Reviews

The artist has made a series of works that stand up to the space – and are attention-grabbing in their own right

In 18th-century France, an emerging consumer society created a new kind of buyer and encouraged artists to look to the short-term

The Scottish painter’s openness to developments in modern art led him to adopt a remarkable number of styles in the course of a long career

The Australian artist who has questioned the representation of women for decades now takes a playful and pointed look at her younger and older selves

From satirical chamber pots to cat-shaped jugs, Henry Willett’s collection of popular ceramics display wit, horror and anti-French sentiment – sometimes all at once

The Bahamian-born artist works in many different media, but his larger-than-life monuments to historic figures can feel oddly one-dimensional at times

An exhibition of the artist’s depictions of fires, floods and natural disasters draws parallels between the extremities of an earlier age and the current climate crisis

The Baghdad-born artist’s gently subversive installations at Blenheim Palace make keen observations about the nature of war and of privilege, and who gets to be a hero

The riverine procession of competing nations took the focus off the athletes, but the spectacle of Celine Dion belting out Edith Piaf from the Eiffel Tower was worth the four-hour wait

From the flyer designs to the thumping music, a 1980s rave reconstructed in virtual reality feels almost like the real thing – with one crucial missing element

When viewed in the right environment, the artist’s sculptures in light and experimental films illuminate new ways to think about objects in space

The British-Iranian artist Laila Tara H’s refined images are thoughtfully framed to express her frustration with a patriarchal society – but never at the expense of playfulness

Gardens aren’t just lovesome things. In the writer’s gently rambling book on the subject, they are seedbeds of rebellion too