Yayoi Kusama: a spot of bother
8 February 2012 • Mark Westall
Yayoi Kusama’s dizzying, dotty installations have landed at Tate Modern. Adrian Searle enters her kaleidoscope world
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Yayoi Kusama at Tate Modern Opening Thursday 9th February 2012
8 February 2012 • Mark Westall
Yayoi Kusama at Tate Modern.
Tate buys timeshare in Christian Marclay’s Clock
1 February 2012 • Mark Westall
24-hour artwork using thousands of movie clips to keep real time is acquired by Tate and two other museums
LAST CHANCE TO SEE : Gerhard Richter Panorama at Tate Modern
30 December 2011 • Mark Westall
Spanning nearly five decades, and coinciding with the artist’s 80th birthday, Gerhard Richter: Panorama is a major retrospective exhibition .
Tate may not renew BP sponsorship deal after environmental protests
14 December 2011 • Mark Westall
Director of group that covers four galleries around UK says decision is due on partnership deal with BP, expiring next year
Tacita Dean and the quirky art of being English
19 October 2011 • Mark Westall
There is something very English about Dean’s latest work in Tate’s Turbine Hall, so why do we call her a British artist? You wouldn’t call Dylan Thomas British, would you?
Rothko, Hockney and Piero della Francesca – the week in art
9 September 2011 • Mark Westall
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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
Luc Delahaye turns war photography into an uncomfortable art
9 August 2011 • Mark Westall
Hanging on the walls at Tate Modern, Luc Delahaye’s giant, painterly photographs of real-life conflicts wield unsettling power
DAMIEN HIRST:The Complete Spot Paintings 1986-2011 at Gagosian
7 August 2011 • Mark Westall
Image:DAMIEN HIRST BNPS-Skatole, 1995 Household gloss on canvas 4 x 10 inches (10.16 x 25.4 cm) © Damien Hirst and… Read More
PINTA, THE LATIN AMERICAN ART SHOW Opens Today
6 June 2011 • Mark Westall
6th -9th JUNE 2011 Brompton Hall, Earls Court Exhibition Centre, Warwick Road, Following a successful first year in London in… Read More
Ai Weiwei at Lisson Gallery Preview Thursday 12th May 2011
10 May 2011 • Mark Westall
Ai Weiwei will present a show of sculptural and video works at Lisson Gallery. This will be a chance to view a number of key works by the artist, one of the most significant cultural figures of his generation, both in China and internationally.
Tacita Dean to Undertake Next Commission in The Unilever Series
16 December 2010 • Mark Westall
Tacita Dean to Undertake Next Commission in The Unilever Series- Tate and Unilever have announced that Tacita Dean will undertake… Read More
Under house arrest in Beijing, Ai Weiwei urges David Cameron to challenge China on human rights record
9 November 2010 • Mark Westall
Ai Weiwei, from archinect.com As the sun rises in China, it sets on a powerful gathering of supporters of artist… Read More
Ai Wei Wei at Tate Modern
13 October 2010 • Mark Westall
But is it authentic?
Lucie Charkin looks at Ai Wei Wei’ s Sunflower Seeds
Art Review:Tate’s Exposed Big Brother is Watching You
19 August 2010 • Mark Westall
we are taken into a somewhat sinister world of observation and invasive behaviour
Brendan Jamieson Sugar Models to be Unveiled on Friday 2nd July 2010
2 July 2010 • Mark Westall
To mark this summer’s London Festival of Architecture, Native Land and Grosvenor commissioned sculptor Brendan Jamison to recreate NEO Bankside,… Read More
Basel Art Fair 2010 a FAD report from the frontline by Richard Martin
1 July 2010 • Mark Westall
Image:Jeff koons Every year Basel art fair kicks off early with a major contemporary artist in conversation. Last tear kicked… Read More
Review: Exposed: Voyeurism, Surveillance & the Camera by Ana Vukadin
13 June 2010 • Mark Westall
Image:Golf Five Zero, (Borucki Sanger), British Army watchtower. Crossmaglen, South Armagh, Northern Ireland, UK. 1999 © Jonathan Olley, courtesy Diemar/Noble… Read More
GO SEE: Olafur Eliasson Notion Motion at Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen Through to 17th October 2010
1 June 2010 • Mark Westall
The 1500m2 installation is made up almost entirely of ripples of water reflected in light, in which Eliasson visualizes light waves.
Voyeurism, Surveillance and the Camera Tate Modern from 28th May
22 May 2010 • Mark Westall
28 May – 3 October 2010 Exposed offers a fascinating look at pictures made on the sly, without the explicit… Read More
Tate Modern to Celebrate its 10th Anniversary hosts No Soul For Sale A festival of Independents
10 May 2010 • Mark Westall
To celebrate Tate Modern’s 10th anniversary, the gallery will host No Soul For Sale – A Festival of Independents. Tate Modern is inviting 70 of the world’s most innovative independent art spaces..