Reviews

The British artist looked to nature to provide material for her surreal creations

The founder of Lettrism wasn’t the only avant-garde artist with a god complex, but he may have been the most messianic

A whirlwind journey through 5,000 years of Iranian civilisation charts change and continuity in a culture that has absorbed all manner of influences

Is it enough for Western museums to say how they came by their colonial-era artefacts – or should they just give them back?

The painter had a keen eye for crockery – and the best pieces from his collection got to star in his art

These great tapestries have a turbulent history that has seen them held by Russia and in Canada – but now they’re back in the rooms where they first hung

Clive Bell is now best known as Vanessa’s husband – but a new biography replenishes his role in promoting modernism in Britain

Collectors, curators and artists have been debating the category of American folk art since the early 20th century – as a display at the MFA Boston makes clear

The ‘Rethinking Guernica’ website allows us to scrutinise Picasso’s anti-war masterpiece in greater detail than ever

2 Tone began as a ska-inspired record label, but swiftly became a look and a political stance – and a defining moment in British cultural history

Paul Greenhalgh’s ambitious survey takes us from the ancient Greeks to Picasso and beyond

A survey of new Australian art presents a planet in crisis – but it’s more uplifting than it sounds

A retrospective at the Pera Museum in Istanbul demonstrates the vast geographic sweep of the Lebanese-American artist’s work and biography – including her Ottoman roots

In ‘What Artists Wear’, Charlie Porter casts an eye over the wardrobe choices of everyone from Barbara Hepworth to Jean-Michel Basquiat

A new biography of the British painter has a fine sense of his precocious talent – and real feeling for his rakish charm

A temporary display of the museum’s collection telescopes time and space to group objects thematically – but is this a productive path to follow?

This wide-ranging book explores how women artists used self-portraiture to establish themselves in a man’s world

The first survey show dedicated to the ‘Queen of Bohemia’ presents a flamboyant figure who was single-minded about her art

Emily Mortimer’s TV adaptation of Nancy Mitford’s novel is a wonderfully glamorous affair – and its anachronisms are whip-smart

In her portraits of imaginary people, the artist conjures a world that feels joyfully real