Matthew Smith’s striking use of colour, learnt from the Post-Impressionists, left a mark on the British artists who succeeded him
Using nothing but a magnifying glass and the sun’s rays, the artist created sculptures that defy easy categorisation
Christopher Wood’s account of a turning point in early Renaissance art is typically demanding and always stimulating
William Burrell came to own 23 paintings by the artist, but an exhibition in Glasgow shows that his contemporaries were just as appreciative
The artist spent much of the 1980s making works inspired by his international trips – and showing off the results in the countries themselves
Blake, Constable and Ivon Hitchens all feature in Alexandra Harris’s account of a place she knows well, but it’s the more obscure figures who really shine
In a show at Piano Nobile, the artist and his circle vie for our attention with the women who made their art possible
It’s becoming increasingly difficult to tell whether the finalists of the annual Craft Prize are artisans aspiring to art, or artists getting crafty
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
