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The French symbolist’s glittering animal world echoes its lavish setting — but carries darker undertones
This retrospective proves no artist has more powerfully subverted male painterly tradition to express the modern female experience
The engrossing ‘Light Years’ exhibition celebrates the evolution of photography from the 1970s onwards
Jackie Wullschläger selects her best mid-year reads
Shortlisted works for the prestigious site in London’s Trafalgar Square are politically charged and varying in quality
The show’s 10th edition brings human-scale perspectives to the Square Mile’s post-lockdown streets and towers
From the staunchly realist to the abstract and surreal, two London exhibitions this summer go far beyond just nudes
Exhibitions at Hauser & Wirth in New York and London and Bristol’s Arnolfini amplify the reputation of a master of abstraction
The Kenyan-born artist’s new exhibition ‘Paradise Edict’ is the real thing: engrossing, fun and packed with ideas
‘The Arrival of Spring, Normandy, 2020’ showcases lockdown iPad drawings that chart the eternal drama of seasonal change
London show follows the French artist’s urge for postwar renewal, echoing today’s need for a fresh start
The Iraqi-American’s Margate commission is a monument to the folly of the Iraq conflict — and of monuments themselves
New shows offer ‘crazy, queasy, disruptive, cabin-fevered, intriguing art’
Two books offer intimate yet contrasting histories of Jewish art collectors in fin-de-siècle and early 20th-century France
A Shanghai exhibition of Impressionist masterpieces shows the value of thinking globally during the pandemic
A list of the museum’s most viewed pictures during the past year reveals that at times of crisis we seek art of feeling
The British painter discusses his background and his beautiful, disquieting work ahead of shows in Chicago and at Tate Britain
An overdue retrospective dedicated to the Swiss artist opens in Basel this week, before moving to Tate Modern and MoMA
Yorkshire Sculpture Park shows how female sculptors from Barbara Hepworth to Phyllida Barlow have been breaking the mould
The novelist’s home city is marking the 200th anniversary of his birth in great style
The poet’s work still resonates seven centuries after his death: new art exhibitions celebrate his enduring power
The medium’s 200-year evolution from novelty to vital artistic medium is examined in a new book and Paris show
Five hundred years ago the German artist — intellectual, tourist, businessman, networker — made transformative trips across Europe
Among a series of paired exhibitions, the sculptor meets his match in a Paris extravaganza opposite Picasso
Art historian Linda Nochlin asked this question 50 years ago in a radical essay whose impact is still felt today
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