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End of the irony age
Once shocking, much of the work in Tate’s latest survey of pop art now seems tired. It shows how inured we’ve become to big-bucks banality
By Tim Adams
She’s lost control
When Sophie Calle’s lover dumped her by email, she turned life into art. Fisun Güner on a woman who binds the helpless and confessional to the coolly conceptual
Graphic images
Ed Ruscha's paintings play with the typography of the US
Get thee from the nunnery
A landmark exhibition in London shows priceless pieces of religious art that have never before been allowed out of Spain
“All will be done again as it was in far-off times”
Surveying the fragments of an obliterated civilisation at the British Museum’s Moctezuma exhibition, Tom Holland is haunted by the parallels between our vulnerable globalised world and that of the doomed Aztecs
Michael Moore: Q+A
The documentary-maker on capitalism, Obama and why Britain is about to get punished
An Education (12A)/Taking Woodstock (15)
It’s hard to avoid cliché in such a well-visited era
Hallowed spaceboy
Over 40 years, David Bowie has repeatedly reinvented himself, pursuing the idea that all pop is artifice. Graeme Thomson surveys the career of a revered innovator
Seckou Keita Quintet
The Senegalese kora player unsettles Western perceptions of Africa
One famous Belgian
Nick Currie, aka the artist and performer Momus, was struck by the music of Jacques Brel from an early age. Here, he pays tribute to the “industrialist of song”
Into the Storm/Wonderland
Unlike Blair or Brown, Churchill had a conscience
The Day the Wall Came Down
Life is a constant puzzle to the genial presenter
Performance review
How to stay cheery in the face of management-speak
The End of the Line
Despite the glitz, this is a shocking documentary
Andrew Billen
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Rachel Cooke
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John Gray
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Leo Robson
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Antonia Quirke
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Ryan Gilbey
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