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Cliff hanger: Paul Nash's Event on the Downs is 'a symphony - a coming together of disparate tunes and sounds'

Paul Nash: The Elements, Dulwich Picture Gallery, London

Paul Nash, the celebrated war artist, could see conflict in everyday objects, even on the Sussex Downs

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Unpredictable: William Tillyer's 'Living by the Esk - De Stijl' from 1983

William Tillyer Season: Part One -The Prints, Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London (Rated 3/ 5 )

Thursday, 11 February 2010

Does the print-maker who gropes around down in the basement deserve to be the poor, neglected cousin of that esteemed society painter up in the light-filled, ground-floor studio space? In short, are prints always journeys on the road to somewhere more important? Not at all. Think of the great prints made by Goya and Rembrandt, for example. The best of these were in no way inferior to their paintings.

Exuberant: 'Glimmer', one of Gillian Ayres' new works

Gillian Ayres' sensational second flowering (Rated 4/ 5 )

Tuesday, 9 February 2010

New Paintings and Works on Paper, Alan Cristea Gallery, London

Thep van Doesburg's Simultaneous Counter-Composition

Van Doesburg & the International Avant-Garde, Tate Modern, London

Sunday, 7 February 2010

Well-chosen works show how De Stijl – 'The Style' – movement led to a revolution in European art that still resonates today

Shaped By War: Photographs by Don McCullin, Imperial War Museum North, Manchester

Sunday, 7 February 2010

A major retrospective of photographer Don McCullin records a career that was carved out of strife

Not a stitch: nude machinist by Madame Yevonde

Thresholds: works from the British Council collection chosen by Paula Rego, Whitechapel Gallery, London (Rated 3/ 5 )

Thursday, 4 February 2010

Many curators and museum makers have tried to make sense of the art of the 20th century, chopping it up into convenient units, herding artists who barely knew each other into groups, telling us that this belongs to that, spinning interminable yarns about this -ism and that -ism. Most of it is journalism.

Back in the USA: 'Untitled (Lamplighter Kitchen, Memphis)' from 2000

William Eggleston 21st Century, Victoria Miro Gallery, London (Rated 4/ 5 )

Monday, 1 February 2010

Another kind of American beauty

Chris Ofili's 'Iscariot Blues', from 2006, is a departure from his earlier works painted mainly in earth tones

Chris Ofili, Tate Britain, London
Afro Modern: Journeys Through the Black Atlantic, Tate Liverpool, Liverpool

Sunday, 31 January 2010

A Chris Ofili retrospective traces the artist’s journey from anger to serenity

Chris Ofili, Tate Britain, London (Rated 4/ 5 )

Wednesday, 27 January 2010

Dazzled by an intense beauty

Dream machines: Buses in Trichur, in the southern Indian state of Kerala, 1985

Where Three Dreams Cross, Whitechapel Gallery, London

Sunday, 24 January 2010

A century and half of photographs from the subcontinent wrong-foots Kipling and the post-colonial blow-hards

On song: Ryan Mosley's 'Southern Banjo' (oil on canvas, 2009)

Ryan Mosley, Alison Jacques Gallery, London (Rated 3/ 5 )

Thursday, 21 January 2010

Two years ago, this newspaper talent-spotted a young painter. Ryan Mosley, who is from Chesterfield, that small market town with a crooked spire at its heart, had recently graduated from the Royal College of Art. Now he is enjoying his first solo show at a major West End gallery. What's the fuss all about?

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FIVE BEST EXHIBITIONS

Paul Nash (Dulwich Picture Gallery, London)
Pastoral, mystical, surreal, proto-hippy, he had the rarest imagination among British Modernists. The hills are alive, and the rocks are too. (020 8693 5254) to 9 May

The Real Van Gogh: the Artist and His Letters (Royal Academy, London)
Marking the new edition of the painter’s letters, this show that puts almost as much emphasis on Van Gogh’s writing as on his art. (020 7300 8000) to 18 Apr

Inscription: Drawing, Making, Thinking (Jerwood Space, London)
David Connearn, Philip Eglin and Charlotte Hodes demonstrate the possibilities of drawing. (020 7654 0171) to 21 Feb

Dexter Dalwood (Tate St Ives)
With freewheeling cartoon styles and plastic colour, this British painter reconstructs history. (01736 796226) to 3 May

Objects of Contemplation (Henry Moore Institute, Leeds)
Small, fascinating show of Chinese “scholar’s rocks”: found stones in exquisitely carved bases. (0113 246 7467) to 7 Mar

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