Culture: Art
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
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
Traveller from an antique land
Anselm Kiefer’s bleakly despairing vision causes disquiet in an art world used to in-jokes and irony
The way I see it: Vivienne Westwood
Garden and Cosmos: the Royal Paintings of Jodhpur
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