In the late 1790s, modern women looking for new forms of freedom were often inspired by distant and mythical histories
Why did Dorothy Hepworth allow her lover Patricia Preece to take the credit for her paintings? An intriguing exhibition at Charleston provides some clues
In its telling of the story of the Mingei movement, the William Morris Gallery takes a refreshingly international approach
At his best, the Beirut-born artist offers gallery-goers weird and wonderful new ways of experiencing sound
In the first half of the 15th century, artists drew on the Northern and Italian Renaissances to create a distinctly French cultural flowering
An exhibition in Venice of the French artist’s work is conceptually dense, but does it work in visual terms?
The Italian designer’s pared-back approach to craftsmanship always prized the practical over the pretty
As the painter becomes older, the topsy-turvy figures that populate his invigorating canvases are becoming more skeletal
Part biographical survey, part crash-course in Lacanian thought, an exhibition about the psychoanalyst’s links to art could do with a sharper focus
The artist’s vast body of work is full of daring conceits and tantalising contradictions
There are delightful discoveries to be made at this year’s event, but sometimes the central exhibition fizzles where it should spark
The writer’s survey of interwar architecture is a monumental achievement that reminds us that modernism was only part of the 20th-century story
An exhibition in Antwerp celebrates the Belgian painter’s cosmic canvases – but it’s the 15th-century artworks hanging nearby that really put his achievements into perspective
For the Scottish painter, the line between figures and their surroundings can be intriguingly blurry
The institution’s unravelling of its involvement with empire is very welcome, but has ‘Entangled Pasts’ bitten off more than one exhibition can chew?
Despite being separated by more than a century, the two photographers shared a distinctly hazy aesthetic
Faith Ringgold has died at the age of 93. In 2022, Nicole Rudick reviewed her New Museum retrospective, admiring the artist’s lifelong search for better stories to tell about the United States
A new life of the auteur lays bare the obsessiveness behind his films and what it cost everyone around him
There’s no doubt that the painter was an important and intriguing artist, but that doesn't excuse his behaviour
The artist’s irrepressible energy shines out in this survey of her long career at Bard Graduate Center, writes Eve M. Kahn
In documenting the damage humans have done to the planet, the photographer has created a disturbingly thrilling record of environmental disaster
An exhibition at the Ashmolean suggests that for Rubens and his peers, graphite, ink and chalk were not simply preparatory tools but a means of reinventing matter
In the Turner Prize-winner’s first major show in Scotland in two decades, his sculptures are best viewed at something of a remove
Far from hindering budding Barbara Krugers and Andy Warhols, day jobs have sometimes helped the creative process
