The overlooked Cuban-American artist, who died in controversial circumstances aged 36, found ingenious ways to imprint her form on the landscape – and on contemporary art

Compton Verney pays loving tribute to the little-known interwar artist whose radiant designs graced Tube seats and Royal Mail stamps

A small but charming show captures the adventurous streak the Austrian artist brought to his sunstruck landscapes – but not everyone indulged his freedom to roam

Complete with knick-nacks, shrines, and bad tribute acts, what is missing from Tate Modern’s woeful show is Kahlo’s own work

By creating a ghoulish landscape of reds and blacks, the artist lives up to his superstar billing, but the spectacle never resolves into profundity

From My Parents and A Bigger Splash to his caustic character studies and iPad inventiveness, the late artist delighted in pushing creative boundaries right to the end

The late Argentine-born, Paris-based artist who bridged op art and kinetic sculpture with his signature Latin American flourishes is celebrated in an effervescent show full of whirling, buzzing and flickering installations

A luminous exhibition marking the Hollywood star’s 100th birthday captures the heart and heroism of the woman who gave her face to the world

The little-known Turner prize nominee’s first big show impresses with theatrical, lifesize figures full of human drama

How a raging egotist became a master of harmony and restraint

The French-Algerian artist’s installation at Tate Britain pays heartfelt homage to the film-makers of her parents’ homeland, but is more history lesson than cinematic experience

Mired in controversy, boycotts and creative whitewashing, at the 61st edition only a few great artists could cut through the noise

The monumental first UK exhibition of the Spanish baroque painter at the National Gallery never ceases to astound

Founded 125 years ago to bring great art to the East End, the gallery plays it safe with an opaque solo show that seems determined to keep you guessing

The schoolboy pretended he was a Russian gangster. In London Falling, Patrick Radden Keefe documents how that fantasy came up against brutal reality

Objects and images of long life prompt the question: how should we live well in old age?

The painter fuses recollections of post-Windrush life in the Midlands with the lush Caribbean homeland he never knew

The National Gallery’s exhibition reveals how the Leonardo-like painter turned science into art with his enigmatic horse paintings

At 91, the artist who paints the world with a childlike sense of fun becomes the first female painter to have a solo exhibition at the RA

The artist’s tortured, trailblazing work is gathered in a major retrospective