Reviews

These timepieces are fluttering, chiming embodiments of how Britain and China traded with each other in the 18th and 19th centuries

In the decades after the Second World War, female artists chafed at the strictures of abstraction and began expressing their gender through their work

An exhibition of the late ceramicist’s creations features only 11 works, but open-minded viewers will find plenty to delight in

The Lebanese artist’s new installation cleverly undermines the utopian ambitions of the architecture that surrounds it

An aww-inspiring exhibition explores adorability through the ages, and suggests it can be subversive as well as sweet

As an exhibition at the Royal Academy shows, the Impressionists were never more immediate or intimate than in their drawings

The American star and sometime spy was more than capable of defining her own image, as an exhibition in Berlin makes clear

Ignacio Zuloaga was once as celebrated as Sorolla, but the artist’s searching paintings soon fell out of favour after his death

From pieces of furniture to works of conceptual art, an exhibition in Milan reveals that folding screens are functional, adaptable and always divisive

The Estonian artist stretched materials to their limit to create wonderfully distressed and disturbing sculptures

When it comes to miniatures, size doesn’t matter, but a show of historic and contemporary works should spark a bigger colonial conversation