Artists to hold own party conference to discuss cuts and education
14 April 2013 • Mark Westall
After day’s events come to a close at Scarborough Spa, there will be an all-night party, followed by breakfast on the beach
Tag: UK news
Artist-activist Liz Crow’s ‘bed-out’ for disabled rights
10 April 2013 • Mark Westall
Liz Crow appeared on Trafalgar Square’s fourth plinth dressed as a Nazi. This week, she’s living the most private part of her life in a gallery. Here she explains why
Portrait of Francis Bacon’s violent lover to be auctioned at Sotheby’s
8 April 2013 • Mark Westall
Francis Bacon’s powerful painting of Peter Lacy just months after his death will go up for auction on May 14
Madonna sells Fernand Léger painting to raise money for girls’ education
4 April 2013 • Mark Westall
Sotheby’s announces auction of Cubist work to support projects in Afghanistan and Pakistan
Tate removes Graham Ovenden prints after indecency conviction
4 April 2013 • Mark Westall
Ovenden was found guilty of six charges of indecency with a child and one of indecent assault at Truro crown court
British Museum snaps up historic scroll depicting birth of modern Japan
2 April 2013 • Mark Westall
Hand-painted scroll, which depicts arrival of US fleet in 1854, pokes fun at American etiquette during expedition to Japan
It’s a man’s world… but why is sexism ingrained in the arts?
24 March 2013 • Mark Westall
Once again, the top jobs at two major British cultural institutions, the BBC and the Royal Opera House, have gone to male appointees
Anish Kapoor and Antony Gormley donate works for Labour auction
22 March 2013 • Mark Westall
Actor Sir Patrick Stewart and author Sarah Waters also offer prizes at party’s first annual arts dinner
David Bowie Is becomes the Victoria and Albert’s fastest-selling event ever
19 March 2013 • Mark Westall
Exhibition spanning the artist’s career shows how Ziggy Stardust has cast his influence over everyday life
Read fashion editor Jess Cartner-Morley’s verdict on the exhibition
David Hockney’s 23-year-old assistant dies after falling ill at artist’s home
18 March 2013 • Mark Westall
Dominic Elliott, who worked as driver and assistant for the artist, died in the early hours of Monday morning in hospital
Self-portrait bequeathed to National Trust is identified as lost Rembrandt
18 March 2013 • Mark Westall
Painting of artist, worth up to £20m, was thought to be later copy
V&A exhibition shows how David Bowie shaped fashion history
18 March 2013 • Mark Westall
The Starman leotards and Ziggy Stardust bodysuit are still dazzling, but tailoring is the real star of this show
Read music critic Alexis Petridis’s verdict on the exhibition
David Bowie heads for No 1 and breaks V&A records
17 March 2013 • Mark Westall
The new album and his museum exhibition are both hits – and tour rumours are growing
Royal Academy stages retrospective of neglected US artist George Bellows
13 March 2013 • Mark Westall
Man praised as one of greatest American painters was more famous than friend Edward Hopper during his life
Haringey council: Banksy mural belongs in our community
20 February 2013 • Mark Westall
Councillor writes to Arts Council to seek help in returning mural, which went missing before turning up for auction in the US
Claerwen James: The art of being Clive James’s daughter
9 February 2013 • Mark Westall
Claerwen James’s new show marks her as a cultural force in her own right
Kurt Schwitters: Tate retrospective aims to explode myths about Dadaist
29 January 2013 • Mark Westall
Tate Britain show reveals unknown figurative side to revered German modernist who has influenced generations of artists
DIY billionaire turns dairy into gallery to rival Charles Saatchi’s
27 January 2013 • Mark Westall
Frank Cohen pledges to show ‘art for everyone’ in Bloomsbury venture
Jean-Michel Basquiat’s Burroughs triptych to be sold at London auction
23 January 2013 • Mark Westall
Work by US artist, who died aged 27 in 1988, is tribute to his favourite writer and is valued at between £4.25m and £6.25m
Cake, children and cocktails: legacy hopes of 1,000 men in pottery exhibit
23 January 2013 • Mark Westall
Sir John Soane’s Museum installation by Clare Twomey to enshrine in individual bowls personal eulogies of the male public
Andy Warhol’s unseen early drawings unveiled next week
21 January 2013 • Mark Westall
The 300 drawings from the 1950s show a skilled and sensitive side to the artist – more Egon Schiele than pop art
Roy Strong attacks galleries for safe choice of ‘endless Renoir’ and Bowie
20 January 2013 • Mark Westall
Former head of V&A says choice of new exhibitions is dictated by ‘box office and box ticking’
Barack Obama exhibition offers ‘deconstruction of hope’
18 January 2013 • Mark Westall
Liverpool show reveals British artist Nicola Green’s exploration of the 2008 US presidential campaign
Artangel seeks ideas – the wackier, the better
15 January 2013 • Mark Westall
Arts commissioning body which has backed past Turner prize-winning projects has £1m to divide between up to five projects