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The Serpentine’s latest exhibitions can’t carry the weight of significance loaded on them

The British Museum puts a fresh spin on the Norsemen, but its vast new galleries lessen the show’s impact.

DiCorcia’s photographs toy with reality, but First World War portraits capture the terrible truth

‘Repulsive’ German art is everywhere this year — just not enough of it.

You name it, Richard Hamilton invented it — and his Tate Modern show is revelatory and important.

They were once at the cutting edge of British sculpture. Thirty years on, how do Richard Deacon and Bill Woodrow measure up in two rare retrospectives?

It involves chasing lizards and escaping mass.

Silly, boring and derivative — Martin Creed’s Hayward retrospective is the pits.

Van Gogh’s Sunflowers are art’s most familiar franchise. If you think you know their story, the National Gallery says, ‘Think again’

The 18th-century movement has long been dismissed as a lot of silly twiddles. Not any more. In his new TV series, our critic explores its beauty, its excess — and its surprising similarity with the way we live now.