Speaking to the artist who immerses himself in the Northern Irish situation and responds to its shifting sense of reality

Now on display at the Lisson Gallery

His first solo show at Gagosian

The artist reflects on the combination of autobiographical content and common experience in her work

Artists for the environment

“Design issues seem more relevant to me than most that come up in the art world,” the artist says

"Magic is one of my ongoing interests"

Our overview also reveals the highs and lows of this year's biennale, which draws heavily on Scandinavian artists and pays tribute to grand masters Serra, Beuys, Twombly and Richter

The duo dislike art that only the art world can understand and explain their campaign to be different

Georgina Starr moves galleries and Magnani goes east

How her paintings have the limitations of bodies

Painting pushed into new places at Victoria Miro and The Approach and seismic shifts at asprey jacques as the Chapmans explore their feminine side at Modern Art

The evergreen aesthetic attraction of nothingness is explored and Anish Kapoor’s book replaces a vanished work

Unsettling excesses at Stephen Friedman and various ponderings on places and no-places at Milch, Corvi Mora, Timothy Taylor and Emily Tsingou

These works of art take a global perspective and are literally geologically based

Epic list-making at Gagosian and a sombre investigation of society at the Lisson

In the meantime, ignore false reports of a Britart movie

Disillusioned and sick of heavy-handed art that tries to shock, the artist has now turned to kitsch and sentimental themes

Meanwhile, Tracey Emin pushes up the bids in Islington, and there are rumblings at the Royal Academy

The relationship between the generic and the individual is at the heart of Opie’s digitally produced work

Increased attendance, sales, and quality marks a good year for the fair

Cities provide the context for many of the 20th century’s most important innovations, but are also environments in which literature, music, art and thought merge, split or collide with one another. Tate Modern’s first major exhibition since opening ambitiously comprises nine sections, 13 curators and 1,500 works spread over two floors. The display combines the scale and global scope of an international biennial with the historical perspective of art’s most varied century

Louisa Buck’s choice of London contemporary galleries

Appropriation, whimsy, balletomania, and anglophilia all go into Kilimnik’s installations

The artist talks about truncation in art and life as his show opens at White Cube2

Dresdeners at White Cube2, Anselm Kiefer at D’Offay

Whitechapel curator goes .com, more power into art and Juan Muñoz is the next artist for Tate Modern

Iconic interiors at Gagosian, pucker and slide at Mummery, some great British grub at Holdsworth, painterly lavatory walls at Anthony Reynolds, strange girlish doodles at Cabinet, while Vic Reeves turns artist at Percy Miller

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