Exhibitions

"Beyond the easel" at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art rises to the challenge of Les Nabis

Bonnard, Vuillard, Denis and Roussel are assessed as distinct individuals, brought together by the shared conviction that “There are no paintings, just decoration”

What's on in the US: Photography from the serious to the silly

A clever eye and sly humour at Throckmorton, Nash at Schickler, Bidgood at Paul Morris, Cook at Mitchell-Innes & Nash

What's on in New York: Contemporary art at its finest with Ellsworth Kelly still strong at Matthew Marks

Also on show are Mark di Suvero’s massive sculptures at Gagosian, and Charles Simond’s unfired clay at the Joseph Helman Gallery

Funnyman Steve Martin shows himself to be a serious collector in new exhibition at the Bellagio

Martin shares his love for modern and contemporary American art in new Las Vagas show, giving a personal touch via audio guide

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

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On the loose in New York: Goedhuis going great guns

Art on the agenda at St Etienne, Powers’ Pop pics at Gagosian and all-American art at Adelson

Canadian war art on tour

“Battle lines: Canadian artists in the field, 1917-19” is on show now at Canada House

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Books: Henri Vever's Bible of French jewellery studies

The Vasari of his field, Vever was himself a jeweller—though like Vasari he is better known for his writing

Leon Golub is still getting to the real at the Brooklyn Museum of Art

Charles Saatchi and Eli Broad both collect him, but only 13 US museums have examples of this artistic rebel’s work

Italian art at Tate Modern: Starting from zero

The Tate and the Walker Art Center collaborate to show Arte Povera 1962 to 1972, from five years before the movement was defined by its impresario, Germano Celant

To see or not to see: Parisian exhibition documents the history of war photography

The Museum of Contemporary History provides historical explanations for why war photographers took the pictures that they did

Tate Gallery, St Ives: Patrick Heron in context

The director’s new scheme of quarterly changes will show more than just the work of local artists

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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

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

Queen Victoria’s Centenary at the Victoria and Albert Museum: Conspicuous by her absence

A weak exhibition that attempts to survey the Victorian legacy is partially redeemed by the accompanying book

Hans Haacke: But what does it all mean?

For his exhibition at the Serpentine, the conceptual artist has made an installation of art from the Victoria and Albert Museum and left its message open

From the archive | A 36th Vermeer?

Paint analysis suggests that "Woman at a virginal", which is in private hands and has been dismissed for 50 years, may be by the master

Tate Modern's 'Century City' receives mixed reviews

A vast, nine section exhibition: What the critics said

Bacon estate bans reproductions of images in Barbican exhibition

Tate lends Bacon works on paper for comparison with disputed works but comparative photos of Tate works are not allowed

Turner and Claude exhibited together in 'Pure as Italian Air'

Unfortunately this excellent showcase of the master of landscape has been overlooked due to its lack of catalogue

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Book review: Stephen Hackney, Rica Jones and Joyce Townsend (eds), Paint and purpose: a study of technique in British art

(Tate Publications, London, 2000), 216 pp, 74 b/w ills, 116 col. ills, £19.99 (pb) ISBN 1854372483

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

The Joule Archive to go on show at Barbican: Will the real Mr Bacon please stand up?

A second exhibition of Barry Joule’s collection, left to him by Francis Bacon his former neighbour, is still a matter of dispute with the Bacon Estate

Gardening and art at the National Portrait Gallery

Women’s studies blended with the media biography and botanical illustration

Star Wars exhibition opens in Bradford

“The Art of Star Wars”, National Museum of Photography, Film and Television, Bradford, until 29 April 2001