Bohemian rhapsodies – Augustus John and his brilliant friends
In a show at Piano Nobile, the artist and his circle vie for our attention with the women who made their art possible
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
The unfashionable art of Ruskin Spear
Tanya Harrod’s biography of the unfairly neglected painter champions his scenes of London working-class life
The British nudists who had their minds set on higher things
Annebella Pollen’s history of nudism in 20th-century Britain takes the movement as seriously as it took itself
‘This exhibition conflates the gallery and the brothel’
Sensationalist displays are no way to explore art and prostitution, writes Lynda Nead – and the Musée d’Orsay has got carried away with selling sex
The many faces of Mary Magdalene