The most famous landscape in British art is the centre of attention in a display to mark the National Gallery’s bicentenary
These four artworks show how the imagination – the incubator of all human creativity – can be drawn on to conjure entirely new worlds
Curator Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev explains how the artist’s Venus of the Rags embodies the innovative spirit of the Italian movement
In Houston, the artist lets chance guide her hand in a series of drawings on paper and found materials, accompanied by several earlier works and a set of 16mm films
Works by Rembrandt and his student Samuel van Hoogstraten are hung alongside each other in Vienna to demonstrate their similarities and differences
The Italian artist’s bold experiments with geometric shapes are the subject of a comprehensive survey at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec’s striking scene is the centrepiece of this show at the Minneapolis Institute of Art about Paris nightlife in the 19th century
Plus: climate activists acquitted in Manchester, Hammer Museum appoints Zoë Ryan as its new director, and researchers find 7th-century throne room in Peru
To mark 50 years since the death of the poet Anne Sexton, we look at four artworks that demonstrate how women poets have long been a source of inspiration for artists
When working in her suntrap of a studio in Rome, the artist enjoys people-watching, listening to jazz and admiring an antique manhole cover made of travertine
