Reviews

Carefully staged celebrity portraits by Jonathan Yeo and Michael Peto are on display at the National Portrait Gallery

The mandrake screams when it is uprooted: Francis Upritchard’s strange uprooted outsiders seem to have given up the fight

The Musée d’Orsay’s exhibition of male nudes is almost a great show, but it misses a timely opportunity to explore homoerotic sentiment in art

An exhibition at the Frick Collection ostensibly celebrates David d’Angers’ monumental sculpture, but his small medallions steal the show

Jordaens has languished in the shadow of Rubens and Van Dyck, but an exhibition at the Petit Palais brings the artist back into the spotlight

‘Désirs et Volupté’, a selection of Victorian art from the Pérez Simón collection at the Musée Jacquemart-André, won’t be to everyone’s taste

New galleries continue to open in the east of London, despite rueful talk of the area’s artistic demise

Francis Bacon wins the latest bout between artistic heavyweights, against Henry Moore at the Ashmolean

Tate’s long-awaited exhibition makes an ambitious but confused attempt to bring Lowry in from the cold

Roisin Astell speaks with some of this year’s exhibitors and bumps into Rolling Stones guitarist Ronnie Wood…

He may be more famous for his sculptural work, but Richard Serra’s etchings at the Alan Cristea Gallery carry their own weight.

Georg Baselitz’s powerful sculptures and paintings acquire a slick black gloss at Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac’s Paris Pantin Space

The Saatchi Gallery’s latest exhibition promises great things, but too many works fail to deliver

Stage-set scenarios and incongruous figure groupings lend Jockum Nordström’s work at the Camden Arts Centre an unsettling appeal

An exhibition of Choucair’s work at Tate Modern proves that lack of exposure does not equate to lack of status

Katharina Fritsch’s blue cock should be commended for attracting genuine public interest without resorting to shock tactics beyond a bad pun

Unexpected connections abound in Brian Dillon’s eclectic cabinet of curiosities

The Royal Academy’s exhibition devoted to Richard Rogers is justifiably – but perhaps excessively – ambitious

An exhibition on Vermeer and music at London’s National Gallery is a harmonious triumph

Moore and Rodin make unlikely bedfellows but their pairing at Perry Green results in some fruitful juxtapositions

This summer Michael Landy brings giant robots to the National Gallery in London