An exhibition in Venice of the French artist’s work is conceptually dense, but does it work in visual terms?
Karlo Kacharava was only 30 when he died in 1984. In Georgia, he is regarded as a one-man avant-garde and his work is now being acclaimed abroad
The artist takes inspiration from Billie Holiday, El Greco and a pair of old Indian puppets when painting large-scale canvases in his East London studio
This year’s laudably international line-up gives plenty of space to photography, performance and video
The Italian designer’s pared-back approach to craftsmanship always prized the practical over the pretty
The Pompidou Centre’s economic model is unsustainable, according to France’s Court of Accounts. The auditing authority published its report, covering…
The pop artist believed that artists should make work for the masses. Decades after his death, his images are everywhere
The Kosovan, who began drawing pictures while at a refugee camp in Albania in the 1990s, is the latest artist to be given free rein of the Met’s roof garden
The maestro’s first contract with FC Barcelona, written on a napkin, has been withdrawn from auction after a dispute between his current and former agents
The artist’s first major solo show in the Nordic countries explores her fascination with Hitchcock, Bergman and the landscapes of Iceland
In the last 30 years of his life, the artist produce some of his most astonishing work, as this show at the British Museum attests
Horses, mythology and folk motifs abound in the painter’s early canvases, which show traces of what would become a distinctive abstract style
As the painter becomes older, the topsy-turvy figures that populate his invigorating canvases are becoming more skeletal
Part biographical survey, part crash-course in Lacanian thought, an exhibition about the psychoanalyst’s links to art could do with a sharper focus
Maarten van Heemskerck’s expert renderings of Rome inspired his countrymen to see the city for themselves
The artist’s vast body of work is full of daring conceits and tantalising contradictions
There are delightful discoveries to be made at this year’s event, but sometimes the central exhibition fizzles where it should spark
The writer’s survey of interwar architecture is a monumental achievement that reminds us that modernism was only part of the 20th-century story
The out-lettuced PM has little time for culture in her memoir-cum-manifesto – unlike her Establishment enemy, the Bank of England
Plus: the historic Copenhagen stock exchange building has been devastated by a fire
The rest of the city still has plenty to offer, from an exploration of the travels of Marco Polo to a celebration of Jean Cocteau’s genius
The National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C., shows that the French capital was the place to be for forward-thinking American women
The first survey of the French-American artist Niki de Saint Phalle opens at the Nelson-Atkins Museum in Kansas City
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Has the Fitzwilliam still got the hang of things?
Though some regard it as provocative, it’s fairer to say that the museum’s sprucing-up of its paintings galleries is thought-provoking