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Ai Weiwei’s great zodiac heads show he is not just a Chinese dissident, but taking on all human failings

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?

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?

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’s brilliant junk sculptures whisk you straight out of Cork Street and take you back to the darker side of 1980s Britain.

The prehistoric cave art of Chauvet gets the 3-D treatment from Werner Herzog with amazing results.

Of the three plagues visited upon them in one terrible week it is the third, radiation, that the Japanese fear most.

‘Watteau was born good and got better’ – Waldemar Januszczak sees a compelling case made for one of the greats.

Anthony McCall is a hot target for modern thinkers and creates light sculptures that mix science and sensuality. Shine on.

A treasure trove of historic Afghan artefacts is revealed at the British Museum and it’s a dazzling display.