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John Stezaker's brand of alchemy on display at Whitechapel Gallery
Mon, 01/31/2011 - 12:46John Stezaker's intervention into the photographs is simple but the effect is mesmerising. As you step into this show, wide eyes stare at you from photographs on the walls
Manga Dreams, Anderson & Low is punk-geisha perfect
Fri, 01/28/2011 - 16:01Enter Manga-land - somewhere between performance art and street culture, digitised paintings, photographs and manga cartoons
Fresh eyes on the old masters
Thu, 01/27/2011 - 13:08The director of the National Gallery, Nicholas Penny, has written his own idiosyncratic guide to his favourite works in the collection - and it's a must for any London art-lover
Trained eyes on the Soviet machine
Fri, 01/21/2011 - 15:55Sue Steward's take on Rodchenko and his Circle: Constructing the Future through Photography
Information overload from Martin Creed
Fri, 01/21/2011 - 15:47Martin Creed has long made a virtue of indecision. His anxiety at making artistic judgments has led to installations which reflect all the possibilities of a given scenario
Size isn't everything
Thu, 01/20/2011 - 14:55Today's sculptures have grown to such huge proportions that hardly any of them fit in the Royal Academy's survey. Never mind - there are more enduring pleasures to behold
The man who reinvented the wheels
Thu, 01/13/2011 - 15:15Tate Moderns first big exhibition of 2011 opens next week and if ever an artist needed an introduction, its the enigmatic Mexican, Gabriel Orozco
Traditional or tragic? Answers on a postcard from Gilbert & George
Wed, 01/12/2011 - 14:11Their new show is less dramatic, both thematically and visually, than any previous Gilbert & George show art critic Ben Luke has seen
The beauties and the beasts
Thu, 01/06/2011 - 15:12The major galleries promise the earth in their shows this year but what will they deliver?
Ideas don't crystallise in Raising Dust
Wed, 01/05/2011 - 11:48Raising Dust takes its title from photographs by Navroze Contractor featuring Jodhpuri people fashioning brooms from grass and leaves and using them to sweep the streets
Chinese mysteries to fire the modern imagination at V&A
Tue, 01/04/2011 - 11:57Human fallibility, frailty and sentimentality will always pip a surfeit of grandeur. As the new Imperial Chinese Robes show at the V&A shows
First sketch to final study - the best Christmas books for Art lovers
Thu, 12/23/2010 - 10:24An analysis of drawing, the dark side of Géricault and a monograph on Manet are among our Art books of the year
Lights shining from the dark side with Mona Hatoum
Mon, 12/20/2010 - 12:03At this time of year, lights generally herald a spirit of goodwill and joy, but in Mona Hatoums installation at the Whitechapel they create an atmosphere of menace
A history of artistic licence in Never The Same River
Fri, 12/17/2010 - 14:23The latest in Camden Arts Centres artist-curated shows is Never The Same River, the brainchild of 2005 Turner Prize winner Simon Starling
Norman Rockwell's American dram machine
Thu, 12/16/2010 - 15:09Norman Rockwell diligently churned out magazine covers for half a century, combining meticulous attention to detail with hokey sentimentality
Tom Lubbock has an eye and mind for originality
Thu, 12/09/2010 - 13:33The only thing to be regretted about the wonderful show Tom Lubbock: Collages from the Independent 1999-2004 is that it did not come sooner
It's time to sacrifice some sacred cows
Thu, 12/09/2010 - 12:54As Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt calls for more philanthropy to make up for cuts to the arts, our critic has some more radical proposals
Ben Johnson on painting London
Tue, 12/07/2010 - 11:56At the National Gallery, you can watch Ben Johnson add the last brushstrokes to his view over Trafalgar Square. The project, he tells Ben Luke, is inspired by Canaletto
Confessions of a cannabis eater
Thu, 12/02/2010 - 12:59The Wellcome Collections investigation into mind-altering drugs inspires in our critic happy memories of hazy days and hash salads
GSK shows what fashion can say about art
Tue, 11/30/2010 - 11:30The last of the Royal Academys three annual GSK Contemporary exhibitions focuses on the connections between art and fashion