The etchings and sculptures on show at Hauser & Wirth Somerset are at their most powerful when we stop trying to understand them
With his Gazing Balls, Koons has created a body of work that appeals to the brain as well as the eyes
I’m looking forward to a moment when there isn’t the perception of a centre and a margin, of north and south
One of Saddam Hussein’s crumbling former palaces has been transformed into a state of the art display space for Iraqi antiquities
London's School of Oriental and African Studies has taught scholars, spies and Hollywood stars
The anonymous activists on sexual and racial discrimination, Donald Trump, and why it's actually better in Poland
‘Spreading Canvas: Eighteenth-Century British Marine Painting’ at the Yale Center for British Art is a voyage of discovery
‘A major part of the appeal of his landscapes was that they were out of reach of the nouveau riche’
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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?
September sees multiple new additions to museum collections, including the Getty's record-breaking purchase of a Roman cabinet once owned by a Pope and a King
Highlights of this year's fair, from modernist photographs to ancient armour
Nicholas Serota has carved out an extraordinary cultural leadership role during his 30 years at the Tate. Who can fill his shoes?
Hackney Wick has over 600 studios, but gentrification is forcing artists out. Can locals preserve the area as a creative hub?
'The breadth of the Atlantic, with all its waves, is as nothing'
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
Kicking off the London art season by kicking in an old Saab (for art's sake)
Ryan Gander's new exhibition at the Lisson Gallery turns the spectator into the spectacle
Was the French Second Empire as morally and artistically bankrupt as its critics made it out to be?
'At Twilight' includes references to Japanese Noh theatre, western modernism, contemporary stagecraft and Eeyore...
As London's Design Museum is set to reopen in its new home, the role of design museums is still surprisingly unclear
Plus: Neo Rauch finally comes to London; John Wesley's odd eroticism; and Alighiero Boetti's monumental use of mementoes
Plus: Virginia Chihota’s claustrophobic blast of colour; a surreal spectacle from James Richards at the ICA; and Suzanne Treister's sinister take on technology
Plus: The final painting of Francis West; Yinka Shonibare without his trademark fabric; and Paula Rego's first tapestry
