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Around the globe at the Carnegie International
The 57th edition of the exhibition in Pittsburgh is a truly international affair
Gerhard Munthe – a madcap medievalist in 19th-century Norway
The artist and designer sought to craft a distinct national style, but he also had much in common with the British
Paula Rego paints a world of nightmares and secrets
Drawing on sources from Balzac to Disney, Rego’s pictures hint at narratives filled with mystery
Visions of a dark world in the art of Weimar Germany
The works produced in Germany’s interwar period reflect the turbulence of a decade marked by trauma, hope and crisis
A bewitching history of magic at the Ashmolean
An ancient cow’s heart and a witches’ ladder are among the intriguing objects in this exploration of magical thinking
The enigmatic igloos of Mario Merz
An unreal city of the the artist’s spherical structures has sprouted at the Pirelli HangarBicocca in Milan
Dignity and divinity in the portraits of Charles White
Throughout his career White devoted his talent to celebrating the lives of other black Americans
Nalini Malani turns to a Greek myth to retell Indian tragedies
The artist takes the story of Cassandra and turns the doomed Trojan seer into a figure for our times
How Whistler tamed nature in his landscape scenes
With the man-made world a strong presence in his Nocturnes, beach scenes and gardens, Whistler was no pure nature boy
The modern Arab artists who have turned to words
A century of writing by and about artists from the Arab world is full of debates that still resonate today
The cosmic visions of Richard Pousette-Dart
After an early involvement with Abstract Expressionism the painter set out on a more spiritual path
John Rothenstein’s turbulent time at the Tate
The museum’s fifth director presided over a difficult period of its history, but left it in a better state than he found it
The Foundling Museum puts women in their rightful place
Portraits of men have been replaced with those of the women who first petitioned George II to set up the Foundling Hospital
Maeve Brennan puts out a bat-signal for the planet
The artists flags the unforeseen environmental effects of wind turbines in this award-winning film project
Artists are taking back control at the São Paulo biennial
The displays curated by artists at this year’s event are a welcome change from the traditional biennial format
Psychorealism by the sea with Grace Pailthorpe and Reuben Mednikoff
André Breton once described the pair as the ‘best and most truly Surrealist’ of British artists
Digging down into Turkey’s Neolithic city
Communities past and present are explored in Rossella Biscotti’s film of the excavations at Çatalhöyük
The dizzying mathematical designs of William De Morgan
The kaleidoscopic effects in the designer’s ceramics are largely down to his love of geometry
How four months in Martinique helped Gauguin make his name
The artist saw himself as an exotic outsider, and his voyage to the Caribbean in 1887 as a transformative experience
The colourful craft of Francis Upritchard
An inventive installation fills the Barbican’s Curve with a parade of handmade pots and hippyish characters
Fujiko Nakaya fills Boston’s parks with fog and shadows
Boston’s Emerald Necklace is an ideal setting for the Japanese artist’s enchanting fog sculptures
Concrete sheep and sleeping clowns at the South London Gallery
The theme of humour in contemporary art yields as many unnerving moments as laughs in a show across the gallery’s two sites
Reading the dreams of Robert Crumb
The great cartoonist is publishing 40-years’ worth of dreams and nightmares – and they’re every bit as crude as you’d image
The weird and whimsical worlds of Mika Rottenberg
The artist brings the contradictions and absurdities of global capitalism out into the open
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