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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
Rethinking Iraq’s past – and its future – at the Basrah Museum
One of Saddam Hussein’s crumbling former palaces has been transformed into a state of the art display space for Iraqi antiquities
‘The biggest single bunch of eccentrics in Europe’. Celebrating a century of SOAS
London’s School of Oriental and African Studies has taught scholars, spies and Hollywood stars
Is it worse in Europe? A look at art and inequality with the Guerrilla Girls
The anonymous activists on sexual and racial discrimination, Donald Trump, and why it’s actually better in Poland
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
Capability Brown’s landscapes were designed to be a snob’s paradise
‘A major part of the appeal of his landscapes was that they were out of reach of the nouveau riche’
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?
Acquisitions of the month: September 2016
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
The art you shouldn’t miss at Frieze Masters this year
Highlights of this year’s fair, from modernist photographs to ancient armour
Top tips for the Tate leadership
Nicholas Serota has carved out an extraordinary cultural leadership role during his 30 years at the Tate. Who can fill his shoes?
The artists working to save Hackney Wick
Hackney Wick has over 600 studios, but gentrification is forcing artists out. Can locals preserve the area as a creative hub?
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
Smashing stuff…London’s art world wakes up with a bang
Kicking off the London art season by kicking in an old Saab (for art’s sake)
A long hard look at Ryan Gander: An interview with the artist
Ryan Gander’s new exhibition at the Lisson Gallery turns the spectator into the spectacle
It’s time to look again at the golden age of sleaze and splendour
Was the French Second Empire as morally and artistically bankrupt as its critics made it out to be?
‘It’s really about a collapse of time.’ Simon Starling on his latest project
‘At Twilight’ includes references to Japanese Noh theatre, western modernism, contemporary stagecraft and Eeyore…
What are design museums for?
As London’s Design Museum is set to reopen in its new home, the role of design museums is still surprisingly unclear
Stepping out of Caravaggio’s shadow
Plus: Neo Rauch finally comes to London; John Wesley’s odd eroticism; and Alighiero Boetti’s monumental use of mementoes
Saudi Arabia’s lost railway in Fitzroy Square
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
Lygia Pape’s fragile threads
Plus: The final painting of Francis West; Yinka Shonibare without his trademark fabric; and Paula Rego’s first tapestry
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The Great Exhibition of the North is welcome – but let’s not forget the bigger picture
I’m looking forward to a moment when there isn’t the perception of a centre and a margin, of north and south