Debt woes and a sprawlingly diverse programme haven’t stopped this year’s Dubai art fair from showing some exhilarating art – just don’t expect any nudity
Much more exciting than the recent completion of the world’s tallest building, the Burj Khalifa (renamed at the last minute as a shout out to Dubai’s …

If only more public artworks could be like The Burghers of Calais, a powerful monument to everyday heroes
It’s great to be able to celebrate a genuinely powerful and moving public sculpture. There have been so many disappointments, and that’s a gentle way to describe the ugly, stupid stuff our cities …

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Now 63, the grande dame of 1970s performance art is spending three months in silent vigil at at New York’s Moma alongside a major new retrospective of her work. James Westcott sits down to see if he can hold her gaze
Last week, the 63-year-old queen …

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 …

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 …

Armory Show-Modern: Quality up on last year
Much of the best work on offer has been teased out of private collections
By Brook S. Mason | From Armory daily edition, 5 Mar 10
Published online 5 Mar 10

Edvard Munch’s Coastline near Aasgaardstrand sold for $6m

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The legacy of modernism is all around us. But to find the true power of modern art, we have to look to the past …
Modern art. I used to know what those words meant. Modern art began with Manet and the discovery of flatness as a value in painting. It …

Goodwin’s quietly powerful portraits of London Underground staff capture the mystery and melancholy of life in the capital
Ordinary faces look back at you from posters at London Underground stations, drawn in intense black lines, almost like forests of wiring. There is a hum of represssed energy, as if you were …

Modern art prints on canvas allow you to use your imagination and create real masterpieces and completely under your control exactly the way you want it. Do you want to know how to achieve this? If you want to succeed, then you will have to follow some simple rules. The …