Tyneside's upbeat hosting of the UK's most-noticed arts prize - only the second outside London in the Turner's 27 years - sees 149,770 visit the resurgent gallery
From Ai Weiwei to Urs Fischer, Jonathan Jones looks back at 2011's biggest art world stories, and sets out essential dates for your 2012 diary in our Art Weekly annual roundup
19 Dec 2011: Jonathan Jones: Calm down, dears, the Tate is renewing its sponsorship deal with BP. But before you join the BP-Tate haters, stop and think about how else galleries are supposed to survive funding cuts
11 Dec 2011: Letter: Extended hours of parking control are likely to have a serious impact on our visitors and audiences at a time when arts budgets are already being severely challenged by cuts in government spending
To celebrate 10 years of free museum entry, we asked big name curators and gallery-goers to pick their favourite work. Chris Smith, the politician who ended charging, introduces their intriguing choices
Jonathan Jones: From a daring exhibition of Leonardo's court paintings to Restoration naughtiness and English National Ballet's rehearsals at the Tate, discover the week's top shows and art news
Jonathan Jones: English National Ballet's rehearsals alongside the Tate's Picasso show will be fun – but they cannot illuminate his complex attitudes to dance