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  • Gainsborough: The Fashion of Portraiture

    Despite once saying he was sick of portraits, he was one of the most sought-after portraitists of his day and looking at the irresistible paintings in this delightful show it is easy to see why

  • The Dead Don’t Go Until We Do

    Histories of erasure, displacement, annihilation and colonisation are told with power, subtlety, clarity and – overwhelmingly – grace by four artists in this timely exhibition

  • Hurvin Anderson

    Anderson’s paintings, which here stretch across his career, blend his British and Caribbean influences as he explores themes of identity, memory and diaspora

  • Chiharu Shiota: Threads of Life

    Shiota’s immersive web-like installations, fashioned from coloured thread and found objects, are the focus here. But her dazzling creations eclipse any autobiographical messages

  • Paul Eastwood: Unreadings

    Eastwood, who is dyslexic, attempts to explore neurodiversity and the complexities of language, but though visually engaging, could the works do more to immerse us in his experience?

  • Maggie’s: Architecture That Cares

    Celebrating 30 years of the distinctive Maggie’s Centres for cancer care, this exhibition highlights the healing power of buildings and what good architects can achieve with a clear brief and an enlightened client

  • Euan Uglow: An Arc from the Eye

    His almost scientific methods of observation led him to take months, even years to finish a painting, but his undoubted technical brilliance and stark minimalism turned warm, human flesh into something austere and lifeless

  • A look behind the scenes of the travelling exhibition on Berthe Weill

    The show celebrating the pioneering Parisian avant-garde gallerist opened in New York before travelling to Montreal and then Paris. We spoke to the curators about the complicated logistics behind such an endeavour and consider how touring an exhibition affects its…

  • Hammershøi: The Eye That Listens

    A substantial retrospective reveals the mysteries and anomalies of a magnetic Danish master, whose oppressive interiors leave a haunting imprint on the mind

  • Barbados Museum & Historical Society challenges narrative around slavery

    These two fascinating, interrelated exhibitions – one of a 19th-century Black Barbadian, the other by a contemporary Barbadian-Canadian artist – pose intriguing questions about the past