The Victorian painter spent most of his life in asylums but his imagination remained unfettered, as this show at the Royal Academy makes clear
These snapshots of the great outdoors at the Yale Center for British Art range from the purely artistic to the fiercely political
After a two-year renovation, the artist’s studio in Sydney reopens with a survey of the formally inventive, technically impressive work he made in the 1970s
In 1958 the painter and printmaker collaborated with the French poet and fellow Surrealist Paul Éluard to create one of the most ingenious of all artist’s books
Plus: the Manhattan DA’s office has returned 59 antiquities to Italy, Iraq and Indonesia; and thieves have stolen €4m-worth of jewellery from the Lalique Museum in northeastern France
The Vienna workshop was a hub of modernist production and, as this show at the Jewish Museum reveals, women played a major part
The painter had a knack for making enemies and, as this exhibition at Museum Folkwang makes clear, his art was all the better for it
Tate Modern celebrates an avant-garde artist who, for all the forward-thinking nature of her art, was most interested in age-old, elemental forces
Prints, drawings and watercolours from the National Gallery of Ireland’s collection reveal how Continental Europe inspired Irish artists, and vice versa
Plus: the Manhattan DA’s office seizes more antiquities from the Met; and the president of MUCEM in Marseille has been suspended after being accused of harassment
