‘What could be discovered? What is new there?’: blockbuster exhibition celebrates Roy Lichtenstein
The often-criticised pop artist is the focus of a monumental new survey including rarely seen pieces and ambitious new restagings at New York’s Whitney Museum When the American artist Roy Lichtenstein created his monumental Greene Street Mural in 1983,…
From The Social Reckoning to Harriet Kemsley: your complete entertainment guide to the week ahead
Jeremy Strong plays Mark Zuckerberg in Aaron Sorkin’s sequel to The Social Network, and the Last One Laughing star reckons with divorce in her new standup tourThe Social ReckoningOut nowThe David Fincher-directed The Social Network has only come to seem…
Remember Me review – narrow view of two photographic centuries is like a history of food in three ham sarnies
Bourse de Commerce, ParisThere are 700 works from François Pinault’s collection on display – more than half of them by Irving Penn – but it’s a blinkered selection and annoyingly didactic‘Beware … of assuming the sterile attitude of the spectator, for…
Willem de Kooning review – the artist’s lifelong rebellion against himself is thrilling to watch
Rijksmuseum, AmsterdamMarking a century since the Dutch artist stowed away to New York, this vast retrospective gloriously showcases the abstract expressionist’s fierce boundary-pushingWillem de Kooning was the last great artist who really knew how to…
The woman with the mattress: the radical, rage-fuelled history of anti-rape art
A performance piece from 2014 has gone viral in response to an allegation of rape at Cornell University. But with such defiant pieces stretching back hundreds of years, will things ever change?In September 2014, Emma Sulkowicz began to carry a blue…
Lourdes gets a Vegas glow-up at Dublin theatre festival, where canvases are slashed
A musical about a drama group’s pilgrimage and reflections on activist art join an intriguing show about lost languagesIn a Dublin theatre festival programme tackling heavy themes of racism, conflict and prejudice, Lourdes! The Musical (★★★★☆) promises…
Crush-worthy photography, camp sci-fi and a centenarian’s florals: five free exhibitions to see
A little exhibition of Daidō Moriyama at his artiest and strangest, like Warhol with added filth, is among the best on show in London’s free-entry commercial galleries this weekIf it’s a crime to have a crush on an elderly avant garde Japanese street…
Robert Ryman review – can your brain handle a show that only has white paintings?
Barbican Art Gallery, LondonWhat seem at first indistinguishable canvases offer challenges, revelations and transcendental effects – but only if you can give yourself over to themWriting about painting is a futile exercise at the best of times. This is…
‘My poetry won me asylum’: Cecilia Vicuña on exile life in ‘sad’ Britain after Pinochet’s coup
Five decades after convincing judges she’d be killed if she returned to Chile, the artist is back with a politically charged retrospective in the country she grew to loveCecilia Vicuña was 24 when she first arrived in London. She had come from Santiago…
The 90s: Art and Fashion review – this isn’t an exhibition, it’s a magazine spread
Tate Britain, LondonThe Young British Art of the 1990s was brash and macabre but also intelligent and emotional. This breathlessly superficial show reduces it to a stylish poseJake and Dinos Chapman were dismissed by some even in the 1990s as overgrown…