El Greco and Modernism, Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf
Urs Fischer: Madame Fisscher, Palazzo Grassi, Venice
13 May 2012 12:00 AM
Careful curators let us see how a rebel Byzantine painter cast a spell over Picasso et al
Bauhaus: Art as Life, Barbican Gallery, London
06 May 2012 12:00 AM
This useful show leads us through Bauhauser paintings, furniture, even puppets, all forged in the years between the darkness of two world wars
Christian Louboutin, Design Museum, London
06 May 2012 12:00 AM
But they are designed to transport wearer and onlooker alike into a world rich with suggestion
Out of Focus: Photography, Saatchi Gallery, London
29 April 2012 12:00 AM
In the age of digital manipulation, the camera is having a identity crisis – and it's not a pretty sight
Glasgow International Festival of Visual Art, Various venues
22 April 2012 12:00 AM
The scale of this Scottish art festival makes others look meagre, and the quality of the work is very tasty too
Hans-Peter Feldmann, Sepentine Gallery, London
15 April 2012 12:00 AM
A German artist who arranges found objects claims that he is merely an archivist, but the stuff doesn't just fall out this way
Damien Hirst, Tate Modern, London
Gillian Wearing, Whitechapel Gallery, London
08 April 2012 12:00 AM
As the young Turks come of age, two shows reveal that their mature selves can be both nasty and nice
Remote Control, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London
04 April 2012 05:33 PM
As the television switchover springs us gaily into digital, that endlessly malleable world of glittering pixels, what is it that we are leaving behind us (aside from a mountain of outdated TVs)?
Zoe Leonard, Camden Arts Centre
02 April 2012 10:20 AM
The world usually rushes at us so quickly – its perfume, noise and changing weather, the skewing angles of our emotions and thoughts – that we find it hard to see.
Taking Time, Waddesdon Manor, Aylesbury
01 April 2012 12:00 AM
French artists of the ancien régime were rarely given to intimate, everyday studies – which is why Chardin's boys at leisure are so enticingly mysterious
Brains: The Mind as Matter, Wellcome Collection, London
01 April 2012 12:00 AM
It's a brain of two halves when those little grey cells come out to play
Keith Vaughan, Pallant House, Chichester
25 March 2012 12:00 AM
Here is a fine painter at his finest – whose pictures, despite their bulk, show humanity at its frailest in an overwhelming landscape
Miro: Sculptor, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Wakefield
18 March 2012 12:00 AM
Everyone knows Miro as the artist of big, colourful canvases – but this survey of his sculpture gives him another dimension
All About Eve: the Photography of Eve Arnold, Art Sensus, London
14 March 2012 01:37 PM
American photographer Eve Arnold, who died in January aged 99, was good with celebrities. Only, she called them ‘personalities’ – apt, given that’s exactly what she caught in her portraits.
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