In his enchanting documentaries about the natural world, the French film-maker approached his subjects with intellectual rigour and an eye for wonder
In the first major survey of the French artist’s work in decades, the targets of his biting criticism look awfully familiar
New works inspired by Kensington Gardens play havoc with traditional conceptions of landscape painting – and the results are thrilling
A world-class collection gets a revealing but all-too-rare moment in the spotlight
The artist was admired by the likes of Frederick Douglass and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow in her lifetime, but after a period of fame she sank into obscurity – and this landmark survey is long overdue
Relooted is a video game that allows players to pull off heists and reclaim artefacts – and doubles up as a short history of African art
The Fitzwilliam Museum bottles the painter’s brilliance in 11 works that reveal his growing mastery over the last six decades
The twists and turns of the artist’s career make for a thrilling display at Tate Modern
The French architect is famous for adding a spire to Notre-Dame, but he hit other heights too – and his misses are just as revealing
Michael Hall’s new book explores the role played by queer culture in preserving country houses for the nation
The C Comics drawn by the artist with words by New York School writers are a call to unconformity
For women artists in Flanders and Holland in the long 17th century, work could be surprisingly well rewarded, as a new exhibition in Ghent reveals
The Royal Academy’s retrospective presents a painter who takes delight in simple pleasures and is always determined to be herself
In ‘Pompei: Beyond the Clouds’, the film-maker turns living in the shadow of Vesuvius into pure cinema
The artist’s friends and peers are widely celebrated, so her relative obscurity is a puzzle. It makes a show at London’s Raven Row all the more welcome
From Charlton Heston writhing on a scaffold in the Sistine Chapel to Kirk Douglas’s dead ringer for Van Gogh, films about painters were prestige studio fare
The painter’s society portraits come to life in a well-chosen survey at the Frick
For artists including Turner, Kandinsky and, of course, Van Gogh, the colour yellow signified everything from rebirth to danger
Barnaby Phillips’s new book follows the many twists and turns of the royal treasures Britain took from the Asante kingdom
The Roman poet’s great work Metamorphoses has had a hold on artists from the Renaissance to the present
The self-taught painter had a trememdous sense of self-belief, despite being ridiculed in his lifetime. A landmark exhibition confirms him as a singularly modern artist
Joseph Koerner’s account of art made in extremis turns Bosch, Beckmann and Kentridge into unexpected associates across the ages
The painter’s depiction of the murder of Jean-Paul Marat made him the very model of a Revolutionary martyr
Dorothy Stratten is remembered less for her acting than for the terrible circumstances of her death. Cristine Brache’s paintings put her back in the spotlight for all the right reasons
