Reviews
Solitary refinement – the uncanny art of Léon Spilliaert
The Belgian Symbolist is at his spookiest and most original when he depicts reality
A visual journey through the Amazon rainforest
Displaced from his home in the Colombian Amazon, Abel Rodríguez draws on his memories to document its flora and fauna
Show business – the artists who realised a house could be more than just a home
Artists who had studios and homes specially built for them often wanted to create spaces that would boost their careers
Close encounters – Van Eyck in Ghent, reviewed
How Van Eyck achieved his effects is still very hard to explain, but there’s no denying their power
Henry Wallis – the Pre-Raphaelite painter who fell out of fashion
The artist’s ‘The Death of Chatterton’ was one of the most popular paintings of the 19th century, but what else did he do?
Plastic, pastries and pastel tones – Ree Morton at the ICA LA, reviewed
In a career that lasted barely a decade, the American artist forged a distinctive – and highly personal – voice
‘A real hit parade of work from almost every country in the Arab world’
An important survey of abstract Arab art throws up questions about the influences swirling around in the post-war period
In sharp focus – Steve McQueen at Tate Modern, reviewed
A series of understated yet powerful works make clear that McQueen is as effective in the gallery as in the cinema
Baroque stars – the birth of a style in 17th-century Rome
Caravaggio and Bernini are the headliners – but the Rijksmuseum’s show reveals the range of artists who adopted the baroque style
Burning desires – Céline Sciamma’s ‘Portrait of a Lady on Fire’, reviewed
The French director’s film about an 18th-century painter and her muse is a visual feast
African-American artists from the South put on a show of defiance
A survey of black artists from the American South reveals how oppression and inequality couldn’t crush their creativity
Personality cult – Alfred Jarry makes an impression at the Morgan Library
The creator of King Ubu and inventor of pataphysics was deeply attached to the art of the book
Money matters – the art of German hyperinflation
The emergency money issued by many German towns during the First World War featured a range of designs – including witches, devils and donkeys
Nature boy – how John Nash brought new life to British landscape painting
A new biography reasserts the significance of the self-described ‘artist plantsman’ among his modern British peers
A cut above – Linder takes over Kettle’s Yard
The artist’s feminist photomontages fill the galleries, while the house is now punctuated with her interventions – and the scent of potpourri
Force of nature – the weathered canvases of Vivian Suter
Vivian Suter’s paintings, on show at Camden Arts Centre, are marked by the elements of the rainforest where she works – as well as by her dogs’ paws
Surreal deal – on Salvador Dalí’s tarot deck
Long out of print, the cards have been reissued by Taschen. But what of the artistic merits of their designs?
Floating around on Planet Polke
Potatoes orbit around barstools and beer spurts out of coasters in the whimsical worlds explored by Sigmar Polke
Frayed histories – unravelling the stories behind seven women’s textile collections
An exhibition on the textile collections of women from the 19th century to the present day tells us as much about their own lives as about the objects themselves
The Mesopotamian city that can claim to be the cradle of civilisation
Uruk may not be as well known as Babylon or Ninevah, but layers of complex, urban life have been uncovered there over the course of the 20th century
Fertile ground – ‘Portraying Pregnancy’ at the Foundling Museum, reviewed
A visual history of hundreds of years of veneration, satire, or the breaking of taboos moves from the Virgin Mary to Demi Moore
The great dictator – William Feaver’s biography of Lucian Freud, reviewed
The painter exerts the force of his personality from beyond the grave in the first part of this unconventional biography
Naked positions – Mary Beard’s Shock of the Nude, reviewed
The BBC programme takes a playful look at changing attitudes to nudity in art – from Michelangelo’s David to modern life drawing
How Charlotte Salomon turned her dark family history into a masterpiece of 20th-century art
‘Leben? oder Theater?’ is a totally unique work of art, produced in extreme circumstances
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