Rose Boyt’s memoir explores the highs, lows and contradictions of sitting for the artist

A London exhibition of the Expressionist movement aims to show that “there is more to the early Modernist period than starry, solitary male artists”

The Swiss-born portraitist and history painter was celebrated in her lifetime but later fell into obscurity

London show will explore the events that defined the women’s movement in Britain beginning in the 1970s, from the Equal Pay Act to Section 28

From Old Master portraits and grainy photographs to sculptures on chairs and naked performances

While the London exhibition has been developed in close collaboration with Abramović, the exact nature of her live participation is yet to be determined

London exhibition dedicated to the artist reveals how her approach to gardening was as enigmatic as her approach to portraiture

We take a look at the most exciting shows around the world this year

The best shows in London, Paris, Berlin, Sydney, New York and Washington, DC

Exhibition at the Musée d’Orsay shows how the 19th-century French artist's realism was a way of respecting the animals she painted

Artists Linder, Jadé Fadojutimi and Eileen Cooper exhibit recent work alongside selections from museums holdings around the country, creating new meanings and encouraging visitors to see the older pieces in a new light

The Scottish visual arts platform includes more than 35 shows this year throughout the capital

The curator of the Royal Academy of Arts exhibition says there is “joy in every work”

In her new book, Chloë Ashby explores the power of colour in art. Here, she takes us on a whirlwind tour and recommends four other fascinating new books on colour

From digital poohsticks to Mr Tumnus’s snowy footprints, this Oxford space is a place of great adventures

MK Gallery hosts the first British show of Vivian Maier, the American nanny who secretly took hundreds of thousands of photographs that first came to light in 2007

The author explains why his new coming-of-age novel is set against the backdrop of the 1990s art world and what drew him to the paintings of the titular Tiepolo

An exhibition at Pallant House Gallery explores the artist's life and the change of style that contributed to him being out of favour

Immersive show at the Parisian museum aims to show the varied output of the master of Catalan Modernism and go beyond his most famous work, the Sagrada Família

Our pick of new fiction with an art theme, from seasoned writers to exciting newcomers

In a career survey at MK Gallery, the Guyanese-born British artist and photographer continues her exploration of race, sexuality and identity with new works

The gallery’s outdoing director Iwona Blazwick tells us about the new exhibition and why she sees it as a clarion call to city dwellers

The American artist's first exhibition at a major UK museum presents new paintings and a film responding to the Romantic movement

From Shilpa Gupta's tribute to dissident writers to the UK debut of influential Georgian painter Karlo Kacharava

Largest solo exhibition of artist and activist draws on her early theatre design studies

Kunstmuseum Bern's major survey on the Swiss Surrealist aims to give an account of her long and varied career

Portuguese-British artist’s Tate Britain retrospective—her largest ever in the UK—spans her colourful 60-year career

The British artist's celebrated sculptures, as well drawings, paintings and fabric designs, go on show at the Hepworth Wakefield

The exhibition at the Leopold Museum includes Osen's sketches of electrotherapy patients, which were recently found in an attic

The survey at the Metropolitan Museum of Art will shed light on Neel’s recurring subjects, from family members and lovers to the bohemians and activists she collaborated with