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  • Angelica Kauffman

    Finally, 256 years after Angelica Kauffman became one of its founding members, the Royal Academy is giving a solo exhibition to the artist who, despite the challenges to her sex, more than earned her place in history

  • Dominique White – interview: ‘I do everything the wrong way’

    Ahead of her Whitechapel Gallery commission, the winner of the Max Mara Art Prize for Women talks about manufacturing, mythology and submerging work underwater

  • Judy Chicago: Revelations

    After years of patriarchal prudishness and censorship, the vulva is now considered acceptable art world imagery. But does its dominance in Judy Chicago’s biggest UK institutional show so far reveal progress in gender equality or just her marketability?

  • Donald Rodney: Visceral Canker

    He was a young Black artist who railed against racism and sickness, both personal and in society. This retrospective, more than 25 years after his untimely death, is a reminder that his work is as relevant today as it was…

  • Phyllida Barlow: Unscripted

    Barlow’s playful approach turned found objects into composites that shone, while nodding to the artists she loved. Following her death last year, the curator here has attempted to reimagine rather than repeat her installations

  • Los Angeles: a round-up of the best on show

    The world may define Los Angeles by Hollywood, but the culture is better represented by the art

  • Paris 1874: Inventing Impressionism

    This glorious show recreates much of the first impressionist exhibition in 1874 alongside works from the traditional Salon that same year. And it does so both through the original artworks and via a state-of-the-art virtual walk through the impressionists’ world…

  • Emma Stibbon – interview: ‘We need the science, the data, but art can reach us in a more emotional way’

    Tackling issues of climate change and coastal erosion in both the local area and as far afield as the two Poles, Emma Stibbon’s drawings and installations serve as monuments to what may all-too-soon be gone

  • Vera Molnár: Speak to the Eye

    Molnár plays with geometry and form, exploring shape, line and colour, using algorithms and computers to generate work in which humour bubbles under. Sadly, she didn’t live to see this retrospective to honour her 100th birthday

  • Modigliani: Modern Gazes

    This multifaceted exhibition positions the artist Amedeo Modigliani among his contemporaries, traces the art historic roots that make up his unique style and highlights his early documentation of the modern woman