Picasso’s influence on British art is made thrillingly clear by the Tate’s show. The problem is how pedestrian he makes us look

Waldemar Januszczak admits he got Lucian Freud wrong: he was a peerless painter of humanity, not a lover of lowlife

David Shrigley’s Hayward show is a quiet triumph of British wit. Waldemar Januszczak gets in on the joke

In spite of few objects at the British Museum’s Hajj show, there is much to ponder — and the V&A, too, has struck gold

Hugely ambitious, occasionally gaudy, David Hockney’s landscapes have an impact on the spirit, says our art critic

A weedy, disappointing show by a random Brazilian underlines how the Serpentine has lost its way, says our art critic