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Why are Louise Bourgeois’s webs and spiders so captivating?
The etchings and sculptures on show at Hauser & Wirth Somerset are at their most powerful when we stop trying to understand them
Has Jeff Koons earned his place in art history?
With his Gazing Balls, Koons has created a body of work that appeals to the brain as well as the eyes
Painting through the night with Tom Hammick
‘Towards Night’ at the Towner brings together over 60 artists, but the story it tells is Hammick’s alone
How Georgia O’Keeffe transformed the American landscape
Georgia O’Keeffe’s commitment to what she called ‘the Great American Thing’ inspired her engagement with place
Seeing the sea through the eyes of British artists
‘Spreading Canvas: Eighteenth-Century British Marine Painting’ at the Yale Center for British Art is a voyage of discovery
Orlando Furioso’s imaginative universe 500 years later
An exhibition celebrating the 500th anniversary of Ariosto’s epic Italian poem is as rich as the book itself
London’s new landmark is a triumph of engineering
Conrad Shawcross’s ‘Optic Cloak’ in Greenwich is sympathetic to both its natural and social context. Can the wider redevelopment of the area follow suit?
Virginia Dwan emerges as the star of the NGA’s new galleries
The National Gallery has opened its revamped East Building with a celebration of the woman who put some of the USA’s most influential contemporary artists on the map
Why collections must stay at the heart of the 21st-century museum
A deeply felt study of the importance of museums stresses how central objects are to their function and future
Sound and vision as the Hayward Gallery goes off-site
Despite the difficulties of exhibiting sound and film, the audio-visual works on display here command our full attention
Crossing space and time with the Victorians
‘The breadth of the Atlantic, with all its waves, is as nothing’
Is it time for the Turner Prize to break out of the Tate?
It’s a mixed bag this year, with Anthea Hamilton coming out on top. But whatever you make of the work, Tate is no longer the place to show it
A.S. Byatt on Morris and Fortuny follows all too familiar patterns
The novelist’s account of the two artists contributes little to discussion of their achievements
How Daubigny inspired Impressionism
A modest exhibition at the Scottish National Gallery makes clear the big impact Daubigny had on modern art
There will always be a place for art books – in fact, they’re essential
Phaidon is revisiting its pioneering artists’ monographs with a series of ‘Classics’ that reaffirms the importance of art publishing, and how it’s changed
Surrealism, sex, and sound business sense – why Roland Penrose is a paradox
James King’s biography of the artist is illuminating, but tends to overstate the link between Penrose’s Surrealist art and his surreal personal life
Saint Augustine, Napoleon, the Funny Guy: the many faces of Francis Picabia
Picabia seemed to sense the edginess of every decade in which he lived – and reinvented his art to reflect it
Rachel Whiteread takes to the hills on Governors Island
Bit by bit, the former military site in New York Harbor is being transformed into a cultural destination
The artist proving that beauty is on the inside – literally
Elpida Hadzi-Vasileva has used animal fat, intestines, and testicles in her work – not to shock, but to reveal the beauty in things that would normally disgust us
A frightening take on the War on Terror at the IWM
Edmund Clark’s eye-opening exhibition will make you think again about the impact and ethics of counter-terrorism and state control
It’s about time Winifred Knights got some attention
The Dulwich Picture Gallery finally spotlights this British modernist, whose work owes much to Renaissance traditions
The Museo Espacio makes a splash in Aguascalientes
But Mexico’s new museum will need to demonstrate greater curatorial independence if it’s to flourish in the long-term
Save our museums!
Public collections need eloquent and passionate defenders if they are to thrive in today’s tough climate
The very best of Chinese imperial art comes to San Francisco
It’s been 20 years since Taipei’s National Palace Museum loaned works to the US – now’s the chance to see their Chinese treasures
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