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George Shaw finds the otherworldly in trees, porn magazines and plastic sheets
As associate artist at the National Gallery, Shaw focuses on the nondescript woodland where many of art history’s most sordid stories play out
Don Quixote of the drawing board: the visionary schemes of the Earl of Mar
The Earl of Mar has long been seen as a failed rebel and harmless utopian architect, but it’s time to take him seriously as an Enlightenment thinker
Going it alone in the modern city
Olivia Laing’s book on the art of loneliness has some excellent insights, but who is it meant for?
Porn and paranoia on Tyneside
Omer Fast puts contemporary fears and fictions on display at the BALTIC Centre
Irrelevant, boring, expensive… The book that lists everything wrong with house museums
Time for a bit of anarchy
Giacometti’s art channels the nervousness of an entire era
The Sainsbury Centre’s exhibition reveals an artist grappling with a sense of human frailty
From Turkey to China, the legacy of the Seljuq empire should be better known
There are many treasures in the Met’s new exhibition, but the most poignant are the metalwork pieces from Mosul, given the turmoil in the region today
Art history creeps into the XL Catlin Art Prize
Figurative art is making a comeback, if this year’s shortlist of promising early-career artists is anything to go by
The Russian portraits at the NPG are a revelation
Russia’s 19th-century portraitists were more than a match for the exceptional writers and composers they painted. So why is their work so neglected?
Say it with flowers – and butterflies, ladybirds, cockroaches…
Two exhibitions in London celebrate the beautiful, subtle botanical paintings of 17th-century Holland
Selfies, sexuality and self-parody: when artists perform for the camera
Artists recognised the power of the staged image long before Instagram came along
Howard Hodgkin’s paintings get better and better
How strange that this great British painter claims to ‘hate painting’ when he is so good at it
Women printmakers make a good impression in New York
Was there a distinctly ‘female’ printmaking in this period? Not really – but that’s what’s so interesting
‘It is what it is.’ Dan Flavin’s iconic light fittings in the Ikon Gallery
Flavin’s fluorescent light pieces continue to transform the spaces in which they are installed. But time is changing how we see the pieces, too
Manuele Cerutti and the fine art of balancing
The everyday objects in Cerutti’s Turin studio are transformed in his paintings: poised, precarious, and forever in suspense
Visionary palaces in a gallery’s empty basement
Karl Friedrich Schinkel’s palace designs came to ‘nothing more than a beautiful dream’ – and, thankfully, a fascinating set of prints
Berlin’s wartime bunkers are becoming unlikely havens for art
Désiré Feuerle is the latest person to move his art collection underground
Crumbs! Here’s a gallery full of somebody else’s seedy secrets
‘I began wasting my god-given talent drawing pictures of sexy women the way I liked ‘em’. An exhibition of R. Crumb’s work invites us all to become voyeurs
Robert Ryman and the many shades of white
An exhibition of Ryman’s eerie paintings in New York rewards repeated viewings
Andy Warhol, Richard Avedon and five Marilyn Monroes
For a handy reminder of why Warhol was so radical, head to Gagosian Gallery’s ‘Avedon Warhol’ exhibition in London
A strange tale of cruelty and creativity in the Moroccan desert
Ben Rivers’ attempt to reveal the artifice of filmmaking is somehow dull and disconcerting at the same time
Should museums be ideology-free?
A new book which argues that museums should be above politics is hardly above politics itself
Never mind the buttocks
An exhibition in Florence finally gives Carlo Portelli the attention he deserves
Surveillance and secrecy in Gateshead and London
Hajra Waheed’s exhibitions at BALTIC and the Mosaic Rooms are full of strange, evocative details
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