Adrian Searle
Despite artworld hype Eddie Peake still has a way to climb
It might have cartoon giraffes and marble staffies, but his show at Southend's Focal Point Gallery is much duller than his experiments with naked five-a-side What is it about Eddie Peake ? Last year I watched a couple of his dance performances - called,
Turner prize 2013 shortlist: Tino Sehgal dances to the fore
The deviser of unsettling public encounters is a world-class artist in a way that the other contenders - Laure Prouvost, David Shrigley and Lynette Yiadom-Boakye - are not The 2013 Turner prize shortlist is strangely unbalanced, but it also makes sense i
John Riddy's photographs of Palermo
Riddy's work is nuanced and enigmatic: his images of underpopulated Sicily are magical, wretched and unforgettable John Riddy opens up the world and he hems you in. His black and white photographs of Palermo in Sicily, now at London's Frith Street Gal
Deutsche Börse Photography prize show: mashups and moon walkers
Google Street View has recorded the world. The camera-toting vans have seen astonishing things, from mountain lions patrolling parking lots to armed holdups, elks running down the highway, accidents and murders.
Saloua Raouda Choucair at Tate
In 1921, Fernand Léger painted Le Grand Déjeuner, in which three moon-faced naked women with tubular bodies, globular breasts and matching hairdos lounge about drinking tea in an opulent modern salon. Patterns play all around them; they look out at us b
Rachel Whiteread still casts a spell
Three concrete sheds stand on a concrete floor. I look down, to check I haven't turned into a concrete garden gnome. There are few signs of life. No birdsong. No tinny football commentary or muffled sounds of sawing and cursing. No reek of homebrew or fugFabrice Hyber: but is it fruit?
A big, inflatable cloud hangs overhead, and a slanting rain falls inside the Baltic in Gateshead. It's only cartoon rain, made from yards and yards of fishing line, which tether the cloud to the gallery floor. Where would artists be without nylon monofil?
Steve McQueen makes voyeurs of us all
Whether he's wrestling another man naked or prodding at Charlotte Rampling's eyes, McQueen's art - on show in Switzerland in his biggest ever show - is always in your face The rooms are full of people, on-screen and off, behind the camera and in front of
Laure Prouvost seduces Whitechapel
The artist talks to Adrian Searle about winning the Max Mara art prize for women - and how to taste sunshine Adrian Searle Cameron Robertson