Art

Critics' choice

The Sacred Made Real: Spanish Painting & Sculpture 1600-1700

Critics' choiceUntil Jan 24 2010, National Gallery

Spanish sculptors trade theatrical realism with their painterly colleagues to stunning effect.

Turner and the Masters

Critics' choiceUntil Jan 31 2010, Tate Britain

This is JMW Turner seen in the company of his masters, as well as with a few friends. You've heard the myth, now meet the man.

John Baldessari

Critics' choiceUntil Jan 10 2010, Tate Modern

A wonderful survey of visual puns, philosphical posers and insatiable experimentation, trawling the mind of an influential teacher.

Maharaja: Splendour of the Royal Courts

Critics' choiceUntil Jan 17 2010, V&A

From their ceremonial jewel-encrusted weapons to custom-built Rolls-Royces, they were power and opulence personified.

The Museum of Everything

FREECritics' choiceLast chanceUntil Wed Dec 23, The Museum of Everything

A stunning array of outsider and naive art in an atmospheric old dairy.

Pop Life: Art in a Material World

Critics' choiceUntil Jan 17 2010, Tate Modern

The legacy of Pop Art since the 1980s explored

Wild Thing

Critics' choiceUntil Jan 24 2010, Royal Academy of Arts

The development of British sculpture at the beginning of the twentieth century is charted through the work of Jacob Epstein, Henri...

Turner Prize 2009

Critics' choiceUntil Jan 3 2010, Tate Britain

A more contemplative quartet make up this year's Turner Prizer shortlist

Interviews

Sophie Calle

The grande dame of French conceptualism talks love, life and spying techniques with Ossian Ward.

Grayson Perry

Grayson Perry potters around his studio and reveals his dressing-up boudoir, before taking Ossian Ward on a night out on the tiles.

Roger Hiorns: interview

Artist Roger Hiorns talks to Helen Sumpter about turning a council flat into a sparkling blue cave of copper sulphate crystals.

Jeff Koons

Ossian Ward talks to the world's most expensive living artist in the summer.

Bob and Roberta Smith

The artist who made way too much work last year exhibits his art mountain at Beaconsfield.

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