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Paris 1874: Inventing Impressionism, Musée d’Orsay: at last, the truth about the Impressionists – they were a mess
This myth-demolishing show offers a fresh evaluation of the first Impressionist exhibition that opened in the French capital
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Bruegel to Rubens: forget the earnest wall labels – just enjoy the sex, violence and creepy-crawlies
This entertaining exhibition of 16th- and 17th-century drawings from the Low Countries has energy to spare and one clear star
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Francesca Woodman and Julia Margaret Cameron: fascinating exchanges between two photographers a century apart
This intelligent and exquisite new exhibition, Portraits to Dream In, reveals surprising connections between the two female artists
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The new Fourth Plinth commission is a confused, hollow exercise in ‘visibility’
The committee has chosen two new statues to stand in Trafalgar Square – and they’ve chosen badly
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‘It’s very bad art’: how the booming market in Hitler’s atrocious paintings inspired a new play
Found a Führer’s daubing in your attic? A new play at the Young Vic, Nachtland, imagines what happens next
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Yoko Ono: Music of the Mind: seven decades of avant-garde art, from mischievous to idiotic
This exhibition is enjoyable as a show of cultural history, but much of Ono's art is exasperatingly silly and trite
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Who was ‘Flaming June’? She’s in one of the world’s most famous paintings – yet remains a mystery
Leighton’s sleeping beauty, exhibited at the Royal Academy, is a masterpiece that may reveal the makings of a late Victorian It-girl
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Frank Auerbach, The Charcoal Heads: there’s a raw, vital power behind these haunted faces
These post-war charcoal portraits, on show at the Courtauld, bear a thousand marks recording the struggle of their genesis
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When Forms Come Alive: a surreal, bonkers show like this is the Hayward Gallery’s happy place
This invigorating, joyful exhibition on 'restless' sculptures from the past 60 years is full of surprises
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Zimingzhong: Clockwork Treasures from China’s Forbidden City: a spellbinding extravaganza of ostentation
These elaborate mechanical treasures may not chime with contemporary taste, but they are wondrous and otherworldly
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Barbara Kruger: Thinking of You. I Mean Me. I Mean You: satire so barbed and brilliant it’s impossible to look away
The scathing American artist – who turned 79 last week – still has her finger mercilessly on the pulse of late capitalism
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Entangled Pasts, Royal Academy: a ‘historically white institution’ grapples in vain with its colonial past
With the exception of a few memorable artworks, this overly academic and stilted exhibition fails to say or add anything new
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Legion: Life in the Roman Army: one of the most powerful British Museum exhibitions in memory
Ever wondered what it was actually like to be one of ancient Rome's 300,000 soldiers? This astonishing new show will tell you
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The Glass Heart: a glassmaking show that feels more like a jumble sale
Housed in a late-19th-century mansion by the Thames, this paean to all things vitreous has a few fine works, but too much of it is too naff
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New Contemporaries: cigarettes, scrotums and surreal beasts
For anyone interested in contemporary art, this curious hodge-podge should feel mostly invigorating and encouraging
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The British Museum is broken – here’s who could fix it
Applications have opened to lead the beleaguered institution. But whoever gets the job faces a herculean task
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