Art

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,...

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...

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...

Two-venue show of recent work by the celebrated German artist; see also White Cube Hoxton Square in King's Cross to Shoreditch.

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...

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...

A reappraisal of religious art from the Spanish Golden Age, including paintings by Velázquez and Zurburán and a selection of seventeenth-century polychrome sculptures, most of which have never been shown outside Spain, that are believed to...

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...

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 UK-born, LA-based artist's killer move is showcased in a series of his cracked-in-transit glass cubes placed on the Fed-Ex boxes they travelled in. Effectively collaborations between Beshty, a transcontinental courier and the hand of chance,...

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.

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

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

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

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

Sculpture from Anish Kapoor and a less controversial Turner Prize shortlist than usual - controversy coming instead...

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...

The vein of absurd untruth running throughout this installation - which comprises video, posters, an architectural model and other evidence-like sundries - is clearly rooted in 'real' histories transformed into acerbic and elusive conjecture....

Time Out's guide to the innovative and varied ways to buy art in London

Is the new role at the Serpentine Gallery the latest chapter in his London love affair

London in the swinging sixties through photographic portraits of The Beatles, David Bowie, Marianne Faithfull, The Rolling Stones, Sandie Shaw and others.

Time Out takes you on a tour around the pick of the East End's most exciting galleries

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

The experience of 'How It Is' , Miroslaw Balka's big black box, is of course nothing like as fraught with psychological terror as a one-way ticket to the Holocaust. The artist's constant referencing of this thorny subject is more like a...

Covering the period from the eighteenth century to the end of British rule in 1947, this exhibition looks at the influence of the maharajas and their patronage of the arts through some 250 objects, including thrones, weapons, paintings and jewels.