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12 Days: Highlights of 2015

From Cornelia Parker’s meteorite-laden fireworks, to Peter Lanyon’s gliding paintings, British artists are commanding attention this year

28 Dec 2014

12 Days: Highlights of 2015

An exceptional selection of exhibitions are opening in London this year, and some major museum openings are taking place further afield

12 Days: Highlights of 2015

The Victorians are coming. Or rather, the Victorians are coming back (again)

26 Dec 2014

The Week’s Muse: 13 December

Attention-seeking museums; Moholy-Nagy’s pioneering multi-sensory art; the Cooper Hewitt; and photography in the Rijksmuseum

13 Dec 2014

The Week’s Muse: 6 December

The Apollo Award Winners 2014; Jeremy Deller discusses Warhol and William Morris; and the rise (and fall?) of Italian post-war art in London

6 Dec 2014

London’s Italian art invasion

An extraordinary quantity of post-war Italian art has been exhibited, sold and written about this year. What’s behind the rich pickings?

5 Dec 2014

The Way of All Flesh: Berlinde de Bruyckere

Can treatment of flesh in sculpture only aspire to a condition of deadness?

2 Dec 2014

The Week’s Muse: 29 November

We’ll soon be announcing the winners of the Apollo Awards 2014…

29 Nov 2014

The Week’s Muse: 22 November

The Apollo Awards; Scandinavian art in London; and the mixed fortunes of New Contemporaries

22 Nov 2014

Scandinavian Art in the UK

Scandinavian artists from Peder Balke to Ida Ekblad feature in UK exhibitions this winter. Which should you watch out for?

18 Nov 2014

The Week’s Muse: 15 November

A round-up of news and comment: First World War cartoons; a $500 million gift to LACMA; and the difficulty with digital art

15 Nov 2014

Art Market Maths: the celebrity factor

At a post-war and contemporary auction, why settle for one famous name if you can have two?

15 Nov 2014

Black Comedy: cartoons in the First World War

The black humour of wartime cartoons got closer than most other art-forms to the grim realities of trench warfare

12 Nov 2014

The Week’s Muse: 8 November

Was the Musée Picasso worth the wait? Is the Turner Prize showing its age? News and comment from the Muse Room

8 Nov 2014

Paul McCarthy’s obscene art world

The paintings presented in Paul McCarthy’s exhibition at Hauser & Wirth are invariably obscene. Painted in the artist’s trademark palette –…

1 Nov 2014

The Week’s Muse: 1 November

The display of art in Asia; photojournalism from Chechnya; and historic rings in New York

1 Nov 2014
Timothy Spall as J.M.W. Turner in Mike Leigh's biopic of the artist, 'Mr. Turner' (2014), Courtesy Entertainment One

The Week’s Muse: 25 October

Artists on film; Spanish art in Durham; contemporary art in Paris; and auctions online

25 Oct 2014

The British Ambassador’s Residence in Paris

Tim Knox first came across ‘the most splendid British embassy building anywhere’ in a box of photographs on Portobello Road

22 Oct 2014

Frieze Week: Digby’s Diary (Saturday)

Frieze week takes it out of you alright, but there has been some seriously good stuff on show

18 Oct 2014

The Week’s Muse: 18 October

From the frenetic pace of Frieze London, to an artwork that won’t be ready for 100 years

18 Oct 2014

Frieze Week: Digby’s Diary (Friday)

When you’ve been to more than 40 shows in three days you start to feel a little…displaced

17 Oct 2014

Frieze Week: Digby’s Diary (Thursday)

PAD, the 1:54 Contemporary African Art Fair, and another clutch of gallery shows: this week is taking its toll

16 Oct 2014

Frieze Week: Digby’s Diary (Wednesday)

‘But it’s so BIG!’ I heard an angry American journalist exclaim. And she spoke the truth – Frieze is big

15 Oct 2014

Frieze Week: Digby’s Diary (Tuesday)

You know you’re beaten when you come within inches of mistaking a Justin Adian painting for a coat hanger

14 Oct 2014