In her inventive works, the late American artist sought to blur the boundaries between herself and her characters, both real and imagined
The four Scottish Colourists brought a much-needed verve to British art, although their avant-garde credentials can be overstated
Housed in Louis Kahn’s last building, the newly spruced-up Yale Center for British Art reframes Paul Mellon’s collection
Revisiting a meeting of the two Surrealists in Paris in 1939 sheds new light on the movement as a whole
High fashion meets fine art for the first time in an exhibition at the Paris museum. With so much to see, it‘s hard to know where to look
‘Feel the Sound’ makes imaginative use of the brutalist building to convey the power of sound, but sometimes silence can be just as effective
The Met takes the well-trodden story of chinoiserie over the centuries and gives it a welcome feminist twist
This year’s festival is the largest edition yet, but a display of outsize ambition doesn’t resolve its internal contradictions
The 19th-century painter’s views of the Valley of Mexico are at once scientific documents and odes to a landscape in flux
In MoMA’s mammoth survey, the abstract painter’s desire to question everything comes across loud and clear
Luma Arles celebrates E.A.T., an alliance of artists and engineers who created some of the most thrillingly eccentric artworks of the mid 20th century
Inger Christensen’s reissued take on the artist’s time at the Gonzaga court is as experimental as his work would have seemed to contemporaries
The artist made more than 100 drawings of the comic-strip character Nancy, and the results are profound as well as witty
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
