Mayfair’s Cork Street art hub under threat from developers
24 September 2012 • Mark Westall
Half of galleries may be forced out as upmarket London art district faces being ‘killed off by the greed of the landlords’
Tag: UK news
Deutsche Börse photography prize won by John Stezaker
4 September 2012 • Mark Westall
Collagist who cuts up other people’s pictures in the name of his art wins prestigious £30,000 award
Venice’s Architecture Biennale seeks common ground
29 August 2012 • Mark Westall
Big names aplenty at 13th edition, but director Sir David Chipperfield wants it to engage with world outside walls of church
Mayfair’s art galleries under threat from developers
29 August 2012 • Mark Westall
Cork Street gallery scene, hub of London art world for almost 90 years, could be broken up by luxury apartment deal
David Bowie: the mannequin who fell to earth
20 August 2012 • Mark Westall
The V&A plans to use David Bowie’s exotic costumes to chart his life and times in an exhibition next year
Richard Long: ‘It was the swinging 60s. To be walking lines in fields was a bit different’
18 June 2012 • Mark Westall
The land artist gives a rare interview, describing his early work, his roots in Bristol and how his legs once let him down
Phone box covered in crystals is a ‘celebration of modern Britishness’
15 June 2012 • Mark Westall
Pop artist Sir Peter Blake gives iconic phone box a bling makeover with 400,000 Swarovski crystals
Invisible: Art about the Unseen 1957 – 2012 – review
11 June 2012 • Mark Westall
Hayward Gallery, London
East End art galleries forced to go west as local scene ‘dies’
8 June 2012 • Mark Westall
Vyner Street galleries move to Fitzrovia, saying recession and rising rents have killed off east London’s artistic boom
Southbank centre transformed by flags, robots and fake trees for festival
2 June 2012 • Mark Westall
Artists adorn labyrinthine London arts complex for Festival of the World, opening in time for jubilee weekend
Tate given artworks by David Hockney, Lucian Freud and Rachel Whiteread
29 May 2012 • Mark Westall
Mercedes and Ian Stoutzker donate nine works of modern art to fill gaps in Tate’s collection
Francis Bacon’s body turns out to be Lucian Freud’s in self-portrait
27 May 2012 • Mark Westall
Experts at Christie’s conclude 1964 Bacon painting is of two artists not one after studying photos of both men from the time
Liverpool’s seventh Biennial set to be biggest ever
23 May 2012 • Mark Westall
The autumn arts extravaganza will include a makeover of Everton park and the Cunard building opening to the public
Photographers’ Gallery extension – review
20 May 2012 • Mark Westall
Irish architects O’Donnell and Tuomey have made a success of a physically and financially constrained project
Frieze New York review: more glitz, less grit, as art fair moves stateside
4 May 2012 • Mark Westall
It’s all business at the Manhattan edition, and provocations of the type London audiences have come to expect are not in evidence
New York warms to Frieze as fair muscles in on US art market
4 May 2012 • Mark Westall
US debut features a 250,000 sq ft tent devoted to contemporary works on Randall’s island in the East river
Tate Modern unveils underground space – the Tanks – devoted to live art
24 April 2012 • Mark Westall
Gallery says two former oil tanks will be filled with performances and debates, starting this summer
Yinka Shonibare’s ship in a bottle goes on permanent display in Greenwich
24 April 2012 • Mark Westall
Artwork that won fans on Trafalgar Square’s fourth plinth is moved to new home after public help raise £362,500
Specialist criminals stole £2m Chinese artefacts from university, say police
12 April 2012 • Mark Westall
Thieves who took 18th-century bowl and sculpture from Durham museum probably only in building two minutes, says detective
Francis Bacon painting, Figure Writing Reflected in Mirror, in Sotheby’s sale
6 April 2012 • Mark Westall
Estimate up to £25m on painting representing lover George Dyer and the artist which has been in private collection since 1977
Ten more UK galleries join Google Art Project’s virtual culture tours
3 April 2012 • Mark Westall
Ten British galleries join likes of Palace of Versailles and the White House as online museum grows to 30,000 objects
Read all about it: how Gilbert & George stole the headlines and made art
8 March 2012 • Mark Westall
Urbane artistic pair pilfered 3,712 newspaper bills from outside London shops to create works now on show at White Cube galleries