Fifty “women to watch” have been selected for the Cultural Leadership Programme by a panel of judges including choreographer Wayne McGregor, broadcaster Jenni Murray and playwright Kwame Kwei-Armah. Good to see such superb names as Kate McGrath, director of theatre producers Fuel, and Emma Stenning, executive director of the Bristol …

Jenny Holzer’s bold new show draws on US military memos and torture techniques. Adrian Searle is left feeling paranoid
A river of words runs across the floor. “I swim in her,” say the 10 lanes of yellow text, streaming through the semi-dark. “I sing her a song about us.” How lyrical, …

A new exhibition celebrates the work of Ronald Searle as he turns 90. Steve Bell on what makes him Britain’s greatest living cartoonist
When I first wrote to Ronald Searle with the idea of an exhibition focusing on his reportage work, he was polite but sceptical, pointing out the difficulty of …

Eight artists shortlisted for UK’s richest visual arts prize
The work of eight artists competing for the UK’s richest visual arts prize went on display in Wales today ‑ and none could be accused of triviality.
There was no sight of a light being turned off and on at the preview opening …

If the party is to reconnect with its soul, it needs to revive the passion for culture that seems to have ended with Michael Foot
Michael Foot was a name I knew long before I was old enough to vote Labour. My dad’s fading paperback copy of the first volume of …

Jane Bown, Tom Hunter and Daniel Lynch will be among the celebrated photographers auctioning their works in London tonight in aid of the 2009 South Pacific disaster

What are artists and art-lovers talking about? Here are the latest twitter art related tweets from March 9th, 2010

@4PointsChicago: Get out of the rain! The Museum of Contemporary Art is #FreeTuesday! http://bit.ly/bdbjDQ – 09 Mar 10 22:51

@OneArtWorld: Sotheby's contemporary art auction in New York today. Results are in. …

Welcome to Week in Review, our Sunday round-up of the last 7 days of activity here at Contemporary Art Daily.
This week’s featured exhibitions:
Bernd and Hilla Becher at Konrad Fischer
Oscar Tuazon at Kunsthalle Bern
Ann Veronica Janssens at Alfonso Artiaco
Thomas Eggerer at Daniel Buchholz
Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster at Dia at the Hispanic Society
Tony Just …

Artist profile: street art. From the slums of Kenya to the Paris banlieues, the guerilla photographer JR aims to put a human face to the most impoverished areas of the world. Just don’t ask him who he is
The Parisian photographer JR is a man routinely touted as the hippest street …

Photographer who specialises in large-scale nude installations is asking for 1,000 volunteers to reinvigorate the spirit of LS Lowry. Cloth caps not needed
Just a week after coaxing 5,200 Australians to pose naked on the steps of Sydney Opera House, photographer Spencer Tunick has announced he will tackle an altogether chillier …