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
Magic and mystery are the main concerns of Abigail Lane in her new solo show
"Magic is one of my ongoing interests"
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
Changing it up in London's art scene from Millbank to Leytonstone
Georgina Starr moves galleries and Magnani goes east
Interview with Angela de la Cruz on the physicality of her paintings: “I like sex a lot”
How her paintings have the limitations of bodies
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
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
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
News from London: Michael Craig-Martin quits Waddington’s, and Douglas Gordon and Mat Collishaw leave the Lisson
In the meantime, ignore false reports of a Britart movie
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
News from London: Whitechapel gallery celebrates its centenary with a new director while Michael Landy has a breakdown in Marble Arch
Meanwhile, Tracey Emin pushes up the bids in Islington, and there are rumblings at the Royal Academy
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
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
What's on in London: Rodney Graham combines history and rock’n’roll at the Lisson
Louisa Buck’s choice of London contemporary galleries
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