British Museum exhibition reveals artists who made not to glorify but to mock, insult, accuse, abuse, undermine and demean
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Elizabeth Peyton’s portraits of rock stars
New York artist’s Whitechapel Gallery show has paintings of Liam Gallagher, Kurt Cobain, Pete Doherty – and Prince William
National Gallery’s landscape exhibition
French painting of the 19th century, Corot to Monet, from their own collection is featured in the Sainsbury basement
Jeff Koons’s first large British exhibition
Serpentine Gallery’s Popeye suite is debut of artist’s extensive work in public gallery, despite displays at the Gagosian
JW Waterhouse at the Royal Academy
‘Late Pre-Raphaelite’s’ suggestive sexy paintings of teenage girls like his St Eulalia disturb in Royal Academy exhibition
Hayward Gallery’s ambitious theme show
Experience Thomas Hirschhorn’s cardboard re-creation of Lascaux cave system or jump on Yayoi Kusama’s giant bouncy castle
Tate Modern manages to make futurism dull
Art movement’s founder Filippo Marinetti was riddled with homophobic and sexist paranoias and went on to worship Mussolini
Banksy takes over the Bristol City Museum
Britain’s most notorious graffiti artist gets the run of his home-town’s exhibits, with humour as his weapon of attack
Banksy goes home to shake-up Bristol
Elusive graffiti artists talks on eve of largest project to date, inflitrating the Bristol collections (with permission)
Venice Biennale tackles the credit crunch
Daniel Birnbaum’s Making Worlds theme pays dividends for Bruce Nauman, Krzysztof Wodiczko and Michelangelo Pistoletto