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Sacred visions of godly gore
Tom Lubbock is awed and disturbed by the emotional intensity of Spanish sculpture and painting at the National Gallery
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Monday, 19 October 2009
Tom Lubbock: Above is a lung cancer cell, one of a stunning series of electron microscope images in a gallery show. Can science truly be art?
Michael Church: Classical music has no Anish Kapoor, thank God!
Monday, 19 October 2009
Anyone wanting to take the pulse of the fine-art world in its present state should use the BBC’s watch-again facility to catch Stephen Sackur’s interview with Anish Kapoor in BBC World’s Hard Talk slot.
On the agenda: Tanks are set to storm our stages and Camper gets a Japanese makeover
Sunday, 18 October 2009
A day in the life of art's hottest city
Saturday, 17 October 2009
As collectors descend on London for the Frieze Art Fair and The New York Times applauds the capital's 'dizzying' array of new exhibitions, Arifa Akbar sets off to see them all in one go
The Diary: Andrew Lloyd Webber; John Walker; Alice Channer; Ian McEwan; Hilary Mantel
Friday, 16 October 2009
Party Of The Week: No sign of the crunch at Frieze Art Fair week
Friday, 16 October 2009
There may be less art snapped up as the recession bites – but there is certainly no shortage of parties during London's Frieze Art Fair week.
A brand new Creed: The Turner prize-winner turns choreographer
Thursday, 15 October 2009
Martin Creed is creating a ballet for Sadler's Wells. Zoë Anderson watches the artist rehearse his latest work in the dance studio
The man can't paint
Wednesday, 14 October 2009
Tom Lubbock: Damien Hirst's paintings aren't worth looking at
Dark arts in Turbine Hall
Tuesday, 13 October 2009
Tate Modern's gloomy new installation reflects the spirit of the times, artist says
Ed Ruscha: A man of his words
Tuesday, 13 October 2009
The Hayward Gallery's retrospective of the American pop artist Ed Ruscha reveals an enigmatic marriage of text and image. Tom Lubbock attempts to spell it all out
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FIVE BEST EXHIBITIONS
Ed Ruscha
(Hayward Gallery, London)
He paints the out-of reach: distances, invisibilities, words against clouds and mountains, maps stretching away, silhouettes, blurs...
(0871 663 2500) to 10 Jan
Angels of Anarchy
(Manchester Art Gallery)
Frida Kahlo, Meret Oppenheim, Dorothea Tanning, Lee Miller, Claude Cahoon: mid-20th-century women artists and their relationship to surrealism.
(0161-235 8888) to 10 Jan
John Baldessari
(Tate Modern, London)
A witty conceptualist, arranging words and images in short circuits and self-contradictions and blind spots. Is it clever? Is it funny?
(020-7887 8888) to 10 Jan
Anish Kapoor
(Royal Academy, London)
The master of illusionistic sculptures, with concaves and convexes, reflections and voids and saturated colours. Can you refrain from saying “spirituality”?
(020-7300 8000) to 11 Dec
Bridget Riley
(Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool)
A brief survey of the work of this abstract magician, from the early black-and white optical cabaret to the later flickering dance in colour.
(0151-478 4199) to 13 Dec
