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The First Actresses at the National Portrait Gallery takes a sneaky peek at the birth of fame culture — and its Page Three roots

Yoko Ono’s shining Peace Tower, a column of unstoppable light high in the night sky, moves our writer in Reykjavik to tears

The extraordinary Grayson Perry runs amok in the British Museum to create a revolutionary, revelatory show

The Turner prize is now establishment art, even though it has moved out of London and includes painting

After seeing Tate Modern’s beautifully shaped retrospective of the German painter’s work, our critic is wholly convinced

Biological videos and displays of old pants? Waldemar Januszczak on how Swissness oozes from Pipilotti Rist

An exhibition of Degas’s ballet paintings is a brilliant idea. Sadly, this Royal Academy show gets gloomily obsessed with technology

He was court painter to Charles I and one of our greatest portraitists, yet William Dobson has been all but forgotten

John Martin was master of the apocalyptic vision. Then his work vanished into the abyss. Now he’s having a renaissance

They are some of the largest photographs ever produced, but it’s not only the scale of Thomas Struth’s images that takes the breath away