After fleeing Nazi Germany for Venezuela, Gego made intricately-woven works from industrial materials
At the Henry Moore Institute, artists and poets are hanging on to language for all they’ve got, finding meaning in the spaces between writing and objects
The Spanish-born Surrealist had a strong sense of order and a desire to remake the universe
The artist has turned his attention to the same five sitters time and again across his 60-year career, to touching effect
This impressive exhibition takes us through the very long history of a literary genre, but overlooks the part played by artists and illustrators
The artist’s smutty and satirical work wittily exposes the harsh realities of the recent past
New research and restoration offers fresh insights into the work of the Flemish masters
Patricia Butler’s account of 300 years of botanical drawings from Ireland is both a history of art and a history of science
The movement was slow to find favour in the north, but this gave Finnish artists time to take what they wanted from France
Giacomo Balla and Piero Dorazio worked nearly 50 years apart, but a dazzling show reveals their shared interest in capturing sensations
The Greek polymath who once worked for Le Corbusier is the subject of an appropriately wide-ranging survey in Athens
The different approaches of the two great friends and rivals form a thrilling contrast when seen side by side
The Museum of London celebrates the designers who turned the capital into a fashion centre while also remembering the people who wore their clothes
For 80 years, the Women’s International Art Club allowed artists to exhibit work that had yet to find wider acceptance
The Ashmolean’s new show vividly demonstrates how strong colours became a mainstay of 19th-century art
Nearly a century and a half after the painter’s trip to the Channel Islands, his paintings of Guernsey can now be compared to the actual views
The artist’s later work is usually regarded as apolitical but, as the Stick Men paintings show, he produced some of his most savage work after the war
The shortlisted artists highlight the fragility of the existing order, with the best of them upending what we expect from a show in a gallery
Kirsty Sinclair Dootson shows that a history of colour processes is also a history of shifts in society
The history of Palestinian dress is inseparable from that of the nation itself – and now the subject of an invaluable exhibition
To mark the painter’s 300th birthday, the Box in Plymouth is staging a thoughtful show that encourages us to look beyond the obvious
The artist’s compilation of entrances and exits in the movies takes viewers deep into a labyrinth – and leaves us to find our own way out
In the Neue Nationalgalerie’s celebration of the sculptor’s 75th birthday, modernity is never what it used to be
Modern artists have managed to make surprisingly strong statements on blank or partially erased pages
