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Ai Weiwei’s show at the Royal Academy is a provocative collision of sculptural grandeur, politics and wanton destruction

In the hands of the Old Masters, metalpoint is magic. Shame about the moderns

Tate Britain is using scents and salty chocolate to lure visitors. What about the art?

Banksy’s ‘a-mazing’ Bemusement Park mimics and subverts everything Disney stands for, writes Waldemar Januszczak

A startling show full of sculpture and sexiness reveals the extent of Yves Saint Laurent’s genius

A forgotten star of the rococo has been given his due in Edinburgh. Doff your fancy hats to Monsieur Liotard

There is plenty to enthrall in Edinburgh’s artistic treasure hunt

Nobody wants to be a nobody any more. Even when ransacking the history of portraits, today’s artists are obsessed with themselves

The Whitworth revamp has made Manchester a hip art destination

The American’s sculptures star in the best stately pop-up of the summer