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Forbidden Pleasures

    A new exhibition of classic Japanese erotic art is so explicit that the British Museum is imposing an age restriction on visitors. Enter the red-hot world of shunga.

    Mellow Yellow

      Gauguin’s sensational use of the colour is on show at the Courtauld.

      Nakedly Ambitious

        Laura Knight was a woman on a mission — and a retrospective at the NPG shows flashes of genius.

        We’re really in it now

          Confusing art with food is a bad idea. Waldemar explains why.

          A Storm in a Teacup

            The Royal Academy’s Mexico show makes a decent fist of bringing revolutionary fervour to life, but crammed into a space like this, it’s not a full-on fiesta.

            It’s pretty grim up north

              Tate Britain grandly presents LS Lowry as a pioneer worthy of comparison to Van Gogh. Bad idea. Yet in the last room Waldemar enjoys a moment of revelation amid the gloom.

              In the realm of the sensual

                While Gary Hume finds beauty in the banal, Patrick Caulfield is just too brainy to be moving

                Magical Mystery Tour

                  Waldemar at the 55th Venice Biennale.

                  The Mechanics of Faith

                    The National’s Saints Alive is Waldemar Januszczak’s show of the year.

                    The way they wore

                      Waldemar looks at the art of Tudor and Stuart Fashion.

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