Among McQueen’s bugs and birds, Darwin and doom, Savage Beauty has some glorious stuff. Does it all add up to a work of genius?
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Having his cake
The impressionists owe a lot to their pioneering middleman. And so do we
He’s wickedly good
Goya’s spectacular female grotesques run riot at the Courtauld
The art of Kim
What are Kardashian’s selfies and belfies really trying to say? Waldemar unpicks the hidden codes
Frights of the round table
The Victorians’ cod medievalism made for some duff sculpture
The state we’re in
At the Hayward, seven artists sift through seven decades of art to take the pulse of the nation
Then invention died
His brilliant moments can’t disguise the fact that John Singer Sargent was the supreme underachiever
An impostor in the impasto
London’s oldest gallery has swapped one of its Old Masters for a copy and is challenging visitors to spot it. Waldemar risks his reputation by picking out the fake
A face that fits
Marlene Dumas is best when she sticks to heads. Elsewhere she comes unstuck
Let’s get ready to rrrumble
When art and sound collide, there’s only one winner