At the climax of McCarthy's career, the cowboy and the pirate are brought together with pleasing dissonance

A typo on their beer bottle turns it into an instant collectors’ classic

Richard Wentworth’s mid-career survey at Tate Liverpool is more of a remix than a retrospective

In the space of just a year, a former US Drug Enforcement Warehouse has been expanded to 40,000 square feet and now includes 18 new galleries, a conservation laboratory, a library and a sculpture garden

Although only the second edition of this contemporary fair in a tent, global collectors flocked to it and sales were frantic

Maggi Hambling’s portrait of the singer is rejected from the Summer Show, while Tracey Emin goes on the wagon

Shame on the Schadenfreudians

Tracey Emin’s new exhibition concentrates on her work as a filmmaker in which she usually takes the starring role

The Californian post-conceptualist plays the role of artist, curator and collector in his latest piece

Meanwhile, a dead animal stirs things up in Camden

Absence is as important as presence in Mark Wallinger’s new works on show

Meanwhile Britain's rugby hero, Jonny Wilkinson, brings sporting glamour to the BALTIC

Dealers are planning new, original display techniques

Meanwhile, Tracy Emin is compared to Chinese takeaway

Long’s latest show is a collaboration with Indian tribal artist Jivya Soma Mashe

John Wood and Paul Harrison’s minimal, deadpan performances make complicated references to the art world of the past—with a dash of slapstick

The collector credited with transforming London’s contemporary art scene opens prestigious premises on the Thames this 17 April

These never-before-seen works show a more personal side of the artist

Chantal Joffe, Victoria Miro

Ryman has been painting white on white for more than 50 years. He talks about how his paintings work and which shade of white he uses

What's going on in London: Art on the move

Jewellery at D’Offay, censorship at South London Gallery and Jane Simpson at Gagosian

What's on in London: A Martian adventure

Why the art market is holding up as stock exchanges plunge, and why there are 10 times more collectors than in 1990

Her familiar clay objects may be joined by new works in other media

Last year Michael Landy meticulously catalogued and then destroyed all his material possessions. For his latest show he has photographed and etched the plants that grow spontaneously throughout the city

Essenhigh talks about her switch from enamel to oil, the difficulties of making pretty pictures and the ominous undertow of her paintings

An act of censorship or tact?

The artist talks about her trials as a woman in a man’s field, the female way of working, her free-floating wackiness and making movies