Grayson Perry creates huge phallus to represent bankers’ worldview
19 May 2016 • Syndicate
Artist says latest work, which is covered in banknotes and George Osborne’s image, was inspired by industry’s self-denial about gender bias
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Public house music: Mark Fell on making art in a derelict boozer
28 April 2016 • Syndicate
In the dark days of the 1980s, ravers in Sheffield discovered politics, pirate radio and MDMA. Mark Fell explains why he’s channelling Heidegger for his installation on an infamous Sheffield estate
Olafur Eliasson: ‘It’s not just food being shared, but ideas’
21 April 2016 • Syndicate
Best known for his giant sun at Tate Modern, artist Olafur Eliasson is also passionate about food – chiefly, feeding hungry assistants at his vast Berlin studio. Marina O’Loughlin pulls up a pew
World art market stalls for first time in years
12 March 2016 • Mark Westall
Fall of 7% a function of slowing at cheaper end of market with record prices at top end continuing to make headlines
iPhones are now the choice of drug barons and arms dealers
7 March 2016 • Syndicate
Letters: Apple has gained the world but lost its soul. The company has lost touch with its engineering genius and is behaving something like a rogue state
Serpentine pavilion ‘unzipped’: first look at Bjarke Ingels’ design
25 February 2016 • Mark Westall
The Danish architect offers a sculptural space ‘like a mountain of ice cubes’ stretching across the London gallery’s lawn, to be complemented by four radical summer houses
David Hockney show will be one of Tate Britain’s biggest ever
23 February 2016 • Mark Westall
Extensive retrospective in 2017 will cover six decades of artist’s work from early homoerotic paintings to recent LA pieces
Hieronymus Bosch – a heavenly host of delights on the road to hell
15 February 2016 • Mark Westall
Noordbrabants Museum, Den Bosch, Netherlands
An astonishing homecoming for this madly inventive artist sets the grotesque against a deep but compassionate melancholy that burns into your soul
Jeremy Deller flies flag for Thomas More’s Utopia, 500 years later
26 January 2016 • Staff
Giant smiley marks launch of year-long celebration of radical book, to take in everything from street art to fashion
Shia LaBeouf: ‘Why do I do performance art? Why does a goat jump?’
14 December 2015 • Mark Westall
Shia LaBeouf’s artworks have been dismissed as stunts and ripoffs – but he doesn’t care. The Hollywood star and his collective explain why they’re in Liverpool taking calls from the public
Five of the best art exhibitions for Christmas 2015
9 December 2015 • Mark Westall
Wonder at Botticini’s Paradise, see Turner’s bracing vistas in Edinburgh, and explore the roots of the European winter festival at the V&A
Anish and Antony to the rescue! Can the sculptors gentrify Afghanistan?
2 December 2015 • Mark Westall
A merciless graphic novel imagines what would happen if Anish Kapoor and Antony Gormley were dropped on Afghanistan. Its creator explains his hallucinatory romp
Michael Craig-Martin review – a malevolent graveyard of tech
26 November 2015 • Mark Westall
Serpentine gallery, London
Whether he’s painting tape cassettes, Xbox controllers or iPhones, Craig-Martin’s odd, lurid objects don’t just show us the days we’ve lost – they glower back at us
V&A brings Japanese craftsmanship back to life for gallery reopening
2 November 2015 • Mark Westall
From 700-year-old swords and 19th-century ‘living doll’ to Hello Kitty cooker, army of conservators have painstaking revived museum collection
JMW Turner: gallery to retrace artist’s London-Margate steamboat journey
27 October 2015 • Mark Westall
Turner Contemporary will bring to life trip painter often made to visit mistress – and to paint – to mark gallery’s fifth anniversary
Tate Modern highlights pop art by women ignored by sexist establishment
15 September 2015 • Mark Westall
Many of the works overlooked in the 1960s and 70s will be seen in public for the first time when they go on display in London
REVIEW: Chocolate with your Bacon? Tate Britain offers feast for the senses
26 August 2015 • Mark Westall
London gallery opens ‘sensorium’ to explore whether taste, touch, smell and sound change the way people experience art
#Arthoe: These teens have kickstarted a feminist art movement
20 August 2015 • Staff
The young founders of #arthoe are encouraging people of colour to get creative while reclaiming the word ‘ho’. They talk about hashtag wars, their controversial name – and why it’s more than just a fad
Artist to fill Covent Garden market with 100,000 balloons
18 August 2015 • Mark Westall
Charles Pétillon’s glowing pop-up installation will stretch over 50 metres across ceiling of market building
Tracey Emin’s plan to demolish listed London building dismays East Enders
27 July 2015 • Mark Westall
Artist, who has spoken of importance of Spitalfields’ heritage, draws fierce criticism over plan for five-floor Sir David Chipperfield-designed home
Funding cuts could spell end of free museums and galleries
24 July 2015 • Mark Westall
Museums Association warns that entrance fees could be introduced as York Art Gallery considers £7.50 charge when it reopens after £8m redevelopment
Anthony Caro in Yorkshire review – sculpture that can take your breath away
20 July 2015 • Mark Westall
His monumental forms make you dance, his table-top works are in drag – and his shapes are so simple you can’t believe he dared. As a vast two-site retrospective proves, Caro’s best work remains audacious, alluring and disarming
Royal Academy turns to crowdfunding to bring Ai Weiwei’s trees to London
15 July 2015 • Mark Westall
RA hopes to raise £100,000 through Kickstarter for installation made by artist from trees that have died in mountains of southern China
Rob Ryan: ‘My art isn’t very edgy, but I’m not that kind of artist’
10 July 2015 • Mark Westall
Retrospective at Yorkshire Sculpture Park may mark turning point in career as artist known for paper cuttings moves on to painting and photography