Artist Bruce Nauman’s carnage-littered carousel will blow your mind
31 January 2013 • Mark Westall
Brutal yet beautiful, a new exhibition at Hauser & Wirth in London gives Nauman’s artworks a psychoanalytic twist
Tag: Painting
Manet: Portraying Life – review
22 January 2013 • Mark Westall
Manet’s wonderful portraits made everyone a someone. But the Royal Academy’s new exhibition shows that even great artists have their off-days
Titian painting rediscovered in depths of National Gallery
8 January 2013 • Mark Westall
Portrait of Girolamo Fracastoro, the doctor who named syphilis, adds to gallery’s remarkable collection of works by artist
2013 visual art preview: Manet’s portraits and Lowry reappraised
31 December 2012 • Mark Westall
Plus Steve McQueen gets a major retrospective – but you’ll have to go to Switzerland to see it
Oiled on canvas: the art of intoxication
31 December 2012 • Mark Westall
From Rembrandt to Degas, learn from the masters about the pleasures and perils of the demon drink this New Year’s Eve
The Jonas Mekas effect and Mariko Mori’s seasonal show – the week in art
7 December 2012 • Mark Westall
Cinema at London’s Serpentine, Jim Shaw’s imagination and Kevin Harman’s subversive portraiture – all in your weekly art dispatch
The Turner prize has regained its style and importance
3 December 2012 • Mark Westall
This year’s nominees provide a powerful dose of what the avant garde is up to in 2012. If there’s any justice then Luke Fowler or Elizabeth Price will win
Eleanor Moreton: ‘I See the Bones in the River’
24 November 2012 • Yvette
In some ways the huge burden of painting, its historical baggage, has been part of its attraction for me.
A Monet for £27m? The real price of the art boom is its sleaziness
8 November 2012 • Mark Westall
As a Christie’s sale is criticised for not offering enough ‘trophy property’, it’s clear to see what the art world has become
Tungsten,Borealis a Sculpture + Painting show at Arch 402 Gallery Private View Wednesday 7th November 2012
7 November 2012 • Mark Westall
Alexis Harding, Vasilis Asimakoplous, Bea Haut, Garry Doherty, Nigel Massey, Anthia Vryoni, Allison McKenzie, Christopher Hudson.
Seduced By Art: can photography and fine art hang together?
31 October 2012 • Mark Westall
A new exhibition at London’s National Gallery hopes to prompt a conversation between photos and their feted inspiration. Does it work? Jonathan Jones has his doubts
Dutch art theft: a pick’n’mix of paintings reduced to criminal collateral
16 October 2012 • Mark Westall
A beguiling Freud, a dazzling Matisse, a modest De Haan: will these stolen paintings see the light again?
GOSEE: Peter Doig New Paintings at Michael Werner London
1 October 2012 • Mark Westall
This exhibition at Michael Werner Gallery, London, features a new group of paintings.
Thomas Schütte: men, monsters and self-portraits
25 September 2012 • Mark Westall
Thomas Schütte’s sculptures are on the loose in a London park, while his unsettling portraits hang in a gallery nearby. It’s a great day out – but you wouldn’t want to meet them in a bar
SIGNATURE ART PRIZE INTERVIEW #4 MATTHEW SPENCER
23 September 2012 • Ben Austin
Fighter Jet in Woods, 2012, hand cut MDF & household paint with matt varnish, 122cm x 122cm (Signature Art Prize… Read More
SIGNATURE ART PRIZE INTERVIEW #2 NICK LORD
19 September 2012 • Ben Austin
Her Majesty The Queen, 2012, acrylic, oil pastel, spray paint, emulsion and wood stain on canvas, 90cm x 60 cm… Read More
Leah Michellé answers FADs Questions
10 September 2012 • Mark Westall
My abstract paintings come from within, I express my love of life through them.
Artist Opportunity: THE 7th ARTE LAGUNA PRIZE
9 September 2012 • Mark Westall
Since its Venice launch at the beginning of June this year, the 7th Arte Laguna Prize has received an overwhelming… Read More
Tate Modern’s rehang cannot diminish the majesty of Mark Rothko
23 August 2012 • Mark Westall
The space reserved for the painter’s mural-sized masterpieces might be modest, but his dark vision still blazes bright
Kiss and tell: street artists imitate Gustav Klimt’s erotic art
22 August 2012 • Mark Westall
A crew of nine leading lights from the street art scene are making new works inspired by the great, sensual Austrian – and Mode 2’s response is characteristically provocative
Esther Barend: Body Talk – Inner Happiness Get Your Art On FAD #19
14 August 2012 • Mark Westall
Body Talk – Inner Happiness, 160×80 cm, acrylic on canvas. I want to show on the outside, what is going… Read More
From Shakespeare to Sunflowers: masters take over the week in art
11 August 2012 • Mark Westall
From the birth of modern culture to Van Gogh’s classic work. Plus a Picasso fiasco in Edinburgh airport and a child saves a Manet – all in today’s weekly art dispatch
Reece Whitehead answers FADs Questions
9 August 2012 • Mark Westall
An idea can come from anywhere from a very serious subject or something playful. I’m still unclear to what it is that makes me want to paint it.
Robert Hughes obituary
8 August 2012 • Mark Westall
Australian writer whose TV series The Shock of the New took modern art to a mass audience