Unsettling and defiantly modern, Ged Quinn’s pastiches of old masters go against the norm to impress and mystify
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Ignored no more
Tracey Emin deserves her big show at the Hayward — pubic hair and all — but success has made her recent work fluffy, not feisty
A message to all of creation
Ai Weiwei’s great zodiac heads show he is not just a Chinese dissident, but taking on all human failings
A window on our world
Manet invented modern art, and a huge new show in Paris sets out to prove it. But how straightforward is the exhibition in its approach?
More becomes less
The Tate is putting on the first Miro show in Britain for 50 years. Why have we spent so long avoiding this supposedly great artist?
The Cult of Beauty, V&A
This superb look at the aesthetic movement is not just easy on the eye: it charts the birth of modern attitudes to pleasure
Bill Woodrow, Waddington Galleries
Bill Woodrow’s brilliant junk sculptures whisk you straight out of Cork Street and take you back to the darker side of 1980s Britain.
Shine a Light
The prehistoric cave art of Chauvet gets the 3-D treatment from Werner Herzog with amazing results.
The one plague my family can’t take
Of the three plagues visited upon them in one terrible week it is the third, radiation, that the Japanese fear most.
Watteau, Royal Academy
‘Watteau was born good and got better’ – Waldemar Januszczak sees a compelling case made for one of the greats.