Jonathan Jones
Art's king of pop reigns on at the Gagosian
Good riddance to Damien Hirst; Larry Gagosian has held on to his real treasure with a typically provocative Koons show opening at the dealer's Manhattan space on 9 May The art dealer Larry Gagosian has recently been shedding famous names, losing Damien
Ashes to ashes: time to lay David Bowie nostalgia to rest
The capital is beset by art exhibitions idolising Ziggy's creator. But when I was recently bereaved I realised that Bowie's songs have nothing universal to say Another week, another David Bowie exhibition. BOWIEVIRUS by photographer David Sims has just
Intimate Pompeii and the private lives of the royals - the week in art
The British Museum's blockbuster Pompeii exhibition and a peek at the Secrets of the Royal Bedchamber at Hampton Court – all in your weekly roundup of events in the art world.
Encountering a human epic at the British Museum
British Museum, London The people of Pompeii cower in agony at the close of this extraordinary exhibition. In one chilling tableau an entire family - husband, wife and two children - lie together in positions of extreme pain and terror. The man and woman
Haroon Mirza's unsettling TV transmission is ahead of its time
The artist's late-night broadcast - in which a woman speaks to viewers in 1987 from 2013 - explores a temporal mystery and may have given some viewers uneasy dreams The future has sent a message. A woman appears on a city street, speaking directly on cam
Barocci's drawings blow me away
I crept into the National Gallery's exhibition Barocci: Brilliance and Grace with a certain anxiety. The title of the exhibition lavishes praise on this 16th-century Italian artist.
Thomas Heatherwick's Olympic Cauldron: it's flaming well not art
The glorious candelabra that opened the 2012 London Games has won the South Bank art award, but leaves this art critic cold Thomas Heatherwick 's Olympic Cauldron has won the South Bank Sky Arts award for the best Britsh work of visual art in 2012. Ye
Yinka Shonibare shoots to thrill
Yorkshire Sculpture Park, normally a haven of tranquillity, has been invaded by armed foxes and headless gunmen. Be mesmerised by the hilarious world of Yinka Shonibare Yorkshire Sculpture Park is famed for its eloquent championing of local heroes Henr
Is ready-made art more powerful than painting?
Artists are picking up their paintbrushes again, leaving the fashion for found objects behind - much to my dismay It's time to say a few words in defence of the ready-made. In 21st-century art, old media are making a comeback. Even Damien Hirst is in hi