Rosanna McLaughlin explores how the late feminist artist redressed politics and power in her semi-autobiographical paintings
These are the best exhibitions of the year – from a chronically overdue retrospective of Paula Rego to a debut offering of obfuscated, sexualised sculpture by Jack O’Brien
From Paula Rego’s unflinching women to Ellen Harvey’s mournful, forgotten buildings, these are the best institutional shows in the UK
The painter’s largest retrospective to date, at Tate Britain, cements her place as one of Britain’s most inventive and compelling living artists
From an exhibition of Francis Bacon’s ‘beasts’ to Terrence Malick’s film on the life of Christ, these are the top picks for the year
From Lynette Yiadom-Boakye in London to Mary Quant in Dundee
How the artist’s work expressed the feeling of being silenced
The intermingling of art and illustration in the work of Catrin Morgan, Jockum Nordström, Tomi Ungerer
