Reviews

Helen Mirren stars as Maria Altmann, an émigré Austrian Jew battling to have a painting returned to her after its theft by the Nazis

Grayson Perry takes the stage at Turner Contemporary; the Latona Fountain flashes into life at Versailles; and we take a sneak peek at some treasures of ‘Gold and Ivory’

For once, the influential artist’s work is left to speak for itself

Is London’s attention shifting away from Italian art?

Beautiful example of medieval painting, sculpture and decorative arts on show at the Louvre-Lens Museum

Homages to plaster casts and Portland stone; Chris Burden’s wonderful final work; plus, ‘has David Hockney been at the ketamine?’

Words and writing were as much a part of Basquiat’s art as his visual imagery

Reynolds may have fallen out of fashion, but a recent conference suggests there’s more to his works than meets the eye

Barbara Hepworth once called plaster ‘a dead material’. She was wrong

Palmer’s project for Artangel looks at the negative space left by some of the world’s great monuments

The hidden David Parr House in Cambridge; the Waddesdon Bequest; and the verdict from Venice

A joyless preference for the verbal over the visual at the Venice Biennale

Clough excelled at making art from the ugly and the overlooked

Is this remarkable house Cambridge’s best kept secret?

Yale institutions launch a Critique of Reason; a ‘fake’ in the Dulwich Picture Gallery; and a preview of Spring Masters New York

Sugar, starch and a menagerie of animals: the marriage banquet of Maria de’ Medici and Henri IV of France was a sight to behold

Enlightenment and Romantic artists had more in common than you think

Supersymmetry dazzles in the Vinyl Factory; Lawrence Lek empties the Royal Academy; and a horrible vision in Hammersmith

Our pick of the Venice Biennale; highlights from the Pompidou pop-up in Málaga; and the Jewish Museum’s celebration of TV

Artists in London respond to the situation in Ukraine

It’s hard to take luxury exhibitions very seriously