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Anselm Kiefer’s canvas is vast — German history in free fall. The new White Cube is an ideal home

What our critic wants for Christmas is an end to the film-based work loved by trendy galleries such as Tate Modern

Everything in David Hockney’s life, from his odd socks to his California idyll, can be traced to his desperate desire to leave drab Bradford

The Saatchi’s latest show, Gesamtkunstwerk, is a powerful survey of new Teutonic art — with a respectful nod to the past

A revamp of the gloomy Scottish National Portrait Gallery impresses our critic more than a flawed rehang

From the Victorian idealisers of children to modern conceptualists, how Alice in Wonderland has inspired so much art

Paul Noble’s nerdist vision of the imaginary Nobson new town is brilliantly creepy and envisaged with obsessive exactitude

The National Gallery’s show proves that Leonardo da Vinci was, above all else, a painter. It also finds his lost masterpiece

We hail a show of the work of Edward Burra: a neglected one-off British artist who should be valued more highly