The Museum of Modern Art’s show of the Alice in Wonderland film-maker’s art overflows with his distinctive creations, but the organisers have wasted an opportunity to take him out of his rabbit hole
Gallery: Tim Burton at Moma
“That’s the big deer from Edward Scissorhands,” a woman in the sculpture garden of …

Kenneth Anger’s crazy, gorgeous, disturbing films almost landed him in jail. The avant-garde pioneer talks Simon Hattenstone through all his demons
The gallery is so tiny I think I’ve walked into somebody’s front room. A 10-minute film plays on a loop. Weirded-out rock stars who look like Mick Jagger, or …

He was the anarchist of 1980s design, but the technical wizardry in his current London show feels over-polished and out of touch
Unless you die young, it’s difficult to be a hero for ever. Heroes are commercialised. They succumb to what Norman Mailer called “exhaustion of the will”. Or they simply …

Antony Gormley is breaking into America with a debut showing of public art in Manhattan

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, …

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 …

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