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Artists are taking back control at the São Paulo biennial
The displays curated by artists at this year’s event are a welcome change from the traditional biennial format
Psychorealism by the sea with Grace Pailthorpe and Reuben Mednikoff
André Breton once described the pair as the ‘best and most truly Surrealist’ of British artists
Digging down into Turkey’s Neolithic city
Communities past and present are explored in Rossella Biscotti’s film of the excavations at Çatalhöyük
The dizzying mathematical designs of William De Morgan
The kaleidoscopic effects in the designer’s ceramics are largely down to his love of geometry
How four months in Martinique helped Gauguin make his name
The artist saw himself as an exotic outsider, and his voyage to the Caribbean in 1887 as a transformative experience
The colourful craft of Francis Upritchard
An inventive installation fills the Barbican’s Curve with a parade of handmade pots and hippyish characters
Fujiko Nakaya fills Boston’s parks with fog and shadows
Boston’s Emerald Necklace is an ideal setting for the Japanese artist’s enchanting fog sculptures
Concrete sheep and sleeping clowns at the South London Gallery
The theme of humour in contemporary art yields as many unnerving moments as laughs in a show across the gallery’s two sites
Reading the dreams of Robert Crumb
The great cartoonist is publishing 40-years’ worth of dreams and nightmares – and they’re every bit as crude as you’d image
The weird and whimsical worlds of Mika Rottenberg
The artist brings the contradictions and absurdities of global capitalism out into the open
The hidden gems of the Fitzwilliam Museum
The museum is showing off its collection of jewels and metalwork, from neo-gothic to art nouveau
Haute couture and holy robes at the Met
High fashion turns out to be no match for some lavish loans from the Vatican
Alice Kettle’s textiles stitch together the stories of refugees
An exhibition of the artist’s new large-scale textiles in Manchester bears witness to the migrant crisis
David Wojnarowicz’s art is as urgent now as it was in the 1980s
The playful, elegaic and militant qualities of the artist’s work make a powerful impression at the Whitney
Emotional intelligence at the London Design Biennale
Projects from over 40 countries and cities examine the links between design and emotion
The drawings that capture Ireland’s crumbling castles
John Nankivell has specialised in recording decaying historic buildings, but his work also provides some reasons for hope
How Liberty looked to the past to imagine the future of fashion
More than a century’s worth of Liberty fabrics and designs make for an enjoyable survey of the brand’s history
Gutenberg’s printed Bible is a landmark in European culture
A facsimile edition of the Gutenberg Bible represents a huge scholarly achievement
The many different faces of drag
How artists such as Ana Mendieta and Ulay have used drag to explore ideas about identity
Strange splendours at Ranger’s House
The diamond magnate and collector Julius Wernher was drawn to what he described as the ‘splendidly ugly’
In praise of the Louvre’s unparalleled collection of pastels
There’s nothing insipid about the museum’s outstanding holdings in the medium
Jiří Kolář’s collages cut up reality to devastating effect
The Czech artist’s unsettling work includes a vivid record of the crushing of the Prague Spring
What Roderic O’Conor learned from Van Gogh
The Irish painter takes his place among the Post-Impressionists in the first major survey of his work in many years
The Royal Collection puts its South Asian art on show
Art from the Indian subcontinent, from Mughal manuscripts to a peacock-shaped inkstand, makes a splash
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