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Dig it: a drawing by Konstantin Grcic from the Design Real exhibition

Design Real, Serpentine Gallery, London (Rated 4/ 5 )

Is this a chair I see before me?

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Vitality: 'The Gnat and the Lion'

Edward Bawden, Bedford Gallery, Bedford (Rated 4/ 5 )

Monday, 30 November 2009

Like Dufy, Edward Bawden looks easy to imitate, until you try. Unlike the ebullient French painter of pleasure, however, Bawden could not have been more English – in the manner of his time.

Nothing Matters, White Cube, London

Sunday, 29 November 2009

Britart's bad boy gets his paints out again, but the results are not exactly Bacon ... more like a dog's breakfast

Love for sale: Ed and Nancy Kienholz's installation reminds us that the Dutch are a mercantile people

The Hoerengracht, National Gallery, London

Sunday, 22 November 2009

The National Gallery is the unlikely setting for an artistic re-creation of Amsterdam's red-light district

Two-tone: Hockney's 'The First Marriage (A Marriage of Styles I)' (1962)

David Hockney: 1960–1968: A Marriage of Styles, Contemporary, Nottingham (Rated 3/ 5 )

Thursday, 19 November 2009

When Hockney first made a splash

Portrait of the artist: David Paul Gleeson's agitated, unresolved 'Self'

Lynn Painter-Stainers Prize Exhibition, Painters' Hall, London (Rated 3/ 5 )

Tuesday, 17 November 2009

Subtle departures from real life

Frank Auerbach is the gold standard of artistic seriousness. (Anselm Kiefer? Don't make me laugh.)

Frank Auerbach: London Building Sites 1952-62, Courtauld Gallery, London

Sunday, 15 November 2009

What a mess! But that's how it should be

Van Gogh's Letters: The Artist Speaks, Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam
The Arts of Islam, Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris

Sunday, 8 November 2009

Van Gogh was a prolific letter writer who illustrated his correspondence with sketches for fully-fledged pictures still to come

European Fields: Hans van der Meer, Host Gallery, London

Sunday, 8 November 2009

Rooney who? This is European football's grass roots exposed

Stitched up: Jann Haworth's 'Linder Doll' (1964)

Jann Haworth, Art Gallery, Wolverhampton (Rated 3/ 5 )

Tuesday, 3 November 2009

Pop Art given a good stuffing

We look, and mourn: Henri Gaudier-Brzeska's 'Red Stone Dancer' (1913), sculpted two years before the artist's death at the age of only 23

Wild Thing: Epstein, Gaudier-Brzeska, Gill Royal Academy, London

Sunday, 1 November 2009

Of three pioneering sculptors celebrated in a stirring show, it is the one who died young who is the star

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Bridget Riley (Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool)
A brief survey of the work of this abstract magician, from the early black-and white optical cabaret to the later flickering dance in colour. (0151-478 4199) to 13 Dec

David Hockney (Nottingham Contemporary)
The gallery launches with a show of 60 works by Hockney from 1960-1968, a period of stylistic ferment, culminating in A Bigger Splash. (0115-924 2421) to 24 Jan

A Model of Order (Dean Gallery, Edinburgh)
A survey of the early 1960s international Concrete Poetry movement, where typography was a visual force: with Eugen Gomringer and Ian Hamilton Finlay. (0131-624 6200) to 3 Jan

Sophie Calle (Whitechapel Gallery, London)
The French artist constructs obsessive stories involving herself and strangers that explore issues of control and risk. (020-7522 7888) to 3 Jan

Ed Ruscha (Hayward Gallery, London)
He paints the out-of reach: distances, invisibilities, words against clouds and mountains, maps stretching away, silhouettes, blurs... (0871 663 2500) to 10 Jan

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