Mark Hudson

Perverse genius or stroppy teenager? The first major UK exhibition of the work of American artist Mike Kelley, who died of apparent suicide in 2012, suggests he was a brilliant mix of both

During Monet’s lifetime, Brits remained unimpressed by the Impressionist painter’s views of London – a remarkable new show at the Courtauld demonstrates how wrong we were

Wide-ranging show of works from the couple’s collection unites fashion, celebrity and desire with reportage from war zones and the civil rights movement

Laura Knight and Artemisia Gentileschi feature among a vast array of little-known female artists in this expansive survey at Tate Britain, but some of the work on display only underlines the restrictions society has historically placed on the female imagination

This excellent exhibition is a fascinating walk through the often surprisingly radical history of British still life, from an 18th-century image of a joint of beef through the surrealism of Paul Nash, to David Hockney’s iconic Pop Art painting of a Typhoo teabag

In this beautifully assembled but well-mannered show, great (white) British artists such as Joshua Reynolds and JMW Turner are displayed alongside contemporary stars from Sonia Boyce to Yinka Shonibare as the RA interrogates its institutional links to colonialism

There’s a sense of infectious excitement and raw enthusiasm in Darling’s unfettered manipulation of physical stuff, writes Mark Hudson

He swapped cocaine for the flash bulb in 1990, emerging from rehab to start a stellar photography collection (for which he has his own full-time director) that now comprises 9,000 works. As the V&A announces a major show from his personal archive, Mark Hudson reveals how the Rocket Man gets his fix from the frame game

The Turner Prize-winning artist talks to Mark Hudson about why art shouldn’t feel like homework, why he used to have a ‘screwed up’ relationship with art dealers, and his new retrospective ‘Smash Hits’

The exiled Chinese artist turns his industrial-scale collecting into sinister yet quietly moving, meditative works in Making Sense

The much-loved British artist’s foray into new technology is a breathtaking triumph

The controversial artist has generated headlines by burning his own artworks, which were estimated to be worth £10m. But let’s not forget that Hirst has made his fortune by turning his every move into a global media event, writes Mark Hudson

The Royal Academy’s substantial exhibition puts this post-war painter into the spotlight – it’s an enlivening experience, writes Mark Hudson

Review Venice Biennale’s British and French pavilions

In focusing on more neglected aspects of its period, this show gives us a rich sense of the radicalism of a time just before our own, which has remained for most of us substantially unknown

The Tate Britain’s exhibition of Caribbean-British art is an absolute must-see

The late work of the artist most associated with a Brexiteers’ view of ‘traditional’ England can be turbulent, passionate and decisive, says Mark Hudson, but not so much as to completely rewrite his legacy

Everyone should see this sparkling show encompassing sculpture, theatre, architecture, interiors, gardens and industrial design by the late Japanese-American artist Isamu Noguchi

For all its feeling of freshness and youthful exuberance (evident even when the artists are in their fifties), this art isn’t coming completely out of the blue

To mark what would have been Diana’s 60th birthday, the commissioned sculptor Ian Rank-Broadley has gone for a grave, monumental approach – which was probably the best of the various options, writes Mark Hudson