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Whaam! Roy Lichtenstein flies into Tate Modern - in pictures

An explosive retrospective of American pop artist Roy Lichtenstein opens at Tate Modern in London this week, with famous works such as Whaam! and Oh, Jeff...I Love You, Too...But... - plus his lesser known sculptures

Roy Lichtenstein: too cool for school?

Roy Lichtenstein deflated the macho mystique of American art and produced some of the most recognisable work on the planet. But does he go any deeper than surface gloss? Adrian Searle joins the dots at a new Tate Modern retrospective Whaam! goes the pain

Whaam! artist Roy Lichtenstein was 'not a fan of comics and cartoons'

The Tate is to show another side of Roy Lichtenstein, one of the central figures in American pop art, whose comic strip paintings are among the most iconic pieces of 20th century art. But his widow also revealed that he was “not a fan of comics and cart

'My husband wore his fame lightly': Roy Lichtenstein's widow on the artist

As Tate Modern's blockbuster Roy Lichtenstein exhibition opens, Alice Vincent talks to the artist's widow.

Review: Lichtenstein: A Retrospective, Tate Modern, London

With an artist quite so well known as Roy Lichtenstein (can anyone not be aware of his imagery?), it is always tempting for a gallery to try and freshen him up with a novel interpretation. Mercifully Tate Modern, which has been particularly guilty in the

The Bride and the Bachelors: delighting in Duchamp

The Barbican hosts a miraculous show examining the fruitful relationships between Cage, Johns, Rauschenberg, Cunningham and the French master Reading this on mobile? Click here to view video The word "NO" dangles on a wire tacked to the front of a bea

The ice-age flute that can play The Star-Spangled Banner

The vulture-bone flute in the British Museum's Ice Age Art show proves that - even 40,000 years ago - music got the party started Reading this on mobile? Click here to watch Wulf Hein play the ice age flute With its jaw-dropping sculptures and carving

Halley VI research station, Antarctica - review

The British Antarctic Survey's new research station at Halley Bay is a portable pod structure that uses scent, colour and curves to take the edge off the world's longest winter " How's the weather? " I ask Pat Power, base commander of the Halley VI res

The Strand: Peter Zumthor

Celebrated Swiss architect Peter Zumthor talks about designing buildings with integrity

Schwitters in Britain, at Tate Britain, review

This tragicomic exhibition remembers the final years and works of Kurt Schwitters, the German modernist exiled by the Nazis