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Flat filled with copper sulphate on the Turner Prize shortlist

28.04.09
An artist who transformed a derelict London flat into a shimmering blue cave is among the shortlisted nominees for this year's Turner Prize... more

Art & design

08.10.08
London has recently underlined its status as the global capital of contemporary art. These are the key players in the world’s most exciting market. ... more

Naked models and a loo with a view at the Turner show

29.09.08
China-smashing women, an art lecture on Homer Simpson - it's autumn at Tate Britain, and that can only mean it's time for the Turner Prize exhibition... more

Three females and one male on Turner Prize shortlist

13.05.08
Female artists make the strongest showing in a decade in the Turner Prize shortlist... more

Tate accused again of buying works by its trustee painters

15.02.08
The Tate is facing accusations of boosting the careers of its trustees after buying paintings by members of its board... more

'Disgusting' race attack on Stephen

14.02.08
The memorial centre built in honour of murdered black teenager Stephen Lawrence was vandalised today in a racist attack... more

Turner Prize greatest hits

01.10.07
Nearly all the key works by past Turner Prize winners have been brought together for a retrospective show at Tate Britain. ... more

Turner Prize returns to artistic roots

05.12.06
German artist Tomma Abts has won the £25,000 Turner Prize against some stiff competition. But the real surprise is that she is a painter.... more

Critic's choice: Top 5 exhibitions

16.11.06
The Photographic Portrait Prize 2006 continues at the National Portrait Gallery, 40 Hindu bronze sculptures go on show at the Royal Academy and Tate Modern pays tribute to David Smith.... more

Tate boss is art's power player

13.10.06
A newly-published list makes Tate director Nicholas Serota the most powerful Brit in the art world, beating both Charles Saatchi and Damien Hirst.... more

Critic's Choice: Top Five Exhibitions

28.09.06
Leonardo Da Vinci at the V&A, Holbein at Tate Britain and modern British art at the Hayward Gallery. Hephzibah Anderson selects the cream of London's exhibition crop.... more

Saatchi to hire out art collection

26.09.06
Charles Saatchi has set up a scheme to rent artwork from his collection to businesses and wealthy individuals.... more

Tate pays £400,000 for a hatstand

19.09.06
At £400,857 it is probably one of the world's most expensive hatstands - and one of the most useless - but the Tate Modern deemed it worthy of the asking price.... more

Critic's Choice: Top five exhibitions

14.09.06
Henry Moore's war sketches are on display at the Imperial War Museum, and Leonardo Da Vinci's drawings and designs are at the V&A. Click here for the best exhibitions in London.... more

Fad fails to stand test of time

11.09.06
The Hayward exhibition of the Arts Council's Collection illustrates how easily seduced that body has been into thinking today's whimsy is tomorrow's masterpiece, writes Brian Sewell.... more

Critic's Choice: Top five exhibitions

07.09.06
Tate Britain marks the 200th anniversary of Stubbs's deat with a special display, an extraordinary collection of modern art goes on show at the Hayward and Tate Modern focusses on Kandinsky's early works.... more

Modern art is pants

22.08.06
They have memorably dismissed the BritArt establishment as "pants". Now the Stuckists - the collective of figurative painters opposed to conceptual art - have become major players themselves with a new exhibition in the West End.... more

Gut feeling in the gallery

02.08.06
As with domestic politics, summer is the silly season in the art world and the ICA's latest show Surprise Surprise is a playful parody of the power politics of contemporary art culture.... more

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