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Think you know all about impressionism and its chocolate-box image? Think again. The movement was revolutionary

How did the Tate turn the theft of two Turners into a financial and political victory for the gallery? Meet the man who negotiated their return

There’s loads of gold and gorgeousness, but scholarly scruples have gone astray in the British Museum’s latest show

Tate Liverpool’s Magritte show rethinks the catchy surrealist as a prophet of the virtual age — a skilled tinkerer with image and time

A new show finds a rare intimacy between Toulouse-Lautrec and his muse: the crazy Moulin Rouge dancer Jane Avril

Waldemar Januszczak reports from Venice, where Saudi kings, Barbie dolls and Olympic ambitions were mocked in splendid style

Charles Saatchi’s new show has uncovered the new stars of British art. They’re more thoughtful than the YBAs, and show that Britain still has talent

The Shape of Things to Come at the Saatchi will pull in the crowds, but the ‘new’ sculpture on display is tired and formulaic

Unsettling and defiantly modern, Ged Quinn’s pastiches of old masters go against the norm to impress and mystify

Tracey Emin deserves her big show at the Hayward — pubic hair and all — but success has made her recent work fluffy, not feisty