Art

Anish Kapoor

Critics' Choice

Until Fri Dec 11, Royal Academy of Arts

Retrospective of the British sculptor from his early pigment pieces to the recent ‘Shooting into the Corner’, a cannon which fires projectiles of red wax at regular intervals, creating new forms over the course of the exhibition. Read more

Sophie Calle

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Critics' Choice

Until Jan 3 2010, Whitechapel Gallery

This first retrospective of French conceptualist Calle's work in the UK. Read more

Pop Life: Art in a Material World

Critics' Choice

Until Jan 17 2010, Tate Modern

The legacy of pop art is explored in this exhibition, which takes Andy Warhol’s pronouncement that ‘good business is the best art’ to look at the ways that artists since the 1980s have promoted personas and signature brands. Read more

Turner Prize 2009

Critics' Choice

Until Jan 3 2010, Tate Britain

A quieter Turner Prize shortlist than we’re used to, with work that tends towards the ruminative and obscure. Read more

Ed Ruscha

Critics' Choice

Until Jan 10 2010, The Hayward

Survey dedicated to influential LA-based artist Ed Ruscha. Defying easy categorisation Ruscha has been associated with pop, conceptualism, realism and even surrealism through works which have explored American culture and landscape. Read more

Damien Hirst: No Love Lost

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Critics' Choice

Until Jan 24 2010, Wallace Collection

Skulls, butterflies and the presence of Francis Bacon still feature large in Damien Hirst’s new exhibition of 25 works, which are displayed among the paintings, furniture and decorative objects in the Wallace Collection. Read more

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

Critics' Choice

Until Jan 24 2010, National Gallery

A reappraisal of religious art from the Spanish Golden Age, plus a selection of seventeenth-century, realistically painted sculptures that are believed to have inspired them. Read more

John Baldessari

Critics' Choice

Until Jan 10 2010, Tate Modern

This chronological survey highlights Baldessari's influence not only on the general development of conceptual art but also on later generations of artists. Read more