The question of how art might usefully engage with social and political issues has long preoccupied artists and curators
Early works by this pioneer of Neo-Concretism are thrilling experiments with geometric forms, planes and space in two and three dimensions
The first Latino master printer in the United States worked closely with artists including Ruth Asawa and Herbert Bayer – and also printed his own designs
The Los Angeles institution’s relationship with the movement stretches back nearly a century, as this selection of masterpieces reveals
The Uffizi leans into the grotesque for Christmas, displaying Renaissance and baroque sculptures that range from the sweetly devotional and highly disturbing
One of America’s boldest and most eccentric architects gets a major survey at the Art Institute of Chicago
Many French artists in the middle of the 19th century resisted the political turmoil and rapid modernisation taking place around them
The Centre Pompidou may be closed, but its drawings collection is still at large, with some 300 works on paper at the Grand Palais
Plus: thieves have stolen 600 items from a Bristol museum, and the photographer Martin Parr has died at the age of 73
A rare genre scene by Maarten van Heemskerck and a bumper bequest of Pop art are some of the most interesting acquisitions of the past month
