From van Gogh to Sonia Boyce, from Hew Locke to Patrick Carpenter and... Pablo Picasso

ROBERT McMANNERS and GILLIAN WALES tell the story of how they came to create the first dedicated Mining Art Museum in Britain

JOE GILL relishes the emotional force of an exhibition of two interconnected painters who trust instinct over technique

CHRIS ALDRED explains the revolutionary ideas celebrated in an exhibition of women’s protest art in Aberdeen, and why they remain relevant 

These women have been overshadowed, marginalised or ignored by the male-dominated art world for far too long, writes CHRISTINE LINDEY

CHRISTINE LINDEY recommends a National Gallery’s inventive pairing of two canvasses, one by an inspired traditionalist and the other by a restless innovator

CHRISTINE LINDEY recommends an exhibition of remarkable paintings by an artist whose working-class consciousness never left him

JENNY MITCHELL urges everyone who can to visit an exhibition that tells the complex story of the interplay and interdependence between the Caribbean diaspora and Britain over the last 70 years

LYNNE WALSH leaves the gallery saturated to the point of nausea by the overabundance of paintings on display

On the eve of Cop26 this is a pertinent reminder of the perils our rapacious species has forced on the entire globe

MIK SABIERS is captivated by agile, imaginative and poignant images that literally ‘laugh’ at physics

ANGUS REID admires a unique transformation of metal into nuanced artworks of alienation, identity and social conflict

Art can and should be in the streets, where people live and work, writes JOHN GREEN about this inspiring exhibition

PETE LAZENBY takes a look at a stunning banner exhibition that’s not to be missed

There's another story to be told about the monarch's collection of masterpieces currently on show at the Royal Academy, says BREEZE BARRINGTON

CHRISTINE LINDEY takes issue with the reactionary agenda of an exhibition of marvellous Russian revolutionary art

SANJIV SACHDEV recommends a disturbing exhibition of portraits of the famous and infamous

JOHN GREEN recommends a revelatory exhibition which sheds light on a very different aspect of photographer David Bailey’s work

An exhibition of painter and printmaker Albrecht Durer’s work shows why he transcends his time, says PHILIP NORTON

Star critics cherry-pick some of the best on offer in the weeks to come

LEN PHELAN reports on the Life on the Left exhibition in Liverpool

MICHAL BONCZA reports on an exhibition on the typeface created a century ago for the capital’s Underground which has come to represent not just transport but the image of the city itself

A new exhibition of Victorian photographer Julia Margaret Cameron’s work shows her to be a dynamic and creative innovator, says JOHN GREEN

GWYN GRIFFITHS recommends an exhibition inspired by the ceramic horse collections of the Tang dynasty

Star critics cherry-pick some of the best on offer in the weeks to come

Michal Boncza reviews Poster Parade: A Century of Creative Women at the Transport Museum, London WC2

A retrospective of artist Marlene Dumas’s work at Tate Modern is a challenging exploration of birth, sexuality and death, says Christine Lindey

The Star’s critics look ahead to The Magic Flute, The Songs of Ewan MacColl, John Yeadon’s Englandia and A Study of Modern Japanese Sculpture

John Smith’s film installation White Hole glimpses a Europe undivided between east and west, says MIKE QUILLE

CHRISTINE LINDEY recommends an exhibition of art inspired by the Spanish civil war

Dubious curatorial choices and a revisionist view of recent history make Germany: Memories of a Nation a flawed exhibition, says JOHN GREEN

Born at the start of Blair’s new Labour, KADEEM SIMMONDS looks at the message behind Philosophy Football

Star critics cherry-pick some of the best on offer in the weeks to come

PAUL SIMON enjoys a trip to the seaside and cliffs of East Anglia

Two free exhibitions on social and political dissent at the V&A museum are well worth a visit, says Christine Lindey

Star critics cherry-pick some of the best on offer in the weeks to come

Anti-racists condemn Barbican's new exhibition

Christine Lindey hails the luminosity and nuance of Kurdish-Iraqi visionary Walid Siti’s new exhibition

Star critics cherry-pick some of the best on offer in the weeks to come

GWYN GRIFFITHS enjoys an exhibition of fine porcelain combining the functional with the decorative

Some of the forthcoming week's artistic highlights

Sex show lacks real penetration

MIKE QUILLE recommends an exhibition on the political importance of cultural engagement

LEN PHELAN reports on a new film venture showcasing progressive cinema at this year's Tolpuddle Martyrs Festival

A new exhibition in Glasgow shows how graphic art is taking a distinctly radical turn in response to political events, says its curator NEIL MCGUIRE

Artist JEREMY DELLER tells Louise Johnson why collaborators from all walks of life have contributed to the 'magic' of his new exhibition

An excellent retrospective of Richard Hamilton's multilayered work reveals an acute commentary on art, politics and mass culture, says CHRISTINE LINDEY

JOHN GREEN looks forward to the first exhibition in Britain of a great landscape photographer

ANTON JOHNSON reports on a photographic exhibition which gives an LGBT perspective on the economic crisis in Europe

A concern for class injustice shines through an uneven show on the industrial revolution's impact on popular culture today, says CHRISTINE LINDEY

A new show of a great artist of the Renaissance is inspirational, says MICHAL BONCZA

MIKE QUILLE recommends a show of politically engaged art at the Mersey branch of the Tate

LEN PHELAN recommends an exhibition on radical theatre from the 1960s onwards which speaks to our own times

If you were ever intrigued by the myth of El Dorado you can now see it in all its magnificence at an eye-opening exhibition, says MICHAL BONCZA

The French artist Honore Daumier may have been the artisan outsider in the elite art world of the mid-19th century. But, as a new exhibition of his work shows, he was not only a brilliant painter of social and political themes but a figure whose work influenced future radical practice, says CHRISTINE LINDEY

MIKE QUILLE is impressed and moved by an artist who recorded magnificently the world he belonged to

Photographic brilliance that's nurtured by life in the wild

MICHAL BONCZA recommends the British Museum's exhibition of Shunga erotic art from Japan