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End of the irony age

Tim Adams — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 05:55:47 GMT

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

Traveller from an antique land

Tim Adams — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 07:13:02 GMT

Anselm Kiefer�s bleakly despairing vision causes disquiet in an art world used to in-jokes and irony

The tent is empty

Tim Adams — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 10:37:36 GMT

�The art market is on a knife-edge,� Tracey Emin has declared. Launching a series of investigations into art and the financial crisis, Tim Adams traces the falling stock of the melodramatic poster-child of Britart

Pleasures of the flesh

Tim Adams — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 10:37:05 GMT

A new television series encourages the nation to take up life classes. Our art critic Tim Adams does just that, and discovers that drawing the human body is a form of ritual communion in which the sitter is as active as the artist

The nation's conscience

Tim Adams — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 17:48:55 GMT

Representing Britain at this year�s Venice Biennale, Steve McQueen is an extravagant talent. And his experience as an official war artist in Iraq has made him determined to face down uncomfortable truths

A creative space for all

Tim Adams — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 11:47:35 GMT

NS art critic Tim Adams celebrates the restoration of a part of the East End's soul

A painter under the influence

Tim Adams — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 10:49:45 GMT

The myth that Picasso sprang forth as a fully formed genius is neatly undermined by the National Gallery's new exhibition

From riches to Wags

Tim Adams — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 10:29:07 GMT

Palladio's classical aesthetic is now beloved of Prince Charles and Premiership footballers. What would the man himself make of it all?

The road to riches

Tim Adams — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 09:51:12 GMT

Since independence, Indian artists have been engaged in obsessively constructing an identity for their fractured, ever-changing nation

Where the real art lies

Tim Adams — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 09:45:00 GMT

The winner of the 2008 Turner Prize is due to be announced imminently, but Tim Adams finds that the Tate's catalogue writers are the stars in this competition