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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

Playing Stravinsky with a full orchestra

Esa-Pekka Salonen’s installation ‘Re-Rite: Be the Orchestra’ targets newcomers to classical music, says Hannah Nepil

Putting LA at the heart of world culture

The philanthropist and collector Eli Broad tells Peter Aspden he wants his city to become a must-visit cultural destination

Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

A huge redevelopment of the self-proclaimed “world’s oldest public museum” has increased the floor area by 50 per cent, rethought the method of display and flooded the place with light and colour, writes Robin Blake

Points of View, British Library, London

The real purpose of this show is not so much to tell us about early photography as to let us know that the British Library is one of its great treasure-houses, writes Francis Hodgson

Arshile Gorky, Philadelphia Museum of Art

Artists are supposed to be oppressed by the anxiety of influence, but this whopping survey shows that Gorky didn’t rebel against his forebears; he revered and emulated them, writes Ariella Budick

Sculpture in Painting, Henry Moore Institute, Leeds

The sculpture gallery’s first show devoted to painting explores the links between the two forms, writes Humphrey Ocean

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

Odilon Redon at the Fitzwilliam Museum

An exhibition of lithographs presents startling visions that make this artist look like a prophet of the ideas of Jung, says Robin Blake

Art and Illusions, Palazzo Strozzi, Florence

Rachel Spence visits an exhibition dedicated to trompe l’oeil from antiquity to the contemporary

Gustav Metzger: 1959-2009, Serpentine Gallery, London

Gruesome motifs of Christian suffering

This year’s Prix Pictet winner

Slideshow: 2009 Pictet prize

Watteau, Music and Theater/Rococo and Revolution/Watteau to Degas, New York

The Museum of Everything, London

The art market: The talented Mr De Pury

Sale of the week: Bingo going gone

A contest between Bacon and Caravaggio

Because the night belonged to her

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