An exhibition of the late ceramicist’s creations features only 11 works, but open-minded viewers will find plenty to delight in
The Lebanese artist's new installation cleverly undermines the utopian ambitions of the architecture that surrounds it
An aww-inspiring exhibition explores adorability through the ages, and suggests it can be subversive as well as sweet
As an exhibition at the Royal Academy shows, the Impressionists were never more immediate or intimate than in their drawings
The American star and sometime spy was more than capable of defining her own image, as an exhibition in Berlin makes clear
Artists in the Soviet satellite states often adopted the forms and techniques of mass surveillance to mordant effect
Trade and cultural exchange meant that the iconographical traditions of East Africa and Byzantium had much in common
Making a living in the capital has always been a challenge for creative types, but British television was once very interested in how they managed
Ignacio Zuloaga was once as celebrated as Sorolla, but the artist’s searching paintings soon fell out of favour after his death
From pieces of furniture to works of conceptual art, an exhibition in Milan reveals that folding screens are functional, adaptable and always divisive
What did Agnes Martin, Ellsworth Kelly and Lenore Tawney have in common? They all lived cheek by jowl in a wharfside district of Manhattan
The Estonian artist stretched materials to their limit to create wonderfully distressed and disturbing sculptures
The painter is in no need of rediscovery at home, but her painstaking depictions of everyday life deserve to be better known abroad
When it comes to miniatures, size doesn’t matter, but a show of historic and contemporary works should spark a bigger colonial conversation
Stephanie Barczewski’s book considers how stately homes have evolved according to the needs of their owners and wider changes in society
Jan Christian Sepp’s guide to the visual and geological properties of marble will whet the appetite of the modern readers too
The westward spread of modernist design between the wars was shaped by the migrant experience
An exhibition at the Cinémathèque française doesn’t shy away from the film-maker’s political side
Three exhibitions in the Engadin Valley explore how the Swiss mountains have inspired some of the painter’s most playful work
The Wellcome Collection’s sprawling show has a lot in common with a busy department store and proves that the beauty industry can be an exhausting business
The artist painted countless variations of a white square, but repetitive strain was never really an issue
The cathedral’s glittering 19th-century reliquaries are among the treasures that have taken up temporary residence at the Louvre
Created by a Spanish missionary and Indigenous authors and artists in the 16th century, the Florentine Codex is an intellectual feat – and now available to all
An open access publication celebrates glittering works from the 17th and 18th centuries