Many of the 81-year-old photographer’s images were made when even taking a camera to the streets was an act of resistance in Chile
The Courtauld presents a tantalising show of work by Louise Bourgeois, Alice Adams and Eva Hesse
It was the painter’s misfortune to be surrounded by Bloomsbury Group writers whose accounts of her have been too dominant for too long
The French painter was unusual among his Impressionist peers for preferring to depict men at work and at play
One of history’s most mysterious political paintings might hold lessons for our own time – if we could make out the meaning
A retrospective of the artist’s distinctive portraits of Black Americans has taken on a new urgency
The artist’s large-scale photos and installations in Edinburgh provide a stirring if uneven meditation on the politics of destruction
The painter’s biblical, classical and allegorical scenes were at once sumptuous flights of fancy and firmly rooted in the material world of Renaissance Venice
The artist’s elegant kinetic contraptions remind us that humans are more mechanical than we like to think
The Gothic Revival masterpieces designed by Alexander Jackson Davis were sought after by some of the most successful Americans of the day
An insightful book looks at the homes Jewish families created for themselves as they joined the land-owning classes in Europe
The French painter was full of compassion for the downtrodden – and had a fair bit of sympathy for the devil, too
In a setting that hints at waiting rooms and hospital wards the artist explores the darker side of institutional care
In this stylish polemic, the artist Hito Steyerl casts AI image-making as bland at best and exploitative at worst
Hiroshige’s playful prints conjure the landscapes of 19th-century Japan in jewel-like tones
In her inventive works, the late American artist sought to blur the boundaries between herself and her characters, both real and imagined
The four Scottish Colourists brought a much-needed verve to British art, although their avant-garde credentials can be overstated
Housed in Louis Kahn’s last building, the newly spruced-up Yale Center for British Art reframes Paul Mellon’s collection
Revisiting a meeting of the two Surrealists in Paris in 1939 sheds new light on the movement as a whole
High fashion meets fine art for the first time in an exhibition at the Paris museum. With so much to see, it‘s hard to know where to look
‘Feel the Sound’ makes imaginative use of the brutalist building to convey the power of sound, but sometimes silence can be just as effective
The Met takes the well-trodden story of chinoiserie over the centuries and gives it a welcome feminist twist
This year’s festival is the largest edition yet, but a display of outsize ambition doesn’t resolve its internal contradictions
The 19th-century painter’s views of the Valley of Mexico are at once scientific documents and odes to a landscape in flux
