Reviews

The familiarity of the designer’s most famous products has long obscured his more utopian side

In the six years before his tragically early death, the Italian artist zoomed in on the details of the everyday – to supremely unsettling effect

Christianity, Judaism and Islam shared a visual language on the Iberian peninsula – but it was a fragile balance at the best of times

When it came to painting the industrial north-west, Stockport-born Alan Lowndes could hold his own

The designer’s favourite museum is the Wallace Collection, so it’s no wonder her clothes are full of flourishes from Watteau, Boucher and Fragonard

The museum devoted to the history of the Paris is itself an important part of that history – so it’s a relief that so many of its quirks remain

Adrian Tinniswood’s new book focuses on the aristocrats and rock stars who secured the futures of the houses they owned – or moved into

A new study assesses 19th-century interventions on paintings by Giotto and other masters, and their impact on art history

In the decade before his death, John Constable developed a freer hand to follow new visions – to astonishing effect

William Hogarth liked to present himself as a bluff Englishman, but the truth was a touch more complicated

The Dutch painter already knew the majority of the sitters in his lively portraits of merchants and dignitaries – and it shows

Nicholas Penny’s survey of 17th- and 18th-century Italian paintings in the Norton Simon Museum reveals the astute figure behind the collections

The artists featured in this exhibition didn’t share the same outlook or methods, but their variousness is part of the point

Sadie Frost’s documentary about the designer is hardly original, but then Quant didn’t actually invent the miniskirt – and it doesn’t hurt to be reminded of her genius

An exhibition in Belfast marking 100 years of the country treads rather carefully, for understandable reasons

A monumental two-part survey in Philadelphia and New York proves that the artist has always forged his own path

The film-maker deserves pride of place in any history of early cinema – as the Cinèmathèque française’s new display confirms

Built to rival the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem, the great mosque in Damascus has always been claimed by rival faiths