British art dealer discovers unknown Monet pastel taped to another work
24 June 2015 • Mark Westall
Art gallery director Jonathan Green found depiction of jetty at Le Havre hidden after he purchased two of Impressionist’s works at auction
Tag: UK news
REVIEW: Julian Opie’s portraits in motion: this is what genius looks like –
7 June 2015 • Staff
He paints with simple black lines and primary colours, and most of his characters don’t even have faces. Yet Julian Opie captures our world in stunning detail
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?
Iron maiden voyage: world’s largest aircraft looking for investors to give it liftoff
1 April 2015 • Mark Westall
The manufacturer of the Airlander 10 is looking for investors to follow in the footsteps of Iron Maiden frontman Bruce Dickinson and the US military
Joshua Reynolds: the overlooked master who revolutionised British art
10 March 2015 • Mark Westall
An exhibition coming to London’s Wallace Collection paints the artist in a new light: as a daring Enlightenment portraitist who became the victim of his own boldness
VIDEO: Cockroach robots? Not nightmare fantasy but science lab reality
5 March 2015 • Mark Westall
Texas engineers attach miniature computer wired into nervous system of live cockroaches for remote control and aim to gather video information in places such as broken sewers
REVIEW: Leon Golub: Bite your Tongue – so terrific, the paintings roar off the walls
4 March 2015 • Mark Westall
Serpentine gallery, London
Late Chicago-born artist has never had the retrospective he deserves in US – perhaps galleries are afraid, for his work is as shocking as it is powerful
Rarely seen painting of Wellington set for National Portrait Gallery exhibition
27 February 2015 • Mark Westall
Portrait by Sir Thomas Lawrence was commissioned by society hostess Lady Jersey in 1829 and left unfinished following the artist’s death
King John’s teeth and thumb bone to feature in Magna Carta exhibition
26 February 2015 • Mark Westall
British Library to display royal relics in show commemorating 800-year anniversary of sealing of Magna Carta
REVIEW: Wellcome Collection exhibition tracks murder from crime scene to courtroom
26 February 2015 • Mark Westall
Glass jars of blow flies, dissecting table and doll’s house-size models on show in Forensics, at newly expanded museum
Tower of London poppies artist received death threats
15 February 2015 • Staff
Paul Cummins, whose installation symbolised first world war deaths, says threats came from people angry that armed services charities were benefiting from the artwork
Me me meme: artists’ selfies paint the full spectrum of self-obsession
28 January 2015 • Mark Westall
Turner Contemporary, Margate
From a Van Dyck self-portrait to Ian Breakwell’s heartbreaking valediction as he lay dying of cancer, this absorbing show sorts the vain from the glorious
Georgia O’Keeffe flower painting sells for record-breaking $44.4m
21 November 2014 • Mark Westall
Final bid for Jimson Weed/White Flower No 1 more than doubles the previous highest price paid for a work of art by a woman
Why stars love Polaroid’s retro chic: no risk of embarrassing uploads on the net
9 November 2014 • Mark Westall
Revival for photo format joins other analogue passions endorsed by new celebrity generation
REVIEW: Transmitting Andy Warhol – white light and black angels in an immersive explosion
8 November 2014 • Mark Westall
Tate Liverpool
The first major Andy Warhol exhibition in the north of England recreates the world of the Factory and the Exploding Plastic Inevitable – and Warhol is revealed in all his compassion and searing insight
Museums put oddball objects on show
21 May 2013 • Mark Westall
First Time Out project will display unusual treasures that curators have retrieved from their stores
Derry gets its cultural kicks and a new start from local heroes
19 May 2013 • Mark Westall
All communities are reaping the benefit in the 2013 UK city of culture, as visitors pour in and a new generation of talent flourishes, with a little help from old hitmakers
Despite artworld hype Eddie Peake still has a way to climb
9 May 2013 • Mark Westall
It might have cartoon giraffes and marble staffies, but his show at Southend’s Focal Point Gallery is much duller than his experiments with naked five-a-side
Peter Doig: a free spirit captured in Scottish National Gallery’s retrospective
1 May 2013 • Mark Westall
Strange and poetic figurative art of the Trinidad-based painter Peter Doig will be showcased in exhibition of 120 works
Mystery of missing art of Pauline Boty
28 April 2013 • Mark Westall
Boty was a central figure in Swinging London in the 1960s. As a new show aims to restore her forgotten reputation, the hunt for her lost paintings goes on
Andy Warhol lost then found: tender portrait of artist in 1981
25 April 2013 • Mark Westall
British photographer Steve Wood saw the truth about Warhol, writes Jonathan Jones
Two studies of family go head to head for BP Portrait award
23 April 2013 • Mark Westall
Only two works out of 1,969 have been shortlisted for the prestigious annual award judged at the National Portrait Gallery
Pardon? What Modern Toss’s F***yeux tapestry says about Britain today
18 April 2013 • Mark Westall
A world-record attempt to cram as much depravity as possible into one artwork shows how little has changed since the Bayeaux Tapestry