Review
Paranoid visions: Simon Hewitt on the Nordic Biennial of Contemporary Art
This year’s edition of Momentum explores the anxiety of contemporary life
It runs in the family: Shelley Rice on Alexander Nemerov’s family portrait
Diane Arbus and her brother, the poet Howard Nemerov, are the subject of a new memoir-cum-history
Mostly, you just stand in queues: Orit Gat on Carsten Höller’s Hayward exhibition
Guidelines, warnings and instructions are everywhere in Höller’s latest show
Yoko Ono’s gleeful middle finger: Chloe Wyma on the artist’s MoMA retrospective
The artist’s show is a smart corrective to the standard narrative
The quiet plight of everyday life: Harry Thorne on Duane Hanson
The American sculptor is at his best when his work leaves problems to be resolved
Fleeting joy: José da Silva on Christopher Williams at Whitechapel Gallery
There was room for improvement in the first UK retrospective of the American artist
Jeff Koons on TV: 13 thoughts from the sofa
Matthew Collings reviews BBC profile of US artist
Inside an unquiet mind
Essays on the critic and curator Lawrence Alloway give a minor figure too much credit
A family history made of concrete
An intimate portrait of 95-year-old Brutalist architect Gottfried Böhm and his remarkable family
The messiah complex is no coincidence
Bearded and berobed figures inspired artists including Schiele and Beuys
Martin Luther thrives in Saxony
Donald Lee recommends the Luther exhibition in Torgau about the Reformer’s relationships with the German princes
Battle of the fashion foundations: Prada vs Louis Vuitton
How the new contemporary art spaces in Paris and Milan measure up
Cliché and a lack of feeling: Richard Shiff explains why critics have failed painting
Painting lives on, but the critical terms stagnate and slacken, the art historian says
A long, hard march: Jacob Lawrence’s paintings delve into a difficult period of American history
Joanna Robotham takes a look at MoMA’s survey of art made during the Great Migration
Beautiful brutality: the splendours of violence at the Venice Biennale
The central exhibition at the Venice Biennale is searing but splendid, even if it raises moral concerns
The lives of the artists, according to Hans Ulrich Obrist
Artists and architects talk at length about their work
Books: Caravaggio's diametrically opposed contexts in conflict
Across two books, the master's work is interpreted in divergent, not diverse, ways
Books: Two books explore newer ways of seeing the world (and art) with varying degrees of success
Where Ossian Ward provides a handy guide, Charles Saatchi fails to impress
Book Review: The arch of time
From its invention by the Romans, the monumental arch has been a feature of the built environment ever since
Books: Have curators and collectors replaced critics? Paul Wood demystifies while Alistair Hicks disappoints
Two very different books speak to a worrying trend in the critique of art
Books: A far from academic set-up at the Académie royale
The Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture promoted “diversity of manners” rather than stylistic unity
If you read one book this year, make it one of these
Art-world luminaries, from Eli Broad and Marina Warner to Tim Marlow and Xu Bing, pick the best art books they read in 2013
Books: The saviour of the Warburg Institute
Alongside Warburg, there was no room for Fritz Saxl to be anything other than his most faithful assistant
Books: William Morris and creating a social fabric
An indispensable book on Morris’s revolutionary cloth designs and techniques—and the political views that inspired them
Books: How Warburg helped to invent the exhibition—and the curator
The art historian’s collected writings include an illuminating essay drawn from his dazzling, lengthy lectures
Books: Portraits of a diverse selection of Scottish country houses
Perthshire’s answer to the Ritz revealed
Magnum Contact Sheets go under the microscope
A heavyweight volume exploring Magnum Photos goes in between the contact sheets to celebrate a dying technique
Books: The fake’s progress from a sign of genius to a nefarious act... and back again
The history and scholarship of art forgery, and a faker’s delighted account of a life of deception
Books in brief: Paul Nash in Pictures
This book is a welcome reinterpretation of Nash for contemporary audiences