Reviews

Before and after the Second World War, David Bomberg explored a vertiginous new style of landscape painting – and his student Frank Auerbach was clearly taking notes

Between the Bruges and Beaufort Triennials, contemporary art enthusiasts are spoiled for choice – and may see some unexpected sights

The Fitzrovia Chapel is an atmospheric choice of venue for an exhibition with an occult edge

The ‘Loft Law’ of 1982 protected artists living in industrial zones from rising rents and eviction. Joshua Charow’s photographs record the members of an endangered tribe

At the Eye Filmmuseum, the latest provocation by the Catalan artist and director features French libertines and turns us all into Peeping Toms

The Polish-born artist’s paintings and drawings may have an air of the doodle, but her politically radical work is thrillingly inventive

Being married to the monarch was a hazardous business, but all six queens have lived on in popular memory and the artistic imagination

Still-life painting in Britain really took off in the 20th century when artists adopted a more experimental approach

Now 88, the Glaswegian artist is finally being fêted for her unpredictable visions of domesticity

The self-taught artist died tragically young at the age of 35, but there’s no denying the talent he demonstrated in his all-too-brief career

Drawings and watercolours of India belonging to a Scottish railway engineer take on new meaning if we look for what they don’t show

Matthew Smith’s striking use of colour, learnt from the Post-Impressionists, left a mark on the British artists who succeeded him

Using nothing but a magnifying glass and the sun’s rays, the artist created sculptures that defy easy categorisation

William Burrell came to own 23 paintings by the artist, but an exhibition in Glasgow shows that his contemporaries were just as appreciative

The artist spent much of the 1980s making works inspired by his international trips – and showing off the results in the countries themselves

In a show at Piano Nobile, the artist and his circle vie for our attention with the women who made their art possible

It’s becoming increasingly difficult to tell whether the finalists of the annual Craft Prize are artisans aspiring to art, or artists getting crafty