Look closer

Forty creative relationships are probed by an exhibition at the Barbican

How subversives through the ages have expressed dissent

She elevated the lowly craft of weaving into a bold Modernist art form

A striking image and a few well-chosen words still have the power to influence 

Embark on a visual voyage of discovery through the history of the island cultures scattered across the Pacific

A new exhibition investigates the imperial family’s lives – and mysterious deaths

Interwar German painting could be savage, but it was also full of energy and optimism

An exhibition in New York takes us from 18th-century dresses to the pussy hat

A new book rounds up the latest palaeontological research

An illustrated history of magnificent men (and women) and their flying machines