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For the Loewe Foundation, there is no higher art than craft
It’s becoming increasingly difficult to tell whether the finalists of the annual Craft Prize are artisans aspiring to art, or artists getting crafty
The ancient role models that inspired women after the French Revolution
In the late 1790s, modern women looking for new forms of freedom were often inspired by distant and mythical histories
A tale of two British artists turns out to be a real whodunit
Why did Dorothy Hepworth allow her lover Patricia Preece to take the credit for her paintings? An intriguing exhibition at Charleston provides some clues
There’s more to Japan’s Arts and Crafts movement than meets the eye
In its telling of the story of the Mingei movement, the William Morris Gallery takes a refreshingly international approach
Crossed wires: the strange music of Tarek Atoui
At his best, the Beirut-born artist offers gallery-goers weird and wonderful new ways of experiencing sound
The photographs worth a thousand words, even if those words are by Annie Ernaux
Juxtaposing the Nobel Prize-winner’s writing with images of daily life shows that images can be read as well as looked at
Court in the middle – the arts in France under Charles VII
In the first half of the 15th century, artists drew on the Northern and Italian Renaissances to create a distinctly French cultural flowering
The artists who were obsessed with West Sussex
Blake, Constable and Ivo Hitchens all feature in Alexandra Harris’s account of a place she knows well, but it’s the more obscure figures who really shine
Enter the void with Pierre Huyghe
An exhibition in Venice of the French artist’s work is conceptually dense, but does it work in visual terms?
Getting back to basics with Enzo Mari
The Italian designer’s pared-back approach to craftsmanship always prized the practical over the pretty
Georg Baselitz turns the world on its head
As the painter becomes older, the topsy-turvy figures that populate his invigorating canvases are becoming more skeletal
The real deal – Jacques Lacan and the art of psychoanalysis
Part biographical survey, part crash-course in Lacanian thought, an exhibition about the psychoanalyst’s links to art could do with a sharper focus
The radical experiments of Yoko Ono
The artist’s vast body of work is full of daring conceits and tantalising contradictions
Does this year’s Venice Biennale live up to the hype?
There are delightful discoveries to be made at this year’s event, but sometimes the central exhibition fizzles where it should spark
‘The work of a lifetime’ – Interwar by Gavin Stamp, reviewed
The writer’s survey of interwar architecture is a monumental achievement that reminds us that modernism was only part of the 20th-century story
Jef Verheyen’s brush with the infinite
An exhibition in Antwerp celebrates the Belgian painter’s cosmic canvases – but it’s the 15th-century artworks hanging nearby that really put his achievements into perspective
The unstable bodies of Gabriella Boyd
For the Scottish painter, the line between figures and their surroundings can be intriguingly blurry
The Royal Academy reframes its past
The institution’s unravelling of its involvement with empire is very welcome, but has ‘Entangled Pasts’ bitten off more than one exhibition can chew?
The dreamlike visions of Julia Margaret Cameron and Francesca Woodman
Despite being separated by more than a century, the two photographers shared a distinctly hazy aesthetic
Faith Ringgold debunks the myth of the American dream
Faith Ringgold has died at the age of 93. In 2022, Nicole Rudick reviewed her New Museum retrospective, admiring the artist’s lifelong search for better stories to tell about the United States
How Stanley Kubrick did it his way
A new life of the auteur lays bare the obsessiveness behind his films and what it cost everyone around him
The problem with Paul Gauguin
There’s no doubt that the painter was an important and intriguing artist, but that doesn’t excuse his behaviour
The restless spirit of Sonia Delaunay
The artist’s irrepressible energy shines out in this survey of her long career at Bard Graduate Center, writes Eve M. Kahn
The beautiful but deadly world of Edward Burtynsky
In documenting the damage humans have done to the planet, the photographer has created a disturbingly thrilling record of environmental disaster
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