemporary slavery and migration were some of the themes running through the 56th Edition of La Biennale di Venezia, which opened not long after a period of several weeks during which more than 1,800 migrants – many of them African – drowned whilst attempting to flee across the Mediterranean to Europe..
29 April 2015 • Mark Westall
Theaster Gates wants to make the world a better place, so he transforms everyday objects – from old basketball courts to the entire contents of the shop he just bought – into art to raise funds for his community projects in rundown Chicago
