With deceptively rickety creations that conceal the care that went into their making, the artist wittily questions our ideas about craft
The sculptor is deeply connected to a wider network of artists and thinkers who also get their dues in this large-scale survey
After a multimillion-pound refurbishment, Liverpool's greatest gallery is rethinking what a Victorian collection of Renaissance art means today
The frock you can wear to everything has never gone out of style – but that hasn’t stopped designers trying to pull it off its pedestal
Spot Judith, Delilah, the Virgin Mary – and museum staff – in a monumental mural inspired by a 15th-century altarpiece
A display of counterfeit works offers an object lesson in what a masterpiece really is – but it could have had more fun with the subject
The self-taught painter was hailed by the Surrealists as a master of ‘art naïf’ – but this exhibition makes clear that her work was rooted in the complex politics of her day
William Burges commissioned a singular piece of furniture with contributions from everyone who was anyone among his wide artistic acquaintance
The question of what makes a performer truly divine is at the heart of a rigorously researched exhibition at the V&A
A new generation of artists in the capital Antananarivo are boldly reinventing an emblem of national identity
The advent of new technology transformed the photographer’s work in the 1930s – but it couldn’t last
The city’s newest and largest arts space provides ample room for the artist’s large-scale inflatables, but it’s not all about size
The Rijksmuseum’s blockbuster has been recorded for posterity, but can a film really do the paintings justice?
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
