‘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,…
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…
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…
‘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…
Aphrodite review – a trashy way to treat the goddess of love
Ashmolean museum, OxfordShe’s the ultimate female nude, a Greek goddess who inspired centuries of artists. Yet despite some world-class loans, her story here is jumbledBotticelli’s Venus has parked her shell outside your house and come to pay a…
Balraj Khanna: Lines of Flight review – plenty of dazzle, but where is the darkness?
Ikon, BirminghamThis six-decade survey is a riot of biomorphic blobs, candy-coloured galaxies and cosmic spectacle – but the quieter works pack the biggest punchThe work of Balraj Khanna will be familiar to many residents of Birmingham, whether they know…
Renoir and Love review – the happiest exhibition of the year? Pourquoi pas!
National Gallery, LondonGrab your straw boater – and revel in these light-as-souffle masterpieces that celebrate life’s pleasures, from picnics to dances to frolics in the bushes‘They knew how to enjoy themselves,” David Hockney once told me, gleefully…
No island of strangers: why I’m using art to unite a fractured nation
Fear of outsiders is the defining issue of our times. But is it actually our own selves we’re scared of? And could art hold the answers? Here, the British Art Show’s curator reveals why he’s exploring our deepest dreams and nightmaresOne of the moral low…
‘I’m an everythingist’: How Es Devlin became the go-to for Beyoncé gigs, fashion runways and the Olympics
The Londoner is the set designer big names turn to for eye-popping spectacle. As a new retrospective opens, she gives the Guardian a glimpse at her studioFour years ago, the V&A East Storehouse in east London got in touch with Es Devlin. The museum’s…