Reviews
The Liverpool Biennial’s emphasis on local identity could not be more prescient
The sociopolitical slant of this year’s event has added weight in light of the Brexit vote. Can a city’s regeneration be artist-led?
The art of power in ancient Pergamon
How did a minor Greek dynasty create one of the greatest sites of Hellenistic art?
‘A poster has to be joyous’. The energy and enthusiasm of Willem Sandberg
The designer and director of the Stedelijk Museum had a remarkable life: don’t miss an opportunity to learn about him at the De La Warr Pavilion
Scottish artists who turned to the dark side
A survey of postwar Scottish art reacting against the forces of reason includes wonderful pieces, but explains its own meaning a little too neatly
‘Remainder’ replays the past in a doomed search for the truth
Let’s face it, this film about a man struggling to regain a sense of reality is perfect viewing this week
If walls could talk…The Ethics of Dust at Westminster Hall
An evocative new installation in the oldest surviving part of the Houses of Parliament strikes a chord
Québec’s latest project could transform the city’s cultural scene
The Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec (MNBAQ)’s new pavilion is an ambitious project that unites city, park and museum
How Rainham Hall, a house with a history but no original contents, has come to life
At Rainham Hall, the National Trust has risen to the challenge of animating and interpreting an 18th-century sea captain’s house
This year’s Berlin Biennale should get rid of the art
The curators’ vision of an iDystopian world can only work if it’s all-encompassing. The more obvious artworks just dilute the effect
Don’t miss Dobson’s drawings at Daniel Katz gallery
The rough-and-tumble humanity of the modern British sculptor’s sketches is refreshing to see
Poetry and violence in the work of Francis Alÿs
The Belgian artist brings the subject of drug wars in Mexico to the heart of Mayfair: but he insists that art comes before politics
‘Taste the essence’ of Indian painting
A new book promises to open up the world of Indian art to a wide new audience
This Cindy Sherman exhibition is good – but have we seen it all before?
Sherman’s groundbreaking work paved the way for so many of today’s artists – but her own creations are starting to seem too familiar
What William Merritt Chase learned from Europe
The 19th-century artist who brought modern spirit to American painting
Pompeo Batoni didn’t just paint aristocrats abroad
The most prestigious portrait painter in 18th-century Rome also had a flair for religious and mythological subjects
The timeless modernity of a forgotten Danish painter
C.W. Eckersberg’s 19th-century paintings are barely known outside Denmark and Germany, but they should be…
Peggy Guggenheim steals the show in Florence
A show about the Guggenheim’s art collections is really about the battle between Peggy and Solomon
The work of Mona Hatoum bristles with a bodily charge
This large exhibition provides an opportunity to engage with the physical effects of Hatoum’s work
Edward Barber’s preventative photography
Edward Barber’s photographic record of 1980s anti-nuclear demonstrators goes on display at the Imperial War Museum
Cavorting amid the ruins with Hubert Robert
The French artist’s obsessive portrayal of antiquity reveals his endless variety
Van Dyck would have relished seeing his work on show at the Frick
The ambitious portraitist was the subject of a major retrospective at the Frick Collection earlier this year
The musical forms of Fausto Melotti
Fausto Melotti’s sculptures ingeniously blur the line between figurative and abstract forms and his work deserves to be better known
Why the history of photography starts north of the border
Photography flourished in Scotland during its early development in the mid 19th century
Fitting the entire universe into an art gallery
Katie Paterson once beamed Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata to the moon and back. At the Lowry, she continues to explore the vastness of space
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