Exhibitions

An artist often portrayed as an orthodox portraitist is depicted as having an ‘unquenchable thirst’ for innovation and experiment, finds Shahidha Bari

19 March

Celebrity creations and vintage gowns delight in an exhibition that marries social history and fashion, says Shahidha Bari

8 May

At Tate Britain, Leo Mellor finds potency, fatalism and beauty in depictions of transience, both gradual and cataclysmic

13 March

Alex Danchev delights in Tate Modern’s finely chosen feast of delicacies from the table of Paul Klee

17 October

Exhibitions on Ibrahim El-Salahi and Meschac Gaba evidence Tate Modern’s determinedly global sensibility, Shahidha Bari finds

18 July

Alexander Massouras on an exhibition of key works pointing to the sculptors’ shared fascination with organic forms

28 March

As the Queensland Art Gallery celebrates 20 years of its Asia Pacific Triennials, Peter Hill explores the latest edition of a remarkably pan-national affair

13 December

An exhibition foregrounds the people of Dresden and their many and contradictory stories rather than their historical tragedy, discovers Ulrike Zitzlsperger

29 November

Filled with treasures from around the globe and across the ages, England’s university museums are as varied as their funding, but those of Oxford and Cambridge still take the lion’s share of Hefce cash. Matthew Reisz on the changing roles of these repositories of knowledge

25 October

The Inside Out festival aims to fling open the doors of the academy and allow scholars’ work to roam free in London and engage with its many publics, writes Matthew Reisz

11 October

Merseyside is the perfect setting for an exhibition that explores departure points, national identity and the fluid nature of ‘British art’, finds Alexander Massouras

20 September

Peter J. Smith on a fresh view of the Bard via the prism of materiality and the playwright’s own socio-historical moment

26 July

Raphael Lyne on the shape-shifting fascination to be found in the meeting of Greek myth, Roman and modern British verse and Titian’s indelible hues

12 July

From the swinging Sixties of Shrimpton and the Krays to the 2012 Games, David Bailey’s eye captures ever-mutable London

5 July

Later works, photographic ones in particular, redefine the creator of The Scream as a 20th-century artist, observes Alex Danchev

28 June

An exhibition showcasing five decades of Yoko Ono’s work downplays her dark side in favour of more uplifting, regenerative themes, finds Helena Reckitt

21 June

The Bauhaus school is getting a retrospective in London, after a gap of more than 40 years. Alexander Massouras writes

3 May

Hugh Cunningham ponders our enduring nostalgia for childhoods past and asks if we still yearn for a Romantic ideal

29 March

Are the curiosities of dress of various native peoples really so different from those of today’s London ‘tribes’, asks Matt Lodder

22 March

Discussion of the merits of paired works used to be a sociable pastime. Has the fashion for chronological museology narrowed our experience, asks Sheila McTighe

15 March

The unflinching, fleshy landscapes of Lucian Freud's intensely powerful works are a feast for the senses, argues Alex Danchev

9 February

Alex Danchev applauds an artist whose depiction of events that others shy from aims to make the 'inexplicable more explicable'

6 October