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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
Rites and rituals take centre stage at the Liverpool Biennial
At the heart of a memorable but uneven event is the struggle to remember the transatlantic slave trade in appropriate ways
The guiding hand of Hugo van der Goes
The Netherlandish painter is a master of directing viewers to the telling detail
Rococo pops as a Rosalba pastel is fittingly framed
Murals by the pastellist Nicolas Party provide a temporary backdrop for a Venetian portrait
Will this year’s Serpentine Pavilion really get people talking?
Lina Ghotmeh’s structure presents Londoners with the terrifying prospect of interacting with strangers
Tinder for Tudors, and other Renaissance mating rituals
The Holburne Museum engages in a clever bit of matchmaking, with rarely shown paintings and all kinds of love tokens
How the wild things are
The British Library’s audio-visual tour of the animal kingdom doubles as a weird and wonderful history of natural history
Berthe Morisot, always in the moment
The painter went to great lengths to make her careful compositions look effortlessly spontaneous
The early modern artists who tried to study abroad
Larry Silver’s history of how northern European artists depicted other cultures could have taken a broader view
All change at the Venice Architecture Biennale?
With its focus on architects from Africa and its diasporas, the main exhibition curated by Lesley Lokko is a breath of fresh air
Mining meaning in Middlesbrough
Locals and celebrities have banded together to offer a compelling range of perspectives on the industrial history of the Yorkshire town
The unheimlich manoeuvres of Joanna Pietrowska
These photographs of domestic scenes and everyday encounters are very familiar and very unsettling
The coronation, reviewed
Amid all the pomp and the circumstance, the crowning of Charles III has much to tell us about the state of the nation
The Gwangju Biennale charts uncertain new waters
The current edition of Asia’s oldest biennial is far from perfect, though there’s a lot of very good art here
When did fashion photography stop being fun?
A trip through the Condé Nast archives now owned by François Pinault suggests that wit is no longer in vogue
Frank Auerbach faces himself
At the age of 91, the artist has produced a series of remarkable self-portraits, now on show at Hazlitt Holland-Hibbert
Sterling work – European silver at the Louvre, reviewed
A catalogue of the museum’s unrivalled collection of silver and gold is a thing of beauty
The French archaeologist who was a force to be reckoned with
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Reality check – ‘Tartan’ at the V&A Dundee, reviewed
A show about the many variations and chequered history of the fabric even lets visitors see what’s worn under the kilt
Self awareness – Alice Neel at the Barbican, reviewed
The painter who never stopped seeing her subjects as individuals described her works as ‘pictures of people’ rather than ‘portraits’
The magpie eye of Giovanni Bellini
The Musée Jacquemart-André shows that the painter was always open to new influences
Beneath the surface of Photorealism
The genre has often been dismissed as a kind of copying – but at their best, these paintings make us look again at the act of looking
Andy Warhol’s textiles are finally back in fashion
Painstaking sleuthing has tracked down the artist’s colourful commercial designs for garment manufacturers
How Sarah Bernhardt stole the heart of Paris
Nobody embodied the glitz and glamour of the fin-de-siècle quite like ‘La Divine’, as a lavish show at the Petit Palais proves
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