Ranjit Singh: too much hero worship in this study of the ruthless ‘Napoleon of the East’
The Sikh warrior-king is a curiously overlooked and impressive historical figure – but this exhibition is overly enamoured with its subject
The Sikh warrior-king is a curiously overlooked and impressive historical figure – but this exhibition is overly enamoured with its subject
The pensioner provocateurs are still making shocking pictures – and winding up the Left-leaning art world
The current NPG director is a superb fundraiser with an elegant approach to the culture wars. But he faces a task that would test Hercules
Perth’s £27m new museum shows off the historical 335lb slab both in style, and amid a collection that has lost none of its eccentricity
In 1927, Rex Whistler’s mural was unveiled in the Tate Gallery restaurant – a new film, shown in the same room, now gives it a telling-off
The neoclassical Swiss artist’s exhibition at the RA seems like a no-brainer for a feminist age – but there’s little to thrill or elate here
This may be an academic exhibition, fit for a university town, but it understands why its famously eccentric subject still matters
This exhibition reflects the ascendancy of a new artistic establishment – black artists today aren’t marginalised, they’re mainstream
For a while it feels exciting to be swept up in the Gilded Age's opulence, but is there anything to this art other than sheen and sparkle?
Found a Führer’s daubing in your attic? A new play at the Young Vic, Nachtland, imagines what happens next
This exhibition is enjoyable as a show of cultural history, but much of Ono's art is exasperatingly silly and trite
Leighton’s sleeping beauty, exhibited at the Royal Academy, is a masterpiece that may reveal the makings of a late Victorian It-girl
These post-war charcoal portraits, on show at the Courtauld, bear a thousand marks recording the struggle of their genesis
This invigorating, joyful exhibition on 'restless' sculptures from the past 60 years is full of surprises
These elaborate mechanical treasures may not chime with contemporary taste, but they are wondrous and otherworldly
The scathing American artist – who turned 79 last week – still has her finger mercilessly on the pulse of late capitalism