The sharks are circling Damien while Tracey displays a quiet maturity in her latest work
Great Works: Madame de Pompadour at Her Toilette, 1750-c1760 (81.2cm x 64.9cm), by François Boucher
Saturday 26 May 2012
Fogg Art Museum, Harvard
Album: Paul Buchanan, Mid Air (Newsroom)
Saturday 19 May 2012
There are few surprises for Blue Nile fans on this first solo album from singer Paul Buchanan, save perhaps for the general mood of stability: even the emotional turbulence sketched in “Wedding Day” is recollected in tranquillity.
Great Works: Last Stand of the Kusunoki Heroes at Shijo-Nawate 1851 (left to right: 38cm x 26.2 cm; 38.2cm x 25.7cm; 38 cm x 25.8 cm) by Utagawa Kuniyoshi
Saturday 19 May 2012
British Museum, London
Carlos Tevez refuses to apologise to 'president of England' Alex Ferguson over 'RIP Fergie' banner
Thursday 17 May 2012
'It seems like he is president of England. You make a joke about him and you must say sorry,' says City's Argentine striker
Guy Ribes: The forger making a good impression in the film world
Monday 14 May 2012
Jailed for faking Renoirs, Guy Ribes returns to take key role in biopic of French master
Trending: There's no such thing as vintage online
Monday 14 May 2012
There is not as yet an adequate phrase to sum up the feeling of embarrassment and mild existential unease that comes about when you post a link on Twitter or Facebook only to be told that it has, like, been around longer than your gran.
El Greco and Modernism, Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf
Urs Fischer: Madame Fisscher, Palazzo Grassi, Venice
Sunday 13 May 2012
Careful curators let us see how a rebel Byzantine painter cast a spell over Picasso et al
Great Works: My Room at the Beau-Rivage 1917-18 (73cm x 61cm) by Henri Matisse
Saturday 12 May 2012
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Pennsylvania
Tate gives a big show to Roy Lichtenstein
Thursday 10 May 2012
The Tate Modern will next year stage the first major UK exhibition devoted to Roy Lichtenstein in 20 years, its most comprehensive retrospective of the celebrated pop artist. The exhibition, which opens next spring, will bring together 125 of the artist's definitive paintings and sculptures.
Bauhaus: Art as Life, Barbican Gallery, London
Sunday 06 May 2012
This useful show leads us through Bauhauser paintings, furniture, even puppets, all forged in the years between the darkness of two world wars
Great Works: The Shelf: Objects and Shadows – Front View, 1982-83 (71.1cm x 91.5cm) by Rodrigo Moynihan
Saturday 05 May 2012
Tate, London
Behind bars: the pub chef who cooked up masterful forgeries in his spare time
Friday 04 May 2012
He dreamed of a glittering career as a successful artist; he ended up at 4.30am every day working as a chef in a pub. Snubbed for decades by an art world which refused to buy his paintings, William Mumford finally struck on his plan of revenge to became one of Britain’s most prolific fine art fakers.








