The many faces of Franz Xaver Messerschmidt
The distorted Character Heads of the 18th-century sculptor have long perplexed critics
The Barbican’s photography double bill speaks powerfully to our times
The photographs of Dorothea Lange and Vanessa Winship share a fascination with society in flux
Cooking up a storm in Picasso’s kitchen
An exploration of Picasso’s passion for food sheds new light on the artist’s other appetites
The joys of junk food
Appetite is a central theme in the exuberant paintings of Dale Lewis, at Edel Assanti in London
The remarkable legacy of Johan Maelwael
This superbly curated exhibition transforms our understanding of medieval art history
Why Andy Holden flew back to the nest
Artist Andy Holden has collaborated with his father, the ornithologist Peter Holden, on an Artangel project exploring our fascination with ‘home’
MoMA’s collection highlights fail to shine in Paris
MoMA’s ‘greatest hits’ are superb, of course – but are they a little too familiar?
The new Chapman brothers show is delightful and disturbing – and you need to see it
Featuring Goya, teddy bears and suicide vests, ‘The Disasters of Everyday Life’ is puerile, provocative, and superb
The political backdrop to Jirō Takamatsu’s art
The Japanese artist deserves to be better known in Britain, but his playful, political work suffers out of context
Small but perfectly formed
Examples of Dutch micro-carving on show at the Rijksmuseum are full of astounding detail
What the Minotaur can tell us about Picasso
An exhibition documenting Picasso’s obsession with minotaurs and matadors is a curatorial triumph
Ovid’s Metamorphoses is the ultimate sourcebook for artists
Ovid’s epic mythological poem has fired the imaginations of artists since the Renaissance
Up close and personal with illuminated manuscripts
This is a gem of a book, full of scholarly insight
The Hepworth sculpture prize exhibition is completely baffling – in a good way
Materials range from concrete to soap bubbles; subjects include mass extinction and internet cats. This is a bizarre mix of work, but a fascinating one
This is reckless restoration of the very best kind
Elizabeth Price’s new video is an audacious act of extrapolation, that asks deep questions about our impulse to preserve, restore, and destroy
The brightly painted books that outshine Botticelli
An exhibition at the Courtauld proves few things are more tantalising than a beautiful manuscript under glass
So who the hell was Hieronymus Bosch?
We misunderstand the artist if we fail to look past his grotesque beasts and monsters
Finally, an Alec Soth show in London
This major solo show reveals just how much Soth’s frank stare pervades his photographs
Horrible Art Histories
A look at how the genre of the grotesque has unfolded from the Renaissance to the present day
Illuminating and frustrating: William Blake at the Ashmolean Museum
There can be little argument with the quality of the works; but there is, to put it mildly, a lot to take in
Modern Myth: Mary Reid Kelley’s ‘Swinburne’s Pasiphae’
Reid Kelley retells the minotaur story with rare and quite brilliant verve
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