Naumann’s new installation imagines an alternate past in which the German Reich was re-established after the fall of the Berlin Wall
What prompted Botticelli to become a follower of Savonarola? Jordan Tannahill’s arresting play casts historical accuracy aside in the quest for answers
A selection of studies and sketches shows how the definition of drawing has happily ballooned in recent decades
In cities across the world, the cultural avant-garde has often hunkered down – and expressed itself – in nightclubs and bars
A substantial survey at Hastings Contemporary is a rare chance to encounter the British painter’s concise, enigmatic images
A biography of one of the country’s earliest professional woman painters is a fitting if belated tribute
This pupil of Rembrandt has often been mistaken for other artists, but is there an unity to be found in his many styles?
Tai Shani, Oscar Murillo, Helen Cammock and Lawrence Abu Hamdan can be found in playful, reflective or forensic mode in Margate
A thought-provoking study considers what makes medieval European sculpture so memorable
How the Barbizon painter’s subversive rural scenes inspired artists from Van Gogh to Salvador Dalí
It is 150 years since women first arrived at Cambridge – and the fight for equality has taken almost as long
What are the implications of using object recognition technology to classify human faces and emotions?
The artist is one of few to have attempted to illustrate Venus and Adonis
A new series of sprawling canvases by the Los Angeles-based artist takes inspiration from Cerberus, the mythical hound of Hades
The 1960s and ’70s were a golden age for Cuban artists who designed striking graphics for liberation movements across the world
The Belgian painter-turned-designer was a prominent figure in the early history of modernism – although his precise role is not so easy to pin down
Currently on view at the Science Gallery London, The Bad Feel Loops is a nervous, nerve-wracking piece of work
The Victorian painter certainly had a penchant for play-acting, but his depictions of Egypt remain something of an enigma
The film adaptation of Donna Tartt’s novel is visually enticing but unwieldy
Denmark was beset by catastrophes in the early 19th century – but its painters flourished
The West’s borrowings from Japanese modernism are well known – but an exhibition in Helsinki shows that the traffic moved both ways
An exhibition of drawings at the Louvre reflects the artist’s struggle between his warring inclinations
Although she struggled to forge a career, Sarah Affonso never gave up making art, as two overlapping exhibitions in Lisbon reveal
A collection of Dutch delftware on long-term loan to the Gemeentemuseum den Haag is a feast for the eyes
