Happy birthday Edward Lear, 200 today
'Old Derry down Derry', still known as one of the best painters of exotic birds as well as the master of nonsense verse, celebrates his bicentenary on 12 May"Old Derry down Derry" is 200 years old on 12 June. This is the pseudonym that Edward Lear used...
The week that Maurice Sendak died and Jaggergate broke
It was the week that Maurice Sendak died and Bianca Jagger had a fight at the opera. Here are the past seven days' biggest arts stories from around the webEach Thursday, I round up the biggest arts news of the week, recommend some longer reads and have...
Saltaire Arts Trail welcomes the world
One of the north's best examples of a revived and flourishing industrial community is going artistically wild for the Bank Holiday weekendIn this cold and uninviting weather, the place to be is Saltaire near Bradford, which is holding its annual Arts T...
Adrian Searle encounters … Luc Tuymans’s Allo!
The Guardian art critic journeys deep into the heart of darkness with Tuymans's Gauguin-themed painting, displayed in A Room for London, the boat perched on the Queen Elizabeth HallGallery: cast adrift in A Room for LondonWhen did I last get butt-naked...
Tyneside honours its famous engraver, Thomas Bewick
The great artist gave London a go but found its people cheeky. So he went back home and made his name in Newcastle and Gateshead. Alan Sykes flags up a new exhibitionMay 2012 is the bicentenary of Thomas Bewick moving across the Tyne from Newcastle to...
Culture coach: The week’s essential arts stories
Every week I'll round up the biggest arts stories from around the web, recommend a long read and look ahead at what's coming upEach Thursday, I am going to round up the main arts stories of the week. Here's the first instalment.• It was Turner prize ...
David Weiss
As half of the Swiss art duo Fischli/Weiss, he made striking use of photography, film, clay – and questionsThe Swiss artist David Weiss, who has died aged 66 of cancer, belonged to one of the enduring partnerships of contemporary art, the duo Fischli...
Letter: ‘John Golding inspired huge loyalty from his colleagues and students’
A shy, humble but enormously intelligent and scholarly man of great integrity, John Golding (obituary, 13 April) inspired huge loyalty from his colleagues and among the many students he taught for some three decades. For art historians like me at the C...
Gillian Darley on John Golding: ‘He said that I could, and should, write’
John Golding was the most inspiring of an outstanding group of teachers in my undergraduate years, from 1966 to 1969, at the Courtauld Institute, and also by far the most human, inviting us to have a drink at the flat in Battersea, south London, that h...
Edmund de Waal turns Amber Eyes towards Waddesdon
The ceramic artist and author of The Hare with Amber Eyes has been tasked with embellishing one of England's grandest housesThey came from a studio in a less than glamorous part of south London between a Betfred, a takeaway and a car repair shop and ar...
John Golding obituary
Artist, teacher and historian of modern art, he wrote a seminal work on cubismJohn Golding, who has died aged 82, packed into his life separate but intertwined careers as artist and historian of modern art. Soon after he had completed his doctoral diss...
Ahdaf Soueif: Egyptian writers’ energy used to be spent on describing how bad things were – video