The American artist on her “odd and lonely” childhood, other people’s texts and why she’s returned to painting

The Belgian artist talked to us about the messages art can convey on the eve of exhibitions in Europe, Russia and the United States

Perry is about to show his most ambitious work, a huge tapestry depicting images of consumer excess and retribution

A British conceptual artist, an Iraqi artist, and a US soldier who served in Iraq travelled from New York to Los Angeles with the remains of a car destroyed in a Baghdad bomb attack in tow

Turner prize-winner to take the controversial show on a three-week tour of the US in late March

Themed events at the fair include, “Armed and Dangerous” and “The Wartime Ball”, taking place this weekend

President Musharraf has encouraged artists to promote a “peaceful and tolerant” image of their country through their work

Still angry in her 80s

Meanwhile, doctors form an art club and Mimran takes on Type A

The artists have installed a concrete-grey fortification inside the gallery as an anti-war statement

But California Attorney General defends freedom of speech

The Bush administration and its supporters now have their guns trained on social policy

The artistic equivalent of standing in front of a tank

Brutality and the bad, bad taste of evil

Polls show the public could not care less what the art world thinks

An act of censorship or tact?

Charles Saatchi and Eli Broad both collect him, but only 13 US museums have examples of this artistic rebel’s work

Three books show that the depiction of war in art is as various as other human responses to the phenomenon

The progress of Modernism in the Communist States and the response of the French Avant-garde to World War I are examined in these two books

Major show of political art dominates at John Weber Gallery, and there is also a new group of Rauschenberg’s (this year’s flavour) and Beckmann, Barlach, Lehmbruck and Constable on offer