Laura Cumming: best art of 2016
Portraits woke up, the tiny Goldfinch flew in, the Switch House switched on, and junk art triumphed
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Edinburgh art festival 2016 review – where Lothian meets utopian
Christian Boltanski, Damián Ortega and Alice Neel impress in this year’s strongly international show, while Inverleith House celebrates in style
Glasgow International review – irrepressible vitality everywhere
Glasgow itself is the focus of its 2016 festival of contemporary art, with 220 artists from around the world jostling for space – and plywood – and everything from the Panama Papers to velvet lobsters
Laura Cumming: the best art of 2015
It was a wonderful year, as Goya’s extraordinary portraits got together, Ai Weiwei broke free and Eric Ravilious took us to the skies
56th Venice Biennale review – more of a glum trudge than an exhilarating adventure
There’s an awful lot of fretting about the state of the world in the Biennale’s 88 national pavilions, but little power, wit or bravado