Karlo Kacharava was only 30 when he died in 1984. In Georgia, he is regarded as a one-man avant-garde and his work is now being acclaimed abroad
Juxtaposing the Nobel Prize-winner’s writing with images of daily life shows that images can be read as well as looked at
The Italian designer’s pared-back approach to craftsmanship always prized the practical over the pretty
An exhibition in Venice of the French artist’s work is conceptually dense, but does it work in visual terms?
There are delightful discoveries to be made at this year’s event, but sometimes the central exhibition fizzles where it should spark
The rest of the city still has plenty to offer, from an exploration of the travels of Marco Polo to a celebration of Jean Cocteau’s genius
From the recent history of Timor-Leste to world-building in Bulgaria, this year’s shows present a rich and varied cross-section of contemporary art from around the world
The pop artist believed that artists should make work for the masses. Decades after his death, his images are everywhere
The maestro’s first contract with FC Barcelona, written on a napkin, has been withdrawn from auction after a dispute between his current and former agents
As the painter becomes older, the topsy-turvy figures that populate his invigorating canvases are becoming more skeletal
Part biographical survey, part crash-course in Lacanian thought, an exhibition about the psychoanalyst’s links to art could do with a sharper focus
The artist takes inspiration from Billie Holiday, El Greco and a pair of old Indian puppets when painting large-scale canvases in his East London studio
When he’s not using stadiums to realise his visions, the artist welcomes all manner of visitors, from school kids to tuk-tuk drivers, in his studio-cum-gallery in northern Ghana
• An interview with Alvaro Barrington
• The National Gallery in London at 200
• The sticky relationship between art and the oil industry
• How the Hirshhorn Museum keeps things fresh
Plus: the delicate art of Meissen, a bronze statue claimed by both Thailand and Cambodia, why art should be a multi-sensory pleasure, and a preview of TEFAF New York, and reviews of 15th-century French art in Paris, the Japan’s Arts and Crafts movement in London and Pierre Huyghe in Venice.
Maarten van Heemskerck’s expert renderings of Rome inspired his countrymen to see the city for themselves
The writer’s survey of interwar architecture is a monumental achievement that reminds us that modernism was only part of the 20th-century story
The out-lettuced PM has little time for culture in her memoir-cum-manifesto – unlike her Establishment enemy, the Bank of England
An exhibition in Antwerp celebrates the Belgian painter’s cosmic canvases – but it’s the 15th-century artworks hanging nearby that really put his achievements into perspective
The Norwegian painter was referring to Ibsen’s play ‘Ghosts’ when he painted his dream-like landscape of 1906
The founding father who was careful to cultivate his public image is played with gusto by Michael Douglas in a new TV biopic
The artist amassed one of the finest private collections of Indian court paintings, an activity that preoccupied him as much as making art
Peter Watkins’ 1974 film is no ordinary portrait of the artist – and feels more current than ever as the art-historical canon is up for debate
The painter’s final months in the care of Dr Paul-Ferdinand Gachet, a physician as interested in art as he was in medicine, were an extraordinarily productive period
The westward spread of modernist design between the wars was shaped by the migrant experience
The Kosovan, who began drawing pictures while at a refugee camp in Albania in the 1990s, is the latest artist to be given free rein of the Met’s roof garden
The artist’s first major solo show in the Nordic countries explores her fascination with Hitchcock, Bergman and the landscapes of Iceland
In the last 30 years of his life, the artist produce some of his most astonishing work, as this show at the British Museum attests
Horses, mythology and folk motifs abound in the painter’s early canvases, which show traces of what would become a distinctive abstract style
Has the Fitzwilliam still got the hang of things?
Though some regard it as provocative, it’s fairer to say that the museum’s sprucing-up of its paintings galleries is thought-provoking