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Art: The Sistine Chapel has a secret

    What is it? Aha. We’ll only know that when we crack the Michelangelo code. And Waldemar Januszczak thinks he’s done it

    Art: Andreas Slominski

      A man made a glider, then broke it up again. It’s not art as we know it, but that’s the point, says Waldemar Januszczak

      Art: Workers’ playtime

        Flickering mini-movies made by the dreamers in factory film clubs plunge Waldemar Januszczak into communist Poland

        Subversive treats at the Queen’s Gallery

          The Dutch paintings on show at the Queen’s Gallery are a sneakily subversive treat, says Waldemar Januszczak

          Art: An immaterial world

            He could have been a contender. But the Royal Academy’s Matisse, His Art and His Textiles just goes to prove that this was a man who lost the thread, says Waldemar Januszczak

            Imitate gallery

              And now for Damien Hirst’s next trick: taking a photograph and reproducing it. Exactly. Waldemar Januszczak reports

              Art: From the rag-and-bone shop to the heart

                Titian used crushed beetles; Tomoko Takahashi uses other people’s junk. Are artists really just alchemists at work, asks Waldemar Januszczak

                Art: Caravaggio

                  There are only 16 works in the National Gallery’s show of late Caravaggios, but each one of them is a heart-stopping revelation, says Waldemar Januszczak

                  Art: Portrait of the artist in search of himself

                    It took me 20 minutes to read Charles Saatchi’s book. And that included a couple of minutes ­dealing with the title, which caused me to squirm and gurn unpleasantly as I worked my way down it. What fearful pretension. What wishful thinking. What tosh. Like one of those miniature bottles of perfume that arrive on […]

                    Art: The word made fresh

                      Thank heavens for John Latham: he has brought religion to book. By Waldemar Januszczak