Fiona MacCarthy’s biography suggests that the architect’s greatest achievement may have been to assemble so much talent in one place
Alfred Munnings was an official war artist who took a curiously pastoral approach to the conflict
Philip Johnson was not the most talented modern American architect, but he was certainly the most important
The Flemish master, whose workshop was one of the busiest in 16th-century Brussels, gets his first major survey in the city of his birth
The Tate’s survey of Tanning’s long career testifies to her lifelong commitment to Surrealism
The painter’s witty and deceptively effortless works combine high and low culture to enjoyable effect
The Florentine master, who took Leonardo as an apprentice, was perhaps the most influential artist of his day
Where both petroleum and art were concerned, the 20th-century tycoon positioned himself for rich pickings
In the 1960s and ’70s Chicago was the home of a movement that gleefully broke all the rules of good taste
Their joint commission for the Shed includes choirs, orchestras and lots of colour – but is it smaller than the sum of its parts?
His experiences as a marine gunner in the Second World War and Korea made a lasting impact on Westermann’s art
Balthus’ strange, dream-like paintings deliberately set out to unsettle viewers
We know what translation can do – but what does it look like? Eight centuries of multilingual activity is on show in Oxford
The artist’s installations seem completely at home in the HangarBicocca
The film tries to imagine what being the painter was like – the results are as stressful, and appealing, as you might expect
Celebrated abroad, but little known at home, Caspar van Wittel more or less singlehandedly invented view painting
Goss experiments with traditional painting techniques to depict scenes of everyday life with a dreamlike twist
A catalogue of the National Gallery’s 18th-century French paintings points to past peculiarities of British taste
The Iranian-born sculptor gets his first retrospective in his adopted home country of America
The photographer’s formally composed, sometimes graphic work is still hard to pin down
The photographer’s survey of the British at home and abroad takes on a suitably surreal air at the National Portrait Gallery
After flirting with Fauvism and other French modes in Paris, the painter brought home a dazzling palette – only to bottle it later on
The Swiss spiritualist used drawings to diagnose patients, but her works are now regarded as art
Science, art and natural history are intertwined in the Lister family’s monumental Historiae Conchyliorum
