The frock you can wear to everything has never gone out of style – but that hasn’t stopped designers trying to pull it off its pedestal
Spot Judith, Delilah, the Virgin Mary – and museum staff – in a monumental mural inspired by a 15th-century altarpiece
A display of counterfeit works offers an object lesson in what a masterpiece really is – but it could have had more fun with the subject
The self-taught painter was hailed by the Surrealists as a master of ‘art naïf’ – but this exhibition makes clear that her work was rooted in the complex politics of her day
William Burges commissioned a singular piece of furniture with contributions from everyone who was anyone among his wide artistic acquaintance
The question of what makes a performer truly divine is at the heart of a rigorously researched exhibition at the V&A
A new generation of artists in the capital Antananarivo are boldly reinventing an emblem of national identity
The advent of new technology transformed the photographer’s work in the 1930s – but it couldn’t last
The city’s newest and largest arts space provides ample room for the artist’s large-scale inflatables, but it’s not all about size
The Rijksmuseum’s blockbuster has been recorded for posterity, but can a film really do the paintings justice?
Linking the painter’s work directly to its source material downplays what makes it really interesting
The saint may have lived a life of poverty, but this richly varied exhibition is anything but impoverished
The artist’s remarkable paintings of women are also a form of self-exposure
For the conceptual artist from New York, a show in County Wexford is a chance to focus on what it means to look – and to be looked at
At the heart of a memorable but uneven event is the struggle to remember the transatlantic slave trade in appropriate ways
The Netherlandish painter is a master of directing viewers to the telling detail
Murals by the pastellist Nicolas Party provide a temporary backdrop for a Venetian portrait
Lina Ghotmeh’s structure presents Londoners with the terrifying prospect of interacting with strangers
The Holburne Museum engages in a clever bit of matchmaking, with rarely shown paintings and all kinds of love tokens
The British Library’s audio-visual tour of the animal kingdom doubles as a weird and wonderful history of natural history
The painter went to great lengths to make her careful compositions look effortlessly spontaneous
Larry Silver’s history of how northern European artists depicted other cultures could have taken a broader view
With its focus on architects from Africa and its diasporas, the main exhibition curated by Lesley Lokko is a breath of fresh air
Locals and celebrities have banded together to offer a compelling range of perspectives on the industrial history of the Yorkshire town
