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Siobhan McDonald’s chance encounters with a changing world
The artist’s exhibition at the Centre Culturel Irlandais in Paris explores big themes of climate change, landscape and loss
The turbulent life of Mary, Queen of Scots
She’s an icon of Scottish nationhood and martyrdom, but Mary’s life at court was a complicated one of competing cultural, social and political influences
The melancholy grandeur of a 3D-printed mountain
Anya Gallaccio is building her own version of Wyoming’s Devil’s Tower in London, using a 3D printer. What does the work say about the relationship between man and nature?
Jitish Kallat’s long meditation on life and death in the city
The Indian artist’s global success has not been fully appreciated at home – until now
Pierre Gouthière – the man with the Midas touch
This scholarly show at the Frick Collection is also a feast for the senses
The radical side of 20th-century Sussex
Modern art in Sussex was about more than just rolling hills and gentle abstraction
We need more TV shows like the BBC’s ‘Art of France’
Andrew Graham-Dixon’s new show ranges from Islamic influence on French architecture to narcissistic nationalism – and we haven’t even got to Napoleon yet
How Michael Andrews breathed life into painting
Abstraction and representation blend effortlessly and mysteriously in Michael Andrews’ paintings, which are on view at Gagosian in London
A picture of past diplomacy in Istanbul’s Pera Museum
Charting the Ottoman Empire’s international relations through art, this exhibition reminds us that Turkey was once a thriving region for statesmen and artists alike
Up close and personal with illuminated manuscripts
This is a gem of a book, full of scholarly insight
The importance of South Africa’s craft traditions
This survey of the history of South African art needs to pay more attention to the country’s craft traditions
Found in translation
Are there too many languages and can translation ever really bridge our gaps in understanding?
Getting to grips with the nature of art at Mona
Turns out that the museum of sex and death has much more on its mind
When Derek Walcott met Peter Doig
The only living poet to have won the Nobel Prize for Literature responds to one of the greatest living painters
Philip Guston’s Nixon drawings are a lesson in satire
It’s hard not to draw parallels between Guston’s biting caricatures of Richard Nixon and today’s political climate
Paul Nash’s commitment to the English landscape
The artist’s feeling for place is a constant throughout his work – in both peacetime and war
The glamorous family behind one of Sargent’s best-loved paintings
A personal history of a great painting currently on show in New York
Why are there so many period rooms in US museums?
Influential private collectors were often keen to recreate their own experiences for the benefit of the public at large.
The sound artist making a call for resilience
James Webb’s sound installations tackle difficult political, social and emotional issues with subtle immediacy
Creativity and contradictions in Kochi
Kochi might be full of contradictions, but it remains a vibrant site for the Kochi-Muziris Biennale – now in its third edition
A fierce reminder of why we need feminism more than ever today
The Photographers’ Gallery has put together an exhibition of feminist art from the 1970s which is still worryingly relevant today
Were the Egyptian Surrealists too unpatriotic to be popular?
Surrealism in Egypt was an international affair that lost out to more nationalist art movements
Why it’s time for someone to catalogue Fra Bartolommeo’s drawings
As an exhibition in Rotterdam shows, Fra Bartolommeo draughtsmanship is ravishingly beautiful
William Kentridge and Vivienne Koorland peel back the layers of history
The two artists make a rewarding double act at Edinburgh’s Fruitmarket Gallery
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