New section Modern Women at Frieze Masters and much anticipated shows at the Barbican and Tate Britain in London offer unconventional histories of art by women
London’s institutions – including the newly reopened National Portrait Gallery, the V&A and Tate Britain – are evolving in the work they show and the way they show it. But what’s driving this cultural shift?
From Celeste Rapone's evocation of not-so-blissful domesticityat Josh Lilley, London, to Leo Robinson’s dense webs of allusion and appropriation at Chapter, Cardiff
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