Edward Barber's photographic record of 1980s anti-nuclear demonstrators goes on display at the Imperial War Museum
The French artist's obsessive portrayal of antiquity reveals his endless variety
The ambitious portraitist was the subject of a major retrospective at the Frick Collection earlier this year
Fausto Melotti's sculptures ingeniously blur the line between figurative and abstract forms and his work deserves to be better known
Photography flourished in Scotland during its early development in the mid 19th century
Katie Paterson once beamed Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata to the moon and back. At the Lowry, she continues to explore the vastness of space
As associate artist at the National Gallery, Shaw focuses on the nondescript woodland where many of art history's most sordid stories play out
The Earl of Mar has long been seen as a failed rebel and harmless utopian architect, but it’s time to take him seriously as an Enlightenment thinker
Olivia Laing's book on the art of loneliness has some excellent insights, but who is it meant for?
Omer Fast puts contemporary fears and fictions on display at the BALTIC Centre
Time for a bit of anarchy
The Sainsbury Centre's exhibition reveals an artist grappling with a sense of human frailty
There are many treasures in the Met's new exhibition, but the most poignant are the metalwork pieces from Mosul, given the turmoil in the region today
Figurative art is making a comeback, if this year's shortlist of promising early-career artists is anything to go by
Russia's 19th-century portraitists were more than a match for the exceptional writers and composers they painted. So why is their work so neglected?
Two exhibitions in London celebrate the beautiful, subtle botanical paintings of 17th-century Holland
Artists recognised the power of the staged image long before Instagram came along
How strange that this great British painter claims to ‘hate painting’ when he is so good at it
Was there a distinctly ‘female’ printmaking in this period? Not really – but that's what's so interesting
Flavin's fluorescent light pieces continue to transform the spaces in which they are installed. But time is changing how we see the pieces, too
The everyday objects in Cerutti's Turin studio are transformed in his paintings: poised, precarious, and forever in suspense
Karl Friedrich Schinkel's palace designs came to 'nothing more than a beautiful dream' – and, thankfully, a fascinating set of prints
Désiré Feuerle is the latest person to move his art collection underground
'I began wasting my god-given talent drawing pictures of sexy women the way I liked ‘em'. An exhibition of R. Crumb's work invites us all to become voyeurs
