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      Our critic surveys a year where hope and joy animated exhibitions but the culture wars continued their creep

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      The museum’s expansive exhibition attempts to weave a thread from the ancient to the contemporary

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      An exhibition at the V&A proves that men have long clutched a ‘burse’

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      The installation by Darren Waterston is, like the original, an ‘overbearing exercise in decadence’

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      V&A to stage biggest UK exhibition on Iranian art

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      A V&A show offers a taste of new ways to make, consume and dispose of what we eat

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      Frida Kahlo: jewellery that paints a picture of an icon

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      The German artist unveils his latest series, a collabor­ation of sorts with the 19th-century photographer Linnaeus Tripe

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      The reworked space intriguingly embraces the camera as object, as well as images themselves

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      London Open: a snapshot of the artistic zeitgeist

      The latest edition of Whitechapel Art Gallery’s triennial show packs a real political punch

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