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Exploring the currency of categories such as still life, portraiture and landscape, Shirana Shahbazi has had her photographs replicated by sign painters, woven into rugs by Iranian carpet weavers and turned into posters

From Andy Warhol to Memphis furniture and Photorealism, Simon Martin questions art’s relationship to its context

Revolutions, radical women and the shifting function of objects

Sculpture, impoverished objects and dislocation

The play between awareness and image; photographs, objects, paintings and performance

Martin Westwood creates images and objects that speak of how the language of exchange bleeds into other, more frangible realms of human experience

Michael Bracewell’s new book on Roxy Music is more than the story of a band – it’s the tale of a particularly English social and intellectual milieu

Exploring how art and politics have employed the medium of gesture, from The Last Supper through Albert Speer’s ‘Cathedral of Light’ to Frances Stark’s collages

Pitting Marcel Duchamp against Rocky Balboa in a silent struggle over the Statue of Liberty and the American Dream

A new book by Mark Godfrey examines how American abstract artists reacted to the Holocaust

Charles Ray's new work continues to explore the themes of space, objecthood and mimesis that have been at the centre of his practice for over 30 years

Lucy Skaer's drawings, films and sculptures transform images of prisons, dictionaries, museums and whales into maverick meditations on senselessness and beauty

 ‘A painting was actually telling me to fuck off. Gnarr. A little aggro retinal music’

The symbology of idealism; windows, balloons and Warhol

Abstraction and utilitarianism: two sides of the same curtain

Lyrical apparitions that commune with the past

Science, sociability and restless optimism

In his paintings, sculptures and installations, Michael Fullerton explores the vagaries of representation

For over 40 years Argentinian artist Roberto Jacoby has argued that art should be social, rather than object-orientated

Nine theses on slapstick