Art

Kapoor has tackled this latest show - and any such criticisms of aesthetic flatlining - head-on, including more new work than tried-and-tested old favourites, trying out big ideas fearlessly. He's also ruined the Royal Academy and the mess is...

The creators of the 200 extraordinary works on show in this new art venture are all outsiders; untrained individuals, often socially marginalised and psychologically fragile, whose drive to create powerful, fantastical drawings, paintings,...

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 engaged with mass culture and cultivated and promoted...

Re-opening of Hiorns's Jerwood/Artangel commission to transform a former council flat into a sparkling blue environment of copper sulphate crystals -which has earned him a Turner Prize nomination.

For the past five decades, Ed Ruscha has worked in the space between words and images, exploring how words look and how we 'read' images. Hollywood mythology, The American Dream, religion, the sublime, cerebral sunset stand-offs and cocktail hour...

In pure landscape terms, Turner met his match in Claude Lorrain, whose work apparently reduced the cocky cockney to tears. His soft-focus version of Claude comes off all corny and romantic, while his narratives couldn't compete with Rembrandt's...

'Nothing Matters', Damien Hirst unveils more new paintings, including major triptychs, across both White Cube venues (see also White Cube Hoxton Square in King's Cross to Shoreditch).

Time Out presents the inside track on street art scene and showcases the best of the upcoming talent

This chronological survey highlights Baldessari's influence not only on the general development of conceptual art but also on later generations of artists. It's the work from the '70s and '80s that best demonstrates his investigative games and...

The first of many revelations here is that Spain's two greatest Golden Age painters of black and white, Diego Velázquez and Francisco de Zurburán were both trained in the painting of sculpture, or polychromy. These hand-coloured, life-sized...

Polaroid photographs by artists including Richard Hamilton, Andy Warhol, Rut Blees Luxemburg, Walker Evans and others alongside examples of the medium's use in professions such as medicine, filmmaking and fashion. Coincides with the October 2009...

Twenty-five new paintings by Hirst made between 2006 and 2008, featuring an array of skulls, flowers and butterflies set against dark backgrounds.

The development of British sculpture at the beginning of the twentieth century is charted through the work of Jacob Epstein, Henri Gaudier-Brzeska and Eric Gill; the show includes key works such as Epstein's 'Rock Drill' and Gill's controversial...

Our perception of India's once bejewelled heads of state is largely coloured by the 89 years of British Raj - mainly in hues of emerald green, sapphire blue and ruby red - because of the many maharajas who made lucrative alliances with their...

'Let's go back in time,' suggests Omer Fast lightly in voiceover. In the first segment of his three-part film installation, you have to pay attention to catch the wretched admission, muttered low by a Nigerian asylum-seeker: 'All my thoughts...

Launched in November 2000, when the internet was still in its infancy, Brit photographer Nick Knight's SHOWstudio website seemed a rather odd premise: fashion and art refracted through wobbly technologies. Here the emphasis is on the...

Work by 47 emerging artists, this year selected by Ellen Gallagher, Saskia Olde Wolbers, John Stezaker and Wolfgang Tillmans.

Time Out attempts to make sense of the East End's esoteric art scene

Things are on the verge of falling apart in Eva Rothschild’s show at Modern Art: the way her branching...

Although Roger Hiorns is odds-on favourite to win, the other artists' shows feel more intriguing, their visual concerns extending beyond simply making their pieces look good. Lucy Skaer's intention is to manipulate how we view things; to strip...

'How It Is', the Polish artist invites the public to walk into the darkness of his big black box in the tenth Unilever Series, Turbine Hall installation.

Watch our video round-up from Abstract America Bright young thing from the Lower East Side, Agathe Snow, opens...

Are you resolved to seeing more London art exhibitions in 2009? Time Out road-tests London museum and gallery...

To introduce the Time Out Art section’s new series that champions London’s hidden art gems, we turn the spotlight...

Curated by industrial designer Konstantin Grcic, the Serpentine Gallery's first ever exhibition on contemporary design focuses on mass-produced objects that have a practical use. It includes chairs by Ikea and Jasper Morrison, a Babybjörn baby...

Alastair MacKinven's paintings are the opposite: big, bold canvasses and bright, fizzy colours, and a combination of screen-printing and oil painting that results in dizzying montages of zigzags and cross-hatching, Ben-Day dots and pixelated...

Curated by Polish artist Paulina Olowska, this is a show that plays out what Olowska calls 'perceptual ambiguity', which is to say that while it brings together works around the genre of the 'portrait', it plays fast and loose with it, to the...

'Nothing Matters', Damien Hirst unveils more new paintings, including major triptychs, across both White Cube venues (see also White Cube Mason's Yard in Mayfair to Sloane Square).

Artist Roger Hiorns talks to Time Out about his Jerwood/Artangel commission to transform a former council flat into a...

The attempts by science to determine human identity are the subject of these 'Eight Rooms, Nine Lives'. What makes one person distinct from another, and what influences our sense of who we are is examined through DNA fingerprinting and...

Time Out talks to the dealers and museum directors reshaping the London artworld

Street art by some of London's cutting-edge artists, including D*face, ID and Adam Neate

Time Out visits the Lyndhurst Way art squat to discovers a vibrant, alternative art scene - and some outrageous parties

'MTB [Military Training Base]', installation of designs and ideas for a hypothetical military training base.

Artists Jeremy Deller and Alan Kane curate work from the British Council Collection focusing on work that deals with Britain's twentieth-century industrial and urban history and archaeology. Includes work by LS Lowry, Paul Noble and The Boyle Family.