In film, photography and installations at the New Museum, the artist riffs on the images around us to reflect and comment on the world that made them
The dominant theme of the presentations by the shortlisted artists is somewhat mournful, but the art hasn’t been this exciting in years
Post-war museum staff had to keep pace with a world in which Britain’s standing was rapidly changing and their efforts were met with varying degrees of success
The Jacquemart-André presents the artist as an intellectually adventurous figure whose concerns are still challenging painters and viewers today
The Wiener Werkstätte closed in 1932 and the lives of the Jewish women who powered it were upturned or destroyed by the Nazis, but the optimism of their art is irrepressible
The great American poet’s art collection was guided by idiosyncracy more than style or genre, as this exhibition at the Morgan reveals
The French artist was as successful as a woman of her time could be – and her paintings display a quietly competitive attitude towards her male peers
Gagosian’s catalogue raisonné of Marden’s paintings and an accompanying survey in New York make it clear that, for the artist, colour alone could speak volumes
The experimental images made by Wanda and Marion Wulz in the interwar years show these Italian women revelling in their personal and creative autonomy
The artist’s catastrophic mental breakdown as a young man meant that he spent the rest of his life in confinement. His paintings, however, are among the most powerful of the age
Objects made for the city’s most important families were full of mythological and biblical figures and scenes – and this erudite exhibition aims to recreate their original settings
‘Coyote vs. Acme’ is a satire about modern corporate capitalism that was almost never released because of, well, modern corporate capitalism. But it also harks back to more epic tales of struggle
A major retrospective at Tate Modern reveals an artist whose talent burns more brightly than ever
As capital punishment became ubiquitous in the 18th-century, artists were increasingly influenced by the macabre spectacle
In Arles, the Uzbek artist Saodat Ismailova takes us into the world’s largest walnut forest, and explores the spell-binding power of ideology before and after the fall of the Soviet Union
While Capability Brown achieved a natural look with great artifice in England, French landscape gardens were overtly experimental fantasies
Art historians have often looked down on 19th-century fashion, but fine artists were heavily influenced by the early days of the luxury industry
The architects of Britain and Ireland’s best-loved buildings have received a good deal of attention, but what about the men who built them?
The singular paintings of one of the unshowier School of London painters are ripe for discovery
Her use of textiles means that Albers is often seen as a decorative or craft artist. But what if we regard her work as abstract art with a genuinely wide appeal?
An exhibition at the Box in Plymouth brings renewed attention to the British artist’s colourful, cacophonous paintings
What happened to artefacts in museums before they went on display? A lively new study gives us the fuller picture
The sculptor used vivid hues sparingly and to powerful effect – an aspect of her work that has eluded critical attention until now
Michael Hall’s new book explores the role played by queer culture in preserving country houses for the public
