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
Tag: World news
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
Mum, imam and Saddam: what daring young Iraqis are saying with tattoos
24 March 2013 • Mark Westall
Tattoo parlours are increasingly popular in Baghdad, despite opposition from traditionalists
Ai Weiwei to release heavy metal album
11 March 2013 • Mark Westall
Chinese artist has written nine rock-tinged tracks for music debut hot on the heels of Gangnam-style video
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
Berlin Wall’s most iconic paintings under threat from property developers
1 March 2013 • Mark Westall
Berlin’s most famous images, such as Brezhnev and Honecker’s kiss, are on part of the wall set to be demolished for luxury flats
Marc Quinn’s giant baby sculpture infantilises art
24 January 2013 • Mark Westall
It’s great that Quinn is soppy about his son, but this towering idol confirms him as the father of reductive, attention-seeking art
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
Pussy Riot: activists, not pin-ups
21 December 2012 • Mark Westall
Clever, committed and courageous, Pussy Riot are the only band that mattered in 2012. They have used their year in the spotlight to expose injustice
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’
Louvre-Lens hopes to bring the glory of art to France’s mining heartland
3 December 2012 • Mark Westall
Nord-Pas de Calais region vilified as uncultured by southerners but locals say interest in museum proves stereotype is wrong
Christo plans sculpture of oil drums to tower above sands of Abu Dhabi
25 November 2012 • Mark Westall
The artist who bundled up the Reichstag plans to create the world’s biggest and most expensive sculpture in Abu Dhabi
Salvador Dalí retrospective has Paris art fans reaching for record books
20 November 2012 • Mark Westall
Biggest Dalí show in 30 years expected to be latest in series of blockbuster exhibitions in French capital
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
Dutch art theft: a pick’n’mix of paintings reduced to criminal collateral
16 October 2012 • Mark Westall
A beguiling Freud, a dazzling Matisse, a modest De Haan: will these stolen paintings see the light again?
Contemporary Saudi artists break down old ‘safety’ barriers
5 October 2012 • Mark Westall
Despite the hostile climate, a determined few are tackling issues such as capitalism in Mecca and the impact of Islam on peace
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
Have Pussy Riot sparked a new wave of grrl power?
22 August 2012 • Mark Westall
The Pussy Riot trial sparked global protest. Will it mobilise artists, too? Laura Snapes meets music’s angry young women
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
Russians join in call for Pussy Riot trio’s release
2 July 2012 • Mark Westall
Moscow court extends Pussy Riot trio’s detention without setting trial date leading to more public acts of defiance around the world
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