The most famous British designer you have never heard of: Enid Marx is brought back into the well-deserved limelight.
Once again, this two-week festival has something for everyone. From a celebration of the centenary of the Caribbean artist Frank Walter to a survey of the work of documentary and portrait photographer Jillian Edelstein, here is a selection of some of the best it has to offer.
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The last of the great trilogy of female artists to have a retrospective at Tate Modern this summer – and by no means the least.
This show at Norway’s new grain silo turned modern art museum explores the influence of expressionism and surrealism on the leading Nordic painters of the 20th century.
It’s all go in Los Angeles. On the heels of LACMA’s stunning new Geffen wing comes Dataland, the world’s first museum dedicated to omni-sensory, AI-generated art, George Lucas’s Museum of Narrative Art, which will open in September, followed in November by the the overhauled Samuel Oschin Air and Space Centre where the mighty space shuttle Endeavour will be on show to the public.
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The shadows of Brexit, the Scottish independence debate and many current border conflicts loom large as 20 artists works explore the personal, cultural and political dimensions of borders.
Prevented by a mental health crisis from finishing her studies at the Royal Academy, she continued to make work, using it to bring attention to harmful practices in the psychiatric system.
Barbican’s latest exhibition is a treasure trove of work by African-descended artists, hamstrung by obtuse organisation.
Enjoying a double bill in Bath, Brown has playfully inserted a selection of his fantastical grotesques into the Holburne Museum’s collection of 18th-century portraits, while at No 1 Royal Crescent his grotto-like installation is ostentatious and enjoyably camp.
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Giving voice to the shame of those with long-term illnesses and disabilities, this mixed exhibition is much needed and long overdue.
With about 80 paintings along with archival documents, this elegant presentation makes clear how Hartung’s love of music infused his art.
The most promising student of his year at the Royal Academy Schools returns to his alma mater and, for the first time, is celebrated for his art, not his madness.
This archival exhibition, curated by the graphic designer Fraser Muggeridge, charts appearances of the French conceptual artist’s work and trademark stripe in printed magazines, books and ephemera over the past 60 years.
This intimate biography draws on the author’s friendship with Anni and her husband, Josef Albers, and is a wonderful addition to the legacy of her life and work.
Timed to perfection, marking Le Parc’s death in May, this exhibition spills beyond gallery limits into the fabric of the building.
In the Dominican painter’s first European institutional solo exhibition, friends, family and the artist herself mingle with animals and chimerical creatures amid the lush vegetation of the tropical rainforest.
Focusing on his large works from the 1960s to early 1970s, this exhibition is proof that his technique of showering dots of paint on to canvas created mesmerising paintings.
The delicate, meticulously observed landscapes of this Biedermeier master form a crucial bridge in the history of western landscape painting.
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Don’t be distracted by the unnecessary fillers and ‘Fridamania’ paraphernalia – the 30-plus works by Kahlo, hidden among this dross, more than hold their own.
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Including drawings and sketchbooks, models and maquettes, this retrospective is the largest solo exhibition of Gormley’s work to be staged in Europe.
This impressive new facility for temporary exhibitions sits in the heart of Bruges’ historic museum quarter, and with an unashamedly modern building, its Belgian architects have conjured something potentially transformative for the city’s culture.
The 10th edition of this unique biennale in the spectacular landscape of the Dolomites explores ecology, climate change, children’s stories and play through the theme of the garden.
Though best known as the author and illustrator of children’s books, in particular Where the Wild Things Are, he was also an opera aficionado who designed sets and costumes, starting with The Magic Flute.
