The Met takes the well-trodden story of chinoiserie over the centuries and gives it a welcome feminist twist
This year’s festival is the largest edition yet, but a display of outsize ambition doesn’t resolve its internal contradictions
The 19th-century painter’s views of the Valley of Mexico are at once scientific documents and odes to a landscape in flux
In MoMA’s mammoth survey, the abstract painter’s desire to question everything comes across loud and clear
Luma Arles celebrates E.A.T., an alliance of artists and engineers who created some of the most thrillingly eccentric artworks of the mid 20th century
Inger Christensen’s reissued take on the artist’s time at the Gonzaga court is as experimental as his work would have seemed to contemporaries
The artist made more than 100 drawings of the comic-strip character Nancy, and the results are profound as well as witty
The sculptor’s grotesque figures and expressive faces reflect us back to ourselves in uncomfortable and witty ways
Two exhibitions for the German painter’s 80th birthday show his great range, from maximalist masterpieces to surprisingly intimate works
The sculptor’s impressionistic works – and the photographs he took of them – always highlight the humanity of his subjects
Tutored in Paris in the 1920s, Dublin-born artists Mainie Jellett and Evie Hone brought a boldly avant-garde sensibility to traditional subjects
The invention of the telegraph in a fractured post-Revolutionary France collapsed time and space, changing visual culture for ever
The Edwardians are associated with elegance but an exhibition at the King’s Gallery in London suggests that excess was the hallmark of the age
The Pompidou presents African, Caribbean and American artists who could be free in the French capital in ways often denied to them at home
At the Morgan Library in New York, a selection of guides to foreign lands reveals a bustling Middle Ages full of fantastical visions
This chronicle of iconophagy – the act of consuming an image – is an enlightening if occasionally stodgy read
The ups and downs in the lives of photographer Joel Meyerowitz and the writer and artist Maggie Barrett makes for documentary dynamite
Self-portraits and depictions of family and friends build a picture of the ‘Scream’ artist as insider rather than outsider, more savvy than angsty
The artist’s mescaline trips in the 1950s and ’60s led to extraordinary acts of creativity, when he tried to pin down their effect on paper
Once a central figure in Chicago's mid-century art and jazz scene, this Surrealist painter was long forgotten – until now
A new study of the 16th-century painter highlights his musical training and makes some bold claims about attribution
The Design Museum’s deep dive into swimming shows that people have always felt the urge to get into the water, for survival, sport or fun
In the painter’s night-time scenes, occasional isolated figures play second fiddle to the anonymous urban settings they inhabit
As a selection of her essays makes clear, the eminent art historian has always been committed to looking as a means of understanding
