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Impressionists on Paper, Royal Academy: full of delicious little surprises
Almost all of the movement’s protagonists are represented in this neat, clear argument for reconsidering what we deem a ‘finished’ work
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Christo and Jeanne-Claude: Boundless, review: a fitting tribute to the the duo who wrapped the Reichstag
This absorbing, museum-quality new survey at the Saatchi Gallery reveals just how grand, rich and ususual the pair's artistic vision is
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Holbein at the Tudor Court: sketches of 16th-century statesmen that would have made Matisse proud
The paintings are grand, the miniatures fine – but it's Holbein's evergreen drawings that prove what an all-time great he was
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Women in Revolt!, review: an aggressively political triumph of conviction over talent
Tate Britain’s latest is a partial view of recent history shown via the middling work of second-wave-feminist artists – the result is a mess
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El Anatsui: the Turbine Hall has become a mesmerising catwalk
This latest exhibition deploys thousands of discarded liquor bottle tops to dazzling effect, in a piece as profound as it is poetic
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Philip Guston: timeless art that skewers evil with a savage intensity
From his Holocaust-derived imagery to Ku Klux Klan figures, Guston does not set out to ingratiate – and the results are astonishing
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Claudette Johnson: striking and beautiful – but untouched by greatness
There’s a compelling stillness, even a quiet grandeur, to her work – but the Courtauld is at risk of over-hyping her talent
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Turner Prize 2023: anarchic, dynamic Jesse Darling is this year’s only true contender
Amid a shortlist that otherwise ranges from witty and original to plain awful, one Berlin-based artist stands out a mile
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Frans Hals: a proper, unruly knees-up at the National Gallery
Only an uptight, teetotal naysayer could resist having fun at this retrospective for the great 17th-century chronicler of merriment
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New Scottish Galleries: a redevelopment that puts aesthetics ahead of socio-political matters
Where Tate Britain's recent rehang preechily failed, this £38.6 million project in Edinburgh is a conspicuous success
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This revelatory exhibition demolishes clichés about Rubens’s voluptuous women
The Dulwich Picture Gallery's clever show rescues the Flemish painter from accusations of lechery by showing a different side of his work
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Marina Abramović: only the barest bones of her former talent remain
The Royal Academy’s retrospective of the celebrated performance artist reveals that, over five decades, she has egregiously lost her way
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Colour Revolution: a garrulous party-guest of a show (for good and ill)
The Ashmolean's lively new exhibition hinges on the idea that the Victorians ushered in an all-new polychromatic age – but did they really?
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How Frans Hals taught the world to smile
From grins to guffaws, the National Gallery’s Frans Hals exhibition is full of the glee that few artists before him had dared to depict
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Tate Britain’s colossal new Grenfell mural offers hope, joy and solace
Lighting up the gallery’s north staircase for an entire decade, this radiant, commemorative Grenfell mural sanctifies the dead
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Black Atlantic is a ruffle-the-feathers moment for the Fitzwilliam Museum
This show examines how the transatlantic slave trade intersected with Cambridge's museums – but how brave is the Fitzwilliam really being?
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