The most exciting thing to do in Middlesbrough on a Sunday afternoon, Ronnie Scott used to say, is watch the traffic lights change. Not any longer, since the opening in January of Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art. Mima is the latest addition to the band of new public galleries stretching across Britain from the West Midlands to the north-east. In ...

An artist who has said of himself: "I have a bad record with destroying things," has won this year's Turner prize. Simon Starling is no provocateur. Nor was he a shock winner - the bookies made him the even-money favourite. But none the less, it will come as no surprise to those who regard the Turner prize with disdain that ...

Chris Ofili - The Upper Room (1999-2002) Twelve apostolic depictions of rhesus macaque monkeys arranged in a chapel-like setting and propped on Ofili's trademark globs of elephant poo. An enigmatic hybrid of Hinduism and Christianity, it's loud, active, entertaining and fiercely intelligent. (Alfred Hickling) Georgia O'Keeffe - Green Lines and Pink (1919) The sensual paintings of Georgia O'Keeffe ...