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A Victorian medium guided by the dead was an unlikely pioneer of modernism

The Tate’s vast extension is high on good intentions, but low on excitement. It’s all a bit too polite

Abstraction is back, and female artists are in the vanguard of the revival

Maria Merian’s 17th-century butterfly pictures are both stunning natural history and proof of a deep spirituality

We don’t need a £260m pyramid, says our art critic. We need a creative force like the Impressionists to break the grip of the art establishment

While Abu Dhabi awaits a Louvre, the world’s best street artists are being paid to decorate a mall in Dubai. Have they sold their souls?

Maria Lassnig’s self-exposure packs a punch

The biggest art celebrity in the world is showing in a grubby corner of London — at the gallery of the guy who comes in at No 2. They tell us why

George Shaw reboots the Old Masters at the National Gallery

Mona Hatoum’s mysterious installations are suffused with the menacing world in which she grew up