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Sharjah Biennial 13 has its ups and downs
This year’s programme is ambitious and wide-ranging, extending far beyond Sharjah itself, but the best of the art focuses on issues close to home
When New York’s art scene was run by artists
It’s about time the city’s early artist-led spaces were re-evaluated
Enrique Metinides made an art out of looking at people looking at death
The photographer’s images of disaster combine grisly detail with gifted composition, and implicate the viewer as much as the gathering crowds at the scene
Celebrating Alfred Basbous, the artist who breathed life into Lebanese sculpture
Alfred Basbous was inspired by European modernists, but also tapped into an ancient and timeless sculptural tradition
British wartime experience in Italy has been brought to life in London
A nuanced and often surprising exhibition at the Estorick Collection explores British depictions of the Italian frontline towards the end of the First World War
How American artists made watercolour great again
A new exhibition charts the transformation of watercolour painting in the USA, from an overlooked sideshow to a major cultural movement
The tender brutishness of Antoni Tàpies
The Catalan artist’s large, earthy paintings at Timothy Taylor have unexpectedly intimate and spiritual concerns
How three foreign women transformed the British monarchy
An enlightening new exhibition explores the legacy of three Hanoverian princesses, who married into the British royal family and completely redefined its culture
Scotland is waking up to the importance of women Surrealists
The Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art has put together a modest but eye-opening display of works created and inspired by female Surrealists
The lust for luxury goods
The trade in silk, porcelain, and lacquer from East Asia was even more complicated than we thought
Afrofuturism takes on a new meaning in Israel
With migrant workers and refugees from Africa settling in Israel, contemporary African art in Tel Aviv takes on a new urgency
‘The most perfect example of the Elizabethan Age’
From its architecture to the treasures it contains, Hardwick Hall is a complete work of art
Telling the story of the African American experience in Washington
Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture offers a history lesson for all
Duncan Campbell turns his attention to rural Ireland
The Turner Prize winner’s new film looks at the power of narratives to misrepresent
Gluck’s rebellion against artistic and gender norms
Ninety years after Gluck’s first exhibition at the Fine Art Society, the painter seems as radical as ever
Turning women’s work into art
Some of the 20th century’s greatest artists have worked in textiles – and most of them happen to have been women
Inside the mind of Marina Abramović
In ‘Walk Through Walls’, Abramović is actively using the memoir form to reveal the persona ‘I try to keep hidden’
The shifting styles of Victor Pasmore
Pasmore’s work surely constitutes one of the most varied and experimental bodies of work produced by any 20th-century British artist
Siobhan McDonald’s chance encounters with a changing world
The artist’s exhibition at the Centre Culturel Irlandais in Paris explores big themes of climate change, landscape and loss
The turbulent life of Mary, Queen of Scots
She’s an icon of Scottish nationhood and martyrdom, but Mary’s life at court was a complicated one of competing cultural, social and political influences
The melancholy grandeur of a 3D-printed mountain
Anya Gallaccio is building her own version of Wyoming’s Devil’s Tower in London, using a 3D printer. What does the work say about the relationship between man and nature?
Jitish Kallat’s long meditation on life and death in the city
The Indian artist’s global success has not been fully appreciated at home – until now
Pierre Gouthière – the man with the Midas touch
This scholarly show at the Frick Collection is also a feast for the senses
The radical side of 20th-century Sussex
Modern art in Sussex was about more than just rolling hills and gentle abstraction
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