Ai Weiwei ordered to switch off studio webcams
6 April 2012 • Mark Westall
Chinese activist and artist turns off live feed from cameras he installed in his home, after authorities object
Tag: World news
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
Francesco Vezzoli plans 24-hour museum to vainglorious decadence
17 January 2012 • Mark Westall
Italian artist has charmed Helen Mirren into a toga for art that is sublime and sometimes debauched celebration of celebrity
Ai Weiwei: ‘Younger people can be more hurt. I have my own beliefs’
19 December 2011 • Mark Westall
When the artist and human rights activist Ai Weiwei was arrested by the Chinese government in April and held in secret for 81 days, he became an international cause célèbre
Saatchi’s scathing portrait of the art world: ‘Vulgar, Eurotrashy, masturbatory’
3 December 2011 • Mark Westall
Leading British collector launches surprise attack saying buyers and dealers ‘can’t tell good artists from bad’
Gesamtkunstwerk: New Art From Germany – review
28 November 2011 • Mark Westall
Saatchi Gallery, London
Overzealous cleaner ruins £690,000 artwork that she thought was dirty
4 November 2011 • Mark Westall
She scoured off a layer of paint in a sculpture by late German artist Martin Kippenberger on loan to a museum in Dortmund
How Steve Jobs made the world more beautiful
7 October 2011 • Mark Westall
The Apple aesthetic has transformed how we see our lives – and the future
The dark arts of Los Angeles
15 September 2011 • Mark Westall
This autumn, galleries and museums across the Californian city will celebrate its historic art scene. Just don’t expect rainbows
Artist Ai Weiwei released on bail by Chinese police
23 June 2011 • Mark Westall
Ai tells the Guardian that he is in good health and back with his family after more than two months in detention
Ai Weiwei in ‘good physical health but mentally conflicted’
17 May 2011 • Mark Westall
Chinese authorities allow wife, Lu Qing, to visit artist and activist who had not been seen since arrest at Beijing airport on 3 April
Berlin Wall artists sue city in copyright controversy
3 May 2011 • Mark Westall
Renovation of Berlin’s East Side Gallery to mark 20th anniversary of the fall of the wall leads to compensation claims