The critic and polemicist who gave us new ways of seeing is the subject of a suitably unorthodox biography
An exhibition in Helsinki presents works by the women artists who were drawn to the spiritual side of life
The much-loved chronicler of industrial England crammed his works full of people, but had little interest in them as individuals
Two could be a crowd in the marriage of Lee Krasner and Jackson Pollock, but the Met’s joint survey shows how the artists challenged each other artistically
A survey of this pivotal figure in German Expressionism reveals a painter driven to restless experiment
The avant-garde artist has long existed between various movements, impossible to pin down – which is perhaps why he is less well-known than he should be
There is much to admire about the no-nonsense design principles of these 18th-century utopians, but perhaps they didn’t have all the answers
Frederic Leighton’s cosmpolitan upbringing and far-flung travels found their greatest expression at the heart of the Victorian artist’s home
The great American poet’s art collection was guided by idiosyncracy more than style or genre, as this exhibition at the Morgan reveals
The Bourse de Commerce tries to tell the entire history of photography from its invention to the present day with 700 works from the Pinault Collection. It’s a lot to take in
The French collector who bought Post-Impressionists by the score was also an artist in his own right – and both sides of his restless personality can be seen at the Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris
At the Courtauld, the painter’s works hang near some of the masterpieces that inspired them – and more than hold their own
The singular talents, and shortcomings, of the most divisive of the Impressionists are displayed here to great effect
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 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
