Reviews

With deceptively rickety creations that conceal the care that went into their making, the artist wittily questions our ideas about craft

After a multimillion-pound refurbishment, Liverpool’s greatest gallery is rethinking what a Victorian collection of Renaissance art means today

The frock you can wear to everything has never gone out of style – but that hasn’t stopped designers trying to pull it off its pedestal

Spot Judith, Delilah, the Virgin Mary – and museum staff – in a monumental mural inspired by a 15th-century altarpiece

A display of counterfeit works offers an object lesson in what a masterpiece really is – but it could have had more fun with the subject

The self-taught painter was hailed by the Surrealists as a master of ‘art naïf’ – but this exhibition makes clear that her work was rooted in the complex politics of her day

The question of what makes a performer truly divine is at the heart of a rigorously researched exhibition at the V&A

A new generation of artists in the capital Antananarivo are boldly reinventing an emblem of national identity

The advent of new technology transformed the photographer’s work in the 1930s – but it couldn’t last

The city’s newest and largest arts space provides ample room for the artist’s large-scale inflatables, but it’s not all about size

The Rijksmuseum’s blockbuster has been recorded for posterity, but can a film really do the paintings justice?

At the heart of a memorable but uneven event is the struggle to remember the transatlantic slave trade in appropriate ways

Lina Ghotmeh’s structure presents Londoners with the terrifying prospect of interacting with strangers

The Holburne Museum engages in a clever bit of matchmaking, with rarely shown paintings and all kinds of love tokens

The British Library’s audio-visual tour of the animal kingdom doubles as a weird and wonderful history of natural history