

An anniversary year has featured as many scorching takedowns of Picasso’s character as it has paeans to his genius
Southend’s adoption of European culture cannot fix all its problems but it is having shocking social impacts
Celebrating a rediscovery of the Norwegian realist who used colour combinations ‘like chords sounding in perfect harmony’
Jens Haaning’s fans call the stunt a daring conceptual piece of satire. However, a Danish court says it’s a crime
A new exhibition in Basel aims to put women at the centre of the previously male-dominated Fauvism movement
Never a religious man, at the end of his life converting a damp garage into a chapel became an unlikely obsession
The former Tory culture secretary and Boris Johnson superfan has written an astoundingly bad book
Instead he chose the path to No 10 and we are all paying the price
The first recorded purchase of Shakespeare’s collected works came 400 years ago – and the compendium soon crossed into Europe
A top BBC boss tried to fix who chaired its regulator, Ofcom. Now the corporation won’t set the record straight
The Canadian author only writes one book each decade. But her latest novel, Held, shows why it’s worth the wait
He wrote three operas with Mozart and ended up working at a grocers in New York City: meet Lorenzo da Ponte
There was no other with his extraordinary improvising in the medium
Vast, desolate and magically odd – what is it about Iceland that makes musicians so desperate to record there?
She is a one-off and her memoir reads as such
A new book by photographer Kevin Cummins captures the ghost of the Thin White Duke in the German city he once called home
Joe Biden is too old and Donald Trump is too divisive – is a Taylor-made change on the horizon?
The American actor’s solo show is eloquent – if sometimes self-indulgent
Dziga Vertov’s film changed cinema and outlasted the USSR – now it’s raising awareness of Ukraine’s fight
Ridley Scott’s epic didn’t exactly win over viewers in France
She is a one-off and her memoir reads as such
This Joaquin Phoenix epic fails to nail its big idea, or the motivation of its subject
A German’s documentary about an end-of-the-pier show in Norfolk might be the best movie yet about Brexit
Why twisty French thriller Anatomy of a Fall is tipped to win the Best Picture Oscar
The American actor’s solo show is eloquent – if sometimes self-indulgent
Backstairs Billy captures the charm of an eccentric keeper of royal secrets
The 7 Deaths of Maria Callas is framed around a catalogue of operatic demises
The latest reboot of Sunset Boulevard veers into self-indulgence
The Swedish actress’s unhappy Hollywood experience prompted a lifelong questioning of what being herself actually meant
An adaptation of a Neil Gaiman novel makes for a startling production
There was no other with his extraordinary improvising in the medium
Malle’s unique approach to cinema meant he was always on the hunt for ways to freshen things up, no matter the risk
The blame for the end of a glorious imperial story cannot be laid solely at his feet, but the longer he lived the more anachronistic his rule became
For all the cod philosophy attached to the art, being a goalkeeper did not cause the Germany international to end his life
Never a religious man, at the end of his life converting a damp garage into a chapel became an unlikely obsession
The Swedish actress’s unhappy Hollywood experience prompted a lifelong questioning of what being herself actually meant