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The Courtauld’s show of sad, dark nudes proves just what a clever observer of our foibles he was

Now, that’s where you’re wrong.It’s a miracle this crew made the Turner prize at all

Waldemar Januszczak indulges his obsession with buried treasure on an adventure through the jungles and mountains

I want to write this week about good sex and bad sex. In art, that is. The country seems to be going through one of its recurrent touchy periods on these topics, and an exhibition called Seduced, which has popped up at exactly the right moment at the Barbican Art Gallery, claims to be trying […]

A trio of flawed but revealing shows

London’s Frieze fair is the hippest place to be this week: and the art will be pretty good, too

Easter Island’s monumental moai have a bizarre story to tell. Our correspondent listens to the stones

Tate Britain’s fine Sir John Everett Millais show restores his reputation – even as it throws up another sickly problem

Georg Baselitz continues with his war cries

Madman or genius? The astonishing terracotta army proves that China’s First Emperor was both