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For all its charm, the V&A’s Christian Dior exhibition shows clearly that the brand couldn’t measure up to its founder’s work

A surprising show at the Hayward reveals the great photographer’s gentler side

Childless, sleepless and now motherless: the artist gives voice to her pain in an explosive show. It’s a game-changer

Koons at the Ashmolean: like Popeye giving the Reith Lectures

The Royal Academy has put Bill Viola’s videos next to Michelangelo’s drawings: who wins?

Too many marks, too many colours, too little sense of direction: our critic is underwhelmed by the artist’s clunky, repetitive works

The Turner winner writes loser’s poetry. Oddly, it gives him a special presence

Live conservation is suddenly the hottest thing in the art world — and we have Artemisia Gentileschi to thank for that

The heroic Monarch of the Glen makes Landseer’s grim and compromised career look all the more noble at the National

From Trajan’s Column to Michelangelo’s David, the V&A’s reopened Cast Courts house thrilling full-size replicas of the world’s artistic wonders