As the Hungarian-American artist celebrates his 80th birthday, is his brand of conceptual art still as radical as it once was?
The artist’s monochrome sculptures made of everyday objects are full of menace and all the more exhilarating for it
These artistic experiments by early embracers of new technologies already look charmingly retro
Whether Orphism can be called a coherent movement is one thing, but its practitioners produced some excellent art
A touring exhibition of gladiatorial objects found in Britain makes a stab at getting to the heart of our fascination with the amphitheatre, but does it succeed?
The British Library’s exhibition of women in the Middle Ages who were creative and intellectual pioneers is a red-carpet affair
In his final works, some of which have never been shown before, the endlessly restless artist adopted an abstract style that challenges us to look for hidden meanings
Brady Corbet’s epically long film starring Adrien Brody as a Bauhaus-trained architect in America conveniently pretends that all the real Bauhaus-trained architects who made it to America never existed
The Disney star was a marvel of 20th-century industrial production and the Second World War was his finest hour, writes Todd McEwen
Tim Blanning’s masterful biography demonstrates that the despotic ruler of Saxony and Poland was rubbish at war, but had absolutely fabulous taste in art
Todd Longstaffe-Gowan’s exhibition about the capital’s lost green spaces yields a rich crop of curiosities
The artist’s collages inspired by his time in Paris reflect his love of the city’s music scene and reverence for the likes of Duke Ellington and Louis Armstrong
The actor may not have had much range, but he always played himself to perfection and brought that sense of panache to his most famous role
The story of an artist who has been forgotten for nearly 200 years reflects the hopes and failures of the turbulent times he lived through
Glenn Adamson’s new book shows that predictions about the future have always spoken volumes about the present
The painter’s vibrant domestic scenes are full of revealing details – and so is Isabelle Cahn’s weighty new biography of the painter
An exhibition about the civilisations that could be found along the trade route connects cultures at every turn, writes Sameer Rahim
In his paintings of landscapes and townscapes, the artist created scenes that are as psychologically complex as his portraits
An exhibition of work by the winner of the Max Mara Art Prize hints at the horror of the transatlantic slave trade
An imaginative exhibition in The Hague stresses how much the fashion house still owes to its founder
Best known for the thousands of works in his ‘Date Paintings’ series, the Japanese artist has never been more of an enigma, as a pair of shows in London and Paris reveal
In a major new exhibition, the artist has created a world in miniature, full of panoramic views, trompe l’oeil murals and imitations of everyday life
In a show at the Hamburger Bahnhof in Berlin, the American artist keeps pushing at the boundaries of abstract art
The painter is usually regarded as an eccentric one-off, but an anniversary season in Antwerp places him firmly among the European avant-garde
