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Harry Clarke’s uncanny visions of Ireland
The illustrator and designer of stained glass fused Irish and European traditions to create an intriguing new idiom
How Victorian London inspired Vincent Van Gogh
The Tate explores how the painter’s eyes were opened to new influences during his time in the city
Funny and unflinching – Eleanor Antin bares all at LACMA
The now-octogenarian artist has revisited her most famous work – and it only gets better with age
Munch’s prints are obsessive and repetitive – but a revelation all the same
He took to the medium with great speed, producing works that display a rich debt to the Old Masters
Canes, corsets and peacock feathers – ‘Boldini and Fashion’ reviewed
The Ferrarese painter spent his career capturing the whims of fashion – but the results are far from superficial
Walter Gropius: the man who built the Bauhaus
Fiona MacCarthy’s biography suggests that the architect’s greatest achievement may have been to assemble so much talent in one place
The painter who made his name on the Western Front
Alfred Munnings was an official war artist who took a curiously pastoral approach to the conflict
The most influential and most detested architect of the modern age
Philip Johnson was not the most talented modern American architect, but he was certainly the most important
Lavish tapestries and pious paintings – Bernard van Orley weaves his magic in Brussels
The Flemish master, whose workshop was one of the busiest in 16th-century Brussels, gets his first major survey in the city of his birth
Flowers, hyenas and haunted hotels – the surreal world of Dorothea Tanning
The Tate’s survey of Tanning’s long career testifies to her lifelong commitment to Surrealism
David Salle puts a new spin on history painting
The painter’s witty and deceptively effortless works combine high and low culture to enjoyable effect
Andrea del Verrocchio steps out of the shadow of his star pupil
The Florentine master, who took Leonardo as an apprentice, was perhaps the most influential artist of his day
Oil slick – the smooth dealings of Calouste Gulbenkian
Where both petroleum and art were concerned, the 20th-century tycoon positioned himself for rich pickings
Cartoons and camaraderie – the Chicago Imagists, reviewed
In the 1960s and ’70s Chicago was the home of a movement that gleefully broke all the rules of good taste
Gerhard Richter, Steve Reich and Arvo Pärt put on a show
Their joint commission for the Shed includes choirs, orchestras and lots of colour – but is it smaller than the sum of its parts?
H.C. Westermann’s sinister visions of post-war America
His experiences as a marine gunner in the Second World War and Korea made a lasting impact on Westermann’s art
‘How do you solve a problem like Thérèse?’ – Balthus in Madrid reviewed
Balthus’ strange, dream-like paintings deliberately set out to unsettle viewers
A new tower of Babel rises in the Bodleian Library
We know what translation can do – but what does it look like? Eight centuries of multilingual activity is on show in Oxford
Sheela Gowda shows her extraordinary works made out of everyday materials in Milan
The artist’s installations seem completely at home in the HangarBicocca
Julian Schnabel makes us see through Van Gogh’s eyes – At Eternity’s Gate reviewed
The film tries to imagine what being the painter was like – the results are as stressful, and appealing, as you might expect
The Dutchman who shaped our view of Italy
Celebrated abroad, but little known at home, Caspar van Wittel more or less singlehandedly invented view painting
Flooded streets and cars at sea – the watery world of Nick Goss
Goss experiments with traditional painting techniques to depict scenes of everyday life with a dreamlike twist
Channel crossings – Britain’s patchy history of collecting French art
A catalogue of the National Gallery’s 18th-century French paintings points to past peculiarities of British taste
Siah Armajani’s language of exile
The Iranian-born sculptor gets his first retrospective in his adopted home country of America
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