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Alighiero Boetti fancied himself as a shaman. This Tate show fails to turn our critic into a follower

An elderly Japanese artist says she started it. Damien Hirst might disagree. It’s driving our art critic dotty

Picasso’s influence on British art is made thrillingly clear by the Tate’s show. The problem is how pedestrian he makes us look

Waldemar Januszczak admits he got Lucian Freud wrong: he was a peerless painter of humanity, not a lover of lowlife

David Shrigley’s Hayward show is a quiet triumph of British wit. Waldemar Januszczak gets in on the joke

In spite of few objects at the British Museum’s Hajj show, there is much to ponder — and the V&A, too, has struck gold

Hugely ambitious, occasionally gaudy, David Hockney’s landscapes have an impact on the spirit, says our art critic

A weedy, disappointing show by a random Brazilian underlines how the Serpentine has lost its way, says our art critic

From Watteau to Noble to the show of the century, Da Vinci: Waldemar Januszczak on 10 of the key shows in 2011

The top art for 2012