Bauhaus: a blueprint for the future
13 April 2012 • Mark Westall
On the eve of a Barbican retrospective, Rowan Moore explores the enduring appeal and influence of the Bauhaus school
Tag: The Observer
Time and Memory: Cecilia Edefalk and Gunnel Wåhlstrand – review
11 January 2012 • Mark Westall
Parasol Unit, London
Art Fund membership up 15% despite downturn
3 January 2012 • Mark Westall
Charity that helps museums and galleries acquire artworks has seen record gain in membership over past year
Ai Weiwei: ‘Younger people can be more hurt. I have my own beliefs’
19 December 2011 • Mark Westall
When the artist and human rights activist Ai Weiwei was arrested by the Chinese government in April and held in secret for 81 days, he became an international cause célèbre
Books for giving: art
6 December 2011 • Mark Westall
An exhaustive history of art proves more than a handful, Hockney is chatty but dotty – and genius springs from the man who gave us the shower scene in Psycho
Scottish National Portrait Gallery – review
4 December 2011 • Mark Westall
Scotland’s National Portrait Gallery, reopened after a dramatic £17.6m overhaul, is a bright and democratic delight
Gesamtkunstwerk: New Art From Germany – review
28 November 2011 • Mark Westall
Saatchi Gallery, London
Painting Canada: Tom Thomson and the Group of Seven – review
24 November 2011 • Mark Westall
Dulwich Picture Gallery, London
Building the Revolution: Soviet Art and Architecture 1915-1935 – review
30 October 2011 • Mark Westall
Royal Academy, London
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…
Degas and the Ballet: Picturing Movement – review
19 September 2011 • Mark Westall
Royal Academy, London
Neon: 100 years of the greatest light show on earth
31 August 2011 • Mark Westall
Peter Conrad celebrates a century of the medium that sells the raffish charms of America and has inspired film-makers and artists, from Hitchcock and Coppola to Bruce Nauman and Tracey Emin
Tony Cragg: Sculptures and Drawings; Robert Rauschenberg: Botanical Vaudeville; David Mach: Precious Light – review
7 August 2011 • Mark Westall
Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art; Inverleith House; City Arts Centre, all Edinburgh
Michelangelo Pistoletto: The Mirror of Judgement – review
25 July 2011 • Mark Westall
Serpentine Gallery, London
