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Ben Lewis

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The Future is with Bloomberg New Contemporaries

This year's Bloomberg New Contemporaries, a show of hot new talent, heralds a fresh era for contemporary art.

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All the fun without the fair

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

Ed Ruscha's Fifty Years of Painting is cool to the core

A collection of fifty years of paintings from the 'bit too cool' Ed Ruscha tells his story well.

John Baldessari does a great line in conceptual gags

John Baldessari's Pure Beauty is not all easily digestible, but it's helped by exemplary, clearly written gallery wall texts.

What's the point of art? Everything and nothing

Art: what's it good for? When these kinds of titles are thought up for debates there are a lot of short cuts taken with the meanings of words

The Turner Prize is the best of British art

This is simply the best Turner Prize in living memory, says Ben Lewis.

Pop Life sells its soul for the big bucks

Once they were going to call it Sold Out; they could have called it Cashing In; but they settled in the end for the upbeat but neutral title Pop Life.

Recognition at last for Gustav Metzger

Gustav Metzger uses the basic principle of LCDs to create a display whose intensity of colour, texture and atmosphere recalls Rothko or Yves Klein.

Spot the difference at Pete and Repeat

Repetition is the theme behind this expansive and varied show ranging from American giants such as Richard Prince to budding British twentysomethings

David Harrison: a new animal magic

David Harrison’s small but luxurious paintings look like the illustrations for children’s fairytales

Collage at the cutting edge

One day the Hayward or the Tate will mount a mammoth exhibition on the history of collage. Until then, this show serves as a dress rehearsal

London's top 10 hidden art treasures

The exhibitionists may be out of town for summer but there's still plenty of great art on show. Here’s our guide to London’s top 10 free hidden treasures.

Charles LeDray's Mens Suits is frankly unmissable

Charles LeDray spent three years making Mens Suits. The exactitude of his work, and the transformation of scale, create an intensely symbolic atmosphere

Artistic gags with Yuri and Konstantin Shamanov

Posing as Yuri and Konstantin Shamanov, the Chapman brothers have nailed geometric assemblages of intersecting pieces of driftwood.

New order emerges in Classified's Britart

Classified works well as a top 20 of British art of the past 10 years or so.

Elizabeth Peyton is pin-up painter

There's something lovable about Elizabeth Peyton's schoolgirl-kitsch pop star portraits — but do they have life beyond the bedroom wall?

BP Portrait Award faces our current affairs

Emmanouil Bitsakis's portraits timely and newsworthy — but these are also stunning paintings in their own right.

Gormley does it again — making public art that the public like

There’s little drama in One & Other — surely the most inevitable idea in art ever — as the behaviour of the first three official plinth-people is revealed

Jeff Koons: Popeye brought to life

Just when you thought he'd run out of ideas, Jeff Koons, one of the biggest celebrity artists of our age, comes up with a whole new fantasy

The British Museum deserves a medal

A witty and nerdy exhibition of satirical medals from forgotten 18th and 19th-century master-craftsmen and from contemporary artists opens at the British Museum

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