‘We found it rolled up in a tube’: Alice Cooper discovers Warhol classic after 40 years
24 July 2017 • Syndicate
The rock star Alice Cooper has found an Andy Warhol masterpiece that could be worth millions “rolled up in a tube” in a storage locker.
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Turner prize 2017: a cosmopolitan rebuff to Brexit provincialism
4 May 2017 • Syndicate
Amid all the rule changes, Lubaina Himid is surely the favourite to win British art’s most important prize this year
REVIEW: Damien Hirst: Treasures from the Wreck of the Unbelievable
8 April 2017 • Syndicate
Palazzo Grassi and Punta della Dogana, Venice
Artist has once again found the underwater grotto in his mind where monsters live, making a fool out of all of us who lost faith
Queer British Art 1861-1967 review – strange, sexy, heartwrenching
4 April 2017 • Syndicate
From Man Ray’s portrait of Virginia Woolf to Orton’s library book collages and Noël Coward’s dressing gown, this vital survey is bursting with fascinating stories
Helen Marten wins Turner prize, securing second award in a month
6 December 2016 • Mark Westall
Chair of judges praises 31-year-old artist, who recently won Hepworth prize, for baffling sculptural work which ‘reflects the condition of the world’
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
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
Anish Kapoor’s Versailles ‘vagina’ causes controversy in France
5 June 2015 • Mark Westall
Artist behind Paris’s biggest cultural event of the year has described Dirty Corner as ‘the vagina of the queen’ taking power
Tate Modern at 15: still delivering the shock of the new
11 May 2015 • Staff
The Bankside museum has transformed modern art from an elite cult into mass entertainment, but is it time to get down to some proper studying?
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
Damien Hirst’s split from Larry Gagosian turns heads in art world
7 January 2013 • Mark Westall
Some say gallerist initiated split due to Hirst’s declining sales; others see a shift in balance of power towards top artists
Dutch art theft: a pick’n’mix of paintings reduced to criminal collateral
16 October 2012 • Mark Westall
A beguiling Freud, a dazzling Matisse, a modest De Haan: will these stolen paintings see the light again?
David Bowie retrospective at the V&A announced
5 September 2012 • Mark Westall
Museum has chosen around 300 items from Bowie’s vast private archive in New York for a major retrospective next spring
TOP 5 Stories of the week on FAD
21 July 2012 • Mark Westall
TOP 5 Stories of the week on FAD : Get On FAD, Toxic Waste Photo’s, Man Bartlett leaves Facebook, Vandal Factory opportunity and The Worlds First Photobooth Factory.
Turner prize: the beauty lies in its orchestration
6 December 2011 • Mark Westall
Martin Boyce deserves the award for a beautiful and unexpected installation – his art is a sort of elegy to modernist purity
Saatchi’s scathing portrait of the art world: ‘Vulgar, Eurotrashy, masturbatory’
3 December 2011 • Mark Westall
Leading British collector launches surprise attack saying buyers and dealers ‘can’t tell good artists from bad’