Culture: Installations

A room of his own

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

The divided self

Annette Messager subverts the stereotype of women as nurturing creatures

The paradise that wasn’t

Mark Ravenhill is an awe-inspiring dramatist, despite his dubious politics Over There Royal Court Theatre, London SW1

The gilded cage

The lavish, decorative works of Gustav Klimt and his associates provided the rich and privileged few with a retreat from the problems of the Industrial Age

Art for the people

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

The art of a good time

There's a lot of hot air wafting around the Venice Biennale. But one thing is for sure: the art world can party.

The new Romantics

Artists are turning their backs on the insular metropolitan scene and engaging with the threats facing the environment

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Making waves

Curators and prize committees love him. Yet Antony Gormley's critics accuse him of arrogance and complacency. Now he has dotted Crosby Beach with life-size casts of his own body. Richard Cork on the inventiveness and surprising humour of Britain's most ambitious sculptor

More ale, vicar!

Home-made jam on trestle tables? Urban performance artists turning up and alienating everyone? The typical summer arts festival can veer dangerously around. Genevieve Fox goes to deepest Suffolk to find an example that avoids either extreme

Doing the rounds

Art - Ned Denny on how to visit 20 leading galleries in one morning