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All life through the lens with Taylor Wessing prize
Arts: It is hardly surprisingly that the overall winner of this year's �12,000 Photographic Portrait Prize is Paul Floyd Blake's image of Rosie Bancroft....read

The paint's the thing for Frank Auerbach
Arts: Frank Auerbach's thickly textured depictions of post-war building sites turned painting into a three-dimensional art.....read

Tatsuo Miyajima is keeper of the light fantastic
Arts: Tatsuo Miyajima is bringing his vision to the Royal Ballet, he tells Ben Luke.....read

Tribuna is grand as the grand tour
Arts: Buckingham Palace visitors won't be able to tear themselves away from Johan Zoffany�s Tribuna of the Uffizi.....read

The joy of text with Sophie Calle
Arts: Conceptual art can be appallingly dry and arcane but in the hands of the French artist Sophie Calle it becomes a richly involving genre. ....read

Stop it, Damien Hirst, you're embarrassing yourself
Arts: Damien Hirst is nearing his half-century and should have a far higher level of skill than the rough daubing he shows in No Love Lost....read

The agony and ecstasy of The Sacred Made Real
Arts: The suffering expressed in the extraordinary sculptures and paintings of martyred saints from 17th-century Spain is so real, the effect is almost unbearable....read

Hans Ulrich Obrist - the God of planet art
Arts: Serpentine Gallery co-director Hans Ulrich Obrist is now the most powerful figure in international art. Fortunately, as he tells Alison Roberts, he considers the artists to be more important....read

An artist's guide to Frieze
Arts: As London�s biggest contemporary art fair opens its doors, Alastair McKay asks conceptual artist Michael Elmgreen to help him make sense of the mountain of work on show and select his highlights....read

Bag Affordable Art Fair tickets
Competitions: Win two pairs of tickets to the Affordable Art Fair Private View with Maker's Mark.....read

All the fun without the fair
Arts: If being crushed inside the Frieze tent makes you hyperventilate, don't despair - some of the best one-off shows are in other parts of town....read

Shocking, sensual symbolism from Robert Mapplethorpe
Arts: Robert Mapplethorpe's exhibition mixes surprisingly tender moments with the sensual erotic and hardcore.....read

Bringing an end to 100 days on the Plinth
Arts: As the last of the Plinthers quits Trafalgar Square, we look at 2,400 hours of nudity, drama, protest - and banality.....read

John Baldessari does a great line in conceptual gags
Arts: John Baldessari's Pure Beauty is not all easily digestible, but it's helped by exemplary, clearly written gallery wall texts. ....read

Ed Ruscha's Fifty Years of Painting is cool to the core
Arts: A collection of fifty years of paintings from the 'bit too cool' Ed Ruscha tells his story well.....read

Photographs go pop in Beatles to Bowie show
Arts: Beatles to Bowie: the 60s exposed is a nostalgic, impressive documentary marking the rapid changes in pop, contemporary design and photography between 1960-69.....read

Saatchi makes case for young art
Arts: The work of 20 graduates who are hoping to emulate the success of the Young British Artists is to go on show in the New Sensations.....read

As Polaroid expires, some instant reminders of its power
Arts: The Polaroid:Exp 09.10.09 exhibition at the Atlas Gallery to mark the expiry date of the last Polaroid film.....read

The Turner Prize is the best of British art
Arts: This is simply the best Turner Prize in living memory, says Ben Lewis.....read

Showcase your art and save lives
Arts: Now in its fifth year Sue Ryder Care�s nationwide annual art competition, Art Liberating Lives, is open. ....read

World's leading galleries showcased in Art London
Arts: Art London returns to Chelsea in a 75000 square foot marquee in the grounds of the Royal Hospital.....read