1:54: London’s first Contemporary African Art Fair
16 October 2013 • Yvette
‘This work is attached to tradition but at the same time it’s very edgy and contemporary’
Tag: Painting
Hannah Knox: BUFF @ Ceri Hand Gallery
8 October 2013 • Yvette
‘I was interested, thinking about Brando, in whether you could make a sexy painting. It’s something I wanted to try and do in some way.’
Kimathi Donkor: ‘Daddy, I want to be a black artist’ @ Peckham Space
3 October 2013 • Yvette
‘I wanted to talk about inspiration, desire, commitment, and the determination these young people have’.
Artist Opportunity : Call For Artists ‘hARTs WINDOW PROJECT’
29 July 2013 • Mark Westall
Harts Lane Studios an experimental art project space in New Cross Gate in New Cross Gate – London, is launching
The hARTs Window Project: an interdisciplinary art submission
Gary Hume: ‘I couldn’t hold down a job. That’s why I became an artist’
19 May 2013 • Mark Westall
A fully paid-up member of the rowdy YBA generation in the 90s, the artist made his name with his household gloss-painted life-size door paintings. On the eve of a solo show at Tate Britain, he talks about his agent Jay Jopling, his farm in upstate New York – and why he now confines his excesses to the studio
Medieval master Simone Martini comes to London – the week in art
18 May 2013 • Mark Westall
Martini’s paintings go on show at the National Gallery to celebrate the Barber Institute’s 80th birthday, and Gerhard Richter sets a world record – all in your weekly art roundup
Barnett Newman’s ‘glimpses of the sublime’ are a bargain at any price
16 May 2013 • Mark Westall
Meaning and dream collide in Barnett Newman’s work: that’s why the abstract expressionist’s Onement VI fetched $43.8m
Frieze New York turns two with a giant balloon dog and a VIP-free speakeasy
11 May 2013 • Mark Westall
The second edition of the art fair has its own restaurant scene, an inflatable dog that mocks Jeff Koons and a gratifying number of female artists
Madonna sells Fernand Léger’s modern material girls
9 May 2013 • Mark Westall
The singer has sold a painting by Léger to fund girl’s education: the work’s modern beauty is a paean to strong women
Van Gogh’s true colours were originally even brighter
3 May 2013 • Mark Westall
Research undertaken by the Van Gogh Museum reveals the master’s favourite paints have faded badly since the 1880s
Peter Doig: a free spirit captured in Scottish National Gallery’s retrospective
1 May 2013 • Mark Westall
Strange and poetic figurative art of the Trinidad-based painter Peter Doig will be showcased in exhibition of 120 works
Fiona Rae; New Order: British Art Today – review
28 April 2013 • Mark Westall
Towner Gallery, Eastbourne; Saatchi Gallery, London
Rachel Whiteread and the decaying streets of Palermo – the week in art
19 April 2013 • Mark Westall
John Riddy’s images of a tumultuous Sicilian city land in central London, with the Deutsche Börse Photography prize lining up nearby – all in your weekly artistic dispatch
Henny Acloque: Life After Magic
15 April 2013 • Yvette
‘If one doesn’t struggle with painting now then what’s the point of doing it. You’ve got to fight with it. There is always a struggle in my work with old and new’.
Rare John Keats portrait comes to auction
10 April 2013 • Mark Westall
Miniature showing an unfamiliar view of the poet, probably painted from life, to go on sale next month
British Museum snaps up historic scroll depicting birth of modern Japan
2 April 2013 • Mark Westall
Hand-painted scroll, which depicts arrival of US fleet in 1854, pokes fun at American etiquette during expedition to Japan
Richard Wright’s stellar art shines next to Rembrandt at the Rijksmuseum
15 March 2013 • Mark Westall
The British artist’s new ceiling paintings featuring a vast network of black stars display a radical vision that fits with Dutch tradition
How Yinka Shonibare’s sculpture park exhibition shoots to thrill
4 March 2013 • Mark Westall
Yorkshire Sculpture Park, normally a haven of tranquillity, has been invaded by armed foxes and headless gunmen. Be mesmerised by the hilarious world of Yinka Shonibare
Who’d steal an empty, pretentious Dalí?
21 February 2013 • Mark Westall
The dangerous power of celebrity, so well understood by the Spanish artist, may be behind a fashion PR’s alleged theft
Picasso in Paris: raw works of genius from the artist as a young man
17 February 2013 • Mark Westall
A scintillating new show at London’s Courtauld Gallery follows a coming-of-age Picasso as he dips his paintbrush into the colourful underworld of Montmartre
Robert Rauschenberg: love and loss in America
9 February 2013 • Mark Westall
Rauschenberg’s works are a visual equivalent of the great American novel, hinting in coded form at his affairs with the artists Jasper Johns and Cy Twombly
Hacked George W Bush paintings help us inch (slightly) towards empathy
8 February 2013 • Mark Westall
Amateur art by the former president obtained in hacked emails reveal a curiosity about the world – or, at least, his bathroom
Sarah Maple: ‘an artist and a female artist’
1 February 2013 • Yvette
I like playing with the idea of what it means to be a woman today, what is expected of me and how I want to challenge that. I want to bring things to the surface that we subconsciously accept as the ‘norm’.