Tim Smith-Laing holds a DPhil on early modern mythography from Merton College, Oxford
In this stylish polemic, the artist Hito Steyerl casts AI image-making as bland at best and exploitative at worst
Two exhibitions for the German painter’s 80th birthday show his great range, from maximalist masterpieces to surprisingly intimate works
This chronicle of iconophagy – the act of consuming an image – is an enlightening if occasionally stodgy read
The true gift of the author of ‘Where the Wild Things Are’ was to see the world like a child and blur the line between dreams and reality
The artists’ eerie prints have much in common, but this pairing at the Holburne Museum is something of a missed opportunity
The painting perfectly captures the essence of royalty today – it’s undeniably attention-grabbing, but hollow to the core
An aww-inspiring exhibition explores adorability through the ages, and suggests it can be subversive as well as sweet
The artist’s compilation of entrances and exits in the movies takes viewers deep into a labyrinth – and leaves us to find our own way out
A display of counterfeit works offers an object lesson in what a masterpiece really is – but it could have had more fun with the subject
The much-debated new displays suffer from weak artworks, tokenism and terrible lighting
