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Maeve Brennan’s quiet filmmaking speaks volumes about conflict and culture
The artist’s meditative new film reveals how, in the midst of cyclical violence, objects and humans continue to drift
The Tate was right to look again at queer British art
Context is as crucial to this exhibition as the art itself. Tate strikes a tricky balance between the two
A Bruegel family reunion in Bath
The Holburne Museum reminds us that this entire family is worth celebrating – not just Pieter Bruegel the Elder
The Whitney Biennial in counterpoint
Dana Schutz’s controversial painting of Emmett Till has dominated the headlines, at the expense of other interesting contributions
It’s about time Vanessa Bell was judged on her own merits
It’s hard to separate Vanessa Bell from Bloomsbury, but this exhibition of her art is long overdue
Shadows beneath the surface of the sea
On the southern coast of France, a new exhibition is exploring our troubled relationship with the world’s oceans
The paintings that captured a desperate decade
How the American artists of the 1930s depicted a country that was on its knees
Contemporary British ceramics in a country barn
This is no country jumble of brown pots. The latest show at Messum’s Wiltshire is a reminder of a great, evolving national tradition
A show of pacifism at the Imperial War Museum
‘People Power: Fighting for Peace’ at the IWM London is a bold exhibition that uses individual stories to humanise major global issues
Hogarth’s paintings fail to go the whole hog
William Hogarth’s paintings are nowhere near as ‘Hogarthian’ as his scathing, scurrilous prints
The peculiar prints of a singular Dutch artist
Hercules Segers combined printmaking and painting to create works that are in a category of their own
Paula Rego shares her secrets with her son
The artist discusses love, depression, abortion and infidelity in a new documentary directed by her son
A history of dodgy dealing
An entertaining book reveals the sometimes duplicitous history of art dealing
The menacing charm of Marisa Merz
The playful sculptures and paintings of the only woman in the Arte Povera movement have a distinctly steely edge
Turns out the American Dream is more of a nightmare
The development of American printmaking since the 1960s is seen in the context of today’s fragile political climate
The quiet revolution of British watercolours
The British watercolour tradition did not end with the death of Turner
Tony Cragg’s constantly evolving challenge to mass design
The artist’s exhibition at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park is a reminder of just how attuned he is to the different, varied potential of his chosen materials
Sharjah Biennial 13 has its ups and downs
This year’s programme is ambitious and wide-ranging, extending far beyond Sharjah itself, but the best of the art focuses on issues close to home
When New York’s art scene was run by artists
It’s about time the city’s early artist-led spaces were re-evaluated
Enrique Metinides made an art out of looking at people looking at death
The photographer’s images of disaster combine grisly detail with gifted composition, and implicate the viewer as much as the gathering crowds at the scene
Celebrating Alfred Basbous, the artist who breathed life into Lebanese sculpture
Alfred Basbous was inspired by European modernists, but also tapped into an ancient and timeless sculptural tradition
British wartime experience in Italy has been brought to life in London
A nuanced and often surprising exhibition at the Estorick Collection explores British depictions of the Italian frontline towards the end of the First World War
How American artists made watercolour great again
A new exhibition charts the transformation of watercolour painting in the USA, from an overlooked sideshow to a major cultural movement
The tender brutishness of Antoni Tàpies
The Catalan artist’s large, earthy paintings at Timothy Taylor have unexpectedly intimate and spiritual concerns
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