Reviews
Glasgow International plays tricks on the city
Scotland’s most ambitious biennial sets out to disorient – and largely succeeds
Picturing poverty in the 19th century
In her final book Linda Nochlin makes a case for painting that looks poverty in the eye
The making of modern America
Masterpieces of American modernism cross the pond for the very first time
The weight of history in Danh Vo’s readymades
Vo’s conceptual work serves as a reminder of the personal and political meanings carried by the objects around us
How the body became political for the women of Latin American art
In the turbulent decades of the 1960s to ’80s, female artists found creative ways to resist and transform the status quo
The mystery of The Paston Treasure painting
Who was the artist commissioned to record the Paston family’s collection – and what was the purpose of the painting?
Solving the mystery of the Silver Caesars
A mysterious set of Renaissance silverware has been reunited for the first time in centuries
The Brazilian paintings that made a splash in wartime Britain
The recreation of an exhibition of Brazilian modernism during the Second World War is a remarkable feat
On reading the Rifts of Richard Serra
The artist’s monumental drawings challenge the viewer to discover unexpected details in their pitch-black surfaces
Displays of power in Italian art under Fascism
The relationship between Italian art and politics reconsidered through restaged exhibitions from the Fascist era
Light exposure
Kate Flint’s history of flash photography highlights the uses of a technology many practitioners have mixed feelings about
Florentine painting in full colour
This catalogue of Florentine works in the Alte Pinakothek in Munich sets a new standard
How Van Gogh imagined Japan
The artist’s collection of Japanese prints gave him a new way of seeing the world
A first-class voyage through the golden age of ocean liners
Luxury, glamour and romance abound in the V&A’s celebration of the heyday of sea travel
Tacita Dean’s meditations on a medium
Two shows in London reaffirm the artist’s intense dedication to film and the moving image
The sculptures that dare to mean nothing at all
Karla Black’s playful new works subtly challenge the viewer to make sense of them
Mike Nelson sets up camp in Walsall
At the New Art Gallery the artist remakes an old installation exploring migration and belonging in Europe
What Magritte found out in Paris
The artist’s time in the French capital was not a success, but it formed his thinking about words and pictures
William Blake at heaven’s gate
What did William Blake really see when he looked at the Sussex landscape?
It’s time to recognise the radicalism of Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant
A rediscovered set of dinner plates depicting famous women prompts a reassessment of the pair’s artistic collaboration
Yto Barrada wrestles with the ghosts of Agadir
An exhibition that takes the Agadir earthquake of 1960 as its starting point is well framed in the brutalist surrounds of the Barbican
Keeping track of time in the Middle Ages
An exhibition at the Morgan Library examines medieval concepts of past, present and future
‘A total immersion within the landscape’
From Cornish coves to remote towns in Italy, a sense of place is central to the paintings of Peter Lanyon
The BBC’s ‘Civilisation’ reboot is fixed firmly in the present
The update of Kenneth Clark’s landmark series takes a more questioning approach to art history
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Master of art – the towering legacy of David Sylvester