ReviewRenaissance
#Menudetoo: naked bodies in the Renaissance explored at the Royal Academy of Arts and in three new publications
Examining the many meanings—and inanities—ascribed to the unclothed human body in Western art
NewsBooks
Make it look like me: the Pygmalion complex across the ages
On the myriad meanings of Medieval speaking sculpture, artists’ models, mannequins and royalty in wax
ArchiveBooks
Books: Art not made by artists and trends in art production
When artists subcontract technicians to make the works they design, who’s the artist?
ArchiveOpinion
James Hall argues in defence of iconoclastic art
A response to critic Andrew Graham-Dixon’s opinions on the power of images as expounded in his current BBC tv series
ArchiveCensorship
As the catalogue comes to Britain, James Hall slates “The Play of the Unmentionable”, the anti-censorship installation created by Joseph Kosuth at the Brooklyn Museum
Kosuth "keeps the ball rolling while not rocking the boat”
ArchiveLisson Gallery
Interview with Nicholas Logsdail: Lisson's founder in both expansive and expansionist mood
Contemporary art dealer affirms his confidence in the artists he works with by doubling the gallery space at the Lisson
ArchiveTony Cragg
Perfunctory eulogising: Tony Cragg
A book on the artist, who shows at the Lisson until 3 August
ArchiveNicholas Serota
Nick Serota on his second Tate rehang and his vision for what will be “one of the great museums of late twentieth-century art”
Defending his acquisitions and looking to the future, Serita talks on exhibitions and an international outlook
ArchiveRauschenberg Overseas Culture Interchange
The Rauschenberg Overseas Culture Interchange ends its six year world tour at the National Gallery, Washington
“One-to-one contact through art contains potent peaceful powers”, says artist