Evening Standard - Art

John Stezaker's brand of alchemy on display at Whitechapel Gallery

Mon, 31 Jan 2011 11:46:32 GMT

John Stezaker's intervention into the photographs is simple but the effect is mesmerising. As you step into this show, wide eyes stare at you from photographs on the walls

Manga Dreams, Anderson & Low is punk-geisha perfect

Fri, 28 Jan 2011 15:01:05 GMT

Enter Manga-land - somewhere between performance art and street culture, digitised paintings, photographs and manga cartoons

Fresh eyes on the old masters

Thu, 27 Jan 2011 12:08:38 GMT

The director of the National Gallery, Nicholas Penny, has written his own idiosyncratic guide to his favourite works in the collection - and it's a must for any London art-lover

Trained eyes on the Soviet machine

Fri, 21 Jan 2011 14:55:13 GMT

Sue Steward's take on Rodchenko and his Circle: Constructing the Future through Photography

Information overload from Martin Creed

Fri, 21 Jan 2011 14:47:49 GMT

Martin Creed has long made a virtue of indecision. His anxiety at making artistic judgments has led to installations which reflect all the possibilities of a given scenario

Size isn't everything

Thu, 20 Jan 2011 13:55:51 GMT

Today's sculptures have grown to such huge proportions that hardly any of them fit in the Royal Academy's survey. Never mind - there are more enduring pleasures to behold

The man who reinvented the wheels

Thu, 13 Jan 2011 14:15:44 GMT

Tate Moderns first big exhibition of 2011 opens next week and if ever an artist needed an introduction, its the enigmatic Mexican, Gabriel Orozco

Traditional or tragic? Answers on a postcard from Gilbert & George

Wed, 12 Jan 2011 13:11:05 GMT

Their new show is less dramatic, both thematically and visually, than any previous Gilbert & George show art critic Ben Luke has seen

The beauties and the beasts

Thu, 06 Jan 2011 14:12:35 GMT

The major galleries promise the earth in their shows this year but what will they deliver?

Ideas don't crystallise in Raising Dust

Wed, 05 Jan 2011 10:48:55 GMT

Raising Dust takes its title from photographs by Navroze Contractor featuring Jodhpuri people fashioning brooms from grass and leaves and using them to sweep the streets

Chinese mysteries to fire the modern imagination at V&A

Tue, 04 Jan 2011 10:57:59 GMT

Human fallibility, frailty and sentimentality will always pip a surfeit of grandeur. As the new Imperial Chinese Robes show at the V&A shows

First sketch to final study - the best Christmas books for Art lovers

Thu, 23 Dec 2010 09:24:10 GMT

An analysis of drawing, the dark side of Géricault and a monograph on Manet are among our Art books of the year

Lights shining from the dark side with Mona Hatoum

Mon, 20 Dec 2010 11:03:56 GMT

At this time of year, lights generally herald a spirit of goodwill and joy, but in Mona Hatoums installation at the Whitechapel they create an atmosphere of menace

A history of artistic licence in Never The Same River

Fri, 17 Dec 2010 13:23:40 GMT

The latest in Camden Arts Centres artist-curated shows is Never The Same River, the brainchild of 2005 Turner Prize winner Simon Starling

Norman Rockwell's American dram machine

Thu, 16 Dec 2010 14:09:29 GMT

Norman Rockwell diligently churned out magazine covers for half a century, combining meticulous attention to detail with hokey sentimentality

Tom Lubbock has an eye and mind for originality

Thu, 09 Dec 2010 12:33:46 GMT

The only thing to be regretted about the wonderful show Tom Lubbock: Collages from the Independent 1999-2004 is that it did not come sooner

It's time to sacrifice some sacred cows

Thu, 09 Dec 2010 11:54:05 GMT

As Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt calls for more philanthropy to make up for cuts to the arts, our critic has some more radical proposals

Ben Johnson on painting London

Tue, 07 Dec 2010 10:56:13 GMT

At the National Gallery, you can watch Ben Johnson add the last brushstrokes to his view over Trafalgar Square. The project, he tells Ben Luke, is inspired by Canaletto

Confessions of a cannabis eater

Thu, 02 Dec 2010 11:59:30 GMT

The Wellcome Collections investigation into mind-altering drugs inspires in our critic happy memories of hazy days and hash salads

GSK shows what fashion can say about art

Tue, 30 Nov 2010 10:30:42 GMT

The last of the Royal Academys three annual GSK Contemporary exhibitions focuses on the connections between art and fashion

Promise of a new decade from Bloomberg

Fri, 26 Nov 2010 10:57:59 GMT

The New Contemporaries exhibition has a long history at the ICA but has not been held on The Mall for more than 20 years

Philippe Parreno's dreams haunted by elusive visions

Thu, 25 Nov 2010 10:25:09 GMT

Philippe Parreno is difficult to define, so stylistically and materially diverse is his work

Cezanne shows his hand

Thu, 25 Nov 2010 09:34:59 GMT

The father of Cubism comes under close scrutiny in an intriguing study of his Card Players at the Courtauld and its not all flattering

Bridget Riley is learning by looking

Wed, 24 Nov 2010 11:32:45 GMT

I once witnessed Bridget Riley standing transfixed before a Henri Matisse painting amid the hubbub of Tate Moderns blockbuster Matisse/Picasso

A wonderfully bold transformation from Gregory Crewdson

Tue, 23 Nov 2010 11:21:02 GMT

Cinema played a major part in Gregory Crewdson's choreographed scenarios set in suburban American streets