Hannah Barry opens New Space with The Beautiful Game an exhibition from Tom Barnett
1 November 2013 • Mark Westall
Hannah Barry opens New Space
Tag: Sculpture
Lilah Fowler: Passage and pair @ Maria Stenfors
6 October 2013 • Yvette
‘I was looking a lot at desert modernism and layouts of cities in the States particularly’.
Interview: Barry Sykes: Hermits, Repetition, Contradiction
5 September 2013 • Yvette
‘I’m wary of art that is totally certain of itself’.
Interview: Sinta Tantra: ‘The Eccentricity of Zero’
22 May 2013 • Yvette
‘I feel like I just want to stay right on the edge rather than jumping in’.
Anish Kapoor in Berlin: ‘in short, Britain’s fucked’
18 May 2013 • Mark Westall
The doyen of British sculpture gives the Guardian an exclusive preview of his major new exhibition in the German capital
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
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
Don’t Miss : Sculpture Shock Subterranean Pop Up David Ogle
18 April 2013 • Mark Westall
Sculpture Shock encourages surprising site-specific spatial interventions in non-traditional spaces, outside the confines of the white cube.
Rachel Whiteread still casts a spell
12 April 2013 • Mark Westall
With her new London exhibition featuring casts of the common garden shed, the artworld veteran makes us slow down our thoughts and attend to the world’s smallest details
Rachel Whiteread: a life in art
6 April 2013 • Mark Westall
‘I’m not into what I call ‘plop’ art. Just putting things in places for the sake of it. They really need a reason for being there’
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
Julia Pfeiffer: Figures of the Thinkable
27 February 2013 • Yvette
Clay, its materiality and its possibilities, appear in other works – across a wall a series of objects that invoke observation and reflection.
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
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
Marc Quinn’s giant baby sculpture infantilises art
24 January 2013 • Mark Westall
It’s great that Quinn is soppy about his son, but this towering idol confirms him as the father of reductive, attention-seeking art
Mike Kelley: the nonconformist’s whole life is here
20 December 2012 • Mark Westall
Magic carpets, Superman, and lewd encounters with barbers: Kelley’s life’s work is on show at this Amsterdam retrospective – and his rancid humour shines through
PREVIEW: Bruce Nauman / mindfuck Curated by Philip Larratt-Smith
17 December 2012 • Mark Westall
The exhibition’s title, ‘mindfuck’, is a slang term that may be used as both a noun and verb, situation and action. It can mean to brainwash or manipulate someone, or describe a distressing situation or incomprehensible event.
Rachel Whiteread is Britain’s greatest living artist
16 December 2012 • Mark Westall
Her magnificent sculptures conjure up vanished lives, lost voices and forgotten loves – and sit easily alongside modern masters
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
Antony Gormley: a model of hype?
27 November 2012 • Mark Westall
Could it be that now the artist has fallen off the art world’s fashion hitlist, Gormley’s work can be seen as it is – quotidian and overrated
Christo plans sculpture of oil drums to tower above sands of Abu Dhabi
25 November 2012 • Mark Westall
The artist who bundled up the Reichstag plans to create the world’s biggest and most expensive sculpture in Abu Dhabi
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.
Should Tower Hamlets council sell off its £20m Henry Moore?
4 November 2012 • Mark Westall
Is public art a luxury the poor cannot afford? The mayor of one London borough wants to sell off a wonderful sculpture by Henry Moore. Times are hard, but its loss would be a tragedy – and would set a dangerous precedent