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The Ashcan Painters: beauty and brutality in American art

"Pictures from life" at the National Gallery.

Pigment of the imagination

Pigment of the imagination

Explores the weird world of Takeshi Kitano

A room of his own

A room of his own

The inspirational installationist Mike Nelson is chosen to fill the British pavilion at the 2011 Venice Biennale.

Eyewitness: Hungarian Photography in the 20th Century

Tom Calvocoressi admires a near-century of melancholic images

The ambiguous art of Taryn Simon

Can photography help us to understand human conflict?

From English restraint to Bohemian freedom

From English restraint to Bohemian freedom

Two of the National Portrait Gallery's current exhibitions reveal changing attitudes to the artist in the 20th Century.

Richard Long: Heaven and Earth

Richard Long: Heaven and Earth

Richard Long’s fieldwork is a still point in an endlessly turning world

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Meditation man

Nigel Hall's sculptures are points of stillness in a chaotic world

Art for the people

Art for the people

Thomas Schütte’s sculpture for Trafalgar Square’s fourth plinth is a genuinely public work

Run with the dogs tonight

Leo Hollis moves to the suburbs and discovers a new kind of vibrancy.

Zaha Hadid’s learning curve

50 People Who Matter 2011 | 3. Ai Wei Wei

50 People Who Matter 2011 | 3. Ai Wei Wei

Sunflower seditionary.

Golden Spider Silk (V&A)

Golden Spider Silk (V&A)

Extreme couture from the highlands of Madagascar.

"Social Fabric" at Iniva (London EC2)

Cultural Capital podcast: Andrzej Klimowski

Cultural Capital podcast: Andrzej Klimowski

A conversation on Polish poster art and the nature of illustration with the Royal College of Art professor.

The value of a quiet voice

The value of  a quiet voice

The Fixer

The Fixer (BBC2)

Ralph Fiennes

The NS Interview: Ralph Fiennes

The Muppets return

Gilbey on Film: We need to talk about Kermit

A life in pictures

Charles Dickens: snapshots of a life

Hemingway's Boat

Hemingway’s Boat: Everything He Loved  in Life, and Lost (1934-61)

Mind your B-sides

Mind your B-sides

Our film awards

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