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AI WEIWEI: He is usually described as China's best-know artist, but Ai Weiwei remains one of the artworld's most elusive outsiders, and he like it that way.

CLAIRE FONTAINE: She's only four years old, but this conceptual artist is wise enough to the art system to have shows happening all over Europe. Just who - and what - is Claire Fontaine?

STREET & STUDIO: Does the drama of the street provide a substitute studio for photographers, or are things more complex?

NIGEL COOKE: His new canvases are a break from the graffiti and scrubland, and can be seen this month in his solo exhibition 'New Accursed Art Club'. So who gets to be a member, and at what cost?

Art Pilgrimage: Dublin

Drawing upon the camaraderie proper to a small city and buoyed by the fruits of recent improvements in postgraduate art education, visual arts practice in Dublin is growing in confidence and quality, suggesting that the city’s artists are rising to the considerable challenges of living in a globalised urban environment.

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PEDRO COSTA's weighty cinema featuring the Portuguese underclass surpasses the realm of social realism to scale the heights of monumental poetry.