The extraordinary Grayson Perry runs amok in the British Museum to create a revolutionary, revelatory show
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The official view of the nation
The Turner prize is now establishment art, even though it has moved out of London and includes painting
Long live Gerhard Richter
After seeing Tate Modern’s beautifully shaped retrospective of the German painter’s work, our critic is wholly convinced
Fundamentally Swiss
Biological videos and displays of old pants? Waldemar Januszczak on how Swissness oozes from Pipilotti Rist
They’ve missed the pointe
An exhibition of Degas’s ballet paintings is a brilliant idea. Sadly, this Royal Academy show gets gloomily obsessed with technology
A call to arms
He was court painter to Charles I and one of our greatest portraitists, yet William Dobson has been all but forgotten
The beautiful and the damned
John Martin was master of the apocalyptic vision. Then his work vanished into the abyss. Now he’s having a renaissance
The bigger picture
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
Return of the brothers grim
With their latest disturbing shows, are the Chapman brothers asking profound questions about evil, or just fooling around?
Worship at the altar
A gothic, moody setting and serious scholarship reinstate the religion into the National Gallery’s early Renaissance altarpieces