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Mark Bradford keeps on testing the limits of painting
Mark Bradford keeps on testing the limits of paintingIn a show at the Hamburger Bahnhof in Berlin, the American artist keeps pushing at the boundaries of abstract art
The ghoulish genius of James Ensor
The painter is usually regarded as an eccentric one-off, but an anniversary season in Antwerp places him firmly among the European avant-garde
The Maori artist remapping New Zealand’s landscape
Cora-Allan revives traditional techniques and materials in her thoughtful meditations on the myths and history of her home country
When London had a much richer interior life
A new book by Steven Brindle lovingly catalogues the lavish interiors that could once be found in London’s grandest houses but are now lost
The animal instincts of Jacopo Bassano
In his striking pastoral and biblical scenes, the 16th-century Venetian painter turned beasts into sensitive protagonists
Cutting and pasting through the ages
A new history of collage around the world is at its best when revaluing the work of women, writes Samuel Reilly
The intensely felt art of Elisabeth Frink
From her early associations with the ‘Geometry of Fear’ school of sculpture, Frink went on to evoke any number of strong emotions
Style and substance – in defence of trompe l’oeil
The genre has often been seen as shallow, but the best examples display philosophical depth as well as technical flair
Street cred – Peter Doig gets urban at Gagosian
The painter has curated a show of street scenes, by the likes of Balthus and Bacon, which suggests that the city is an isolated place
The art nouveau offshoot that transformed Munich
Young artists and designers turned the city into a hive of creativity in the late 19th century – and their spirit can still be felt today
The Catholic nun who believed in protest art
A show of photographs and Pop art-inspired prints by Corita Kent displays the artist’s fun side but plays down her political fervour
In Mati Diop’s ‘Dahomey’, restitution is given a supernatural slant
A prize-winning documentary about France’s return of 26 looted objects from Benin is a haunting tale
The arresting satire of Sigmar Polke
The artist’s depictions of life in West Germany after the war are playful in form but deeply sarcastic under the surface
Close encounters of the miniature kind
Photography largely wiped out the trend for miniatures, but the genre still says much about how we relate to images today
When London’s sleepy art trade was jolted wide awake
An insider account by a former head of Sotheby’s in the UK recounts how London’s post-war art market took off in the 1950s and has kept on reinventing itself
The textile artists who cut a rug in Cumbria
The making of rag rugs has never been considered high art, but an exhibition in Middlesborough shows just how intricate and inventive they can be
‘If Jeff Koons directed an ad for Nescafé Gold Blend’ – Rivals, reviewed
From explosions of chintz to thrusting postmodern architecture, the sets for Jilly Cooper’s bonkbuster leave us in no doubt we’re watching a 1980s period drama
The dreams of the Surrealists have become the stuff of our reality
The ideas and images of the artists who unleashed their unconscious on the world a century ago are now part of the fabric of everyday life
Why Mies van der Rohe’s designs are here to stay
The architect’s pioneering modernist buildings have outlasted critics and changing trends, as a monumental new biography makes clear
Alison Wilding keeps up a careful balancing act
A stimulating show at Alison Jacques perfectly captures the sculptor’s ability to combine familiar materials in unexpected ways
The bohemians who trained a generation of British artists
Cedric Morris and Arthur Lett-Haines turned their backs on the London art world to create an art school with an outsize legacy
Manny Vega makes a splash in New York
The mosaic artist’s celebration of El Barrio combines influences including African clothing to Latin jazz to create something wonderfully new
The ghostly worlds of Goya and Paula Rego
The artists’ eerie prints have much in common, but this pairing at the Holburne Museum is something of a missed opportunity
Were the Impressionists really so shocking?
It suits us to think of the movement as unpopular, but the passing of time makes it harder to see why the first Impressionist Exhibition of 1874 made such a stir
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