Bavaria's capital city may be most famous for its beery Oktoberfest but crowd-free museums, excellent restaurants and shops are great attractions for a visit at any time of year... more
Locked Room Scenario is Ryan Gander's new Hoxton warehouse installation, an exhibition with actors that is set to become one of those hip London happenings... more
Tate Modern’s first big exhibition of 2011 opens next week — and if ever an artist needed an introduction, it’s the enigmatic Mexican, Gabriel Orozco... more
When Graham Southern and Harry Blain sold the Haunch of Venison gallery to Christie's they didn't envisage they would be blackballed by the art world. Now they've quit and taken their best artists with them. Sholto Byrnes on the battle of Burlington Gardens... more
Marina Abramovic inspired David Blaine and Riccardo Tisci with her masochistic performance art. And now she's crossing the Pond. Watch out for knives, ice blocks, wounds and tears, says Hermione Eyre... more
Gustav Metzger uses the basic principle of LCDs to create a display whose intensity of colour, texture and atmosphere recalls Rothko or Yves Klein.... more
Liz Hoggard hasn't been on holiday for three years. Instead she's perfected the fine art of the London away-day. Here she describes her ideal weekend... more
Super-curator Nicolas Bourriaud has chosen some fascinating work for Altermodern, his survey of contemporary art — it's his theory that is flawed.... more
Roger Hiorns has taken a derelict London bedsit and filled it with a toxic, ever-expanding chemical sculpture. He promises spectacular results.... more
A post-war painting by the American Mark Rothko which is expected to make more than $30 million (£15 million) at auction has gone on show in London... more
From a really funny joke by the Chapman Brothers to the surreally dreamlike figures of Juan Muñoz, gallery-going in London has never been so much fun.... more
He's an American Damien Hirst, and he's made a film with his girlfriend Bjork but only now has the Serpentine given him his first major UK exhibition. Welcome to the weird world of Matthew Barney.... more
Rather than keep its few great works of art permanently on view, the latest UBS-sponsored rehang at Tate Modern simply shuffles the rag, tag and bobtail of the collection.... more
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