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Tate Modern’s Gauguin is the best blockbuster show, while The Clock gets 2010’s nod for most innovative piece.

An absurd new show at the Royal Academy equates fashion with art. It’s pretentious twaddle and doesn’t belong

Birds of America, which has just fetched a record price, is a masterpiece by the sexiest naturalist ever, says our art critic and secret twitcher

Philippe Parreno’s film pieces are smartly unpredictable, but Tom Lubbock’s collages have the capability to unnerve more

Nativities were always a nightmare to do — after all, how do you paint in the dark? But some artists have made it work.

Forget the term op art — Bridget Riley is at home in the National Gallery, deep in dialogue with the old masters she reveres

James Turrell’s latest show induces a ‘mind orgasm’ fuelled by far-out colours, but you’ll be lucky to experience it for yourself

The ancient Egyptians turned dying into an art. A new show at the British Museum leaves our critic eternally moved

Fingers aren’t on the pulse in this patchy survey of British art. Perhaps it’s because we’re not living through a scintillating homegrown era

After a false start to their defence of Thomas Lawrence, the National Portrait Gallery reveal him as a great painter, not just a Regency sex pest