Reviews

Hamilton never shied away from blatancy and delighted in mischievous shock and awe on his own terms

The artist has been given the run of the place, making and placing 18 works, as she put it to me, ‘wherever I could connect with something.’

Jill McManners’ watercolours of the forbiddingly beautiful Shiant Isles look compellingly out of place in central London

Creed asserts himself over the Hayward Gallery’s spaces and his presence is never entirely benign

The RMG’s self-reflective conference looked at how contemporary art can contribute to historic contexts

An exhibition of Hockney’s prints reveal him to be full of nervous energy and analytical precision

‘View Festival’ in London was a great success: it seems bizarre that nothing like this has ever taken place in the city before

This exhibition of Italian post-war art and design is refreshingly alert to the country’s complex political tensions

The BMA tries to graft German Expressionism onto a French family tree, but it shouldn’t overlook the movement’s specific concerns

This unusual exhibition is a delightful and energising experience

Life drawing and the mastery of the male form was an essential part of artistic study in the Victorian period. But what if the student was a woman?

‘Discoveries’ contains several lovely moments, but never really comes together to contribute more than the sum of its parts

George Condo is hot property right now, with two new solo exhibitions about to open in London. Does his new work live up to the hype?

Two fascinating books explore the significance of the depiction of animals in Mughal art

The Holburne has brought together a superb show that exceeds any limitations of scale or scope

The German and British Romantic landscapes at the Courtauld sing rather than shout of a new vision

An exhibition at the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris is an excellent introduction to Poliakoff’s dynamic yet quiet works

If you happen to pass the Shiba Gallery, a glance into the display room might reveal a species of painting with which you’re unfamiliar

‘Chance – Form – Language’ is a tight, neatly balanced show at Hauser & Wirth’s Savile Row gallery

Dada artist Hannah Höch’s witty, feminist work in collage and photomontage is as inspiring as ever

One set of Van Gogh’s Sunflowers was popular enough – it’s worth braving the crowds at the National Gallery to see two side by side

‘I do not want art for a few any more than education for a few, or freedom for a few’. The William Morris Gallery hosts Jeremy Deller’s playful, provocative, politicised art

James Robertson’s haunting 19th-century photographs are currently on display in Istanbul, the city that inspired them

How do you open a private collection up to the public? A recent symposium at the Courtauld Institute looked at the topical issue