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Monet and London: Views of the Thames Courtauld Gallery, until 19 January For the maids on the top floors of the Savoy, everything was in turmoil. The 6th had been [...]

Paris 1924: Sport, Art and the Body The Fitzwilliam Museum, until 3 November George Orwell took a dim view of competitive sport; he found the idea that 'running, jumping and [...]

Van Gogh: Poets and Lovers National Gallery, until 19 January Van Gogh only got one major review in his career, and he was mystified by it. When the critic Albert […]

Leonora Carrington: Rebel Visionary Newlands House Gallery, Petworth, until 26 October 'It had nothing to endow it with the title of studio at all,' was Edward James's first impression of [...]

Hockney and Piero: A Longer Look National Gallery, until 27 October The lunatics were once in charge of the asylum. The first six directors of the National Gallery were all [...]

Flights of Fancy: Birds at Waddesdon Waddesdon Manor, until 22 October People don't accumulate stuff any more. When the late Victorian houses on our street change hands their interiors are [...]

Revealing Nature: The Art of Cedric Morris and Lett-Haines Gainsborough's House, Sudbury, until 3 November When the 15-year-old Maggi Hambling arrived at Benton End in Hadleigh, Suffolk - home of [...]

In a recent interview Oleksandr Syrskyi, the new commander-in-chief of the Ukrainian army, said that he spends his time off reading books on the country's 'difficult history'. If even he [...]

Peggy Guggenheim: Petersfield to Palazzo Petersfeld Museum and Art Gallery, until 5 October On 24 April 1937 Marguerite Guggenheim--known as Peggy--of Yew Tree Cottage, Hurst was booked by a certain [...]

Turner: Art, Industry & Nostalgia Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle, until 7 September Wladyslaw Mirecki: Chappel Viaduct Arches East Anglian Railway Museum, Essex, until 18 August On the back of the [...]

Van Gogh owned a copy of Utagawa Kunisada's woodblock print of the 'Yoshiwara Poet Omatsu' (1861), which is currently on display at the Watts Gallery. It depicts the poetess who [...]

Lowry and the Sea Granary Gallery, Berwick-upon-Tweed, until 13 October In 1958 an elderly gentleman staying at the Castle Hotel in Berwick-upon-Tweed gave the receptionist a doodle he had made [...]

Discover Degas & Miss La La National Gallery, until 1 September 'Can you come Saturday morning to my studio, 19 bis rue Fontaine?' Degas wrote to Edmond de Goncourt in [...]

The Shape of Things: Still Life in Britain Pallant House Gallery, Chichester, until 20 October 'The tyrannical rule of nature morte is, at last, over,' announced Paul Nash in the [...]

Now You See Us: Women Artists in Britain 1520-1920 Tate Britain, until 13 October Beryl Cook / Tom of Finland Studio Voltaire, until 25 August In a Victorian art dealer's [...]

'I was one of your original customers in Kensington Church Street,' I tell the founder of Biba when we meet. 'Are you coming to complain?' she shoots back. At 87 [...]

Michelangelo: the last decades British Museum, until 28 July You're pushing 60 and an important patron asks you to repeat an artistic feat you accomplished in your thirties. There's nothing [...]

Expressionists: Kandinsky, Munter and the Blue Rider Tate Modern, until 20 October 'We invented the name Blaue Reiter whilst sitting around a coffee table in Marc's garden at Sindelsdorf... we [...]

Bruegel to Rubens: Great Flemish Drawings Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, until 23 June The term drawing is a broad umbrella, so in an exhibition of 120 works it helps to outline [...]

Frank Auerbach: The Charcoal Heads The Courtauld Gallery, until 27 May Francis Picabia - Women: Works on Paper 1902-1950 Michael Werner Gallery, until 11 May 'In some curious way, the [...]

Angelica Kauffman Royal Academy of Arts, until 30 June Angelica Kauffman's funeral in Rome in 1807 was designed by her friend Canova on the model of Raphael's. The corpse of [...]

William Blake's Universe The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, until 19 May Among the documents in the West Sussex Record Office is an indictment for sedition of a certain William Blake. During [...]

Sargent and Fashion Tate Britain, until 7 July Madame Ramon Subercaseaux, the beautiful wife of a Chilean diplomat, was not a Parisienne. So when the 25-year-old John Singer Sargent's portrait [...]

When Forms Come Alive Hayward Gallery, until 6 May In case you didn't know, we live in a 'postminimalist' age, sculpturally speaking. Not a maximalist age, though some of the [...]

Lucy Harwood: Bold Impressions Firstsite, Colchester, until 14 April 'Welcome to England's Most Misunderstood County', reads an imitation road sign inside the entrance to Firstsite gallery. It's part of 'The [...]

Pasquarosa: From Muse to Painter Estorick Collection, until 28 April In February 1929, an exhibition by a young unknown female painter opened at the Arlington Gallery on Bond Street. This [...]

James Gillray: Characters in Caricature Gainsborough's House, Sudbury, until 10 March 'I hope the day will never come when I shall neither be the subject of calumny or ridicule, for [...]

Kim Lim: Space, Rhythm & Light The Hepworth Wakefield, until 2 June Elisabeth Frink: A View from Within Dorset Museum & Art Gallery, until 21 April In 1989, the sculptor [...]

It's too dark and life is too short,' was Walter Sickert's explanation of his decision to leave London in 1898. Separated from his first wife Ellen Cobden and in financial [...]

Yinka Shonibare CBE: Suspended States Serpentine South Gallery, until 1 September Dame Magdalene Odundo Houghton Hall, until 29 September More than seven centuries ago, the medieval cartographer Richard of Haldingham [...]

Impressionists on Paper: Degas to Toulouse-Lautrec Royal Academy of Arts, until 10 March 2024 Viewers have different relationships with small pictures, or perhaps it's the other way round: small pictures [...]

Nicole Eisenman: What Happened Whitechapel Gallery, until 14 January 2024 R.B. Kitaj: London to Los Angeles Piano Nobile, until 26 January 2024 There's a photograph in Nicole Eisenman's Whitechapel exhibition [...]

Beyond the Page: South Asian Miniature Painting and Britain, 1600 to Now MK Gallery, Milton Keynes, until 28 January, then touring to the Box, Plymouth In 1633, British merchants travelling [...]

Philip Guston Tate Modern, until 25 February 2024 Georg Baselitz: Sculptures 2011-2015 Serpentine South Gallery, until 7 January 2024 Why do painters represent things? There was a time when the [...]

Rubens & Women Dulwich Picture Gallery, until 28 January 2024 'She is a princess endowed with all the virtues of sex; long experience has taught her how to govern these [...]

Edward Lear: Moment to Moment Ikon Gallery, until 13 November 'It seems to me that I have to choose between 2 extremes of affection for nature... English, or Southern... The [...]

Yoko Ono: Music of the Mind Tate Modern, until 1 September The first I heard of Yoko Ono was when my sister's boyfriend brought home a little book of hers [...]

Lost boys, lost women, lost civilisations, lost causes--the romantic ring of the word 'lost' is media gold. So when the British Museum announced last autumn that it had acquired 103 [...]

Black Atlantic: Power, People, Resistance Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, until 7 January 2024 What happens when a museum outlives the worldview of its founder? For publicly funded museums with collections amassed [...]

Christian Marclay: Doors White Cube, Mason's Yard, until 30 September Tenant of Culture: Ladder Soft Opening, until 21 October Sliding doors may change your life, but there's no mystery in [...]

A World of Private Mystery: British Neo-Romantics Fry Art Gallery, until 29 October 'My daughter's moving to Saffron Walden, away from all this,' said the railway man at Stratford station, [...]

AI: Who's Looking After Me? Science Gallery, until 20 January 2024 A little-known fact about the Fairlight Computer Musical Instrument, the first sampling synthesiser, introduced in 1979, is that it [...]

In Her Own Voice: The Art of Lucy Kemp-Welch Russell-Cotes Art Gallery & Museum, Bournemouth, until 1 October Munnings: Colour and Light The Munnings Art Museum, Dedham, until 22 October [...]

To Boldly Sew: Textile Art by Alice Kettle 99 Bishopsgate and 30 Fenchurch Street, until 29 September Threads: 'Breathing Stories into Materials' Arnolfini Bristol, until 1 October Trophy office blocks [...]

The Magic of the Silver Swan Bowes Museum, until 7 January 2024 At the Paris International Exhibition of 1867, Mark Twain was mesmerised by a life-sized silver swan with 'a [...]

Capturing the Moment Tate Modern, until 28 January 2024 'Photography has arrived at a point where it is capable of liberating painting from all literature, from the anecdote, and even [...]

Art and Artifice: Fakes from the Collection Courtauld Gallery, until 8 October In 1998 curators at the Courtauld Institute received an anonymous phone call informing them that 11 drawings in [...]

Gwen John: Art and Life in London and Paris Pallant House Gallery, until 8 October Berthe Morisot: Shaping Impressionism Dulwich Picture Gallery, until 10 September In the rush to right [...]

Hilma af Klint & Piet Mondrian: Forms of Life Tate Modern, until 3 September In July 1928, an unknown Swedish woman artist mounted a solo show of her revolutionary abstract [...]

The Rossettis Tate Britain, until 24 September 'A queer fellow' is how John Everett Millais described Dante Gabriel Rossetti after his death, 'so dogmatic and so irritable when opposed.' What's [...]