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The case for and against Werner Herzog
The Eye Filmmuseum highlights the madness of the director’s methods and how beautiful the finished films are – and leaves us to make up our own minds about it all
How to manage a museum
A book by Daniel H. Weiss, outgoing president and CEO of the Met, offers a public-spirited view of how a changing world can benefit from the constancy of large institutions
The gilded pages of Evelyn De Morgan
At Leighton House, intricate gold drawings by the Pre-Raphaelite artist reveal her great debt to Italian sources
Michael Rakowitz puts down roots on Tyneside
The Iraqi-American artist has been working with migrant communities in the north-east to create a garden and greenhouse at the Baltic Centre
Full of make-believe and making do: the art of Andrew Cranston
The Scottish painter who has long treated book covers as blank canvases is now also working on a much bigger scale
The painters who have made the most of poor visibility
As a book about mist and fog in European painting shows, artists have often taken a very hazy view of the landscape
The self-assured sculptures of Pomona Zipser
With deceptively rickety creations that conceal the care that went into their making, the artist wittily questions our ideas about craft
Collective effort – the social sculptures of Simone Leigh
The sculptor is deeply connected to a wider network of artists and thinkers who also get their dues in this large-scale survey
Old Masters are back in the running at the Walker Art Gallery
After a multimillion-pound refurbishment, Liverpool’s greatest gallery is rethinking what a Victorian collection of Renaissance art means today
The outsize influence of the little black dress
The frock you can wear to everything has never gone out of style – but that hasn’t stopped designers trying to pull it off its pedestal
At the National Gallery, Paula Rego holds her own against a Renaissance master
Spot Judith, Delilah, the Virgin Mary – and museum staff – in a monumental mural inspired by a 15th-century altarpiece
The fake’s progress – an introduction to the art of forgery at the Courtauld
A display of counterfeit works offers an object lesson in what a masterpiece really is – but it could have had more fun with the subject
Bringing Baya back – what the Algerian artist means in Marseille today
The self-taught painter was hailed by the Surrealists as a master of ‘art naïf’ – but this exhibition makes clear that her work was rooted in the complex politics of her day
The Victorian bookcase that contains a whole cultural world
William Burges commissioned a singular piece of furniture with contributions from everyone who was anyone among his wide artistic acquaintance
The absolutely fabulous stars of stage and screen
The question of what makes a performer truly divine is at the heart of a rigorously researched exhibition at the V&A
Two shakes of a lamba’s tale – in Madgascar, a traditional garment tells new stories
A new generation of artists in the capital Antananarivo are boldly reinventing an emblem of national identity
The colourful life of Madame Yevonde
The advent of new technology transformed the photographer’s work in the 1930s – but it couldn’t last
Blown up: Yayoi Kusama goes big in Manchester
The city’s newest and largest arts space provides ample room for the artist’s large-scale inflatables, but it’s not all about size
Lights, camera, exhibition – see Vermeer on the big screen
The Rijksmuseum’s blockbuster has been recorded for posterity, but can a film really do the paintings justice?
The Met simplifies Cecily Brown
Linking the painter’s work directly to its source material downplays what makes it really interesting
Saint Francis, pure and simple
The saint may have lived a life of poverty, but this richly varied exhibition is anything but impoverished
Gwen John bares it all at Pallant House
The artist’s remarkable paintings of women are also a form of self-exposure
For Anne Collier, the eyes definitely have it
For the conceptual artist from New York, a show in County Wexford is a chance to focus on what it means to look – and to be looked at
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