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Blueclad participants wind their way through Moorgate to the Thames

Art that goes with the flow

Take 50 volunteers, some blue ribbon and the course of a dried-up river and what have you got? The latest artwork from Amy Sharrocks

Inside Features

The Diary: LSE's arts lecture; Yann Martel; Ekow Eshun; Magne Furuholmen; Paul Schrader

Friday, 10 July 2009

Suits you, sir: the solicitous George Passmore and Gilbert Proesch in front of their huge new collection of 153 images, Jack Freak

Gilbert & George: 'There's nothing wrong with patriotism'

Friday, 10 July 2009

Their new show might be a celebration of Britishness. But then again it might not. John Walsh enters the endlessly contradictory world of Gilbert and George

A view of the new pavillion at the Serpentine Gallery, the ninth to be installed at the venue

A breath of fresh air: The new Serpentine pavilion

Thursday, 9 July 2009

Is it a silver cloud or a floating pool? Whatever it is, SANAA's new Serpentine pavilion will rocket them into the architectural big league, says Jay Merrick

Tim Morgan: 'Polly Morgan's work seems very familiar but you realise that it is highly original. She is looking to explore that period between something dying and something decaying.'

Plenty of smashing new talent in store

Monday, 6 July 2009

Some of the art world's biggest names have nominated their favourite rising stars for an exhibition at Selfridges. They tell Charlotte Cripps why they chose them

Anti-smoking protestor Stuart Holmes stands on the fourth plinth in Trafalgar Square

Tom Lubbock: Gormley’s One and Other will turn out to be many things

Monday, 6 July 2009

The logo for the project suggests something stark and minimal. In silhouette you see the concept in all its purity. It shows the empty plinth and somebody standing on it - youngish, male-ish, but nobody in particular. Here’s an average, anonymous human, set on a pedestal. In other words, it looks like art. It presents a juxtaposition of low and high, the ordinary made extraordinary, the transfiguration of the commonplace.

Gerard's attempts from his TV screen

The sketch show: Can television teach you to draw like an expert?

Monday, 6 July 2009

As a week of life drawing classes begin today on Channel 4, one-time art student Gerard Gilbert picks up a pencil to see if television can really teach him to draw like an expert

Grayson Perry arrived as his alter ego Claire

Parties: Grayson Perry zigs and Bill Nighy zags at Tate Britain's summer party

Sunday, 5 July 2009

Guests ummed and ahhed as they wound themselves around Eva Rothschild's giant, room-encompassing zig-zag of a sculpture that was the centrepiece for Tate Britain's summer party on Monday.

The mechanical lion which will prowl again at the Château du Clos Lucé this summer

Pride of Da Vinci's genius walks again after 500 years

Saturday, 4 July 2009

This king of the jungle was created to flatter a king of France. Now Leonardo's amazing feat of engineering has been given new life by an Italian designer, to roars of approval. John Lichfield reports

Charles Saatchi's new book will reveal the secrets of his enormous art collection

The Diary: Saatchi's 'tell all' book; tweets from Tehran; Smockshop at Sprüth Magers Gallery; Indy man on Trafalgar Square's fourth plinth; Hoare short-changed over prize money

Friday, 3 July 2009

Arty party: Nicholas Serota, Richard Long and Alan Yentob on the Tate Britain front lawn

Party Of The Week: Cool Pimm's, Cold Corners at the Tate

Friday, 3 July 2009

The Tate Britain Summer Party on Monday night was crammed with artists. Grayson Perry wore a typically gaudy multicoloured summer dress and was joined by Sirs Peter Blake and Howard Hodgkin, and Richard Long. They wandered among the aluminium beams of Eva Rothschild's new Duveens Commission Cold Corners – a huge, angular structure that stretches the full length of the gallery and which is fondly referred to as the "scribble in space".

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FIVE BEST EXHIBITIONS

Eva Rothschild (Tate Britain, London)
Geometry and chaos: the dynamic sculptor fills almost the whole length of the central Duveen galleries with ‘Cold Corners’, a single work 70-metres long. (020-7887 8888) to 29 Nov

Jeremy Moon (Rocket Gallery, London)
A bulletin of “late” work from the early 1970s by the delightful but short-lived abstract painter. (020-7729 7594) to 25 Jul

Garden & Cosmos (British Museum, London)
Hedonism and metaphysics: discover the Royal Paintings of Jodhpur, from tingling nature to the great void at the start of the universe. (020-7323 8299) to 23 Aug

Beuys Is Here (De la Warr Pavilion, Bexhill-on-Sea)
The German artist who wanted art to change the world, and left a legacy of heavy beauty. (01424 229111) 4 Jul to 27 Sept

Thomas Bewick Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle
Whole microscopic worlds, crammed with trees, animals, birds, people and weather: the vignettes of the 18th-century wood-engraver and naturalist. (0191-232 6789) to 18 Oct