The sculptor’s grotesque figures and expressive faces reflect us back to ourselves in uncomfortable and witty ways
Two exhibitions for the German painter’s 80th birthday show his great range, from maximalist masterpieces to surprisingly intimate works
Francis Haskell and Nicholas Penny’s landmark history of the afterlife of classical sculpture has been refreshed to give it even more longevity
The sculptor’s impressionistic works – and the photographs he took of them – always highlight the humanity of his subjects
Tutored in Paris in the 1920s, Dublin-born artists Mainie Jellett and Evie Hone brought a boldly avant-garde sensibility to traditional subjects
The invention of the telegraph in a fractured post-Revolutionary France collapsed time and space, changing visual culture for ever
The Edwardians are associated with elegance but an exhibition at the King’s Gallery in London suggests that excess was the hallmark of the age
The Pompidou presents African, Caribbean and American artists who could be free in the French capital in ways often denied to them at home
At the Morgan Library in New York, a selection of guides to foreign lands reveals a bustling Middle Ages full of fantastical visions
This chronicle of iconophagy – the act of consuming an image – is an enlightening if occasionally stodgy read
The ups and downs in the lives of photographer Joel Meyerowitz and the writer and artist Maggie Barrett makes for documentary dynamite
Self-portraits and depictions of family and friends build a picture of the ‘Scream’ artist as insider rather than outsider, more savvy than angsty
The artist’s mescaline trips in the 1950s and ’60s led to extraordinary acts of creativity, when he tried to pin down their effect on paper
Once a central figure in Chicago's mid-century art and jazz scene, this Surrealist painter was long forgotten – until now
A new study of the 16th-century painter highlights his musical training and makes some bold claims about attribution
The Design Museum’s deep dive into swimming shows that people have always felt the urge to get into the water, for survival, sport or fun
In the painter’s night-time scenes, occasional isolated figures play second fiddle to the anonymous urban settings they inhabit
As a selection of her essays makes clear, the eminent art historian has always been committed to looking as a means of understanding
The high priest of German Romanticism is at his best when practising a minimalism that requires maximum imaginative effort from the viewer
In recent portraits and seascapes the painter ponders time and memory, and the legacy of Lucian Freud and co.
At Pitzhanger Manor, eerie paintings by the Scottish artist commune with its architect’s taste for pared-back eccentricity
Artists were just as dedicated to the avant-garde as their peers in architecture and music, but were the results of their efforts as radical?
Canadian and Scandinavian painters approached their respective landscapes in distinctive ways and with differing levels of realism
While museums are desperate to stop climate actions involving works of art, a gallery in London has put defaced paintings front and centre, tomato soup and all
