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The one unmistakable trend of New York fashion week was, well – brief, says Vanessa Friedman
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Formal splendour, ugly panic
Francis Bacon’s Tate Britain retrospective marks him as one of the most raw, physical and urgently affecting painters of the 20th century, writes Jackie Wullschlager
A face, a shape, some clothes
Richard Avedon, who had changed fashion photography by bringing in movement, revolutionised portraits by always looking for telling gestures, writes Francis Hodgson
Beauty and the beasts
Damien Hirst’s ‘Beautiful Inside My Head Forever’ exhibition features 223 of his latest pieces. Jackie Wullschlager finds his new formaldehyde zoo arresting as it is heart-breaking
Comment: The Midas touch that turns the art world lethally cold
Damien Hirst’s sale next week of 223 new pieces at Sotheby’s marks an insidious change in art’s relationship with money, writes Jackie Wullschlager
Like Breath on Glass / Homer and Sargent
Ariella Budick is thrilled by a new gallery on a slope of the Berkshires that gently manages to harmonise art and nature
Sharjah plays its culture card
The emirate is not the leading economic light of the UAE, but it stands out for its arts and education
Saints, sinners and sincerity
Georges Rouault’s spiritual paintings appear earnest, grotesque and burlesque, but for Jackie Wullschlager they are a wonderful antidote to our slick, unbelieving times
Shanghai surprise
Curators from different regions will choose works from promising unknown artists for a truly international contemporary art fair, writes Susan Moore
From council flat to crystal cave
Richard Cork feels an unsettling sense of strangeness at the latest commission by London’s ever-adventurous Artangel, in which Roger Hiorns has created an alternative world in a London home by completely encrusting its interior in blue copper sulphate
After Nature, New Museum, New York
A panoply of apocalyptic visions that imagines doom is already upon us leaves Ariella Budick depressed for hours
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