Reviews

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

Exiled from their deserted piazzas, Giorgio de Chirico’s sculptural figures lack the uncanny appeal of his paintings

A round-up of the highlights from this year’s contemporary projects at the London Art Fair

‘A World of Private Mystery: John Craxton’ at the Fitzwilliam Museum celebrates the artist’s ‘unfashionably happy’ late paintings

Castiglione’s works at the Queen’s Gallery skilfully emulate, but never quite live up to, those of his more famous contemporaries

The authors of ‘Emerald’ present a sparkling visual and social history of the precious stone in this ambitious new publication

‘Yoga: The Art of Transformation’ at the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery takes an overdue look at the subject in art. Its powerful yogini statues steal the show

The story of the interrelationship of textiles, taste and commerce, is told with magnificence and aplomb by the Metropolitan Museum of Art

What can one write about art that is impossible to define? Laure Prouvost’s ‘Monolog’ at the Contemporary Art Society relies on its mistranslation

Dark but deeply compelling, Wael Shawky’s films at the Serpentine Gallery are a reminder of the power and unreliability of stories

Fausto Melotti, the quiet man of modern Italian sculpture, is given a first UK retrospective at the Waddington Custot Galleries

‘Antoniazzo Romano: Pictor Urbis’ at the Palazzo Barberini in Rome attempts to shed new light on this enigmatic artist’s career

‘We can’t avoid the romance of that era’… Kevin Francis Gray discusses the influence of classical art on his own work at Pace Gallery