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Jackie Wullschlager writes on art for the FT. - -

David Hockney at Nottingham Contemporary

The new kid on the block of public art galleries launches with what Jackie Wullschlager calls a sexy, funny, scholarly and extremely relevant show by the illustrator of genius

FT’s art critic turns curator

Being a ‘discerning eye’ for an annual event gave Jackie Wullschlager a chance to play fantasy collector – and to be judged by display of her chosen pieces

Radical interests of 20th-century sculptors

Two new exhibitions explore works that exploited primitivist themes of fertility, sexuality and maternity, reshaping representation in shocking fashion, writes Jackie Wullschlager

Gruesome motifs of Christian suffering

Grisly realism serves a sacred purpose in a revelatory exhibition at the National Gallery, writes Jackie Wullschlager

Damien Hirst, Wallace Collection, London

The British artist’s latest move, 25 paintings made with his own hand, abounds with deliberate self-references and shows that his sense of zeitgeist is unfaltering, writes Jackie Wullschlager

Grayson Perry

Clear, generous and insightful, this lavish monograph positions the ceramic artist – most likely a national treasure – in both historical and contemporary contexts, writes Jackie Wullschlager

Elan about town

Jackie Wullschlager’s top choices from the plethora of London shows riding the Frieze wave

The artist as global brand

Tate Modern’s brave ‘Pop Life’ exhibition explores how Andy Warhol’s ‘descendants’ harnessed the power of celebrity to expand their reach beyond museums, writes Jackie Wullschlager

Turner’s firing of many guns

Tate Britain’s new show illustrates how Turner deconstructed the past to lead to his own triumphs, writes Jackie Wullschlager

What Van Gogh’s letters reveal of his life

Reed-pen drawings of finished works alongside prose descriptions that cannot be bettered demonstrate incontrovertibly that when the artist painted he was not mad but extremely lucid, writes Jackie Wullschlager
The Letters

Ed Ruscha’s great subject

The Secret Lives of Somerset Maugham

How modernist art and literature interacted

The Threadneedle award at the Mall Galleries

Lunch with the FT: Paula Rego

The English Rebel

Wassily Kandinsky at the Centre Pompidou

Corot at the National Gallery

A Face to the World

Elizabeth Peyton at the Whitechapel Gallery