The artist’s harmonious installation at Chisenhale Gallery memorialises his musician grandfather
A centenary celebration of the Edinburgh-born artist puts his collaborative side in the spotlight
The South Korean artist has perfected an aesthetic of harmony and balance that rewards patient looking
At the Whitechapel Gallery, the French-Algerian unspools personal and political histories through imitation sets and empty stages
These timepieces are fluttering, chiming embodiments of how Britain and China traded with each other in the 18th and 19th centuries
In the decades after the Second World War, female artists chafed at the strictures of abstraction and began expressing their gender through their work
An exhibition of the late ceramicist’s creations features only 11 works, but open-minded viewers will find plenty to delight in
The Lebanese artist's new installation cleverly undermines the utopian ambitions of the architecture that surrounds it
An aww-inspiring exhibition explores adorability through the ages, and suggests it can be subversive as well as sweet
As an exhibition at the Royal Academy shows, the Impressionists were never more immediate or intimate than in their drawings
The American star and sometime spy was more than capable of defining her own image, as an exhibition in Berlin makes clear
Artists in the Soviet satellite states often adopted the forms and techniques of mass surveillance to mordant effect
Trade and cultural exchange meant that the iconographical traditions of East Africa and Byzantium had much in common
Making a living in the capital has always been a challenge for creative types, but British television was once very interested in how they managed
Ignacio Zuloaga was once as celebrated as Sorolla, but the artist’s searching paintings soon fell out of favour after his death
From pieces of furniture to works of conceptual art, an exhibition in Milan reveals that folding screens are functional, adaptable and always divisive
What did Agnes Martin, Ellsworth Kelly and Lenore Tawney have in common? They all lived cheek by jowl in a wharfside district of Manhattan
The Estonian artist stretched materials to their limit to create wonderfully distressed and disturbing sculptures
The painter is in no need of rediscovery at home, but her painstaking depictions of everyday life deserve to be better known abroad
When it comes to miniatures, size doesn’t matter, but a show of historic and contemporary works should spark a bigger colonial conversation
Stephanie Barczewski’s book considers how stately homes have evolved according to the needs of their owners and wider changes in society
Jan Christian Sepp’s guide to the visual and geological properties of marble will whet the appetite of the modern readers too
The westward spread of modernist design between the wars was shaped by the migrant experience
An exhibition at the Cinémathèque française doesn’t shy away from the film-maker’s political side
