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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
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
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