Waldemar Januszczak

The actress’s evolution from bright-eyed starlet to curated blonde bombshell unfolds at the National Portrait Gallery. Watch our critic’s gallery tour and read his review

Is it fine art or pure mathematics? As a major MC Escher exhibition opens in London, we review the psychedelic world of the master printmaker

The world remembers his cheery colours but he was something pricklier, an artist who channelled the angers of his era

The artist conquers the awkward spaces of the Hayward Gallery in a fabulously Freudian display of sculptural arrogance

Our art critic was the first foreign journalist to interview China’s most celebrated artist — 23 years later, they talk David Hockney, politics and why he’s taking millions of buttons to Manchester

Watch Waldemar Januszczak’s guided tour of the Mexican artist’s triumph at Tate Modern and his verdict on the battalions of narcissists she inspired

Female photographers were frowned on in 1950s Japan. The Photographers’ Gallery puts the brave artists who broke the mould in the spotlight

The Victorian artist Richard Dadd produced the most extraordinary masterpieces from Bedlam and Broadmoor. Don’t miss this exhibition of his work at the Royal Academy

Lindsey Mendick has arrived from nowhere like a truck crashing through your living room wall — not even Tracey Emin told us so much about her turbulent love life

Gustave Fayet bankrolled Gauguin and amassed extraordinary treasures — why was he rejected by the establishment until now?