Banksy’s Flower Girl artwork up for auction in LA
5 December 2013 • Mark Westall
Banksy’s Flower Girl artwork up for auction
Tag: United States
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
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
Tilda Swinton sleeps in glass box for art installation at MoMA
25 March 2013 • Mark Westall
Scottish actor spends more than six hours ‘napping’ in reprisal of performance art piece at New York’s Museum of Modern Art
Armory Show aims to raise the bar amid threat from younger rivals
7 March 2013 • Mark Westall
New York’s largest art fair celebrates 100th birthday, but success of competitors places Armory in something of an identity crisis
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
Hacked George W Bush paintings help us inch (slightly) towards empathy
8 February 2013 • Mark Westall
Amateur art by the former president obtained in hacked emails reveal a curiosity about the world – or, at least, his bathroom
Damien Hirst to part company with dealer Larry Gagosian
15 December 2012 • Mark Westall
British artist worth about £215m to stop working with Gagosian gallery after 17 years of ‘fantastic and productive relationship’
Obama’s art army
6 November 2012 • Mark Westall
From Laurie Anderson to Cindy Sherman to Richard Serra, the giants of US art are backing Obama. But then, writes Jonathan Jones as he takes a cultural tour of Washington DC, America’s artists have always leaned left
The fake photographs that predate Photoshop
31 August 2012 • Mark Westall
Tiny soldiers, Yorkshire fairies, an unlikely meeting between Lenin and Stalin: nothing you see here is what it seems. Jonathan Jones previews a fascinating exhibition of photo fakery
Robert Hughes obituary
8 August 2012 • Mark Westall
Australian writer whose TV series The Shock of the New took modern art to a mass audience
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
London Frieze braves backlash to fly the flag of British culture in Manhattan
29 April 2012 • Mark Westall
The fair faces the threat of protests by the Occupy movement against art commercialisation as it makes its first trip abroad
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