Louisa Buck

Louisa Buck is the contemporary art correspondent at The Art Newspaper

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What's on: Salomòn Huerta

His first solo show at Gagosian

Interview with Sam Taylor-Wood on glamour, drama, and trauma

The artist reflects on the combination of autobiographical content and common experience in her work

Andrea Zittel: Home, sweet unit

“Design issues seem more relevant to me than most that come up in the art world,” the artist says

Luc Tymans: on pigeon power

Belgium's representative at this year's Venice Biennale explains why pigeons are not symbols of peace, how he depicts violence without actually showing it and why he returned to painting

Szeemann's moving Venice Biennale: Video work dominates 49th edition

Our overview also reveals the highs and lows of this year's biennale, which draws heavily on Scandinavian artists and pays tribute to grand masters Serra, Beuys, Twombly and Richter

Interview with Gilbert & George on originality and art: “Artists are very limited”

The duo dislike art that only the art world can understand and explain their campaign to be different

London galleries: Gilbert & George get horny in White Cube debut

Painting pushed into new places at Victoria Miro and The Approach and seismic shifts at asprey jacques as the Chapmans explore their feminine side at Modern Art

Booksarchive

Books: Absence in art and the absent Kapoor artwork in analyses of nothing

The evergreen aesthetic attraction of nothingness is explored and Anish Kapoor’s book replaces a vanished work

Londonarchive

What's on in London: Tracey Emin builds a helter-skelter

Unsettling excesses at Stephen Friedman and various ponderings on places and no-places at Milch, Corvi Mora, Timothy Taylor and Emily Tsingou

Interview with artist Richard Wilson: The topsy-turvy tendency

These works of art take a global perspective and are literally geologically based

What's on in London: Painterly hyperbole at D’Offay and canine grandeur at Salmon

Epic list-making at Gagosian and a sombre investigation of society at the Lisson

Interview with Mat Collishaw: Nappy change for art

Disillusioned and sick of heavy-handed art that tries to shock, the artist has now turned to kitsch and sentimental themes

Interview with Julian Opie: Creating logo people

The relationship between the generic and the individual is at the heart of Opie’s digitally produced work

Art fairsarchive

London's Art 2001 fair report: Just getting better and better

Increased attendance, sales, and quality marks a good year for the fair

Artists of the world united

Cities provide the context for many of the 20th century’s most important innovations, but are also environments in which literature, music, art and thought merge, split or collide with one another. Tate Modern’s first major exhibition since opening ambitiously comprises nine sections, 13 curators and 1,500 works spread over two floors. The display combines the scale and global scope of an international biennial with the historical perspective of art’s most varied century

Interview with Karen Kilimnik on her open-ended eclecticism

Appropriation, whimsy, balletomania, and anglophilia all go into Kilimnik’s installations

Interview with Marc Quinn on moving away from his body

The artist talks about truncation in art and life as his show opens at White Cube2

What's on in London: Miro on Demand

Dresdeners at White Cube2, Anselm Kiefer at D’Offay

London News: A revolutionary row at Saatchi as changes come to the Turbine Hall, Whitechapel and Wapping

Whitechapel curator goes .com, more power into art and Juan Muñoz is the next artist for Tate Modern

London contemporary galleries: Painting, painting everywhere

Iconic interiors at Gagosian, pucker and slide at Mummery, some great British grub at Holdsworth, painterly lavatory walls at Anthony Reynolds, strange girlish doodles at Cabinet, while Vic Reeves turns artist at Percy Miller

Tate indulges sticky fingers and sabotage: works by Smith and Harwood

Tate Modern continues to dominate the London scene, but gets spread around in more ways than it bargained for

What's on in London: Fischl’s phases at Gagosian, suburban subversion at Anthony Wilkinson, and dysfunctional families at Gimpel Fils

Meanwhile there is clutter in the Cabinet, recent Kossoffs at Annely Juda, and randomised exactitude at Corvi-Mora