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The flip side of Pop Art

    After Warhol, pop art underwent a controversial revival in Russia and China. On the eve of a Saatchi show, Waldemar Januszczak looks at how the work cocked a snook at dictators, while Audrey Ward interviews the artists

    Danger! Sexist twaddle

      The RA’s Allen Jones retrospective is a silly show, proving how the pop artist’s career took a disastrous turn from poetic to seedy

      Fierce creatures

        Schiele’s nudes are kinky, sexy and outrageous; Moroni’s portraits and religious works are intense and disconcerting

        Reflected vainglory

          The Hayward’s tries for a new take on the old story of urban alienation, but its egotism gets in the way

          Strokes of Genius

            It’s taken five years, £42m and the sacking of a director, but the revamped Musée Picasso, in Paris, gives the artist’s work the setting it deserves

            Greater than we know

              The National Gallery’s magnificent new exhibition reveals a better and truer Rembrandt — don’t miss it

              Just dotty about Polke

                His Tate show is a forceful, gripping event — despite the stoner middle years

                Video Nasties

                  The 2014 Turner prize plumbs the depths of portentous banality. Do yourself a favour, stay away from the show — but first read why it’s so bad

                  The Wagner of visual art

                    Never mind some of the wonky myths he explores, just feel Anselm Kiefer’s power in his thrilling Royal Academy retrospective

                    A brave act of reconstruction

                      Constable was no natural genius, but a plodder who made good, as the V&A’s revisionist show proves

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