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Who should we believe about the British Empire?
Drawings and watercolours of India belonging to a Scottish railway engineer take on new meaning if we look for what they don’t show
The optical allusions of Constantin Brancusi
Identifying the inspirations for the Romanian sculptor’s enigmatic works remains quite the puzzle
The British colourist who passed down the lessons of Matisse
Matthew Smith’s striking use of colour, learnt from the Post-Impressionists, left a mark on the British artists who succeeded him
The burning ambitions of Roger Ackling
Using nothing but a magnifying glass and the sun’s rays, the artist created sculptures that defy easy categorisation
The Renaissance patrons who were no saints in religious paintings
Christopher Wood’s account of a turning point in early Renaissance art is typically demanding and always stimulating
The British collectors who developed a decided taste for Degas
William Burrell came to own 23 paintings by the artist, but an exhibition in Glasgow shows that his contemporaries were just as appreciative
When Robert Rauschenberg went on tour
The artist spent much of the 1980s making works inspired by his international trips – and showing off the results in the countries themselves
The artists who were obsessed with West Sussex
Blake, Constable and Ivon Hitchens all feature in Alexandra Harris’s account of a place she knows well, but it’s the more obscure figures who really shine
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
For the Loewe Foundation, there is no higher art than craft
It’s becoming increasingly difficult to tell whether the finalists of the annual Craft Prize are artisans aspiring to art, or artists getting crafty
The ancient role models that inspired women after the French Revolution
In the late 1790s, modern women looking for new forms of freedom were often inspired by distant and mythical histories
A tale of two British artists turns out to be a real whodunit
Why did Dorothy Hepworth allow her lover Patricia Preece to take the credit for her paintings? An intriguing exhibition at Charleston provides some clues
There’s more to Japan’s Arts and Crafts movement than meets the eye
In its telling of the story of the Mingei movement, the William Morris Gallery takes a refreshingly international approach
Crossed wires – the strange music of Tarek Atoui
At his best, the Beirut-born artist offers gallery-goers weird and wonderful new ways of experiencing sound
Court in the middle – the arts in France under Charles VII
In the first half of the 15th century, artists drew on the Northern and Italian Renaissances to create a distinctly French cultural flowering
Enter the void with Pierre Huyghe
An exhibition in Venice of the French artist’s work is conceptually dense, but does it work in visual terms?
Getting back to basics with Enzo Mari
The Italian designer’s pared-back approach to craftsmanship always prized the practical over the pretty
Georg Baselitz turns the world on its head
As the painter becomes older, the topsy-turvy figures that populate his invigorating canvases are becoming more skeletal
The real deal – Jacques Lacan and the art of psychoanalysis
Part biographical survey, part crash-course in Lacanian thought, an exhibition about the psychoanalyst’s links to art could do with a sharper focus
The radical experiments of Yoko Ono
The artist’s vast body of work is full of daring conceits and tantalising contradictions
Does this year’s Venice Biennale live up to the hype?
There are delightful discoveries to be made at this year’s event, but sometimes the central exhibition fizzles where it should spark
‘The work of a lifetime’ – Interwar by Gavin Stamp, reviewed
The writer’s survey of interwar architecture is a monumental achievement that reminds us that modernism was only part of the 20th-century story
Jef Verheyen’s brush with the infinite
An exhibition in Antwerp celebrates the Belgian painter’s cosmic canvases – but it’s the 15th-century artworks hanging nearby that really put his achievements into perspective
The unstable bodies of Gabriella Boyd
For the Scottish painter, the line between figures and their surroundings can be intriguingly blurry
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