Andy Warhol’s inaugural ‘selfie’ expected to fetch £7m at auction
14 June 2017 • Mark Westall
Print from 1963 based on photo-booth image of artist obsessed with cult of celebrity to be sold at auction for first time
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Jeremy Deller behind ‘strong and stable my arse’ posters in London
25 May 2017 • Syndicate
Turner prize-winning artist says he hopes posters are self-explanatory – especially after Theresa May’s social care U-turn
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
Fourth plinth shortlist includes winged bull and giant cream blob
19 January 2017 • Mark Westall
Models of five nominated artworks for Trafalgar Square installation go on display at National Gallery in London
Tate to name Maria Balshaw as new director to succeed Serota
11 January 2017 • Mark Westall
Driving force behind Manchester’s cultural renaissance to take over one of most powerful jobs in UK arts
Sandy Nairne portrait at NPG is by American artist Chuck Close
15 December 2016 • Mark Westall
Portrait of former director of National Portrait Gallery will be first big work by Close to enter public collection in UK
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’
London exhibition puts US on show as postwar creative superpower
12 October 2016 • Syndicate
British Museum’s American Dream will touch on many of the themes in the turbulent presidential election
Frieze London 2016 to feature Julie Verhoeven lavatory intervention
21 September 2016 • Mark Westall
Political work on toilet attendants will be at fair alongside seminal 90s art from Wolfgang Tillmans and Richard Billingham
South Africa’s golden rhino to star in British Museum exhibition
15 August 2016 • Mark Westall
Figures and objects from Mapungubwe, site of the first kingdom in southern Africa, are part of an exploration of 100,000 years of art
Feminist art activists the Guerrilla Girls get first dedicated UK show
22 July 2016 • Syndicate
Whitechapel Gallery has commissioned the anonymous group to scrutinise gender diversity at hundreds of European galleries
Where there’s muck: Artangel artist wraps Houses of Parliament in latex
25 May 2016 • Syndicate
Permission for artwork – the largest ever to be installed in Westminster Hall – took six years to obtain, and will showcase 200 years’ worth of dirt and dust
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