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Shortly before JG Ballard’s death last year, Iain Sinclair made a pilgrimage to the author’s Shepperton semi, a shrine to his surreal tastes and happy family life. A new exhibition of his favourite paintings and of art work he has inspired honours this distinctive vision
Coming away from the official path, on a walk from the mouth of [...]

My hero is Goya – hard to explain when so little is known about him, his very few extant letters being so flat (like those of a cabinet-maker, someone said). And given a “fact”, such as that he knew French, because he once signed a letter written in that language, it is promptly contradicted [...]

Western culture has long positioned itself as distinct from nature. Now with climate change, argues Antony Gormley, it’s time to rethink the purpose of art
I have just driven through the Hatfield Tunnel. Above it are factory outlet shops that sell overproduced goods at reduced prices to bargain-hunters. The tunnel is long, and I imagine that [...]

Both serious and surprising, this new retrospective looks at the work of an artist famous for his swirls of colour and spectral shapes
This is the kind of exhibition Tate Modern should put on all the time – a serious, sensitive and eye-opening encounter with a great modern artist.
Arshile Gorky was one of a generation of [...]

From fleshy tableaux in Manchester to Derby’s pursuit of happiness, Robert Clark and Skye Sherwin tell us what’s happening in art around the country

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As spring approaches, cast off the beige and take on technicolour – like the owner of this 19th-century Paris apartment
Elegant Parisian ­apartments aren’t known for their bold use of ­colour. So when Mathilde Baralhé – a lifelong fan of bright shades – moved into her new home, she filled it with primary-coloured furniture. But she kept [...]

The painter and sculptor on skipping breakfast, working through the night and a forthcoming trip to paint in Antarctica
My day is split in two: the creative part and the administrative part. I’ll be working on my admin from 9am, but I’ll be painting during the night – I’m lucky if I get more than four [...]

Here’s how to add a splash of colour to your home

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Fiona Crisp: Subterrania, Penzance
In Fiona Crisp’s spooky new series of photographs, tunnels lead the eye on and on, into the dark. Littered with decaying rafters and machinery, the rust-coloured dirt and stone walls of an old mine stretch downward into the womb-like earth in one image. Another shows the grim, sterile corridor of a German [...]

Edmund White on a memoir that captures all the elements that made New York in the 1970s so exciting
Patti Smith has a mythic imagination. As a young, desperately poor poet from southern New Jersey, she headed to New York to seek her fortune, nothing in her purse. Her mother had assumed she would follow her [...]