Reviews

A pair of monumental landscapes painted in his later years offer an unusually personal glimpse of the artist himself

The British artist looked to nature to provide material for her surreal creations

The founder of Lettrism wasn’t the only avant-garde artist with a god complex, but he may have been the most messianic

A whirlwind journey through 5,000 years of Iranian civilisation charts change and continuity in a culture that has absorbed all manner of influences

Is it enough for Western museums to say how they came by their colonial-era artefacts – or should they just give them back?

The painter had a keen eye for crockery – and the best pieces from his collection got to star in his art

These great tapestries have a turbulent history that has seen them held by Russia and in Canada – but now they’re back in the rooms where they first hung

Clive Bell is now best known as Vanessa’s husband – but a new biography replenishes his role in promoting modernism in Britain

Collectors, curators and artists have been debating the category of American folk art since the early 20th century – as a display at the MFA Boston makes clear

The ‘Rethinking Guernica’ website allows us to scrutinise Picasso’s anti-war masterpiece in greater detail than ever

2 Tone began as a ska-inspired record label, but swiftly became a look and a political stance – and a defining moment in British cultural history

Paul Greenhalgh’s ambitious survey takes us from the ancient Greeks to Picasso and beyond

A survey of new Australian art presents a planet in crisis – but it’s more uplifting than it sounds

A retrospective at the Pera Museum in Istanbul demonstrates the vast geographic sweep of the Lebanese-American artist’s work and biography – including her Ottoman roots

In ‘What Artists Wear’, Charlie Porter casts an eye over the wardrobe choices of everyone from Barbara Hepworth to Jean-Michel Basquiat

A new biography of the British painter has a fine sense of his precocious talent – and real feeling for his rakish charm

A temporary display of the museum’s collection telescopes time and space to group objects thematically – but is this a productive path to follow?

This wide-ranging book explores how women artists used self-portraiture to establish themselves in a man’s world

The first survey show dedicated to the ‘Queen of Bohemia’ presents a flamboyant figure who was single-minded about her art

Emily Mortimer’s TV adaptation of Nancy Mitford’s novel is a wonderfully glamorous affair – and its anachronisms are whip-smart

In her portraits of imaginary people, the artist conjures a world that feels joyfully real