Specialist criminals stole £2m Chinese artefacts from university, say police
12 April 2012 • Mark Westall
Thieves who took 18th-century bowl and sculpture from Durham museum probably only in building two minutes, says detective
Tag: Sculpture
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
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
Thin line between art and hate: is this the most repellent work of modern art?
13 January 2012 • Mark Westall
The Chapman brothers’ sneering sculpture of Stephen Hawking sickened me in 1995, and still does now. What do you think is the most hateful work of modern art?
Seven / Eleven | Nathan Murphy | Future Map 11
9 January 2012 • Rachel Bennett
An investigation into ‘Kinesthesia’, defined as an awareness (experiencing via senses) of the movement of the body, Nathan Murphy’s research… Read More
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
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
Lygia Pape, Scottish photography and the Northern Art prize – the week in art
2 December 2011 • Mark Westall
From a Serpentine celebration of the late Brazilian artist to the reopening of the Scottish National Portrait Gallery, here’s your latest Art Weekly dispatch
This week’s new exhibitions
28 November 2011 • Mark Westall
Ryan McGinley | Northern Art Prize | Paloma Varga Weisz | Between Dimensions | Allora & Calzadilla | John Myers And Stuart Whipps | Paul Lee/Kimber Smith | Bohemians In Exile
Paul McCarthy: ‘I had this thing about exposing the interior of the body’
13 November 2011 • Mark Westall
California – where stars are made and dreams come true. But it’s also where, for 40 years, Paul McCarthy has been creating creepy, stomach-churning art. So why does his rags-to-riches story read like a movie plot?
See a selection of Paul McCarthy’s artworks here
This week’s new exhibitions
12 November 2011 • Mark Westall
Mitch Epstein | Paul Noble | Rivane Neuenschwander | Paul McCarthy | A Darkness More Than Night | RCA Secret 2011 | Kith And Kin | Victor Pasmore
This week’s new exhibitions
23 October 2011 • Mark Westall
Turner Prize 2011 | Private Eye | The Wonders Of The Visible World | William Morris | Klaus Weber | The Indiscipline Of Painting | Richard Long | Edward Burra
Frieze week 2011: recommendations for the best of the rest
12 October 2011 • Mark Westall
Beyond the fair’s epicentre in London’s Regent’s Park, there are tonnes of art events happening in venues around the capital
Grayson Perry: The Tomb of the Unknown Craftsman – review
7 October 2011 • Mark Westall
British Museum, London
This week’s new exhibitions
2 October 2011 • Mark Westall
Ways Of Looking | Miriam Cahn | Rashid Rana | Camulodunum | Jamie Shovlin | 1395 Days Without Red | Structure & Material | Gerhard Richter: Panorama
This week’s new exhibitions
24 September 2011 • Mark Westall
Pipilotti Rist | Mary Webb: Journeys In Colour | Postmodernism: Style And Subversion | Bloomberg New Contemporaries | Museum Show | Dark Matters | Gabriel Kuri | Eric Bainbridge
Grayson Perry: How I went behind the scenes at the British Museum
19 September 2011 • Mark Westall
Turner prize-winning transvestite potter Grayson Perry long cherished an ambition to show his own art – his own ‘civilisation’, as he calls it – alongside the great ancient civilisations of the world – but little dreamed the British Museum would agree to his proposal…
The dark arts of Los Angeles
15 September 2011 • Mark Westall
This autumn, galleries and museums across the Californian city will celebrate its historic art scene. Just don’t expect rainbows
This week’s new exhibitions
11 September 2011 • Mark Westall
The World We Live In | Yang Fudong | Mike Kelley | Roni Horn | Gary Rough | Concept As Concrete Form | Norman Dilworth | Richard Woods
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
When two tribes meet: collaborations between artists and scientists
22 August 2011 • Mark Westall
Science and art are often considered opposites – so what happens when top practitioners in each field collaborate? The results, finds Stuart Jeffries, can be seismic
Joan Miró’s art is more alive than ever
15 August 2011 • Mark Westall
Tate Modern’s Joan Miró retrospective shows the artist’s evolution from Catalan landscape painter to a conjuror of dreamy abstracts – don’t miss this scorching show