Reviews

Dan Flavin’s light touch

The artist bristled at attempts to analyse his work, but an exhibition at Kunstmuseum Basel suggests that his fluorescent fittings are still open to interpretation

8 Mar 2024

Pride and prejudice in 19th-century France

Depictions of lions by leading lights of the Romantic movement and more Academic types reveal humanity’s dark side

6 Mar 2024

How Peter Blake makes his sculptures Pop

The artist has always combined high and low culture, and an exhibition at Waddington Custot captures his witty approach to assemblage

5 Mar 2024

A Renaissance painter restored to his rightful place in art history

The conservation of two jewel-like panels by Francesco Pesellino is an opportunity to discover a little-known artist who was highly regarded by the Medici

1 Mar 2024

The sound of silence – how Joshua Leon gives voice to Jewish history

The artist’s harmonious installation at Chisenhale Gallery memorialises his musician grandfather

29 Feb 2024

The making of the Monet myth

Jackie Wullschläger’s biography invites us to take another look at a painter whose canvases make a direct appeal to the eye

26 Feb 2024

The architects who have dreamt of impossible buildings

Aaron Betsky’s account of the wildest visions architecture has to offer is full of buildings that haunt the structures of the real world

26 Feb 2024

Forging relationships – Eduardo Paolozzi at 100

A centenary celebration of the Edinburgh-born artist puts his collaborative side in the spotlight

26 Feb 2024

Lee Ufan and the art of slowness

The South Korean artist has perfected an aesthetic of harmony and balance that rewards patient looking

26 Feb 2024

Reel life – how Zineb Sedira found herself through film

At the Whitechapel Gallery, the French-Algerian unspools personal and political histories through imitation sets and empty stages

23 Feb 2024

The clockwork marvels that tell a tale of two empires

These timepieces are fluttering, chiming embodiments of how Britain and China traded with each other in the 18th and 19th centuries

23 Feb 2024

Breaking the mould – the women who rewrote the rules of sculpture

In the decades after the Second World War, female artists chafed at the strictures of abstraction and began expressing their gender through their work

19 Feb 2024

The bric-a-brac brilliance of Gillian Lowndes

An exhibition of the late ceramicist’s creations features only 11 works, but open-minded viewers will find plenty to delight in

16 Feb 2024

Art of the blue – the chilly iconoclasm of Rayyane Tabet

The Lebanese artist’s new installation cleverly undermines the utopian ambitions of the architecture that surrounds it

16 Feb 2024

How cuteness conquered the world

An aww-inspiring exhibition explores adorability through the ages, and suggests it can be subversive as well as sweet

14 Feb 2024

The Impressionists who put pastel to paper

As an exhibition at the Royal Academy shows, the Impressionists were never more immediate or intimate than in their drawings

12 Feb 2024

Josephine Baker, agent provocateur

The American star and sometime spy was more than capable of defining her own image, as an exhibition in Berlin makes clear

8 Feb 2024

States of awareness – experimental art from the Eastern bloc

Artists in the Soviet satellite states often adopted the forms and techniques of mass surveillance to mordant effect

2 Feb 2024

From Africa to Byzantium, and back again

Trade and cultural exchange meant that the iconographical traditions of East Africa and Byzantium had much in common

2 Feb 2024

The artists who made it in London against the odds

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

31 Jan 2024

The painter who took a quixotic view of Spain

Ignacio Zuloaga was once as celebrated as Sorolla, but the artist’s searching paintings soon fell out of favour after his death

26 Jan 2024

At the Fondazione Prada, folding screens divide and totally rule

From pieces of furniture to works of conceptual art, an exhibition in Milan reveals that folding screens are functional, adaptable and always divisive

26 Jan 2024

Shore thing – the artists who flourished on the New York waterfront

What did Agnes Martin, Ellsworth Kelly and Lenore Tawney have in common? They all lived cheek by jowl in a wharfside district of Manhattan

22 Jan 2024

Weird Barbies and other unheavenly bodies – Anu Poder at the Muzeum Susch, reviewed

The Estonian artist stretched materials to their limit to create wonderfully distressed and disturbing sculptures

19 Jan 2024