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Recognition at last for Gustav Metzger

30.09.09
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

What a performance from Zhang Huan

03.09.09
The genius of Chinese artist Zhang Huan is better represented by a fascinating new book than by the two live pigs in his new show.... more

The day trippers - Perfect places for a London away-day

14.08.09
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

Lesson in art history from Rebecca Warren

13.03.09
Warren's art historical sources are fashionably transparent. There are the traces of her fingers left in the material à la Rodin.... more

New age of the 'ism' in Altermodern

06.02.09
Super-curator Nicolas Bourriaud has chosen some fascinating work for Altermodern, his survey of contemporary art — it's his theory that is flawed.... more

Crystal Method for Roger Hiorns

26.08.08
Roger Hiorns has taken a derelict London bedsit and filled it with a toxic, ever-expanding chemical sculpture. He promises spectacular results.... more

The West End art trail

15.08.08
It's a quiet time for the art world – but there are still fascinating works to be seen off the beaten track.... more

Rothko's orange earner

14.04.08
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

£100m art gift is the greatest since the Tate was founded

27.02.08
London dealer Anthony d'Offay has sold art worth more than £125 million to the nation for the £26.5 million it originally cost him... more

Are you having a laugh?

01.02.08
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

Barmy Barney

21.09.07
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

So where are the masterpieces?

08.05.07
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

Eyes on the Prize

05.10.06
The Turner Prize always attracts controversy, but Fisun Guner finds pleasant surprises in a couple of abstract and video works.... more

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