Linking the painter’s work directly to its source material downplays what makes it really interesting
The saint may have lived a life of poverty, but this richly varied exhibition is anything but impoverished
The artist’s remarkable paintings of women are also a form of self-exposure
For the conceptual artist from New York, a show in County Wexford is a chance to focus on what it means to look – and to be looked at
At the heart of a memorable but uneven event is the struggle to remember the transatlantic slave trade in appropriate ways
The Netherlandish painter is a master of directing viewers to the telling detail
Murals by the pastellist Nicolas Party provide a temporary backdrop for a Venetian portrait
Lina Ghotmeh’s structure presents Londoners with the terrifying prospect of interacting with strangers
The Holburne Museum engages in a clever bit of matchmaking, with rarely shown paintings and all kinds of love tokens
The British Library’s audio-visual tour of the animal kingdom doubles as a weird and wonderful history of natural history
The painter went to great lengths to make her careful compositions look effortlessly spontaneous
Larry Silver’s history of how northern European artists depicted other cultures could have taken a broader view
With its focus on architects from Africa and its diasporas, the main exhibition curated by Lesley Lokko is a breath of fresh air
Locals and celebrities have banded together to offer a compelling range of perspectives on the industrial history of the Yorkshire town
These photographs of domestic scenes and everyday encounters are very familiar and very unsettling
Amid all the pomp and the circumstance, the crowning of Charles III has much to tell us about the state of the nation
The current edition of Asia’s oldest biennial is far from perfect, though there’s a lot of very good art here
At the age of 91, the artist has produced a series of remarkable self-portraits, now on show at Hazlitt Holland-Hibbert
A catalogue of the museum’s unrivalled collection of silver and gold is a thing of beauty
A show about the many variations and chequered history of the fabric even lets visitors see what’s worn under the kilt
The painter who never stopped seeing her subjects as individuals described her works as ‘pictures of people’ rather than ‘portraits’
The Musée Jacquemart-André shows that the painter was always open to new influences
The genre has often been dismissed as a kind of copying – but at their best, these paintings make us look again at the act of looking
