An enthralling retrospective at the Royal Academy of Arts, London, gathers 40 years worth of works in a diverse range of mediums

Jonathan Watkins’s triumphant swansong, after 23-years at the helm of Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, is the kind of historical show normally reserved for big public institutions

The origins of Gustave Courbet’s ‘Origin of the World’

An exhibition at Munich’s Alte Pinakothek reappraises Caravaggio’s influence

A remarkable exhibition of tiny paintings at London’s National Portrait Gallery

A new show at London’s Royal Academy examines the pleasure and pain of the human form 

‘I took his reviews in the Independent to be the baseline; what all art criticism looked like’

An insight into royal aesthetics's double nature: Charles I’s tastes and habits emerge as never before at London’s Royal Academy

Korean Cultural Centre, London, and Spike Island, Bristol, UK

A brief history of the Venice Biennale

Tim Smith-Laing talks to Rasheed Araeen about six decades of art making, writing and publication

Curator and author Paul Williamson talks about his long and distinguished career at London's Victoria and Albert Museum

Annely Juda Fine Art & The Mayor Gallery, London