The 10 best things to do this week: Kraftwerk and The Ferryman
Ralf Hütter’s electronic titans bring their spectacular 3D show to the UK, while Paddy Considine stars in an IRA-themed thriller directed by Sam MendesA Museum of Modern NatureHowever inorganic our...
View ArticlePortraying a Nation: Germany 1919-1933 review – art at its most deliberately...
Tate LiverpoolThought Liza Minnelli in Cabaret was the peak of Weimar decadence? Think again. A pungent new exhibition reveals a world of chaos, corsets and bloodstained crosses that the Nazis were...
View ArticlePortraying a Nation: Germany 1919-33 review – August Sander and Otto Dix,...
Tate LiverpoolSander sees the humanity in everyone, Dix nothing but horror, in this superb show exploring Germany between the warsA shifty industrialist sits behind a shining phone in Weimar Cologne....
View ArticleMaria Balshaw, the first woman at the top of the Tate: 'We need to speak to...
The terror attacks, Grenfell Tower, the election: the Tate’s new boss has not had a quiet easing-in period. But she’s determined to make the galleries central to these tumultuous timesMaria Balshaw,...
View ArticleWhale brains, flying robots and a new selfie queen – the week in art
The Natural History Museum journeys to the bottom of the sea, Caravaggio dazzles in Edinburgh and Cindy Sherman reveals a selfie-filled Instagram account – all in your weekly dispatchWhales: Beneath...
View ArticleGermany 1919-1933 and Whales: this week’s best UK exhibitions
Dix and Sander offer a look at Germany on the eve of Hitler’s rise to power, while the Natural History Museum profiles the extraordinary giants of our oceansThe Natural History Museum wants to prove...
View ArticleDalí, Duchamp, Basquiat and beards: the best art of autumn 2017
Modigliani seduces, the Turner hits Hull, Rebecca Warren shakes up St Ives – and Gilbert and George have a close shave with facial hair• Autumn arts preview 2017: Stage | Music | Film | TVThe subway...
View ArticleRussia's graphic revolution, a new Louvre and Van Gogh's insect invasion –...
John Piper captures 1940s Britain on land and sea, Egyptian surrealists hit Merseyside and the Russian revolution delivers a lesson in graphics – all in your weekly dispatchJohn PiperThis romantic...
View ArticleJohn Piper review – One of Britain's greatest artists? Pull the other one!
Tate LiverpoolFrom his flaccid, semi-modernist daubs to his visions of Olde England, John Piper was about as refreshing as a cup of weak tea. But the war, and its bombed-out buildings, did give him his...
View ArticleJohn Piper; Surrealism in Egypt: Art et Liberté 1938-48 – review
Tate LiverpoolJohn Piper’s gift for making England glow in the dark is lost in a chaotic show. For sheer strangeness, try the Egyptian surrealists next doorA John Piper story – quite possibly the only...
View ArticleOn my radar: Alexei Sayle’s cultural highlights
The writer, actor and comedian on the joys of cheap restaurants, Otto Dix and that single seat under the stairs on London busesBorn in Anfield, Liverpool, Alexei Sayle studied art before training to be...
View ArticleDrag acts and drunken sailors – Mary Reid Kelley and Patrick Kelley: We Are...
Tate LiverpoolIn their bizarre black-and-white films, the Americans confront war and death – with a boisterous, cartoonish take on Das BootThe films of American artists Mary Reid Kelley and Patrick...
View ArticleDas Boot in drag, gherkin legislation and Mr Scream at the Met – the week in art
Photographer Olivia Locher explores US pickle laws, two deranged film-makers hijack the great submarine epic and New York covers its ears as Munch hits town – all in your weekly dispatchRose...
View ArticleWas there more to Egyptian surrealism than suggestive mosques and rotten meat?
The Tate wants to wrestle surrealism away from the clutches of the west. But this show’s dream visions and bodily contortions can’t change the fact that everyone cringed before the might of Paris The...
View ArticleJonathan Jones's top 10 art exhibitions of 2017
The inventor of modern art caps an amazing year of drawings by old masters, vast 20th-century retrospectives and the return of the YBAsMore best culture of 2017Cézanne did not so much innovate as dig,...
View ArticleFT editor appointed new chair of Tate galleries
Critics say appointment of Lionel Barber to prestigious arts role is potential conflict of interestThe Tate has appointed Lionel Barber, the editor of the Financial Times, as its new chairman, one of...
View ArticleKen's Show review – sublime choices from a non-expert put the pros to shame
Tate Liverpool Ken Simons has been hanging artworks in the gallery for 30 years. The decision to let him select his favourites from the vaults has resulted in an inspiring, unfashionable and richly...
View ArticleTate galleries staff pull off Inside Job to showcase their own artwork
The exhibition at the Tate Modern’s Blavatnik Building will showcase work made by, among others, curators, guards and gallery assistantsIt could be called a celebration of the Tate’s unsung heroes and...
View ArticleJames Wishart obituary
My friend James Wishart, who has died aged 61 from the effects of a stroke, was a composer and teacher. He taught composition at the University of Liverpool and gave concerts as a pianist, while as a...
View ArticleTate launches £5 art exhibition tickets for young people
Tate Collective aims to make big-name shows more accessible for 16-25-year-olds A £5 ticket scheme has been launched by Tate to increase the number of young people going to ticketed exhibitions.It can...
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